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Waller ISD board adopts 2025 tax rate of $1.0626 after required truth-in-taxation motion
Summary
Waller ISD trustees voted 6-0-0 on Aug. 25 to adopt a combined 2025 tax rate of $1.0626. CFO Audrey Ambridge noted the figure is lower than the 2024 rate of $1.1069; state truth-in-taxation rules required motion wording that the rate be "increased," and Vice President Jeff Flukinger made that motion under §26.05(b) of the Property Tax Code.
The Waller Independent School District Board of Trustees adopted a combined 2025 tax rate of $1.0626 at its Aug. 25, 2025 special meeting. Chief Financial Officer Audrey Ambridge presented the proposed combined rate and compared it to the 2024 total tax rate.
"The proposed combined rate of $1.0626 is an overall decrease from the 2024 total tax rate of $1.1069," Audrey Ambridge said. Because state truth-in-taxation calculations require specific motion language, Vice President Jeff Flukinger moved "that the tax rate be increased by the adoption of a tax rate of $1.0626," citing §26.05(b) of the Property Tax Code. Trustee Bryan Lowe seconded the motion and the board recorded the motion as carried 6-0-0 (Secretary Ronald Campbell absent).
The minutes note the apparent paradox that the numerical combined rate is lower than the prior year even though the statutory motion language uses the word "increased" per state calculation conventions; the motion as made satisfied the statutory requirement and allowed the district to adopt the $1.0626 rate.
