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Bell County adopts $160M FY2025 budget and approves 0.3445 tax rate; vote 4–1
Summary
Bell County Commissioners Court adopted a $160 million FY2025 budget and approved a proposed property tax rate of 0.3445 per $100 of assessed value (a $0.032 increase), citing jail staffing and public-safety needs; the measures passed on 4–1 votes after debate about spending priorities and jail expansion.
Bell County Commissioners Court voted to adopt the FY2025 county budget and to set a property tax rate of 0.3445 per $100 of assessed value, decisions the court said are needed to fund staffing and capital projects including the new jail.
County Judge David Wycher presented the financial highlights and said the proposed budget balances roughly $160,000,000 in revenues and $160,000,000 in expenditures and that public safety and staffing needs drove many requests. He described five factors affecting the tax rate—assessed values, exemptions, sales tax revenue, state-imposed services and operating costs—and noted the budget proposal includes 69 new positions, about 67 of which are for…
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