according to a presentation shared by the city of Fort Worth in each council district<\/a>, will be $8.49 more than the amount at 70.2 cents \u2014 which is still $8.20 less than the previous tax rate because of falling home values.<\/p>\nBudget approved \u2014 with some spats<\/p>\n
The budget was unanimously approved by the City Council, but four council members \u2014 Michael Crain, Charlie Lauersdorf, Macy Hill, and Chris Jamieson \u2014 voted against the proposed tax rate.<\/p>\n
“Fort Worth residents are already struggling with the rising cost of living, housing, groceries, and utilities,” Hill said. “Governments should not add to the financial pressure unless every single option has been exhausted.”<\/p>\n
Ahead of the vote on the tax rate, council member Mia Hall asked what would happen if the council voted to approve the budget but not the tax rate.<\/p>\n
“I would venture to say that I would use the term virtue signaling if you were to vote on the budget but not vote on the tax rate,” council member Elizabeth Beck said. “There was no willingness to have serious discussions about major service decreases on this dias, and so I will be supporting this tax rate because I don’t like to virtue signal.”<\/p>\n
Council member Chris Nettles agreed with Beck, and called the idea of voting for the budget but not the tax rate “gaslighting.”<\/p>\n
Mayor Mattie Parker, in comments before the vote on the tax rate, commended city staff members for their work on the budget and defended the city’s fiscal responsibility.<\/p>\n
“Affordability in this country is the topic of conversation around every kitchen table, around every city, and it should be,” Parker said. “Inflation, the cost of living, your salaries are stagnant. All of those things we have to take into consideration, but we still have to be a top 10 city.”<\/p>\n
Higher fees<\/p>\n
The city also approved changes to several fees, including stormwater fees, water and wastewater charges, solid waste charges and an environmental fee.<\/p>\n
The typical Fort Worth resident, according to the city, will pay about $7 extra per month in fees in the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth is raising its property tax rate and the City Council has approved its budget for 2027.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4519,6755,116,118,117,105798,6608,25538],"class_list":["post-439041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-city-council","tag-council-member","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-operating-budget","tag-property-tax","tag-tax-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439041","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=439041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}