Lytle council reduces new tax rate from earlier proposal

By Anton Riecher
In the last scheduled budget workshop for the upcoming 2025-2026 fiscal year, Lytle City Manager Zachary Meadows presented the city council with a reduction in the previously approved proposed tax rate of $.446405 per $100 valuation.
The new rate put forward Monday by Meadows is $.439434 per $100 valuation. The previous proposed rate was approved by the council at its Aug. 11 meeting.
“After going through and trying to rework some of the numbers, along with trying to get the water fund back closer in line, we moved some of the payment over to debt service,” he said. “By doing that it adjusted the tax rate.”
The proposed rate still amount to an increase over the current 39 cent rate. Still, Mayor Ruben Gonzalez noted that even at 43 cents “we’re still way below anybody around in this area, both in Atascosa and Medina County.”
A graph submitted by Meadow shows that the proposed rate is slightly below the highest tax rate paid by Lytle residents in the last 10 years.
An adjusted general fund summary submitted to the council now shows an expected surplus of $20,298.
“We’re in the black which is great,” Meadows said.
The proposed city budget shows total general fund revenue of $4.767 million against total department expenditures of $4.747 million.
Quorum for the budget workshop included District 1 Alderwoman Anna Carrillo, District 2 Alderman Richard Hughes and District 4 Alderman Michael Rodriguez.