Central Texans for Property Tax Reform

04/11/2026

Taxpayers in the Temple Junior College boundaries should remember that bond debt is unconstrained and those who approve pay it back without the 8% Voter Approval Rate constraint.

So this bond will by itself raise your tax rate by 15% and the College board can still take another 8% increase in the O&M tax levy beyond that.

Be careful...

https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/temple-college-asks-voters-approve-158m-bond-new-facilities-workforce-expansion/500-63b18b97-5bb2-4e17-add3-bf61ac36d595?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_6_News_KCEN_TV&fbclid=IwdGRjcARGpF1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6VlMYy8wjk1YIxasfg_O5jr4TMEZK_m2Rfp-NrBftI6NAwmmsmoxzbziXRmA_aem_kVe13MP5opP_cXDMCev9yQ

The proposed bond would add three cents to the current tax rate, costing the average Temple homeowner about $4.40 per month.

03/17/2025

Readers here are quite familiar with blocking this group. Definitely not alone as she has blocked many across Texas for the simple crime of disagreeing with her. A quick photo album.

Unacceptable for an elected official.

CTPTR is still blocked on X/Twitter, too, where these posts come from.

03/01/2025

SALADO — While much of the focus was on school choice at state Rep. Brad Buckley’s town hall meeting Thursday, the House Republican did briefly cover the topic of the

02/08/2025

If the HD-55 Rep Hillary Hickland is going to have an event that was described by a PAC as a "great Town Hall" then it should be open to the public to give their input.

In these pictures are two Harker Heights city council members; we should expect them to demand that the HD-55 House Rep listens to all of us.

This event was not announced on her page and no reference can be found in newspapers so I'm left to believe it was through the Republican Party communications. But elections are over - it's time for governing and that means representing all of us.

01/23/2025

Why would we ever expand the DV property tax exemption when Texas does not fund and shifts the burden to cities, which in turn shift it to neighbors' tax bills?

This won't get past Senate.

Should never have been written by Rep Campos in House.

Will be start of tax death spiral in Central Texas.

https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=89R&Bill=HJR119

11/03/2024

Remember when he and his donor recipient used to say they'd "eliminate property taxes."

Now even future relief is but a hope.

Gov Abbott will choose vouchers BEFORE property tax relief. How sad, but readers here will know this was expected.

10/06/2024

As you prepare to receive your tax bills or have your mortgage escrow payment adjusted upwards, this is a question that Central Texas local government must be asked:

"What is it that causes our rising taxes each year?"

It is time to ask local government to operate as leanly as the families whose taxes fund government are. Better pay and better benefits for the government-employed are an indicator that government is getting used to largesse. At your expense.

09/10/2024

If you live in Harker Heights, tommorow is the Tax Rate hearing and vote.

I normally think the tax rate is a done deal at this point but not this year.

5PM at City Hall.

The Harker Heights City Council will hold a public hearing and vote Tuesday on setting the tax rate to 53.0 cents per $100 valuation.

09/06/2024

"The Assistant City Manager misled the Senate.

He said the city has "lost $24.5M in tax revenue" but didn't say a peep about how much of the exemptions had been shifted to the tax bills of the non-exempt.
I listened to his entire testimony. Not once did he mention how this year, the city is increasing property taxes by 50% over last year's increase to nearly $1M and of that to cover the $669k of new and increasing exemptions across the city. He didn't mention that the city budget passed this week pushed an extra $500k into city reserves more than the originally filed city budget, and that those reserves are 2x over city policy.

The Senate was misled. Big time.

Don't take the post down. The taxpayers of Harker Heights need to know the truth.

07/24/2024

The city council proposed making it harder for Citizens to initiate new local ordinances.

The city council proposed making it harder for Citizens to stop bad ordinances put forth by the Council.

And you only do the first two when you also make it harder in the City charter to initiate recall elections. They proposed that, too.

That the city held this "public hearing" which received no notice in the newspaper, no notice on social media, and only the minimally necessary 3-days notice on the meeting agenda say all you need to know. City of Harker Heights put more effort in getting Citizens to comment on the Hike and Bike master plan than the charter - the city's "Constitution."

HARKER HEIGHTS — The City of Harker Heights adopted its first charter in December of 1971 and it was last updated in May of 1991. At Tuesday’s meeting, the council

06/14/2024

Vouchers will siphon $$$ from Texas public schools such as Killeen ISD.

For you Killeen Educators

And just like the situation we now have, local taxpayers will be forced to dig deeper in their pockets to fund our schoolteachers and staff who are teaching our kids.

Jon Valant and Nicolas Zerbino illuminate how dangerous the information environment surrounding universal ESAs has become.