{"id":436989,"date":"2026-09-15T21:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436989\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T21:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:02:11","slug":"tarrant-lowers-county-hospital-tax-rates-4-times-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436989\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrant lowers county, hospital tax rates 4 times in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tarrant<\/p>\n

Tarrant County Commissioners Court hear public comment concerning the proposed decrease of voting sites on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026 in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n

Abigail Dollins<\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

The Tarrant County Commissioners Court delivered another cut to property taxes for the county and hospital district for the fourth year in a row.<\/p>\n

Commissioners voted 3-2 along party lines Tuesday, Sept. 15, to set the county\u2019s tax rate at 18.6 cents per $100 valuation and the JPS Health Network at 15.9 cents per $100 valuation. Both were below the no new revenue rate, meaning the entities will gain less revenue from existing property than it did the year prior.<\/p>\n

Coupled, the rates will drop by $82 on a home at the median tax value of $236,962. The tax rates support a $834 million budget<\/a> at the county \u2014 increased from last year\u2019s $823 million budget \u2014 and a $1.8 billion budget for JPS.<\/p>\n

JPS Health Network serves as Tarrant County\u2019s public hospital system, and cares for the majority of the county\u2019s uninsured patients. The hospital is in the middle of a $2.4 billion construction project, including a $1.5 billion hospital. JPS is primarily paying for the construction using cash it has been saving for years, as well as $800 million in bond proceeds that voters approved in 2018.<\/p>\n

Republican County Judge Tim O\u2019Hare and Commissioners Matt Krause and Manny Ramirez voted in favor of the tax rates and budgets. Democrat Commissioners Roderick Miles and Alisa Simmons were against.<\/p>\n

About 25 people voiced their opinions on the budget and tax rates, which have been prevailing topics in the Tarrant County judge race between Simmons and O\u2019Hare.<\/p>\n

Nine individuals commended the Republicans on court for leading the charge to cut spending and decrease the burden on taxpayers. The remaining 16 condemned the budget as \u201cbuilt to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Helen Giese, county budget and risk management director, said she has no concerns about the budget or the county\u2019s fiscal standing.<\/p>\n


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Rachel Royster<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Rachel Royster is a news and government reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, specifically focused on Tarrant County. She joined the newsroom after interning at the Austin American-Statesman, the Waco Tribune-Herald and Capital Community News in DC. A Houston native and Baylor grad, Rachel enjoys traveling, reading and being outside. She welcomes any and all news tips to her email.\n <\/p>\n


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Ciara McCarthy<\/a><\/p>\n

Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n

Ciara McCarthy covers health and wellness as part of the Star-Telegram\u2019s Crossroads Lab. She came to Fort Worth after three years in Victoria, Texas, where she worked at the Victoria Advocate. Ciara is focused on equipping people and communities with information they need to make decisions about their lives and well-being. Please reach out with your questions about public health or the health care system. Email cmccarthy@star-telegram.com or call or text 817-203-4391.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tarrant County Commissioners Court hear public comment concerning the proposed decrease of voting sites on Tuesday, Sept. 1,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-436989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436989","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=436989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}