LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – The Lubbock City Council held a general fund budget workshop Friday, focusing on property tax revenue and previously announced priorities including pay raises for city workers.<\/p>\n
City Manager Jarrett Atkinson\u2019s budget proposal includes a 3% across-the-board cost-of-living adjustment. Government data shows prices have increased more than 3.5% since last summer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is three percent for everybody that is in the general fund that is not police and fire,\u201d Atkinson said. \u201cIf you\u2019re a civilian employee of the city, that is the proposal, and $1.865 million is the cost.\u201d<\/p>\n
Property tax rate<\/p>\n
The city manager\u2019s office is asking for a property tax rate above the \u201cno new revenue\u201d rate but below the voter approval rate.<\/p>\n
Atkinson said overall taxable property values in the community increased, but exemptions and other losses will offset those gains.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall in the community taxable value went up \u2014 exemptions and other losses went up enough to overcome that,\u201d Atkinson said.<\/p>\n
What comes next<\/p>\n
Meet-and-confer agreements covering pay raises for police and schedule changes for firefighters are also part of the broader budget discussions.<\/p>\n
The proposal presented Friday is not the final budget plan. Council members may offer amendments and negotiate changes over the next month. The council must pass a budget and a new tax rate by Oct. 1.<\/p>\n
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