{"id":876,"date":"2024-09-19T20:15:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T20:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2024-09-19T20:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T20:29:29","slug":"city-council-approves-budget-with-3-additional-fire-fighter-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/19\/city-council-approves-budget-with-3-additional-fire-fighter-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council Approves Budget With 3 Additional Fire Fighter Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-64fbcc1e5c66fee68acd70913cff1072\">By Lance Lowry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3cd2cb27629dbe8522c7f92b8b22c7bc\">09-19-2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Week\u2019s Huntsville City Council Meeting\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m0ykZrZF4bU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Huntsville, Texas &#8211; Tuesday the Huntsville City Council held a hearing on the proposed budget which includes a tax increase.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Council heard from the City of Huntsville Financial Director Steve Ritter&nbsp;&nbsp;who testified the Council approved up to a 0.3585 rate per $100 evaluation. The actual rate being used in budget is 0.3445 per $100 evaluation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the vote on the budget the mayor voiced concerns on the need for three additional fire fighter positions to maintain national standards.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Insurance rates, issuance, and cancellations of home owners policies can be based on Insurance Services Organization, known as ISO ratings of local fire departments.&nbsp;&nbsp;Maintaining higher fire department standards could result in lower insurance rates for taxpayers, offsetting any tax increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Council later held a public hearing on adding a storm water drainage fee to properties to purchase equipment and cover expenses to maintain water runoff during rainfalls.&nbsp;&nbsp;The average single family household will see a $5 fee for drainage.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The City Council after approving the budget and drainage fees moved on approval to retain the Baker Tilly Firm in the search for a new city manager.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lance Lowry 09-19-2024 Huntsville, Texas &#8211; Tuesday the Huntsville City Council held a hearing on the proposed budget which includes a tax increase.\u00a0 The Council heard from the City of Huntsville Financial Director Steve Ritter&nbsp;&nbsp;who testified the Council approved up to a 0.3585 rate per $100 evaluation. The actual rate being used in budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvhappens.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}