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08-14-24-Ordinance-Ratifying the Property Tax Revenue for the 2024-2025 Budget-08/19/2024 CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS ORDINANCE No 08-14-24 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANGER, DENTON COUNTY, TEXAS, RATIFYING THE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE INCREASE IN THE 2024-2025 BUDGET AS A RESULT OF THE CITY RECEIVING MORE REVENUES FROM PROPERTY TAXES IN THE 2024-2025 BUDGET THAN IN THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR, AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE WHEREAS,the City of Sanger(the"City")is a home rule 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 2024-2025 Budget has an increase in property tax revenues as compared to the previous year, and WHEREAS, as a result of the approval of the 2024-2025 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 2024-2025 annual Budget that will require raising more revenue from property taxes than m the previous year,hereby ratifies the property tax increase reflected in the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 Annual Budget SECTION 2 That all matters stated in the preamble are found to be true and correct and are incorporated herein as if copied m their entirety SECTION 3 It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases and 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,smce 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 Ordinance 08-14-24 Ratifying a Property Tax Increase Page 1 of 2 _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 l9t day of August 2024. APPROVED: rs�2 yi2R4 IJ ATTEST: Thomas E. Muir, Mayor Ala t � APPR VED TO RM: Kell Edw ds, City Secretary \oottlf//// -1 tiQ ; gh Co eman, City Attorney • /////!TEXtAS\\\\\\\ Ordinance 08-14-24 Ratifying a Property Tax Increase Page 2 of 2