Property taxes, public libraries, and the Highlands “pre-K” project topped talkes at the Macon County Board of Commissioners (BOC) monthly public session recently [March 14]. During the public comment period more than 10 speakers expressed concerns about the process used to determine property taxes within the county. Their frustrations were regarding higher assessed taxes.
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Residents of Highlands expressed concerns about the Highlands Pre-K school project being canceled. One speaker stated she read in a Highlands newspaper that the effort, after private citizens raised approximately $35,000 spent on a feasibility study, was essentially stopped by the BOC and the Macon County School Board. Speakers verbalized frustration that taxes, levied upon and paid by Highlands’ residents, were unjustly being allocated for and spent on projects that did not benefit their town. Commissioners said, the contract was not canceled, but it has been prioritized lower by the school board.” The next regularly scheduled Macon County Board of Commissioners meeting is April 11.
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