Texas Municipal League Working Against Georgetown Citizens Interest

The Texas Municipal League, which Georgetown pays an annual membership fee, is mobilizing opposition to three legislative bills that would benefit Georgetown and surrounding area citizens. From their website:

"Call your House members right now and urge them to oppose S.B. 2 (Bettencourt)."

"Call your House members right now and urge them to oppose H.B. 424 (Huberty) and S.B. 715 (Campbell). Each of these bills would end city annexation by allowing a vote only of people being annexed, instead of the entire region."

The first call is mis-reported by TML as a "revenue cap", which is totally false. It only requires an automatic election if the property tax extracted from the citizens exceeds 5%. There is no revenue cap! This is the ultimate in "local control", which TML purports to support.

The second call would give property owners in the proposed annexation area the right to vote as to whether or not they want to be annexed. This is a basic property rights issue. It certainly does not "end city annexation"! This lets the affected property owners decide if the city services they would receive are worth the increased tax burden.

Let your city council person know that you don't support paying TML to lobby the state legislature against your interest.