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County accepts proposed budget, tax rate

By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Montague County Commissioners accepted a 2023-24 proposed budget and 2023 tax rate during its Monday meeting.
A public hearing for the budget will be at 8:30 a.m. on Aug. 28 and the tax rate hearing will follow at 8:45 on the same day.
Both financial items are available for public review on the county website at co.montague.tx.us.
The proposed tax rate is .5017 cents per $100 in property value, which is slightly lower than the present rate of .50360 cents. That rate is broken out into .3596 for general fund, .1217 for road and bridge precincts, .0004 for Farm-to-Market right-of-way, and .0200 for indigent health.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
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