How Sycamore is run
Sycamore spent $2.2 million in the year to June 30, 2022, about $3,227 per resident.
What stands out about how Sycamore is run
Read from the town’s budget, meetings and records. The page puts what stands out first.
About $3,227 per resident a year, or $8.84 a day
The biggest line: police, at 50% of spending.
Thank you for being a neighbor
The typical homeowner pays $918 a year
Every local property tax on the home: town, schools and county. About 1.43% of the home’s value, vs 0.77% across Georgia.
Typical yearly bill next door and statewide
The Housing page’s calculator splits a monthly payment into loan, tax and insurance at Sycamore’s rate.
Can I afford it? →The median bill homeowners report to the Census survey (bills of $10,000+ are reported as “$10,000+”). The effective rate is that bill ÷ the median home value: a rough guide, not the official tax rate. In a town this small the estimate has a wide margin.
Turner County School District
Sycamore’s K–12 school district, shared with Ashburn, Rebecca. It’s its own government, with a budget separate from the town’s.
Of the $17,680 per pupil, $9,079 goes to the classroom (teachers, aides, supplies); the rest to buses, buildings, counselors and administration. Building projects and debt payments aren’t in the per-pupil figure.
Georgia districts overall: 49% local, 39% state, 12% federal.
School year 2023–24. Census Bureau school finance survey.
Who’s in charge in Sycamore
Local officials aren’t in the public records we use for Sycamore yet. Neighbors can add them.
One full-time town employee for every 228 residents
On the payroll in March 2022.
By department full-time, plus part-time
Pay is March payroll times twelve, so it’s approximate. Part-timers count half in the bar lengths.
From town hall to Washington
Every level of government that speaks for Sycamore.
- 1Your cityMayor & councilLocal officials aren’t on record yet.
- 2Georgia HouseState representatives
- 3Georgia SenateState senator
- 4GovernorStatewide
- 5U.S. HouseYour representative in Congress
- 6U.S. SenateBoth represent all of Georgia
Democrat · Republican · other or independent. Tap a name for their official page.
Reach Sycamore’s government
Numbers and hours come from neighbors and the town’s own site (the Handbook). A new one goes live once two neighbors confirm it.
Questions about how Sycamore is run?
Neighbors who’ve been to the meetings can help.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Budget and staff: U.S. Census Bureau, Census of Governments and Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and the Annual Survey of Public Employment & Payroll. School district: Census school finance survey. Property tax: Census American Community Survey, 5-year estimates. Representatives: Open States, the Census and congress-legislators.