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The Richland Hills City Council held a work session and regular meeting on August 17, 2026. The primary focus was on the Fiscal Year 2027 budget and tax rate. Council opted to propose the voter approval tax rate instead of the higher de minimis rate, which reduced the property tax burden on residents but created a general fund deficit offset by the Richland Hills Development Corporation (RHDC) budget. Public hearings were held and budgets were adopted for the Crime Control and Prevention District (CCPD) and RHDC. A public hearing was held for the overall FY2027 city budget, with a final adoption vote scheduled for August 24, 2026. Council also adopted a Title VI Non-Discrimination Plan.
Next year. Yeah. So Jason, you know, I told you I interviewed for the job on Thursday at five star. Yeah. Well, they said uh we'll probably call you Monday. Just the one calls to land. And I didn't like either time, I just answered it. I was disappointed all the time. Oh man. One of them was the city thing, uh, you know, extreme heat warning. I'm like, I already didn't know. Thank you. Okay. Good evening. I'll now call to order the work session of the Richland. Hill City Council. The time is 6 12. Item 1A is discussion of the items listed on tonight's accounts. City Council agenda. No formal action will be taken during the work session. Each item action item will be considered during the regular session. Jason, do you further some things you want to discuss tonight? Yes, sir. Thanks. So just to clarify, we wanted to go through these consent agenda items real quick for you. So obviously the minutes self-explanatory. The ratification of the certified appraisal role as well as the maximum tax rate. Those were just to ensure that what you voted on at the last meeting are on the record. That was just due to we're have a redundancy built in so that if there was ever a challenge that you guys didn't, you know, vote on those two things that we've got it covered here. And Lisa will give that presentation or discussion of what that is during that item. That's new business, I believe. And then you'll have the three uh public hearings uh related to the budget. So the CCPD budget, RHDC, and then the overall city budget. And I do want to clarify on the citywide budget, you're not voting necessarily on the approval of the budget. You're voting, you're you will be voting hold a public hearing, and then you will actually vote to schedule that vote or adoption to the August 24th meeting. So on the slide, when we get to that item, I've put a motion uh for you to say that Elizabeth helped me with. Um so I just have it on the slide. So anybody that wants to read that, um, if that's good for you guys, that's what we would um ask you to do. Um questions on this, and then I do would like to go through the the budget on some changes if that's okay. Sure, let's do okay. Um so when we presented budgets to you last council meeting, we were proposing that you set the maximum rate, which was the minimis rate, and then after uh visiting with our finance team and looking at more of a deep dive on to how can we pull some levers now because we want to protect you know residents' pocketbooks going forward and into next year. Um let's look at other options. So I'm gonna pass out a tax rate sheet. I don't mind that's one thing, and this will show you what what different proposed rates would yield in terms of operating impacts as well as what does it look like to a um a resident.