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Council reviews sales‑tax allocation and a preliminary plan to create a fire district from a share of crime‑control funds
Summary
Staff presented analysis showing a projected KCCPD (crime control) fund balance and explored options for creating a separate fire control and prevention district by reallocating a portion of the city's sales tax, including KCCPD and KDC reallocation scenarios.
Keller — The Keller City Council received a staff analysis on June 17 that explored how the city’s 2% local sales tax (the city’s portion of the 8.25% state rate) is currently allocated and what would change if council used part of the crime-control sales-tax allocation to seed a separate fire control and prevention district.
“We have briefly discussed this, as a possibility, or to support a discussion with possibly dedicating, a district for the fire, department,” the mayor said before the presentation. Finance staff member Lupe Orozco presented an analysis of the current allocation and multiple hypothetical reallocation scenarios.
What staff presented
- Current allocation: Orozco said the city currently receives 2% of the 8.25% sales-and-use tax remitted by retailers in city limits. That 2% is distributed as 1% to the city general tax base, 0.5% to the KDC (development fund), 0.25% to the KCCPD (crime control and prevention district) and 0.25%…
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