Franklin school millage notices left taxpayers without a rate or recorded decision

More than a year after the Franklin County Board of Education scheduled its third 2025 millage hearing and board meeting for Aug. 7, the official agenda still does not identify the school property-tax rate under consideration or record any action by the board. The Aug. 7 notice documents a scheduled public hearing, not an adopted rate or a completed decision.

That gap matters to Franklin County property owners because the school millage rate is part of the calculation used to levy property taxes for school purposes. Hearings are intended to give residents an opportunity to understand and respond to a proposed rate; without the figure, the notices cannot show the potential effect on tax bills, and without an outcome, they cannot show whether the proposal was resolved.

The documented process began with two millage hearings, each paired with a Board of Education meeting and scheduled for July 31, 2025. A separate agenda then scheduled Millage Hearing #3 and another board meeting for Aug. 7. Taken together, the notices show a three-hearing schedule, but none supplies the rate that prompted the hearings or connects the meetings to a recorded final action.

For taxpayers, the central unanswered question is practical: what rate was proposed and how it could have affected school-property-tax calculations. The Board of Education’s official agendas establish that it planned the hearings and related meetings, but they offer no stated board position on a particular rate and contain no recorded public response, vote or decision. The notices therefore do not establish competing positions among board members or residents.

What is documented is a proposal-stage schedule: two July 31 hearings and one Aug. 7 hearing, each associated with a Board of Education meeting. What is not documented in these agendas is whether the hearings occurred, what millage rate was proposed, or whether the board adopted, rejected or changed a rate. A decision may be recorded elsewhere, but these notices do not verify one.

No later official action or future public step is identified after the Aug. 7, 2025 agenda. The next meaningful public development would be a Board of Education record that names the rate considered and states whether action was taken; until then, the result of the 2025 millage-hearing process remains unresolved in the notices that have been identified.