BRENHAM CITY COUNCIL TO PROPOSE 2022-23 TAX RATE
Today’s (Thursday) meeting of the Brenham City Council will include a formal proposal for the 2022-23 Fiscal Year tax rate.
City staff recommend the tax rate be kept at the same rate as last year of $0.4940 per $100 valuation. The rate is made up of $0.3500 for maintenance and operations and $0.1440 for interest and sinking.
The tax rate is more than the no-new-revenue rate of $0.3966, but less than the voter-approval rate of $0.5416.
Adoption of the tax rate will be done at the council’s meetings on September 1st and September 15th.
Also at today’s meeting, councilmembers will potentially expand the city’s interlocal agreement with Brenham ISD for a fifth school resource officer.
In other items, the council will:
- 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 at 1 p.m. at Brenham City Hall.
Click here to view the agenda packet for today's meeting.