Travis County Commissioners Court
September 28, 2004
Item 11
Item number 11 is is consider and take appropriate action on request to adopt
order setting the Travis County hospital district tax rate for fy '05. As
a result of that work, a tax rate in the amount of .0779 is proposed and I
move approval of the setting of a maintenance and operations tax rate of .00779
and there is no debt service tax rate. We don't need to set it as zero, do
we?
>> no, but I put it on.
>> hopefully, that will be years and years and years away
from now. Anymore discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote.
Clark, you're getting more persuasive looks like.
>> thank you.
>> judge, if we may indulge you for one interruption, the
hospital district posted their own agenda and their item 2 is to adopt an
order setting the same tax rate. This is a belt and suspenders kind of thing.
For explanation the statute appears to indicate that the Commissioner's court
sets the tax rate for the hospital district and that is what the lawyers believe
is the case. But the statute has some unclarity to it, and in order to be
absolutely certain that we've done this correctly, the only way we could figure
out to do it was to also have the district adopt the same tax rate that did
you, so if there's ever any question about it, we've done both and that is
their item two and if you could indulge them to take that motion now, they
can adopt that same tax rate.
>> so we're adopting, if we get a motion to that effect,
we adopt the .0779 total maintenance and operations tax rate.
>> yes, sir.
>> is that a motion to that effect.
>> a motion.
>> a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor please
say aye. All against? Do we need to do anything else?
>> no.
>> okay.
>> thank you, judge.
>> before you leave, really, this is a big day in Travis
County for health care delivery, and all the citizens of Travis County ought
to give you a real big applause. Everybody that has been involved in this.
>> thank you.
>> thank you, Commissioner.
>> thank y'all.
>> one more item regarding the hospital district.
>> yes, sir.
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