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Everman council adopts 2025 tax rate; city says no property tax increase
Summary
At a Sept. 16 special meeting the Everman City Council opened a public hearing and adopted a proposed 2025 property tax rate of $1.02608 per $100 valuation, saying the rate is not greater than the calculated no-new-revenue rate and that the city is not proposing a tax increase for 2025.
At a Sept. 16 special meeting, the Everman City Council opened a public hearing and adopted a proposed property tax rate for tax year 2025 of $1.02608 per $100 of taxable valuation, city staff said. Council members approved Resolution No. 2025-09-01 and Ordinance No. 843 to ratify and levy the rate.
City staff read the proposed figures into the record and said the no-new-revenue tax rate for Everman is $1.026385 per $100 valuation and the voter-approval tax rate is $1.042718 per $100. "The proposed tax rate is not greater than the no new revenue tax rate," a city staff member said during the public hearing. Staff also said this is the first time in more than a decade the city is able to adopt a tax rate below the no-new-revenue rate and that the city is not proposing to increase property taxes for the 2025 tax year.
The council moved and approved Resolution No. 2025-09-01, described in the agenda as "a resolution of the City Council of the City of Everman, Texas, ratifying the property tax increase reflected in the city's adopted fiscal year 2025-2026 budget, which is a budget that will require raising more revenue from property taxes than in the previous year, and providing an effective date." The council also passed Ordinance No. 843, "an ordinance fixing and levying municipal ad valorem taxes for the City of Everman, Texas upon all taxable property for the tax year of 2025, directing the assessment and collection thereof, providing a severability clause and effective date clauses," as read.
During the public hearing the mayor noted there were no citizen comments. The public hearing was opened at 6:03 p.m. and closed shortly thereafter. Council members polled and the motions for both the resolution and the ordinance carried by recorded voice votes.
The actions taken set the formal tax rate and directed staff to assess and collect taxes under the adopted ordinance. The city did not provide additional budget-line details in the meeting minutes about how the adopted rate corresponds to particular expenditures or line-item increases in the adopted fiscal year 2025–2026 budget.
Looking ahead, the adopted rate becomes part of the city’s fiscal-year tax levy process and will be applied to taxable valuations for the 2025 tax year. The council did not schedule further hearings on the tax rate during the meeting.
