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The Montgomery County Commissioners Court will be entering a week of budget workshops immediately following a full agenda at its regular meeting Aug. 8.
The details
Budget workshops will be preceded by a regular meeting of Commissioners Court, when the county will go over a number of issues in preparation for the budget discussion.
The court will take a small recess following the regular session before going into budget workshops, which will continue daily through Aug. 11.
Items worth mentioning
During the regular session, the county will review the five-year plan with its Community Development department for fair housing opportunities and economic development using federal funding. Spanning 2023-27, the first year of the action plan will also be discussed and possibly approved.
Precinct 3 Commissioner James Noack placed an item relating to Senate Bill 2038, which relates to removing areas from a city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction through voluntary petition or election.
The Precinct 2 constable’s office will also propose a contract for law enforcement services to the Houston-Galveston Archdiocese.
In other news
Budget workshops will begin following the regular Commissioners Court session. Commissioners will go over the fiscal year 2023-24 budget as well as tax rate updates.
Tax Assessor-Collector Tammy McRae informed the court at the Aug. 1 meeting of a $2.3 billion taxable value loss in Montgomery County, and while the loss will only cause a minor budget shortfall in property tax revenue, the effects for FY 2024-25 will be more prominent.
Commissioners Court and the budget workshops will be livestreamed on the county website.
