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Property tax values up across board
By Mary Madewell
Published August 10, 2009
Property tax values for 2009 are up for all taxing jurisdictions in Lamar County, according to Lamar County Appraisal District chief appraiser Phyllis Bryan.
“The jurisdictions with the largest increases were those with the new compressor station on Texas 19/24 and new pipelines,” Bryan said. “The others had modest increases, primarily caused by the loss of homestead caps of properties capped in 2008.”
All entities also experienced new improvement values.
“This is property that has been added new since 2008,” Bryan said.
Certified tax roles have been delivered to all taxing entities, a prerequisite to budget preparation for fiscal year 2009-2010 and the setting of 2009 tax rates.
Roxton Independent School District saw the largest gain in taxable property values at 31.69 percent from $41,387,654 in 2008 to $60,587,461 in 2009. Chisum Independent School District saw a 14.05 percent gain in new taxable values, an increase to $670,162,172 compared to $575,994,676 in 2008. Prairiland Independent School District also experienced a double digit gain of 13.39 percent in new taxable values from $134,096,198 in 2008 to $154,821,870 in 2009.
Paris Independent School District, the City of Paris and Paris Junior College experienced the lowest percentage increase with the school district at 2.10 percent from $700,577,056 to $725,622,877; the city at 1.4 percent from $1,484,418,220 to $1,505,598,821 and Paris Junior College at 1.37 percent from $1,528,297,145 to $1,549,536,063.
A recap of percentage gains for other county entities follows.
•City of Blossom up 4.18 percent from $24,452,137 to $25,518,099;
•City of Deport up 9.46 percent from $10,425,363 5o $11,514,310;
•City of Reno up 2 percent from $123,251,352 to $125,761,973;
•North Lamar ISD up 3.17 percent from $830,504,496 to $$857,692,749; and
•Lamar County up 5.46 percent from $2,446,593,228 to $2,587,902,974.
New improvement taxable totals for all entities follow.
•City of Blossom, $37,200;
•City of Deport, $49,050;
•City of Paris, $4,844,760;
•City of Reno, $1,757,880;
•City of Roxton, $52,770;
•Paris Junior College, $5,169,400;
•Chisum ISD, $89,473,460;
•North Lamar ISD, $10,363,010;
•Paris ISD $3,412,470;
•Prairiland ISD, $15,726,780;
•Roxton ISD, $10,462,140 and
•Lamar County, $139,604,380.
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