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Council advances 2024–25 budget work with proposed tax rate, utility rate plan and truck appropriation
Summary
Interim finance director Todd Simino presented the city’s proposed 2024–25 budget priorities including a 7.7% police pay increase, a recommended 5.5% water-rate increase to help fund a $96 million five‑year utility capital plan, a proposed tax rate of 0.52877 per $100 (record vote taken), and an ordinance amendment to reappropriate about $1.35–$1.4 million for sanitation trucks.
The Nacogdoches City Council continued work on the 2024–25 budget on Aug. 20, 2024, hearing a brief summary from interim finance director Todd Simino and taking required procedural votes, including a record vote on a proposed property tax rate.
Simino said the proposed budget targets several priorities by structuring and directing salary increases, maintaining existing employee benefits, adding a chief of staff position and reclassifying several fire and sanitation positions. He said staff adjusted police starting pay through a 7.7% increase to place entry…
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