The City of Suwanee began the new fiscal (budget) year on July 1, 2025, with a $20.8 million balanced operating budget. This year’s budget represents a 7.8 percent increase in operating expenditure compared to the amended FY 2025 budget.

Suwanee’s $20.8 million FY 2026 budget includes:

•             128 full-time and 7 part-time positions, including five new full-time positions, and one upgrade from part-time to full-time

•             13.5 percent group health insurance renewal

•             Implementation of the classification and compensation study

•             Facilities landscaping and right-of-way maintenance, $650,000

•             Vehicle, parks, and building repairs, $314,000

•             Capital funding, $606,000

After analyzing the 2025 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 for the past thirteen years. This proposed millage rate of 4.93 is a rollback millage rate increase of .184 mills, a 3.88 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 2026 millage rate at its regular September 23 meeting. The City will hold three public hearings at City Hall on September 11 at 5:30 pm, and September 23 at noon and 6:30 pm before adopting the millage rate.

View the City of Suwanee’s FY2026 budget.