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Council puts Crime Control & Prevention District on ballot and appoints temporary board
Summary
Council approved placing a proposed Crime Control & Prevention District (CCPD) on the ballot for voters to decide on reallocating part of the city sales tax to police funding, and appointed a temporary seven-member board composed chiefly of council volunteers and one former councilmember to draft a crime plan and budget.
Rosenberg city council voted to propose the creation of a Crime Control & Prevention District (CCPD) and to appoint a temporary board to prepare a crime-control plan and draft budget for voter consideration.
Under Texas law, a municipality may fund a CCPD with a voter-approved sales-and-use-tax increment of up to 0.5%. The smallest increment is 0.125 percentage points (an eighth of a cent); staff estimated that allocation at roughly $1.7 million annually for Rosenberg. Because Rosenberg’s total city sales tax already…
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