- Abilene City Council looks at more revenue for budget from tax values – it appears to be a tax increase but local media either hides this or is so ignorant it doesn’t know what the official Effective Rate means. The difference between the Effective Rate and the rate adopted, on existing property, is what tells you if taxes are going up or down and by how much. No other number tells you this.
- Abilene City Council approves 2019 budget’s first reading with no tax increases – how do you know unless you publish the Effective Rate compared to the rate adopted?
- Abilene City Council passes 2018-2019 fiscal year budget on first reading – how do you know unless you publish the Effective Rate compared to the rate adopted?
- Cadets to graduate Friday, but APD still 14 short
- New community care-based contract placing children in foster care
- McMurry Receives Third National Recognition for Excellence
- McM Athletics Announces Inaugural “Grant Teaff Beyond the Game Award” Winner: Jeremie Border
- More than 300 welding jobs available in Abilene area
- It’s 1971 in Abilene all over again
- Abilene Fire Department lends a hand changing a tire VIDEO
- The increase of cattle being sold could affect beef prices at grocery stores VIDEO
- Grass fire in Zephyr is now 80 percent contained VIDEO
- Zephyr business owner feeds volunteer firefighters VIDEO
- Brown County Commissioners disagree on contract renewal of privately-run youth lockup
- Early councilmen drop tax rate for second year in a row – it appears this is a lie in the sense that they still adopted a tax increase but, because nowhere is the Effective Rate mentioned, it is not possible to tell.
Abilene-area news for 7/25/2018
July 25, 2018 by Leave a Comment
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