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Court votes to withdraw from San Angelo tiers program amid legal and appraisal questions
Summary
After revisiting legal and comptroller-related questions about whether reinvestment-related increases would count as 'new' revenue, the Commissioners Court voted July 7 to withdraw from the San Angelo tiers program.
Commissioners debated whether to remain in the San Angelo tiers program and raised concerns about how increased appraised values under the program would interact with voter-approval tax-rate calculations. The court said it was awaiting clarification from the comptroller's office on whether such increases would be treated as "new" revenue for voter-approval purposes. Following discussion, a motion to withdraw from the tiers program was moved and passed.
"I'd like to make the motion to withdraw from the San Angelo tiers program," a Commissioner said before the motion was seconded and approved. Commissioners indicated the decision followed concern that the program had not produced expected benefits for Tom Green County and uncertainty about state comptroller treatment of appraised-value increases.
