City Council
Council Chambers 710 E San Augustine Deer Park, TX 77536
Agenda — 27 items
- 1 Ordinance No. 4650 Resolution No. 2025-14
- 2 SEC 551.127 VIDEO CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE
- 3 CALL TO ORDER
- 4 INVOCATION
- 5 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
- 6 COMMENTS FROM AUDIENCE
- 7 TAX PAYER IMPACT STATEMENT House Bill 1522, passed by the 89th Texas Legislature, amends section 551.043 of the Texas Government Code to require that the notice of a meeting required to be posted under section 551.043(a) of the Texas Open Meetings Act, at which a governmental body will discuss or adopt a budget for the governmental body, must include a taxpayer impact statement showing, for the median-valued homestead property, a comparison of the property tax bill in dollars pertaining to the property for the current fiscal year to an estimate of the property tax bill in dollars for the same property for the upcoming fiscal year. The City of Deer Park has proposed a budget for the City’s 2025-2026 fiscal year. The City intends to adopt its budget on September 16, 2025. Property Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2025 $0.720000 Proposed Property Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2026 $0.720000 No-New Revenue Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2026 $0.685560 Value of Median-Valued Homestead Property in the City $198,814.00 Property Tax Bill for the Fiscal Year 2025 $1,431.48 Estimated Property Tax Bill for Fiscal Year 2026 if the City Adopts the Proposed Budget and Tax Rate $1,431.48 Estimated Property Tax Bill for Fiscal Year 2026 if the City Adopts a Balanced Budget Funded at the No-New-Revenue Tax Rate $1,362.98 The estimates in this Impact Statement are valid only for the proposed budget and proposed tax rate. The proposed budget and the proposed tax rate may each be amended by City Council at any time before their final adoption which will occur on or before September 30, 2025. If the City Council intends to discuss the proposed budget at a subsequent meeting, the City will include a Taxpayer Impact Statement in the notice for that meeting which will include updated estimates based on any amendments to the proposed budget and proposed tax rate.
- 8 PUBLIC HEARINGS
- 1. Public Hearing on the Proposed Ad Valorem Tax Rate for Tax Year 2025.
- 10 AWARDING/REJECTING BIDS
- 2. Consideration of and action on awarding the contract for parks right-of-way mowing services for the City of Deer Park to ELM Landscape Mgmt.
- 12 CONSENT CALENDAR
- 3. Approval of the workshop and regular meeting minutes for September 2, 2025.
- 14 NEW BUSINESS
- 4. Consideration of and action on authorization of parking and issuance of temporary occupancy permit request from Pemex Deer Park for their Fall 2025 “Big Block” turnaround.
- 5. Consideration of and action on amending the Financial Management Policy.
- 6. Consideration of and action on the adoption of the Five-Year Capital Improvements Plan for years 2026-2030.
- 7. Consideration of and action on a resolution to transfer $6,000,000.00 from the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Unassigned Fund Balance from the General Fund to the Capital Improvements Fund.
- 8. Consideration of and action on a resolution to transfer $2,000,000 from the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Unassigned Fund Balance of the General Fund to the Asset Replacement Fund.
- 9. Consideration of and action on a resolution maintaining the City of Deer Park’s contribution rate to the Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) at the obligated 15.52% for 2026 and not prefunding the City’s Unfunded Actuarial Accrued Liability.
- 10. Consideration of and action on an ordinance adopting the FY 2025-2026 Budget for the City of Deer Park.
- 11. Consideration of and action on an ordinance levying Ad Valorem Taxes for tax year 2025.
- 12. Consideration of and action on an ordinance approving the updated 2025-2026 Salary & Classification Scales.
- 13. Consideration of and action on an ordinance moving the time of the October 7, 2025, regular City Council meeting from 7:30 pm to October 7, 2025 at 5:30 pm.
- 25 ADJOURN
- 26 Note
- 27 Note