Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Kyle City Council to take final vote on 2011-12 budget
Water and wastewater rates also are set for a sizable jump, 30 and 25 percent, respectively
Update, Wed. Sept. 14 – The council voted 5-1 to approve the budget, along with the increases in the property tax and utility rates.
Note: Download a pdf copy of the council's meeting agenda from the city's nifty website at this link (under Agendas): http://www.cityofkyle.com/council/special-called-kyle-city-council-meeting-6
Send your comments and questions to Kyle City Hall Administration, 512.262.3927 (contact by e-mail, http://www.cityofkyle.com/contact), or click on the "comments" at the bottom of the story
Reprinted from the Statesman
By Clara O'Rourke
American-Statesman Staff
Published: 7:42 pm Monday, Sept. 12, 2011
The Kyle City Council is scheduled to vote on its 2011-12 budget for the second and final time tonight (Tuesday Sept. 13)
Council members gave preliminary approval to the $37.1 million budget last week. The budget is $5.2 million leaner than the current one, and raises property tax and utility rates.
The tax bill on the average homestead in Kyle — valued at $127,330 after exemptions — would increase $87.22, or about 17 percent, under the proposed budget to $616.91. Water and wastewater rates also are set for a sizable jump, 30 and 25 percent, respectively. The average water bill would be $42.94 ; wastewater would average $28.40.
The City Council meeting starts at 7 p.m. at Kyle City Hall, 100 W. Center St.
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I think the Kyle High School ought to change their name to Wackenhut and then ask the private for-profit, no rehabilitation incarceration corporation to pay for any shortfalls in the city budget.
The local yokels want to privatize everything anyway, why not start now.
Also, Wackenhut could provide the children at Kyle ISD their lunches and give the prisoners some work experience serving the kids.
I should run for a seat on the Kyle City Council.
There is no longer a "Kyle High School." There are 2 high schools in the Hays ISD - Lehman and Hays.
The Kyle City Council has no control, budgetary or otherwise, over the school system.
Perhaps you should reconsider your run for the City Council.
Why does the Hays County RoundUp care about the Kyle City Council?
I Believe Kyle is in Hays County so why wouldn't they care?
Commercial interests along I-35, what a shock. Is this really a surprise to you no-growth types? Kyle and Buda have become the fastest growing and most successful towns in Hays County not to mention the ones with jobs. I guess we could all wish they would be like Wimberley, a junkyard city conceived in fraud for country boy greed.
To Anonymous Sept. 14, 8:09 AM:
Well, I wouldn't say Kyle is all that "successful." The city is alarmingly in debt, and they asked
the Hays County DA to investigate their finances recently. (She declined.)
Seems they've been illegally raiding other funds to pay their Hays Caldwell Pubic Utility Agency assessments. That in turn necessitated some big hikes in their water and wastewater rates. Citizens ain't happy.
Success story? Don't think so.
to 9/14, 8:09am Anon...
Kyle is having to raise property taxes by 20%, with big jumps in water and sewer fees. This is because of the taxpayer subsidized "growth plan", and tremendous debt assumed by the city.
Success? I guess it depends on what your motives are...
My children live in Plum Creek and they love it there. I have not seen any so called "White Trash" only a whole lot of young families who are trying to make a good life for themselves and their children. They think Wimberley is a nice place to visit but there are too many "Old People" there.
Not everyone can afford Lakeway or Barton Springs nor would they want to live there if they could.
Bad joke about Plum Creek. Sorry.
No offense, but if you think Kyle's success means the number of water and energy thirsty subdivisions you can jam into your city limits, and beyond, then I guess youve hit the jackpot. You have more people, more traffic, more smog, more non-stop growth and almost no scenic open space left, nothing comparable our western hills and valleys around Wimberley. Knock yourselves out. Just please keep your success on your side of the (ecological) divide.
Actually - people in Kyle HAVE kept their growth within the city limits of Kyle.
Wimberley on the other hand - has sprawled throughout the Hill Country and it relies on ALL the citizens of Hays County to support its growth in maintaining roads, security through the Sheriff's department, and millions in county bond money to develop its "open green spaces" rather than establishing ad valorem property taxes.
Meanwhile, the working people of Kyle stand on their own two feet - and pay their own way in addition to paying for Wimberley.
Why don't YOU keep YOUR growth on YOUR side of the County.
To Anon Sept. 14, 12:40 PM:
What does Lakeway or Barton Springs have to do with either Kyle or Wimberley?
Hey, if we could kindly ask Will Conley to take a break from his taxpayer paid public service gig, no problem-o, we might be able to keep OUR growth on OUR side of the tracks.
We could sure use someone out west who stands strongly and in plain view for our western values, conservation, a respect for our environment and air quality, plenty of elbow space, preservation of scenic areas, ground water, wildlife, and on and on.
I don't think even Conley knows anymore who or what he represents past his own self interests. He has proven himself to be nothing more than a big spending road builder and a professional political wheeler-dealer.
Help us deliver Conley back to his problematic car wash business and we can surely do so much better to keep our growth to ourselves, thank you very much.
Well, Conley is the ONLY County Commissioner NOT representing the City of Kyle.
Not our problem. Sorry. Can't vote for him. Can't vote against him. Never have been able to.
Sure would like to see him keep his nose out of the business of Kyle though. But he is a local businessman with his car wash here. Wonder how that is going for him these days.
YOU put him in. YOU take him out.
Hays County is a good county to live in. It is close to Austin and San Antonio, the best two cities in Texas.
And each town in Hays County has their own positive character, with flaws that need to be improved on.
It makes no sense to bash each other because of our county diversity.
Some of you should be ashamed of your attitudes about your county neighbors.
Live and let live.
Rocky B. nailed it.
Being a good neighbor is idealistically a nice goal so long as it does not detract from understanding the wider impact of land development and business subsidy policies of our neighbors and the county's. Does anyone know what they are, in one paragraph??
When Kyle is built out it has no place to spread but west by annexation and they will have plenty of water to feed the growth. Does anyone know exactly what Kyle's long range direction for growth is in ten years besides growing to the west?
Yes, neighborliness is nice and its hallmark is the choice to differ or oppose and not succumb to imposed growth. The people we elect should insist on that.
You should fear San Marcos, not Kyle.
But then, you knew that.
Imposed growth? It is amazing to me the amount of no growth activists that are coming out of the closet lately. They don't even try to hide it anymore which is a prime example of their frustration. At least they no longer hide in the shadows so now we can identify them, their small numbers and their characteristic faulty logic. These critters are in large measure responsible for the run-down nature of Wimberley.
I live in the Wimberley valley where the no growth activists abound. There are no opportunities here for our youth; not even summer jobs since all the mind and body building manual labor jobs are filled with illegals This has crippled the economy and job market so much that our children have to move away after finishing school, sometimes before. We have to travel to Kyle, Buda and San Marcos to shop or be faced with one small supermarket two hardware stores and lots and lots of junk stores that lure the overweight flip-flop tourists from Houston.
Wimberley no growth advocates want to build a fence around the County and not let anybody in until somebody leaves or dies. They use "concern for water" and their "holiest of holes", Jacob's Well in their disingenuous reasoning.
I am thankful for the growth of Buda and Kyle and I think Plum Creek looks like a pleasant and clean little community. My heart sinks when I think The Wimberley valley could be similar if the people here had any vision. Until a lot of the oldies here die off we will continue to be known as the "White Trash Version of Fredericksburg". Sadly, when that day comes we will probably all be speaking Spanish.
Isn't it about time to report on the final votes on the budgets for Buda, Wimberley, San Marcos and Dripping Springs?
Anonymous of September 16, 5:39 AM
says:
"Imposed growth? It is amazing to me the amount of no growth activists that are coming out of the closet lately."
It is amazing to me how the mindless growth zealots are willing to keep expanding with no water and no end in sight to the drought. Are you people simpletons or just plain uneducated?
"These critters are in large measure responsible for the run-down nature of Wimberley."
No, you and your ignorant right wing "critter" types are the reason Wimberley is in such trashy shape. No planning, unlimited liquor licensing, crony power plays with roads, septic systems, and B&B conversions, etc.
" not even summer jobs since all the mind and body building manual labor jobs are filled with illegals."
This is nonsensical xenophobic racist white trash thinking. You are a fool if you think you and your honky rednecks friends will work these jobs for $10.00 an hour in 100 degree heat.
If you are correct, where are all the unemployed white people out in front of the Catholic church in Wimberley?
"We have to travel to Kyle, Buda and San Marcos to shop or be faced with one small supermarket and two hardware stores."
Most Wimberleyites like it that way just fine. We want to support local businesses instead of those big box minimum wage economy destroyers.
If Goober wants to move to these other towns so he can support these American local economy destroying Wall Street businesses, then move.
I'm sure no one will miss you.
Btw, you are everything that is wrong with right wing white America: Ignorant and proud of it.
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