08-22-23-Ordinance-Ratifying the Property Tax Revenue Increase Fiscal Year 2023-2024-08/21/2023CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS
ORDINANCE No. 08-22-23
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANGER, DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS,
RATIFYING THE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE INCREASE IN THE 2023-24 BUDGET
AS A RESULT OF THE CITY RECEIVING MORE REVENUES FROM PROPERTY
TAXES IN THE 2023-2024 BUDGET THAN IN THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR; AND
PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the City of Sanger (the "City") is a home tlile municipality regulated by state
law and Charter; and
WHEREAS, Texas Local Government Code Section 102.007 ,requires the City Council
to ratify by a separate vote and providing the necessary disclosure language in the ratification,
when there is an increase to the property tax revenues in the proposed budget as compared to the
previous year; and,
WHEREAS, the City's 2023-2024 Budget has an increase in property tax revenues as
compared to the previous year; and
WHEREAS, as a result of the approval of the 2023-2024 Budget, the City Council finds
that it must ratify the increased revenue from property taxes; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that passage of this Ordinance is in the best interest of
the citizens of Sanger.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANGER, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: That the City Council, as the governing body of the City of Sanger, Texas,
having adopted the Fiscal Year 2023-2024 annual Budget that will require raising more revenue
from property taxes than in the previous year, hereby ratifies the property tax increase reflected in
the Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Annual Budget.
SECTION 2. That all matters stated in the preamble are found to be time and correct and
are incorporated herein as if copied in their entirety.
SECTION 3. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases anal words of this Ordinance are severable and, if any
word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this Ordinance shall be declared
unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining portions of this Ordinance, since the same
would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this Ordinance of any
such unconstitutional word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section.
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SECTION 5.
This ordinance will take effect immediately from and after its passage and
the publication of the caption, as the law and Charter in such cases provide.
PASSED AND APPROVED by the City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas on this 215t
day of August 2023.
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ATTEST:
Kelp Edwa7t'ds, City Secretary
APPROVED:
Thomas E. Muir, Mayor
APPROVED TO FORM:
Coleman, City Attorney
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