Tallulah Falls adopts 6.62-mill property-tax rate after public hearings

Tallulah Falls Town Council adopted a 6.62-mill property-tax rate for 2022 on Oct. 13, 2022, approving a resolution after holding a public hearing that evening on the tentative rate and proposed tax increase. The council profile describes the resolution as unanimously approved.

The decision set the town’s local property-tax rate for the 2022 tax year. Because a millage rate is the figure used to calculate that portion of a property owner’s tax bill, the 6.62-mill choice directly affected the local tax burden after the town publicly characterized the change as an increase.

The town began the required public discussion before the final council action. At an Aug. 25 hearing, officials presented the proposed increase to 6.62 mills; residents spoke in favor, asked questions or offered no comment. The council returned to the issue Oct. 13, when it held another hearing on the tentative rate before moving to the resolution that set the rate.

Property owners were the people most directly affected because the rate governed the town’s 2022 property-tax calculation. Public response was limited in the records cited: at the August hearing, attendees included people who supported the proposal and people who raised questions, while the October hearing closed without anyone speaking either for or against it. Councilperson Augustine moved to approve the resolution, and Councilperson Weatherly seconded the motion.

The 6.62-mill figure was initially a proposal and is described in the council profile as the rate ultimately adopted unanimously on Oct. 13. The meeting record also documents the October hearing and the resolution’s consideration. The cited material does not establish how the rate was carried into later tax records, whether it was amended afterward or whether the town took further council action on its application.

There is no new rate hearing identified in the record for this 2022 decision. The next useful public step is archival: residents seeking confirmation of how the rate was applied can review the adopted resolution and the town’s 2022 tax records. Those documents could clarify implementation, while the cited meeting materials do not resolve it.