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Richard council ratifies Sept. 26 budget, moves to set 2024 tax rates
Summary
At a Sept. 30 special session, the City Council for the City of Richard ratified a budget adopted Sept. 26 and voted on motions to set the 2024 tax levy components, including a maintenance-and-operations rate of $0.56514 per $100 valuation and a motion described in the transcript as a 4.8% decrease in the tax rate.
The City Council for the City of Richard, Texas, ratified a budget adopted Sept. 26 and took a series of motions on Sept. 30, 2024, to set the city’s 2024 property tax components and adopt a tax rate the transcript describes as a decrease.
The council opened a special session at 7 p.m. in the city council chambers, heard an invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance, and conducted roll call. No members of the public signed up for public comment. The council then moved to new business to consider tax-rate items and an ordinance reading related to the 2024 levy.
Unidentified Speaker 2 moved to ratify the budget adopted Sept. 26, 2024; the motion was seconded and the council recorded verbal 'aye' responses during the confirmation. Following that action, the same speaker moved to set the debt-service component 'that we have $0 per $1,000 assessed valuation for debt service' (as stated in the transcript); the motion was seconded and received vocal assent.
Unidentified Speaker 2 then moved 'that we allocate 0.56514 per $100 assessed valuation for maintenance and operations.' The motion was seconded and the council again recorded multiple 'aye' responses.
Later in the discussion the same council member moved 'that property tax rate be decreased by the adoption of a tax rate of 0.56514 per $100 valuation, which is effectively a 4.8% decrease in the tax rate.' The motion was seconded and verbal 'ayes' were recorded; the transcript also records at least one 'opposed' voice but does not attribute that opposition to a specific named member.
The transcript includes an explicit reference to the 'Texas Local Government Code' in the procedural preface to these items; no specific statute section or ordinance number was cited in the recorded remarks. The written numbers and phrasing in the audio transcript include inconsistent readings (for example, a line read as '0.6.56514 per $100' for the total levy), which appear to be reading or transcription artifacts; the motions quoted above reflect the language as spoken in the record.
The council did not receive public comment on these items at the meeting. The transcript does not include a fully detailed named roll-call tally for each motion; multiple 'aye' responses and at least one 'opposed' were heard. The meeting record in the transcript does not show further procedural steps or an adjournment within the provided segments.
The council’s next formal steps or the effective dates of any adopted rates were not specified in the portions of the record provided.
