Following pushback from residents, city council members voted Tuesday to pass a tax rate increase of a half-cent per $100 of property valuation, after initially considering a 1-cent increase.
Sugar Land Mayor Carol McCutcheon is asking the city manager to find about $1 million in cost savings, following backlash to a property tax rate increase.
The city council voted unanimously Tuesday to pass a tax rate increase of a half-cent per $100 of property valuation, instead of the originally proposed 1-cent rate increase. About half of the proposed 1-cent increase would have been used to fund bond projects, while the other half would have gone toward maintenance and operations.
Some residents in the suburb southwest of Houston expressed frustrations about a rate increase for maintenance and operations. Several spoke out against it at Tuesday’s city council meeting and during a public hearing last week…