Op-Ed by Fate Mayor, David Billings: Campaign Season Reality Check – Property Taxes and Transparency

Op-Ed by Fate Mayor, David Billings: Campaign Season Reality Check – Property Taxes and Transparency

Fate, TX (April 22, 2025) – Campaign season is winding down—thankfully—and we are now seeing the usual wave of campaign promises being made, often without much explanation about how those promises would actually be achieved. A common theme? Candidates pledging to “increase transparency” and “reduce property taxes.” Both are great ideas. However, anyone who has […]

A Broad View by Jerry Hogan: More on property tax

A Broad View by Jerry Hogan: More on property tax

ROCKWALL, TX (Dec. 6, 2022) You know, sometimes the things that come out of Austin just have to make you laugh. If you remember, several sessions ago the group in Austin ended with their pronouncement that the Property Tax issue had been fixed. The subject was addressed by our legislative group in Austin because of […]

Rockwall County mayors including Heath Mayor Kelson Elam ask Governor Greg Abbott to freeze property tax values at 2019 levels

Rockwall County mayors including Heath Mayor Kelson Elam ask Governor Greg Abbott to freeze property tax values at 2019 levels

Mayors in Rockwall County, including Heath Mayor Kelson Elam, have joined their counterparts statewide in asking Governor Gregg Abbott to avoid a probable double digit property tax increase for Texas property owners by adopting the 2019 property tax valuations for the year 2020. The Mayors also asked that any newly developed property that was not […]