Remarks by Cory Crenshaw
177 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 8
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“Okay. And what is that dollar wise increasing our property taxes?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“And what would just that number increase our total tax rate to?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“AND IS THAT WITHIN THE VOTER APPROVED RATE OR WHATEVER WE CALL THAT? YES. SO IT WOULD NOT REQUIRE It's kind of confusing. It's because we told people if you vote in favor of these propositions, it's going to increase your property taxes. But in reality, it wasn't automatic. It's now requiring us to come along and increase the total tax rate in order to make up for those expenses, correct? That's right. which to me it seems like it would have been easier if this would have just been automatic.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So what I think would help with us would be if we had an additional line here under current rate that would say voter approved geo increase or whatever you want to call it with a .0163 or whatever it was. That way we can let people know, yes, your property taxes are increasing, but it's because Prop A passed and voters agreed to do that. It's not necessarily the council that just came along and decided, Well, we want more money to spend, so we've decided to increase your tax rate. Does that make sense?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I always ask questions that are the next slide.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Right, but it's not reflected so far in what we're talking about, and I just think that that's very important because I'm not in favor of increasing the tax rate at all, but if voters approve it, obviously we don't have any choice.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“There can also be other taxes that are included in their property tax bill, such as emergency services districts and mud districts and things like that that are additional funding for services, and ours are all lumped together. We also have a port tax, and, you know, I guarantee you Odessa doesn't have a port tax, but Harlingen may. But anyway, you know... We don't know with those lower rates or those higher rates if there's additional service and taxing entities within those.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm just saying that this is just the city taxes, and there may be additional taxing entities within those municipalities that allow them to have a lower rate. So I just wanted to clarify that.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“If we were to go to voters and ask for an increase, it would require that if we went up to the .76, right? If we went over it.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I think it's also important to add that voters... rejected and turned down an EDC, and that's not something that we came up with or doesn't mean that we don't want an EDC, but voters made that decision many moons ago, and we have to respect it.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Is it later in a slide that we do the .675963 total tax rate, which would reflect our current adopted rate plus what voters approved for the infrastructure bond?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Well, I would ask that we add that because, you know, I'm not trying to... You know, I just only thing in my mind that would make sense would be the current adopted rate plus what voters approved.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Are we waiting for another slide that's going to have the total budget numbers? Yes, sir. Okay.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Right. But does that include things like the 2% COLA?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay, and that already includes the savings from a hiring freeze?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Why are, and this is a question about this slide. You'll be happy to hear. Why are industrial payments going down a million dollars in 2027? Because if anything on this chart, that should be going up.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Right. Well, that's unfortunate. What is that million? Where did that come from? The million that we're losing from 26 to 27.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yeah. But I can do that. That's important.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“And we are sending bills to all these people. Correct.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I thought it was gradually going up so that we got more revenue towards the end of the contract.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“And so NatGas, their abatement dropped off this year, and that was an additional $3 million in revenue for the city. So what you're telling me is there are no, and I'm not talking about the other one, the IDAs, I'm talking about abatements. There are no abatements dropping off in 2027? Because I was under the impression that there was at least one.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay. Is there another slide? Mm-hmm. with the numbers, because I'm trying to figure out what, if we apply the rate that was approved by voters on Prop A of the .1675963, what our fund balance would be.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Right. And I know we're ready to break for lunch, but can I get the ending fund balance percentage if we do the point? Okay. Okay. Assuming it's going to be 18%. It may be. And then I'd also like to know, if it's not on a future slide, what we would need to cut that negative $6.1 million we're projecting for 2027, assuming we get the rate of the .765, what we need to cut that $6.1 million in order to get to a 20% fund balance.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay, so in order to, assuming it's going to be 18%, in order to get to 20%, we would be basically 3.6 million we're going to have to cut?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“She said that you have to cut expenses $1.8 million to get the fund balance up 1%. So assuming the .675 whatever rate that voters approved on Prop A gets us to an 18% fund balance, we would have to cut $3.6 million from the 2027 budget to keep the fund balance at our own approved 20%.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026