Mason County schedules Aug. 25 public hearing on proposed tax rate; budget workshop and salary-setting on commissioners' agenda

Mason County’s Commissioners Court packet for the Aug. 11, 2025 meeting set a public hearing on the proposed property tax rate for Aug. 25, 2025 at 8:30 a.m. in the Commissioners Courtroom at 201 Ft. McKavitt St., Mason.

The packet includes Form 50-878 notice language required when a proposed tax rate exceeds the no-new-revenue and voter-approval tax rates, and repeats placeholders for the proposed tax rate, the no-new-revenue tax rate, the voter-approval tax rate and the de minimis rate. The agenda also lists a budget workshop and specific budget-related actions: a vote to set salaries and other allowances of all elected county officers (agenda item a), discussion and proposal of a tax rate by record vote (agenda item b), and scheduling a public hearing on the tax rate (agenda item c).

The packet includes a salary table for 2026 elected officials with individual salary amounts and supplements for named officials (for example, Rebekah Whitworth, Treg Hudson and Judge Sheree Hardin), which will inform the court’s vote on salaries and allowances. The materials list Commissioners Loeffler, Estes, Schuessler and Underwood and Judge Sheree Hardin as the presiding court members in attendance.

The packet does not record a final tax rate or a commissioner vote on Aug. 11; it schedules the public hearing and sets the administrative materials and salary figures for the budget discussion. The court must conduct the public hearing and any record vote on the tax rate in accordance with Tax Code requirements and the notice language included in Form 50-878.

Next procedural steps are the Aug. 25 public hearing and any subsequent record vote or adoption of a tax rate following required notice and hearing procedures.