For the 10th

year in a row, the Coweta County Commission lowered the millage rate for

property owners in the county.

The county

dropped the rate from 5.02 mills to 5 mills for residents in the incorporated

county and from 4.26 mills to 3.93 mills for unincorporated residents

at its Tuesday meeting.

County administrator

Theron Gay, who used to work in the assessor's office, said he could not

remember a comparable time in the county's history where the millage rate

has been dropped for such a long period of time.

The county's

tax amount also drops this year. Last year, the county levied just over

$11 million in taxes, but this year the amount falls to $10.8 million.

The County

Commission's dropping of the millage rate is in sharp contrast to the

Coweta County Board of Education's millage rate this year. Earlier this

week, the school board raised its millage rate.