The City of Suwanee began the new fiscal (budget) year on July 1, 2024 with a $19.0 million balanced operating budget. This year’s budget represents an six and half percent increase in operating expenditures as compared to FY 2024 amended budget.

Suwanee’s $19.0 million FY 2025 budget includes:

• 122 full-time and 8 part-time positions, including two new full-time positions
• Judges and Solicitors rate adjustment, $26,400
• 3.0 percent group health insurance renewal
• Continued electric vehicle transition, one administration fleet vehicle, $50,000
• Classification and compensation study, $45,000
• Additional operating cost for Town Center on Main Park, $300,000
• Facilities landscaping and right-of-way maintenance, $430,000
• Vehicle, parks, and building repairs, $340,000
• Capital funding, $612,000

After analyzing the 2024 tax consolidation information provided by Gwinnett County, the City of Suwanee has adopted a budget that assumes that the millage rate will remain at 4.93 mills, the same rate adopted by the City the past twelve years. This proposed millage rate of 4.93 is a rollback millage rate increase of .328 mills, a 7.13 percent increase in property taxes based on market value growth. Property taxes, one of the chief sources of revenue for the City, are collected based on the millage rate.

The Suwanee City Council is expected to adopt the FY 2025 millage rate at its regular August 27 meeting. The City will hold three public hearings at City Hall on August 15 at 5:30 pm, and August 27 at noon, and 6:30 pm before adopting the millage rate.

Visit Suwanee.com to view the City of Suwanee’s FY 2025 budget.