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• • <br />Green, Shannon <br />From: Alexander, Cynthia <br />Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:15 AM <br />To: Green, Shannon <br />Subject: FW: Brenham: city council to again discuss tax freeze <br />For audit committee. c <br />Original Message <br />Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:39 AM <br />Subject: Brenham: city council to again discuss tax freeze <br />City council to again discuss tax freeze <br />Brenham Banner Press <br />Tuesday, November 1, 2005 2:46 PM CST <br />The Brenham City Council will revisit whether it wants to institute a tax freeze for <br />senior citizens and disabled persons. <br />The tax freeze will be one of the items discussed during a work session Thursday that <br />follows a 1 p.m. formal session in City Hall at 200 W. Vulcan St. <br />Senior citizens groups have twice called on the council to grant the tax freeze. <br />Texas voters in 2003 approved a measure allowing city, county and junior college <br />districts to "freeze" taxes for homeowners over age 65 or disabled persons. <br />Blinn College and Washington County adopted the freeze, and the Brenham Louise <br />Giddings Retired Teachers organization has pressed the Brenham City Council to do <br />the same. <br />However, the council noted in March 2004 to table action, saying the Texas Municipal <br />League, however, was urging its member cities to wait and see what comes out of a <br />school finance session being conducted by the Texas Legislature. <br />Several sessions were held, but lawmakers were unable to come up with another method <br />of funding public education. <br />And again last March, the Brenham Louise Giddings Retired Teachers chapter again <br />pressed its request, saying in a letter to the council that "school retirees ... need tax <br />relief, not tax increases." <br />Nancy Maass, president of the retired teachers group, in her letter to the council said <br />the tax freeze proposed last year "would have had minimal economic impact on tax <br />