The City of Eden will hold two public hearings on a proposal to increase total tax revenues from properties on the tax roll in the preceding tax year by 6.97 percent (percentage by which proposed tax rate exceeds lower of rollback tax rate or effective tax rate calculated under Chapter 26, Tax Code). Your individual taxes may increase at a greater or lesser rate, or even decrease, depending on the change in the taxable value of your property in relation to the change in taxable value of all other property and the tax rate that is adopted.

The first public hearing will be held on October 2, 2008 @ 5:00pm at 120 Paint Rock St. Eden, TX.

The second public hearing will be held on October 7, 2008 @ 5:00 pm at 120 Paint Rock St. Eden, TX.

The members of the governing body voted on the proposal to consider the tax increase as follows:

FOR: Shelley Hyles, Butch Williams, Grover Hall, Ray Torres and Eddy Markham

AGAINST: none

PRESENT and not voting: none

ABSENT:none

The average taxable value of a residence homestead in CIty of Eden last year was $ 25,933 (average taxable value of a residence homestead in the taxing unit for the preceding tax year, disregarding residence homestead exemptions available only to disabled persons or persons 65 years of age or older). Based on last year’s tax rate of $.509940 (preceding year’s adopted tax rate) per $100 of taxable value, the amount of taxes imposed last year on the average home was $132.24 (tax on average taxable value of a residence homestead in the taxing unit for the preceding tax year, disregarding residence homestead exemptions available only to disabled persons or persons 65 years of age or older).

The average taxable value of a residence homestead in City of Eden this year is $25,602 (average taxable value of a residence homestead in the taxing unit for the current tax year, disregarding residence homestead exemptions available only to disabled persons or persons 65 years of age or older). If the governing body adopts the effective tax rate for this year of $.486075 per $100 of taxable value, the amount of taxes imposed this year on the average home would be $124.44 (tax on average taxable value of a residence homestead in the taxing unit for the current tax year, disregarding residence homestead exemptions available only to disabled persons or persons 65 years of age or older).

If the governing body adopts the proposed tax rate of $ .51994 per $100 of taxable value, the amount of taxes imposed this year on the average home would be $133.12 (tax on the average taxable value of a residence homestead in the taxing unit for the current tax year, disregarding residence homestead exemptions available only to disabled persons or persons 65 years of age or older).

Members of the public are encouraged to attend the hearings and express their views.

The ____________________________ County Auditor certifies that ____________________________ County has spent $_____________ in the previous 12 months beginning _________________, ______, for the maintenance and operations cost of keeping inmates sentenced to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. ___________________________ County Sheriff has provided information on these costs, minus the state revenues received for reimbursement of such costs.

The ____________________________ spent $_____________ from _________________ to _________________ on enhanced indigent health care at the increased minimum eligibility standards, less the amount of state assistance. For the current tax year, the amount of increase above last year’s enhanced indigent health care expenditures is ____________________.