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City of Beeville won’t raise tax rate this year
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The city of Beeville will not ask for a tax rate increase this year — but property owners will likely pay higher city taxes anyway.

City Council members voted Monday morning to adopt the proposed effective tax rate to help fund the 2009-10 budget.

This year’s effective rate will be about 57.4 cents per $100 of assessed property value. That is slightly less than the 58.9 per $100 of assessed property value the city collected last year.

Assistant City Manager and Finance Director Robert Aguilar said the effective rate will effectively bring the city the same amount of tax revenue it collected last year. The decline in the effective tax rate was made possible by an increase in the overall assessed value of taxable property within the city, he explained.

The owner of a $100,000 home can expect to pay roughly $590 in property taxes to the city this year before exemptions.

Only three of the five council members were at the 8 a.m. session at City Hall. Mayor Santiago “Jimbo” Martinez, Mayor Pro Tem Mike Scotten and Councilwoman Libby Spires cast their votes.

Councilmen John Fulghum and David Carabajal did not attend.

Aguilar said that by setting the effective rate as this year’s proposed rate, the council will not be able to set a higher rate for property owners.

If council members had proposed a higher rate than the effective rate when they met Monday, they would have been required to publish public notices and set public hearings.

Aguilar said the council will only be required to provide a 72-hour notice now before they go ahead and approve a final tax rate.
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seeforurself
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September 05, 2009
anonymous,

1. without any name acknowledged, as that of author, contributor, or the like: an anonymous letter to the editor; an anonymous donation.

2. of unknown name; whose name is withheld: an anonymous author.

3. lacking individuality, unique character, or distinction: an endless row of drab, anonymous houses

Drab, you deserve no answer to questions you seem to think you know the answers to.The ones you speak so negatively of at least have names and faces and do their commenting in public not behind a anonymous name as you and I. So in many respects take a lesson from a wise man who said "He who has no sin let him cast the first stone". So cast away Judas.
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anonymous
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September 04, 2009
Oh, a Patton, Fulghum or Carabajal lover! You want to join the triumvirate so much why don't you say something good about them? Come on, say a few positive things about them, it won't hurt. You can't can you? You are more concerned about me than you are about them. It's ok for you to admit it. By the way, why don't you inquire as to how many budget sessions either one of your buddies have attended. Does the # zero mean anything to you? Were they at work all of those times too? Let me give you some advice -- focus on the issue, not me. Let's see if you can write a comment on the issue and not about me -- show me how intelligent you are. Try real hard to impress me. I suspect you will fail, but give it the old college try! So long, its been interesting -- got better things to do.
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seeforurself
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September 04, 2009
BeeFirst, you seem to be so concerned about two particular councilman and their actions as you were in your previous comments with Mr. Patton's dismissal.Perhaps the two councilmen had to report to work you think ?This meeting was held at 8 am on a Monday.. I know some people work for a living. Oh but u would not no that since you spend most of your time in others buisness than your own.
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BeeFirst
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September 03, 2009
Fulghum and Carabajal did not show up for city council's most important vote of the year. The two were last seen together? Both need to resign immediately. If they don't care enough about this city to show up to set the city's tax rate for the upcoming tax year, they have no business allegedly representing this city's taxpayers!
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