COVINGTON, Ga. — The City of Covington’s plan to fully exempt homeowners from paying property taxes moved forward with approval of Gov. Brian Kemp.
In January, Channel 2 Action News reported when Mayor Fleeta Baggett proposed a 100% homestead exemption for homeowners and said the city wanted to use revenue collected from nearby data centers to make up the collections instead.
At a city council meeting soon after, the proposal was passed and lawmakers took up the proposal to pass it in the legislature…