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Sweetwater council adopts FY2025–26 budget and sets new property tax rate
Summary
The Sweetwater City Council approved the fiscal year 2025–26 budget and an ordinance fixing a property tax rate of 51.3613¢ per $100 valuation in a brief morning meeting; council members identified debt issuance for a pump truck and ambulance as the primary driver of the increase.
The Sweetwater City Council voted to adopt the fiscal year 2025–26 budget and approved an ordinance fixing the city's property tax rate at 51.3613 cents per $100 valuation during a meeting that began at 9:00 a.m.
The council opened public hearings on the proposed budget and the tax rate, heard no public comments, and then voted to adopt the budget. The clerk announced the budget would raise $426,062 in additional property-tax revenue over last year (reported in the meeting as a roughly 13.65% increase) and that $28,155 in taxable value was newly added to the tax roll. "This budget will raise…
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