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On October 18^th, the Committee for Expansion of the Frio Hospital District hosted a town hall in Dilley to provide information about their proposition in the upcoming Frio County-wide election. Continue reading “A Look Inside The Urgent Care/Frio Hospital District Expansion Election…”

On Monday October 10th, Dilley voted to adopt a property tax rate of $.802301 per $100 on approximately $158 million dollars of appraised property tax value. For the past year, however, city attorney Bobby Maldonado has argued that the total appraised value should be far higher due to an alleged $60 million dollar under-valuation of CoreCivic’s South Texas Family Residential Center. Continue reading “Dilley Voted to Adopt This Year’s Property Tax Rate. Has CoreCivic Been Paying Their Fair Share?… Part 2 of 3”

The City of Dilley failed to adopt the proposed budget property tax increase at the September 29th deadline due to lack of quorum. As a result of missing the vote, the property tax rate for the next fiscal year will default to current rate of $0.802301. Continue reading “No Property Tax Increase Due to Lack of Quorum”

CITY COUNCIL TABLES THE BUDGET & TAX RATE VOTES

Disputes over transparency, lack of council input.

By the time the September 26^th Dilley city meeting had started, the council was aware of extra revenue that was not included in the budget they were about to vote on- more than $84,000 in projected revenue, and $60,000 in eliminated expenses. If it had been included, the council would potentially have two new options: either keep the tax rate the same instead of raising it, or allocate those funds to departments and projects. City Manager Rudy Alvarez, who was hired well after the budget process began, suggested that it was too late to make wholesale changes, but made an offer to the council. Continue reading “Disputes over Input, Transparency Stall Budget & Tax Vote”

Budget Season: City Manager Rudy Alvarez Finds $60,000 at County Meeting

City of Pearsall asks for forgiveness from upcoming interlocal agreement payment, City of Dilley asks for equal treatment.

The Frio County Commissioners court was packed with more people than usual. The commissioners were set to approve their new fiscal year budget. Citizens and department heads waited to make their cases for or against pending budget cuts. Continue reading “BUDGET SEASON: City Manager Rudy Alvarez Finds $60,000 at County Meeting”

BUDGET SEASON: How plummeting Hotel revenues could impact Dilley’s property tax rates… and what the City plans to do about it. 

At the July 10^th budget workshop, finance director Irma Rodriguez caught the council by surprise with with unexpectedly low hotel occupancy tax revenue figures. Continue reading “BUDGET SEASON: How plummeting Hotel revenues could impact Dilley’s property tax rates… and what the City plans to do about it.”

BUDGET SEASON: A Deep Dive into Dilley’s 2017-18 Budget Proposal

Next week, the Dilley city council will vote on whether or not raise the local property tax rate to $0.885281, a 10% increase from the current $0.802301 property tax rate.

The tax decision will rest largely on the demands of the proposed budget released by the city last month (available here). For the sake of comparison and scrutiny, this article uses the new total 2017 taxable value for the city of Dilley and calculates projections based on the current 2016 property tax and collection rate… Continue reading “BUDGET SEASON: A Deep Dive into Dilley’s 2017-18 Budget Proposal”