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Commissioners set 16.5¢ ceiling on JPS hospital district tax after budget briefing
Summary
After a two-hour presentation from JPS leadership, Commissioners Court set a 16.5-cent ceiling for the JPS hospital district tax rate; county leaders and JPS officials debated how much revenue the health system needs for a multi‑year hospital build and ongoing operations.
At its Sept. 3, 2025 meeting, the Tarrant County Commissioners Court voted 3–2 to set a tax‑rate ceiling for the John Peter Smith (JPS) Health Network hospital district at 16.5 cents. The action followed a budget briefing from JPS leadership and questions from court members about revenue, investment income and how the system is planning to pay for a multi‑year capital program.
The nut of the meeting was JPS’s FY2026 operating picture: JPS presented a budget that anticipates an operating margin of about 2.9 percent and a projected net income (what JPS called excess operating funds available for capital and the “future fund”) of roughly $151 million. Kim Hodgkinson, JPS chief financial officer, told the court that “we are at what’s called a surge level 4 today, and we are busy. We do not close…
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