Hill College requests voter‑approval tax rate; Godley ISD agrees to publish notice and hold public hearing

Hill College representatives asked the Godley ISD Board of Trustees to publish a voter‑approval tax‑rate notice and to set a public hearing at the district’s September meeting.

Dr. Mills of Hill College outlined recent campus upgrades supported in part by local taxing entities, including navigators on ISD campuses, program equipment upgrades, a student‑center refresh and new vocational offerings. He asked trustees to consider adopting the voter‑approval rate, which Hill College staff described as a two‑tenths of a penny increase that they estimated would cost the owner of a $300,000 home roughly $7.20 per year.

District staff clarified that publishing the rate in the notice does not bind the district to adopt that exact rate next month; trustees may adopt a lower rate but cannot adopt a higher rate than published in the notice. Hill College is a “small taxing entity” for the purpose of notice requirements, staff said, and the board voted to publish the voter‑approval rate and to hold a public hearing at the September meeting. The motion to publish and schedule the hearing passed 5–1; one trustee indicated they would prefer the non‑new‑revenue rate instead of the voter‑approval rate.