The City of Port Wentworth today announces its intention to increase the 2024
property taxes it will levy this year by 34.36 percent over the rollback millage rate.

Each year, the board of tax assessors is required to review the assessed value for property tax
purposes of taxable property in the county. When the trend of prices on properties that have recently
sold in the county indicate there has been an increase in the fair market value of any specific property,
the board of tax assessors is required by law to re-determine the value of such property and adjust the
assessment. This is called a reassessment.

When the total digest of taxable property is prepared, Georgia law requires a rollback millage rate must
be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last Year’s
millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred.

The budget tentatively adopted by the City of Port Wentworth City Council requires a millage rate
higher than the rollback millage rate; therefore, before the City of Port Wentworth may finalize the
tentative budget and set a final millage rate, Georgia law requires three public hearings to be held to
allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the increase.

All concerned citizens are invited to the public hearings on this tax increase to be held at the City of
Port Wentworth City Hall Building, 7224 GA Highway 21, Port Wentworth, Georgia on June 10, 2024 at
9:00am, June 13, 2024 at 7:00pm, and on June 20, 2024 at 7:00pm

For more information, please visit www.cityofportwentworth,com