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Denton, Texas
Property tax vote may be split
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tion for 2017 had enough votes to pass.
“Because if it doesn’t, everything we’re
talking about right now is null and void,”
Watts said.
Last year, for the first time in recent years,
the City Council wasn’t unanimous in its
budget votes. This year’s vote looks to split
again. If the split is deep enough, then mi-
nority vote could rule.
Here’s how:
State law requires a council superma-
jority to adopt a tax rate. For Denton, that
means five council members have to agree
with the current proposal — a half-cent
rate decrease, to 68.475 per $100 valua-
tion.
adopt the “effective rate” of66.338 cents per
$100 valuation.
The effective rate is a special calculation,
required by state law, that allows the city to
collect the same amount of money from the
same property from one year to the next.
Even with a half-cent decrease in the rate,
the city staff expects to collect about $3 mil-
lion more from the same property taxpayers
this year over last year.
The booming real estate market in North
Texas means lots of homes and businesses
were appraised for a higher market value.
That increase, in turn, means property own-
ers can expect to pay more in property taxes.
Rate could see a larger
cut if proposal falls flat
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By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe @ dentonrc. com
A proposed half-cent cut in Denton’s
property tax rate may not have the City
Council votes to pass next month.
But if that vote fails, the city property tax
rate won’t go up — it will go down even fur-
ther.
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Mayor Chris Watts probed fellow council
members during budget talks Tuesday after-
noon, trying to ascertain whether the pro-
posed rate of 68.475 cents per $100 valua-
Without five votes, the city must, by law,
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Back-to-school bash pumps up students, parents for new academic year
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By Britney Tabor
Staff Writer
htabor@dentonrc.com
Denton County commissioners
anticipate meeting for formal talks
with Denton city and Denton Com-
munity Market officials to discuss
keeping the market at Historical Park
long term.
Commissioner Andy Eads said he
and Commissioner Hugh Coleman
hope to arrange formal discussions
with city and market officials on a po-
tential partnership soon.
“I believe that we can work a part-
nership with the city of Denton,” Eads
said at Tuesday’s Commissioners
Court meeting. “They’ve been very
supportive of our historical preserva-
tion efforts, and we’d love to have the
visitors and the guests of the market at
our park and learn about the history
of the county.
“I think there’s a financial commit-
ment that can be made from the city to
the county to host and improve the site
which would be a win-win.”
The Denton Community Market be-
gan operations in 2010 at the Denton
County Historical Park, a few blocks
from the Square at Carroll Boulevard
and Mulberry Street.
From April to November, the weekly
artist and farmers market features ven-
dors selling produce from local farms,
baked goods, art and handcrafted
items, as well as five music, food trucks
and children’s activities.
The market draws an estimated
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tertainers to Denton
starting Aug. 19 at the
North Texas Fairgrounds.
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Photos by Caitlyn Jones/Denton Record-Chronicle
Denton ISD parents and students dance the “Cupid Shuffle” at the Braswell Zone Back-to-School Bash on Tuesday at Navo
Middle School, which has put on an annual celebration for the last eight years.
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Braswell boogie
A group of craft brewers
— including Peticolas
Brewing of Dallas and
Revolver Brewing of
Granbury — challenged
a contentious compo-
nent of the state’s arcane
By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjones @ dentonrc.com
It was a circus over at Navo Middle
School, and school hasn’t even started yet.
Families living along the U.S. Highway
380 Corridor flooded the school for the
Braswell Zone Back-to-School Bash, an
annual event to pump up spirits for the
upcoming school year, which begins on
Aug. 22.
The enthusiasm was especially high
this year with Denton ISD opening the
new Bell Elementary and Braswell High
School.
The potential rain decided to hold off
while roughly 3,000 people enjoyed cooler
alcohol regulations.
Anthony and
Jocelyn Jul-
iette slide
down an in-
flatable ob-
stacle course
at the Bras-
well Zone
Back-to-
School Bash.
Anthony will
be a third-
grader this
year, while
Jocelyn will
start kin-
dergarten.
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Using leftovers from
Olympic caterers and local
partners, Massimo Bottu-
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homeless population.
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Lewisville Lake excluded from latest gas drilling auction
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Oklahoma nominated for drilling leases.
Wendy Park, staff attorney for the Cen-
ter for Biological Diversity in Oakland,
California, said she’d rather have the fed-
eral government end the lease program.
“These are lands that belong to all of us
and should not be put up for sale given
these grave risks to drinking water and
these public lands,” said Park, who
brought the Lewisville Lake auction to the
attention of people here.
Her group and others also oppose dril-
ling on federal land as part of efforts to re-
duce greenhouse gas emissions, which
contribute to global warming.
By Jeff Mosier
The Dallas Morning News
jmosier@ dallasnews. com
DALLAS — Gas drillers are steering
clear of Lewisville Lake after an uproar
this spring over fracking plans.
The Bureau of Land Management re-
leased its latest fist of properties available
to lease for gas drilling. Lewisville Lake
isn’t among the bunch that are potentially
headed for the auction block next spring.
Properties are nominated for auction
by gas drillers hoping to bid on leasing
rights. But no one nominated Lewisville
Lake this time. The last effort was opposed
by environmental groups and several cit-
ies, including Dallas, which gets some of
“These are lands that belong to all of us and
should not be put up for sale given these grave
risks to drinking water and these public lands/'
— Wendy Park, attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity in Oakland, California
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its drinking water from Lewisville Lake.
That opposition was focused on con-
cerns about possible water contamination precaution. There have also been similar
and about what effects fracking might concerns in Canada,
have on the lake’s high-risk dam. The fed-
eral government is expediting plans for pointed out there has been extensive dril-
$100milfionto $200 million worth of im- ling near Lewisville Lake without any neg-
ative consequences.
Although the lake is currently off the ta-
neers indicated concerns elsewhere when ble, there is other public land in Texas and
they expanded the agency’s ban on gas
drilling near the Joe Pool Lake dam as a
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provements to the dam.
Officials with the Army Corps of Engi-
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