Budget Information

According to Board policies, money and money management provide the foundational support for the whole school system. Therefore, the Board encourages planning through budgets to explore all practical and legal revenue sources, to guide expenditures to best achieve the greatest educational returns, to require maximum efficiency in accounting and reporting procedures and to maintain a level of per pupil expenditures needed to provide high quality education. Budgets are prepared for and approved by the Board on an annual basis, consistent with the Pickens Board of Education's fiscal year which runs July 1 - June 30.

2024 Budgets

2023 Digest and 5 Year History

Past Year's Budgets

Current 2023 Property Tax Digest and 5 Year History of Levy Notice

The Pickens County Board of Education does hereby announce that the millage rate will be set at a meeting to
be held at the Central Office located at 100 D. B. Carroll Street, Jasper, Georgia on September 14, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. and pursuant to the requirements of O.C.G.A. § 48-5-32 does hereby publish the following presentation of the current year's tax digest and levy, along with the history of the tax digest and levy for the past five years.

BOARD OF EDUCATION 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Real and Personal $1,484,170,786 $1,529,066,056 $1,602,638,589 $1,683,845,069 $1,903,435,802 $2,152,913,812
Motor Vehicles $28,440,130 $24,371,490 $22,632,950 $19,966,600 $18,049,830 $19,026,510
Mobile Homes $10,481,846 $10,699,059 $10,860,424 $11,433,396 $11,992,348 $16,065,867
Timber - 100% $0 $3,870 $1,134,367 $100,730

$466,479

$70,974

Heavy Duty Equipment $$1,874 $3,095 $105,014 $377,237 $269,915 $538,262
Gross Digest $1,523,094,636 $1,564,143,570 $1,637,371,344 $1,715,723,032 $1,934,214,374 $2,188,615,425
Less Exemptions $133,370,804 $133,716,593 $132,136,185 $131,919,857 $136,598,345 $145,766,463
NET DIGEST VALUE $1,389,723,832 $1,430,426,977 $1,505,235,159 $1,583,803,175 $1,797,616,029 $2,042,848,962
MILLAGE RATE (Maintenance & Operation) 15.33 15.18 14.83 14.30 12.90 12.4000
TOTAL M&O TAXES LEVIED $21,304,466 $21,713,882 $22,322,637 $22,648,385 $23,189,247 $25,331,327
Net Tax $ Increase ($62,305) ($409,416) $608,755 $325,748 $254,861 $2,142,080
Net Tax % Increase -0.29% 1.92% 2.8% 1.46% 2.39% 9.24%