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Court endorses using jail housing revenue and property-sale proceeds to offset justice-bond tax impact
Summary
As part of 2025 justice-bond planning the court approved statements of intent: revenue from housing non-county inmates in the expanded jail and net sale proceeds from two county-owned buildings will be used to defray bond-related tax impacts for Proposal A and Proposal B, respectively.
The Commissioners Court approved statements of intent tied to the county's 2025 justice-bond planning: (1) once the jail expansion has capacity beyond county needs, revenue from housing inmates for other governments would be used to reduce the tax impact from Proposal A; and (2) the county intends to sell the district court building and the county attorney's office and apply net sale proceeds to reduce the tax impact from Proposal B.
The motions were made, seconded and approved by the court. The court recorded no further immediate action on operations tied to the jail expansion; commissioners said the statements of intent are meant to guide future budgeting and implementation related to the bond debt.
