County, BOE roll back millage rates; tax bills for many will not go down

’Tis the season for budgets and millage rates with public input at a minimum for both Jones County and the Jones County Board of Education.

Jones County Commissioners held public hearings for the millage rate and work sessions for the budget with only a few interested parties bothering to come to the meetings and ask questions.

Commissioners set the county’s tax rate at a Sept. 10 called meeting, an…