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Fort Worth City Council members lowered property taxes and increased city service fees Tuesday as they adopted a $3 billion budget outlining how to spend taxpayer dollars over the next year.
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Fort Worth’s newly created Emergency Management & Communications Department is expected to operate on a $20.7 million budget, giving the city’s 911 call-taking team its own department and streamlining the city’s emergency response, officials said.
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Fort Worth city staff are used to spending their summers crunching the city’s budget numbers, but this year, they braced for significant challenges to balancing the fiscal year 2026 budget.
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Amid slowing property value increases and declining revenues, Fort Worth is staying the course in its fiscal year 2025 budget.
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The regional transit agency’s board of directors on Sept. 15 unanimously approved a $163.7 million operating budget for the 2025 fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1. That amount is up about $15.8 million from the $147.9 million budget that the agency approved last September.
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The Tarrant Appraisal District’s annual budget for 2025 will take effect despite a series of protest votes by area school districts, the board of directors confirmed at a Sept. 9 meeting.
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A resident with an average Tarrant County home and a homestead exemption would see about a $60 increase in their tax bill from the city, according to staff estimates.
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While fee increases often draw criticism from both residents and council members, the stormwater management department says these increases are essential to maintaining or replacing thousands of feet of drainage pipes. Without this work, the risk of sinkholes, flooding, erosion and property damage rises.
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Federal funding timelines may yet be satisfied following Fort Worth’s decision to free up previously allocated American Rescue Plan Act dollars on May 21.
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Fort Worth is at an impasse: spend all federal COVID-19 relief funds by 2026 or risk sending the money back to Washington, D.C.
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Principal Katy Myers listened to the sounds of learning as she walked the hallways of Rufino Mendoza Elementary.
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The city of Fort Worth went against prevailing local political winds and voted to approve a tax rate that would bring in more revenue than last year.