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Minutes, Public Hearing, LaPorte City Counc~ December 5, 1983, Page 5 Mayor Cline: Mr. Trahan • of us know, at this point La Porte, what our taxes wanted a dollar figure on taxes. None in time, even those of us who live in are liable to be next year. City. Attorney Askins: Your tax is a function of your valuation multiplied by the rate that is set. If you will take your valuation, it's not going to be more than 1.3 percent off the dollar figures in a penny difference range. .And if you figure the homestead exemption and then if you're over 65, a very large exemption, probably everybody in the annexed area is going to be looking, since most of you are homeowners; now if you're a renter that's not going to help you. You've got to be a home- owner. But if you're a homeowner, you're probably looking at a substantially reduced tax. Unknown: Will we pay both La Porte and water district taxes? City Attorney Askins: No. .Taxes are reckoned in Texas on a calendar year basis, starting January first, and your tax where you are on January 1. It's a good question, because the water district is going to be dissolved in 90 days. But it's not a pro rateable thing. The water district, for 1984, will not levy a water district tax for '84 before they are dissolved. The City levies its tax ordinance usually the last week of August, first week of September, somewhere in there, .and the City of La Porte's tax rate has been remarkably stable for the • last couple of decades. Unknown: What was it last year? Mayor Cline: Seventy-two cents. You pay seventy-one, we're paying 72, and the year before and the year before--since 1969 that I can recall. That's based on 100 percent valuation. Now that's-set by the State, not by us--it's set by the Central Appraisal District. When .the Peveto Bill, as we call it not too fondly, was passed by the Texas Legislature, saying all parcels of property would be taxed the same. All taxing entities school, county, city--would all have the same valuation. A. J. Christ, 8814 Ashwyn: I also have some questions I'd ice to present at this time. 1. In regards to police protection, I want to know about how many more patrolmen are going to be put on, if any, to take care of the annexed territory? I know that cities usually have about all .they can take care of with what they've got. When you bring in more territory it does tax the police. Also, I want to know about the water and sewer rates on this, so we can know. what we can expect in our bills there as to what we're paying at this point in time. Also, someone had said something about street lights are out. I wasn't aware of any street lights in this area that had been turned out. And also, on the lighting--we haven't been paying no lighting, and this is going to be an extra charge from the City when they take that over, and I'm sure we will be paying that somewhere along. the line.