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Lufkin council records proposal of a 0.52 tax rate for public hearings on 2025 budget
Summary
Council voted to record a proposed tax rate of $0.5200 per $100 valuation for the 2025 tax year and scheduled public hearings on the budget and tax rate for Sept. 9 and Sept. 16, the finance director said.
The Lufkin City Council took a record vote to place a proposed tax rate of 0.520000 per $100 valuation on the agenda for the required public hearings on the fiscal 2026 budget and tax rate.
Belinda Mellontsen, the city’s finance director, explained the legal framework under the Texas tax code: the “no-new-revenue” tax rate for tax year 2025 was calculated at 0.47773 per $100 valuation and the voter-approval rate was 0.554584 per $100 valuation. She told council the current tax rate is 0.508215 per $100 valuation and that each one-cent change in the tax…
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