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Home My WebLink About2257 08-24-2020ORDINANCE NO. 2257 AN ORDINANCE LEVYING TAXES FOR THE TAX YEAR 2020 FOR THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS; PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN EXEMPTIONS THEREFROM; ENACTING PROVISIONS INCIDENT AND RELATING TO THE SUBJECT AND PURPOSE OF THIS ORDINANCE; REPEALING CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, on August 17, 2020, the City Council held a public hearing on the proposed budget for the Fiscal Year 2020-2021; and WHEREAS, the City Council has approved, by a separate ordinance adopted on August 24, 2020, an annual budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2020, and ending September 30, 2021 (tax year 2020); and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that an ad valorem tax must be levied to provide the revenue requirements of the budget for tax year 2020; and WHEREAS, the City Council held a public hearing on the proposed tax rate on August 17, 2020, and complied with all other statutory and constitutional requirements concerning the levying and assessing of ad valorem taxes; and WHEREAS, all citizens and interested persons were given an opportunity to be heard regarding the proposed budget and the proposed tax rate. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS, THAT: SECTION 1. The City of Euless, Texas does hereby adopt and levy the following tax rate for tax year 2020 and for each tax year thereafter until otherwise ordained: $0.381955 for the purposes of maintenance and operation $0.080545 for the payment of principal and interest on debt of the City $0.4625 Total tax rate The above tax rate shall be assessed and collected on each One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) of assessed value of all taxable property, real, personal and mixed, situated within the corporate limits of the City of Euless on January 1, 2020, and not exempt from taxation by the Constitution and statutes of the State of Texas. The tax so levied and assessed shall be apportioned to the accounts and funds in the amounts as set forth in the annual budget of the City adopted for the fiscal year. THIS TAX RATE WILL RAISE MORE TAXES FOR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS THAN LAST YEAR'S TAX RATE. SECTION 2. There shall be exempted from the assessed valuation of all residential homesteads for which proper application shall have been made, an amount equal to twenty percent (20%) of the assessed value of such residential homestead. The exemption shall be granted to any such residential homestead and improvements qualifying for same as provided by law. SECTION 3. The sum of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000) of the assessed valuation of residence homesteads of residents of the City of Euless who are sixty-five (65) years of age or older shall be exempted from all ad valorem taxes herein levied by the City. SECTION 4. There shall be exempted from the assessed valuation of all residential homesteads of disabled veterans for which proper application shall have been made a portion of such valuation in accordance with the following schedule as allowed by the Texas Tax Code, Section 11.22: An exemption of up to: $5,000 of the assessed value $77500 of the assessed value $10,000 of the assessed value $12,000 of the assessed value For a disability rating of at least: but less than: 10% 30% 30% 50% % 70% % and over SECTION 5. The taxes levied by this Ordinance shall be due and payable on October 1, 2020, and shall become delinquent on February 1, 2021. Except as provided in Section 7 below, payment of such tax is due in one full installment. Taxes shall be payable at the office of the Tarrant County Tax Collector. There shall be no discount for taxes paid prior to January 31, 2021. SECTION 6. If the tax is unpaid after January 31, 2021, such tax will become delinquent and penalty and interest will attach and accrue as provided by Section 33.01 of the Texas Tax Code. Ordinance No. 2257, Page 2 of 4 SECTION 7. A person who pays one-half of the taxes before December 1, 2020, may pay the remaining one-half of the taxes without penalty or interest before July 1, 2021, as provided and authorized by Section 31.03 of the Texas Tax Code. SECTION 8. As provided by Section 33.07 of the Texas Tax Code, in the event the taxes become delinquent and remain delinquent on July 1, 2021, and in the event such delinquent taxes are referred to an attorney for collection, an additional penalty in the amount of the compensation to be paid in connection with the collection of the delinquent taxes as specified in the contract with the attorney shall be added as collection costs to be paid by the taxpayer. SECTION 9. The Tarrant County Tax Collector is hereby authorized to collect the taxes levied under this Ordinance. The City and Tarrant County shall have available all rights and remedies provided by law for the enforcement of the collection of taxes levied under this Ordinance. SECTION 10. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed to the extent oI conflict only. SECTION 11. SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and sections of this Ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this Ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and sections of this ordinance, since the same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section. Ordinance No. 225% Page 3 of 4 PRESENTED AND APPROVED ON FIRST AND FINAL READING at a regular meetin -2 9 of the Euless City Coun on August 24,,20 0, by a vote of 7 _..yes, 0 nays, and 0 'abstentions.. APPROVED: APPROVED AS TO FORM Wit K. olson, City Attomev Prdimknce No. 2257,Page 4 of 4 Star -Telegram MEDIA Arlington Citizen -Journal I The Keller Citizen I La Estrella Mansf1wid News -Mirror I Star -Telegram Northeast I Weatherford Star -Telegram star-telegram.com 1 808 Throckmorton St. I Ft Worth, Tx. 76102-6315 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION Account # Ad Number Identification PQ I Amount cols IDe th 600565 0004718856 Tax rate publication notice $690.00 3 10.25 In Attention: Lindsay Wells THE STATE OF TEXAS CITY OF EULESS County of Tarrant 201 N ECTOR DR EULESS, TX 760393543 Before me, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, this day personally appeared VICTORIA RODELA, Bid and Legal Coordinator for the Star -Telegram, published by the Star -Telegram, Inc. at Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas-, and who, after being duly sworn, did depose and say that the attached clipping of an advertisement was published in the above named paper on the listed dates: 1 j" . 7 v_," CITY OF E IAL E - Insertion(s) Published On: August 06, 2020 (Principal Clerk) SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO BEFORE ME, THIS 6th day of August in the year of 2020 AM ANDADAWN GRISNAM My Notary ID # 132031326 Expires May 30, 2023 Extra charge for lost or duplicate affidavits. Legal document please do not destroy! NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON TAX INCREASE A tax rate of $.4625 per $100 valuation has been proposed by the governing body of City of Euless, Texas. PROPOSED TAX RATE $.462500 per $100 NO -NEW REVENUE TAX RATE $.461256 per $100 VOTER -APPROVAL TAX RATE $.489330 per $100 The no -new -revenue tax rate is the tax rate for the 2020 tax year that will raise the same amount of property tax revenue for City of Euless from the same properties in both the 2019 tax year and the 2020 tax year. The voter -approval rate is the highest tax rate that City of Euless may adopt without holding an election to seek voter approval of the rate. The proposed tax rate is greater than the no -new -revenue tax rate. This means that City of Euless is proposing to increase property taxes for the 2020 tax year. A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED TAX RATE WILL BE HELD ON August 17, 2020 at 7:00 PM at Euless City Hall, 201 N. Ector Drive Euless, Texas 76039. The meeting may be held virtually utilizing procedures as authorized by the State of Texas. The proposed tax rate is not greater than the voter -approval tax rate. As a result, City of Euless is not required to hold an election at which voters may accept or reject the proposed tax rate. However, you may express your support for or opposition to the proposed tax rate by contacting the members of the City Council of City of Euless at their offices or by attending the public hearing mentioned above. YOUR TAXES OWED UNDER ANY OF THE TAX RATES MENTIONED ABOVE CAN BE CALCULATED AS FOLLOWS: Property tax amount= (tax rate) X (taxable value of your property) / 100 The members of the governing body voted on the proposed tax increase as follows: FOR: Linda Martin, Mayor Jeremy Tompkins, Mayor Pro Tern Perry Bynum, Place 4 Harry Zimmer, Place 5 AGAINST: PRESENT and not voting: ABSENT: Tim Stinneford, Place 1 Eddie Price, Place 3 Salman Bhojani, Place 6 The 86th Texas Legislature modified the manner in which the voter -approval tax rate is calculated to limit the rate of growth of property taxes in the state. The following table compares the taxes imposed on the average residence homestead by City of Euless last year to the taxes proposed to be imposed on the average residence homestead by City of Euless this year: 2019 2020 Change Total Tax Rate (per $100 of value) $.4625 $.4625 Increase of $0 or 0% Average homestead taxable value $191,512 $191,350 Decrease of .081/o Tax on average homestead $885.74 $884.99 Decrease of 75� or .08% Total tax levy on all properties $21,335,158 1 $22,033,216 Increase of $698,058 or 3.27% For assistance with tax calculations, please contact the tax assessor for City of Euless at (8171685.1400 or eulessinfo@eulesstx.gov, or visit eulesstx.gov for more information.