\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Hays County Commissioners\u2019 Court authorized the issuance of Certificates of Obligation, or COs, to fund major county projects at a Jan. 20 meeting.<\/p>\n
The big picture<\/p>\n
The authorized COs<\/a> will fund five projects related to county office and administrative buildings, a judicial facility and animal shelter facilities.<\/p>\n A CO allows the county to fund public projects by using debt without voter approval.<\/p>\n The cost<\/p>\n The debt service will be paid for with revenue from an estimated tax rate levy of $0.0102 per $100 assessed property value, according to agenda documents<\/a>, and may also draw on net revenues from the county\u2019s solid waste system.<\/p>\n The COs must be repaid within 30 years of issuance.<\/p>\n About the projects<\/p>\n The authorized COs will fund five major county projects, according to agenda documents<\/a>, including:<\/p>\n Eastside Campus<\/a>, a county administration building in KyleAnimal shelter facilities, including a planned center in Kyle<\/a>, developed alongside the cities of Kyle and BudaUpgrades to the Hays County Government CenterNew office for Hays County Precinct 4New office for Hays County Precinct 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hays County Commissioners\u2019 Court authorized the issuance of Certificates of Obligation, or COs, to fund major county…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[56841,10123,132,134,133,28356,56839,56840,10926,2427,13982,56842,2628,17954,2445],"class_list":["post-132773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-100-million","tag-animal-shelter","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-buildings","tag-certificates-of-obligations","tag-cos","tag-debt","tag-hays-county","tag-kyle","tag-offices","tag-projects","tag-revenue","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}