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SUMMARY:Follow the Money: Where Fort Worth Actually Spends Your Taxes
DESCRIPTION:Walk through Fort Worth’s actual spending with AFP\nFort Worth is $94 million short heading into next year. The city’s answer is a 3.2-cent increase in the property tax rate\, bringing it to 70.2 cents per $100 of value\, plus 51 eliminated positions and 91 more left frozen. \nThat is the headline. Almost nobody can tell you how the city got there. \nCome find out. We are walking through Fort Worth’s actual spending\, in plain language\, with the city’s own numbers on the screen. Where does the general fund go? What grew fastest over the last five years\, and what got squeezed to pay for it? Which parts of the $94 million gap trace to specific decisions the council made\, including $46.2 million in new public safety and personnel costs\, $14 million in health care increases\, and pay raises of 8.5 percent for firefighters and 6 percent for police. What the city counts as a “cut” and whether spending actually falls. \nYou will also get the part the city’s presentation leaves out: what the tax rate increase means for your bill specifically\, and why the average homeowner’s number moved the way it did this year. \nBring your tax statement if you have it handy. Bring your questions. You will leave able to explain this budget to your neighbor without a chart. \nSeptember 11th at 6:00 PM — Angelos’s BBQ\, 2533 White Settlement Rd\, Fort Worth TX 76107. \nRSVP so we can save you a seat.
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ORGANIZER;CN="Gage Young":MAILTO:gyoung@afphq.org
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