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Bulloch BOE approves tax rate hike after expressing reluctance
Faced dilemma: status quo or rollback could have cost county schools $7.4M state funds
Bulloch BOE approves tax rate hike
Bulloch County Schools Superintendent Charles Wilson, center, talks about the school maintenance and operations millage rate increase while seated between Board of Education members Glennera Martin, left, who voted against it, and Chair Glenn Womack, right, who supported it. (AL HACKLE/staff)
The Bulloch County Board of Education – after a second round of tax increase hearings, with most members attending all three hearings this time – met at noon Friday and voted 7-1 to adopt a property tax rate for school maintenance and operations of 8.478 mills, up from last year’s 8.236 mills.
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