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Alpharetta approves millage rate and 2024 budget

Following a series of public hearings, the Alpharetta City Council recently approved the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget and 2023 millage rate. (Courtesy City of Alpharetta)

Credit: City of Alpharetta

Credit: City of Alpharetta

Following a series of public hearings, the Alpharetta City Council recently approved the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget and 2023 millage rate. (Courtesy City of Alpharetta)
By Karen Huppertz for the AJC
June 29, 2023

Following a series of public hearings, the Alpharetta City Council recently approved the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget and millage rate.

The $154 million budget reflects a number of increasing costs due to labor-intensive contracted services, material cost increases and estimated costs to hold municipal elections. As a result, the 2024 budget is based on maintaining the city’s millage rate of 5.750 mills instead of the rollback rate that would have avoided a property tax increase.

Highlights of the budget include the addition of eight full-time staff positions and the upgrade of one existing part-time position to full-time status.

Public safety represents the largest portion of the budget at $40.2 million, or 41 percent of the total. The 2024 budget includes a 4% performance-based merit salary increase along with the addition of four full-time positions to staff the new Real-Time Crime Center and one new full-time Assistant Fire Marshall. The city also anticipates an increase in overtime for public safety officials.

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