BRENHAM CITY COUNCIL TO PROPOSE TAX RATE
The Brenham City Council will take a record vote Thursday to formally propose a tax rate for the new fiscal year.
At the city’s final budget workshop last week, staff recommended keeping the same tax rate of $0.4940 per $100 valuation from last year. The rate consists of $0.35 for maintenance and operations and $0.1440 for debt service.
The proposed rate is less than the voter-approval rate of $0.5416, but is higher than the no-new-revenue rate of $0.3966.
The tax rate will be considered for adoption by the city council at its meetings on September 1st and September 15th.
In other action Thursday, the council will consider expanding its interlocal agreement with Brenham ISD to add a fifth school resource officer for more law enforcement staffing.
The council will also:
- Hold an executive session to discuss retaining litigation counsel in relation to Aviators Plus, LLC v. City of Brenham; Cause No. 37896; 21st Judicial District Court; Washington County. Aviators Plus serves as the Brenham Municipal Airport’s Fixed Base Operator (FBO).
- Act on a resolution selecting an engineering service provider to complete project implementation for the American Rescue Plan Act funding by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, or other federal or state agency.
- Hold a public hearing and consider an ordinance amending a division of city ordinance related to industrial wastewater discharge standards and pretreatment. After a review of the ordinance, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality requested the ordinance be amended to delete the phrase “and is incorporated into the city’s TPDES (Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) permit.”
- Consider granting a specific use permit to allow a day care use at 1200 South Austin Street.
- Consider a city-led request to change the zoning around Brenham ISD’s Pride Academy on South Market Street, as well as the Brenham ISD bus barn and the former site of Brenham Bible Church on East Sixth Street, from R-1 single-family use and/or R-2 mixed residential use to B-1 mixed residential and local business use.
The council will meet Thursday at 1 p.m. at Brenham City Hall.
Click here to view the agenda packet for Thursday's meeting.
I have really never understood school tax on property why should a person that doesn’t have children or people that send their children to private schools or retired people have to pay school tax why should they pay for something that is not helping them and then you have other people who have 3 or 4 children and own no property paying no school tax just not fair there should at least be a limit on the time that a person pays school taxes like maybe say 20 years I think that would be fair