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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 reaches the state cap (2.0%), implementing a CCPD would require reallocating a portion of the current local sales-tax allocations — most likely from funds that currently support the Rosenberg Development Corporation (RDC).
City Attorney Brandon Morris outlined the statutory process: if council proposes a CCPD, it must appoint a temporary seven-member board within 60 days; the temporary board develops a crime plan and proposed budget and orders the election. Council agreed to place the proposed CCPD on the ballot and then appointed the temporary board. Several council members volunteered to serve; former councilmember Amanda Bora accepted an invitation to join the temporary board as a citizen representative. Council recorded six votes in favor and one abstention on the appointments.
Police Chief described likely uses for the funds — officer recruitment and retention, equipment and community‑oriented programs — but emphasized that the temporary board would develop the formal plan and budget for voters to review.
Why it matters: If voters approve the CCPD, the district would provide a separate dedicated revenue stream for the police department; if voters reject it, the status quo would remain. Council and staff said the initial proposal would appear on a May ballot and, if approved, the district would begin with a five-year term subject to voter renewal.
Next steps: The temporary board must organize and elect a presiding officer, draft a crime-control plan and proposed budget, and place the proposed tax increment and district creation on the ballot for voter approval.
