THOMASVILLE — People showing up Wednesday for public hearings on the Thomas County Board of Education’s tentative millage will have to return another day.

Hearings were scheduled for 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday.

However, the hearings had to be postponed because of erroneous information in a legal advertisement.

“Georgia law requires that the hearing be advertised in the legal organ a week in advance of the hearings,” said Joey Holland, county school system finance director.

The hearings were advertised, but the hearing dates were wrong. The school system submitted the wrong dates for the advertisement, Holland explained.

School officials did not realize until Wednesday morning — shortly before the first hearing was scheduled — that the wrong information had been in the advertisement.

The tax digest cannot be approved by the state without proof of the advertisement with the correct date, Holland said.

The school system must have three public hearings.

Holland said he would be at the school board meeting location Wednesday night to tell people why the hearing was canceled.