BOC to hold millage rate public hearings

The Glynn County Board of Commissioners (BOC) has scheduled three public hearings on the 2026 millage rate. The BOC has tentatively adopted a general fund millage rate of 3.864 mils which is the same millage rate as last year. However keeping the millage rate the same results in a 6.65 percent increase over the rollback rate and is considered a tax increase. The proposed tax increase for a home with a fair market value of $450,000 is approximately $38, and the proposed tax increase for non-homestead property with a fair market value of $475,000 is approximately $46.

Glynn County’s millage rate has stayed the same for the past three years and was decreased each year for each of the three years prior – 2021, 2022, and 2023. Glynn County lost 40% of its digest value in 2008 during the recession. According to Tamara Munson, Glynn County’s CFO, county employees went nine years without a cost of living raise and the county did not replace equipment. “It was 2022 before we recovered from 2008,” she said. “We continue t0 try to get grants to help us catch up.”

This year’s actual digest came in under the estimated digest leaving the county’s fiscal year 2026-2027 budget $2 million short. The $2 million was made up from the general fund. If the county had gone with the roll back millage rate of 3.623 mils the budget shortage would $4 million.

 

Public Hearings

• Tuesday, August 18 – 2 p.m. – W. Harold Pate Building, 1725 Reynolds Street, Room 224.

• Thursday, August 20 – 6 p.m. – Historic Glynn County Courthouse, 701 “G” Street, 2nd Floor Commissioners’ Meeting Chambers

• Thursday, August 27 – 2 p.m. – W. Harold Pate Building, 1725 Reynolds Street, Room 224.