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Paris City Council ratifies tax increase, adopts 0.47239 rate for 2025
Summary
The Paris City Council voted 4-0 in a special session Sept. 9 to ratify a property tax increase reflected in the adopted 2025-26 budget and to adopt a tax rate of 0.47239 per $100 of valuation, officials said.
The Paris City Council in a special session Sept. 9 voted to ratify a property tax increase reflected in the adopted 2025-26 budget and then adopted an ordinance setting the city's 2025 tax rate at 0.47239 per $100 of assessed value.
City staff described the legal steps for the meeting. "Under the Local Government Code section 102.007, the city council is required to take a separate vote to ratify any property tax increase in a new budget," said Mr. Anderson, city staff. Anderson told the council the ratification vote must occur before a vote on the tax rate…
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