Gross council reviews 2025 property-tax rate calculations; postings and hearings scheduled

At a City Council meeting in Gross, Texas, officials received the 2025 tax-rate calculations prepared from certified values by the tax assessor-collector’s office and were told the city will post notices and set public hearings before voting on a final rate. "These calculations were done by the software, the tax assessor's workers office. The only thing they really needed was the certified values, and they plugged it into this big old model and spit out all these numbers," said Mister Lamar, a representative of the tax assessor-collector’s office. The report presented three rates the council must consider: the no-new-revenue rate, 0.576714; the voter-approval rate, 0.59601; and the de minimis rate, 0.614927. Council members were told the assessor’s office will generate the required website and newspaper notices; the office will post the calculations on the city website and place a legal notice in the newspaper, and the council will consider on the next scheduled meeting setting public hearings and a date to vote on the tax rate. A council member noted last year’s adopted rate was 0.601924 and asked about the taxable value figures on the worksheet; the presenter confirmed the certified current-year taxable value shown in the packet (line 26) had increased to about 1,310,000,000. The record shows some earlier administrative challenges over notice text generated by the assessor’s office. "I think there was a misreading of the statute, and I think there were some folks that were reading requirements of the tax assessor collector's offices, city of gross requirements. And I and I think that straightened everything out, and we were all on the same page at the end of that," said Mister Mon. No vote was taken; the council received the calculations as informational only and directed staff to proceed with the statutory notice and hearing steps. The presentation and the scheduled posting and hearings mean residents and property owners will have the opportunity to comment before the council sets a final tax rate.