Special meeting called to discuss tax rate

Gonzales City Council is set for a Special Called Meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, December 20, at 4 p.m.

The meeting is slated to open with a Hearing of the Citizens then promptly adjourn into Executive Session, according to the meeting agenda, where city council will consult in closed session with its attorney to receive legal advice regarding pending or contemplated litigation, a settlement offer, or matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with this chapter, to include the following matters: Re-Estate of J.B. Wells, Jr., Deceased, in the County Court of Gonzales County, Texas; the statutory process and legal requirements for calculating and adopting an effective and rollback tax rate using a maintenance and operations rate calculation and a debt rate calculation; and, an update on legal aspects of negotiations to secure resources in the event of an emergency.

Once council returns to open session they will discuss and consider any action resulting from Executive Session, as necessary.

The agenda includes a Council Workshop, where there will be a presentation and discussion regarding the statutory, budgetary and city policy requirements in the allocation and adoption of the city's tax rate.

After the workshop council is set to discuss and consider with possible action: an ordinance ratifying the adopted overall tax rate and correcting the allocation of the overall rate between the two components of M&O and I&S of the overall tax rate as required by statute; an ordinance amending the 2017- 2018 budget to correct certain balances as reflected pursuant to the City Charter, adopted fiscal policies and the corrected allocation of M&O and I&S Funding; the petition to initiate a Rollback Election; an ordinance ordering a Special Election on the question of Reducing the tax rate for the current year; and, to authorize the city manager to negotiate agreements to secure contingent water resources in the event of an emergency and approving the amendment of the water supply a contract with the Gonzales County Water Supply Corporation to accomplish said intent.