CITY OF BRENHAM MOVES FORWARD WITH PROPERTY TAX INCREASE
A public hearing on the city of Brenham’s 2016-17 budget was held today (Monday).
The Brenham City Council met at 8 a.m. in City Hall to hear public comments on the proposed budget. No members of the public made comments about the budget and proposed property tax rate increase.
The property tax increase is reflected in the budget. The budget will raise more total property taxes than last year's budget by an estimated $469,887. Of that amount, $55,752 is tax revenue raised from new property added to the tax roll this year.
The proposed property tax rate will be 50.7 cents per hundred dollar valuation. That will amount to a 7.64 percent increase in taxes paid by people and businesses who own property within the city limits.
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Brenham government would obviously be a bad investment. The number of city managers, directors, basically upper management has quadrupled when the population may have grown only twenty-five percent in the same amount of time. Utility costs have doubled. Property taxes have doubled. The continued half life shrinkage factors of common sense at city hall is at an all time minuscule low. For elected officials and for all upper level management. The number of taxable properties and improvements are greater than ever and the tax base continues to grow. So why can’t city management make that equation balance? It is just plain stupid. 2017 is an election year. This election will determine if the worst management in Brenham history stays in office or if the failing management is turned around. Good luck taxpayers. It is time to fix stupid.
Exactly, Please people… Vote for anyone, and yes anyone other than who is on this council now. The heck with Dem or Rep.. These people have got to go… PERIOD
Why would the public waste time to oppose another tax increase? A room full of protesters would make no impact on the decision, and we all know it. Sales tax revenues continue to fall, and they refuse to eliminate unnecessary administrative positions and non-essential expenditures. They want us to do without to pay our ever growing tax burden. We can only hope that true fiscally conservative citizens will run for council seats so we can vote these bureaucrats out. Citizens, please encourage independent, sensible, public service minded individuals to run for council and support them. The current political party associated with the majority of county and city officials will not support fiscally conservative candidates that do not follow their free spending doctrines. Independent candidates answer to taxpayers, not political parties, we as individuals, must support their bid for office.
If high gas prices don’t get your money, higher property taxes do.