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School board changes time for tax increase hearing
The DeKalb County School District has changed the time for Monday's final public hearing on a property tax increase.
The school board has taken one of two required votes to raise the tax rate 1 mill to 23.98 mills, just shy of the 25-mill cap.
The second vote will follow the hearing now scheduled an hour earlier, at 5 p.m., at 1701 Mountain Industrial Boulevard, Stone Mountain.
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