{"id":332598,"date":"2026-06-11T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332598\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:47:13","slug":"esd-board-preparing-fy27-budget-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/332598\/","title":{"rendered":"ESD board preparing FY27 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioners of Collin County Emergency Services District No. 1 are considering three possible tax rates to fund firefighting in the 75.5 square miles of unincorporated county land in the district.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the board\u2019s Tuesday, May 26, meeting, ESD Commissioner Linda Backlund outlined anticipated expenditures and the revenue that would be derived from three tax rates: 10 cents per $100 of a property\u2019s taxable appraised value, 8 cents per $100 valuation and 7.5 cents per $100 valuation.<\/p>\n<p>In all cases she used the certified estimated tax value of just under $13.5 billion dollars provided by Collin Central Appraisal District (CCAD).<\/p>\n<p>However, Russell Schaffner, deputy county administrator, said appraisal protests by property owners were pending, and the total property value was likely to decrease.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story, stay informed, and support your local community newspaper, subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Princeton-Herald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Princeton Herald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commissioners of Collin County Emergency Services District No. 1 are considering three possible tax rates to fund firefighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-332598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332598","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=332598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}