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Coryell County commissioners debate whether to count $1M in FEMA reimbursements as revenue, keeping proposed 53¢ tax rate
Summary
Commissioners split over including about $1 million in FEMA reimbursements in the proposed budget. Supporters say the money is likely and avoids larger tax hikes; opponents warned it artificially lowers the tax rate and risks next-year shortfalls if FEMA delays payments. The court kept the proposed 53¢ rate and scheduled another public hearing.
Coryell County commissioners spent the bulk of a marathon budget workshop Thursday debating whether to count roughly $1 million in FEMA reimbursements as revenue in the proposed fiscal-year budget — a choice that would lower the county’s proposed tax rate by roughly two cents.
Supporters of including the FEMA money argued that a significant portion of projects are already packaged with the federal agency and that excluding the…
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