8-14-15
(Cleveland)- As expected the White County Board of Education Thursday night approved keeping the 2015 education tax mileage rate at the current 17-point-482 mills. Even with the rate holding the same, with some property values going up, the actual taxes paid could be increasing.
Board of Education Chairman Kendyl Brock Hunter said they would have liked to have rolled the millage rate back, “ we wanted to rollback but the senior exemption did have an impact on us and that’s something we voted for as a community, and this is just the result of that and we will move forward”, said Brock Hunter.
With that senior exemption the school system had to deal with over $755-thousand dollars lost revenue. Superintendent Dr. Jeff Wilson says that senior exemption amount will continue to grow each year.
Even with the senior exemption downside Brock-Hunter said there are positive areas. She said, “ we have a very good fund balance, that’s increasing each year, we don’t have the furlough days we’ve had in the past, there’s a lot of positive things moving forward.”
The White County Commissioners held a meeting Friday morning where they approved the county’s portion of the taxing rate.
