Franklin County IBA Sends 0.125-Mill Tax-Rate Request to County Commissioners

The Franklin County Industrial Building Authority unanimously approved a request for a 0.125-mill rate at its June 4, 2025 meeting and directed the matter to the Franklin County Board of Commissioners. The vote moved a proposed property-tax-rate question beyond the authority, but it did not establish a final county rate or show that the request took effect.

The decision matters because millage rates are part of the property-tax framework used to raise public revenue. For county property owners and local governments, the key question is not simply whether the IBA endorsed 0.125 mills, but whether the commissioners adopted that request, altered it or declined it. The material provided identifies the commissioners as the receiving body, leaving the county’s ultimate action central to the dispute’s practical effect.

The rate request first appeared on the authority’s June agenda as new business, putting it before IBA members for consideration. At the same June 4 meeting, members requested a vote on sending the 0.125-mill request to the Board of Commissioners. The minutes describe Mayor Moore calling for the motion, Mayor Turman making it and Mayor Umbehant seconding it; with no further discussion recorded, the authority approved it unanimously.

The IBA’s position is clear in its vote: it supported forwarding a 0.125-mill request to county commissioners. The meeting record attributes the motion to Turman and the second to Umbehant, while Moore called for the vote. The record does not include a stated position from the Board of Commissioners, nor does it document competing arguments from property owners, businesses or other community members.

What is completed is the IBA’s June 4 approval of a request. What remains a proposal is the 0.125-mill rate as a county action: the record does not document a commissioners’ vote, a different rate, a rejection or implementation. That absence does not establish that commissioners did nothing; it means the outcome and any effective date cannot be determined from the identified proceedings.

The next concrete public step is a Franklin County Board of Commissioners agenda item, meeting minute or other official action addressing the request. Until commissioners’ action is documented, residents cannot know whether the proposed 0.125-mill rate was adopted, modified or rejected, or how any decision would be implemented.