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Committee reviews payroll taxes, dues/fees and bookkeeper role ahead of budget work

Budget Committee · January 24, 2026
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Summary

Members reviewed payroll and payroll-tax items (workers' comp, Texas and federal unemployment), membership dues and ledger categorizations; the bookkeeper (Patel Hill and Brown) and QuickBooks were identified as the current record-keeping resources.

Chair walked members through payroll categories that need to be included in the budget—salary, payroll tax, workers' comp, and both Texas and federal unemployment contributions—and suggested adding federal unemployment if it was not already included.

He also pointed to memberships and fees (TML, tax office, appraiser's office, council of governments, health district) that had been lumped or miscategorized in the ledger and recommended reclassifying them into dues/fees or office expenses as appropriate. The chair noted the town's QuickBooks bookkeeper, "Patel Hill and Brown," as the person who maintains the accounts and asked the committee to coordinate with that firm for reconciliations and missing statements.