{"id":1354402,"date":"2024-09-12T07:03:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1354402"},"modified":"2024-09-15T05:31:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T10:31:39","slug":"city-of-tyler-approves-255-million-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1354402","title":{"rendered":"City of Tyler approves $255 million budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1354403\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/CITYOFTYLER1-203x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/CITYOFTYLER1-203x200.jpg 203w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/CITYOFTYLER1-355x350.jpg 355w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/CITYOFTYLER1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The City of Tyler adopted their 2025 budget, that totals $255.9 million and lowers the tax rate, during their Wednesday meeting. According to our news partner KETK, the budget, a 6% increase from last year, addresses improved roadways and traffic flow, enhanced drainage systems, upgraded water and sewer infrastructure and redeveloping public spaces. $50 million will go to water and sewer systems upgrades, while $41.4 million will be devoted to traffic signal improvements, street reconstruction, drainage and redevelopment of the downtown square funded by half-cent sales tax revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The new tax rate is lowered to $0.240085, which the city says maintains their position as having the lowest tax rate in Smith County and among Texas cities with populations above 15,000. Projected property taxes are roughly $30.5 million, making up 32% of the general revenue fund.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tyler Water Utilities plans to commence phase three of their uniform rate structure, increasing water and sewer costs between $10.90 and $24.49 for the average TWU customer. Residential trash collection rates will increase by $0.91 monthly for the average cart. The Tyler Police Department will get $37.9 million and the fire department will get $25.8 million. Additionally, the city plans to spend $25.7 million over the next three years to revitalize downtown Tyler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The City of Tyler adopted their 2025 budget, that totals $255.9 million and lowers the tax rate, during their Wednesday meeting. According to our news partner KETK, the budget, a 6% increase from last year, addresses improved roadways and traffic flow, enhanced drainage systems, upgraded water and sewer infrastructure and redeveloping public spaces. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1354402\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City of Tyler approves $255 million budget<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1354405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/CITYOFTYLER1-203x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-07 13:23:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/09\/CITYOFTYLER1-203x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1354406,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354402\/revisions\/1354406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1354405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}