Metropolis finance committee honors tax commissioner’s request | Native Information

“This property, 2400 Reynolds St., has been tax delinquent for a while,” mentioned Metropolis Lawyer Brian Corry. “… As you may see, the county’s declare for the tax delinquency goes again to 2013.”

Final 12 months, town offered off the property for $33,000 to cowl taxes due in 2018 and 2019.

Nevertheless, the tax commissioner’s workplace filed a declare on $29,196.22, mentioned Corry.

The finance committee unanimously really useful giving the cash to the tax commissioner’s workplace. The finance committee is made up of Brunswick Mayor Cosby Johnson, Mayor Professional Tem Felicia Harris and Finance Director Kathy Mills. Johnson was absent, however each Mills and Harris voted to advocate honoring the tax commissioner’s request.

The tax commissioner’s workplace will disburse it again to town, county and Glynn County College Board primarily based on the native tax break up in these years. All instructed, town can count on to get round $7,000 of it again, Corry mentioned.

The $29,000 will seemingly solely be sufficient to cowl the taxes due from 2013 to 2016, as the full quantity owed to the tax commissioner’s workplace was round $34,000, based on metropolis paperwork.

Till 2017, the Glynn County Tax Commissioner would have dealt with tax assortment for town and county. In 2018, nevertheless, town stopped contracting with the tax commissioner’s workplace and commenced billing and gathering taxes by itself. That made this state of affairs distinctive for town, Corry mentioned, as most properties don’t have overdue taxes going that far again.

The committee additionally reviewed monetary statements from the month of October. Mills mentioned town was getting ready to launch an replace on SPLOST 2016 challenge completion.