Clarkesville Considered Tax-Notice Rollback Disclosure, but Council’s Decision Is Unclear

Clarkesville’s Mayor and City Council scheduled discussion and a vote on Resolution 2025-3 for June 2, 2025, a proposal dealing with how the city would present its estimated 2025 rollback millage rate on property-tax notices. The resolution proposed declaring the previous year’s millage rate as the estimated rollback rate, but the published agenda and agenda packet do not say what council ultimately did.

The question matters because rollback-rate information helps property owners understand a required tax-notice disclosure before the city completes its annual property-tax decisions. The proposed action concerned the presentation of an estimated rollback rate and sought to avoid putting an estimated tax-payment amount on the notice. It was not a documented decision establishing Clarkesville’s final 2025 millage rate or final property-tax levy.

The matter reached council through the June 2 agenda, which listed Resolution 2025-3 for a vote and described it as a proposed declaration of the estimated 2025 rollback millage rate. Under the proposal, Clarkesville would use the prior year’s millage rate for that estimate. That approach was tied to the notice-disclosure process, rather than presented as a completed rate-setting action.

For city officials, the proposed resolution offered a way to handle the rollback-rate disclosure using an existing benchmark: the previous year’s millage rate. Property owners are the residents most directly affected by how the information appears on proposed tax notices, since the disclosure can shape their understanding of a possible tax bill. The agenda materials do not record public comment, competing council positions or a stated objection to the proposal.

Resolution 2025-3 was placed before the Mayor and City Council as a proposal. The agenda establishes that discussion and a vote were scheduled, but it does not document passage, amendment, rejection, postponement or implementation. It also leaves unresolved whether the city used the prior year’s rate for the disclosure and does not establish a final 2025 millage rate.

No later official action or future public meeting on this resolution is documented. The next meaningful public development would be a council action record or subsequent city notice showing whether Resolution 2025-3 took effect and, separately, any official action setting Clarkesville’s final 2025 property-tax rate. Until then, the June 2 agenda shows consideration of the proposal, not its outcome.