from:  https://www.fredericksburgstandard.com/news/new-county-budget-gets-approval:  

New county budget gets approval
By Brent Burgess on Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Tax rate lowered to 33.26 cents 

Gillespie County Commissioners approved the budget for the 2023 fiscal year during their regular meeting on Monday, Sept. 12.
A public hearing took place on Sept. 6 where the final review for the new budget was discussed. Inflation posed the biggest challenge for the court in consideration of the county budget proposals.
“This has been one of the hardest budgets that I’ve been involved with because of the increased inflation and our reduced ability to generate the revenue to pay for those increased costs,” said Judge Mark Stroeher.
The 2023 fiscal year budget will include a $2 per hour increase for most county employees. Historically, pay raises have been given based on a percentage increase basis. Stroeher and the county commissioners felt that an hourly dollar amount raise would be more helpful to county employees in this year’s economic environment.
“For those on the lower end, that is a fairly significant increase for them,” said Stroeher. “That was our purpose — to try to bring those on the lower end more of an increase than those on the upper end.”
The approved county tax rate includes a slight decrease from last year’s rate. The fiscal year 2022 tax rate was 35.77 cents per $100 valuation, while the 2023 fiscal year tax rate will be 33.26 cents per $100 valuation. The average county household, however, will see a slight increase in their property taxes based on factors such as higher appraisal values from the appraisal district.
“The average residential homeowner would experience about a $55 increase for the year on their taxes,” said Stroeher.
“So that’s less than $5 a month on their county taxes.”
Stroeher mentioned that the difficulties in determining a workable 2023 fiscal year budget are mostly due to higher inflationary costs coupled with limiting legislation on local government.
“The costs have been going up. We’ve had 8-9% inflation,” said Stroeher. “And yet, the Texas legislatures three or four years ago decreased the ability for local government to generate the revenue that would be able to pay for those kinds of increases.
“That really cuts into our ability to continue to provide the services that our local folks expect from us.”

County of Gillespie FY2023 Proposed Budget
Click here to review the Proposed Budget FY2023 for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2023.

Prepared by the County Auditor

This budget will raise more revenue from property taxes than last year’s budget by an amount of $1,900,887, which is a 9.01 percent increase from last year’s budget. The property tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax roll this year is $869,014.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING OF THE BUDGET:

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 AT 5:15 P.M. 

Notice is hereby given that public hearing of the budget for Gillespie County, Texas, for fiscal year 2022-2023 will be held by the Commissioners Court on Tuesday, September 6, 2022, at 5:15 p.m., in the Gillespie County Courthouse, 101 West Main Street, Fredericksburg, Texas.

This budget will raise more total property taxes than last year’s budget by $1,900,887 or 9.01%, and of that amount $869,014 is tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax roll this year.
A copy of the proposed budget is available for inspection in the County Judge’s Office, County Clerk’s Office, the Pioneer Memorial Library, or on the County’s website at www.gillespiecounty.org.
Any citizen of the county may present oral or written comments or ask questions regarding the proposed budget at this meeting.
Please notify the County Judge if assistance can be furnished to any disabled person that wishes to attend this public hearing.
For further information, contact County Judge Mark Stroeher at 830-997-7502.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON TAX INCREASE: 

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 at 5:20 P.M.

A tax rate of $0.3326 per $100 valuation has been proposed by the governing body of the COUNTY OF GILLESPIE. 
PROPOSED TAX RATE $0.3326 per $100 
NO-NEW-REVENUE TAX RATE $0.3115 per $100 
VOTER-APPROVAL TAX RATE $0.3566 per $100 
The no-new-revenue tax rate is the tax rate for the 2022 tax year that will raise the same amount of property tax revenue for the COUNTY OF GILLESPIE from the same properties in both the 2021 tax year and the 2022 tax year. 
The voter-approval tax rate is the highest tax rate that the COUNTY OF GILLESPIE may adopt without holding an election to seek voter approval of the rate. 
The proposed tax rate is greater than the no-new-revenue tax rate. This means that the COUNTY OF GILLESPIE is proposing to increase property taxes for the 2022 tax year. 
A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED TAX RATE WILL BE HELD ON September 6, 2022 at 5:20 PM at the County Courthouse, 101 West Main, Fredericksburg, Texas. 
The proposed tax rate is not greater than the voter-approval tax rate. As a result, the COUNTY OF GILLESPIE is not required to hold an election at which voters may accept or reject the proposed tax rate.  However, you may express your support for or opposition to the proposed tax rate by contacting the members of the Commissioners Court of the COUNTY OF GILLESPIE at their offices or by attending the public hearing mentioned above. 
YOUR TAXES OWED UNDER ANY OF THE TAX RATES MENTIONED ABOVE CAN BE CALCULATED AS FOLLOWS: 
Property tax amount = ( tax rate ) x ( taxable value of your property ) / 100 
The members of the governing body voted on the proposed tax increase as follows:

FOR the proposal: Mark Stroeher, Charles Olfers, Keith Kramer, Dennis Neffendorf, Donnie Schuch
AGAINST the proposal: 
PRESENT and not voting: 
ABSENT: 
The 86th Texas Legislature modified the manner in which the voter-approval tax rate is calculated to limit the rate of growth of property taxes in the state. 

The attached table compares the taxes imposed on the average residence homestead by the COUNTY OF GILLESPIE last year to the taxes proposed to be imposed on the average residence homestead by the COUNTY OF GILLESPIE this year. 

For assistance with tax calculations, please contact the tax assessor for Gillespie County, Gillespie Central Appraisal District, at 830-997-9809 or tax@gillcad.org or visit gillespie.countytaxrates.com.

For additional debt disclosures, search for Gillespie County's Annual Local Debt Report
on the Texas State Comptroller's website at the link below.

Link to the State Comptroller's website for "Local Entity Debt Lookup".