Lampasas City Council members voted Monday to establish the Fiscal Year 2023-2024 tax rate and approve the annual budget. In a unanimous vote, the council approved the first reading of an ordinance to establish the FY 20232024 tax rate as $0.304888 per $100 valuation, which will raise property taxes 4.92% compared to last year’s rate of $0.3156.

Monday morning’s meeting of the Lampasas County Commissioners Court was short, although the group continued its discussion about seeking reimbursement from the Kempner Water Supply Corp. In July, a leak in the water transmission line from Kempner to Lampasas required removal of a countyowned equipment shed.

While the city of Lampasas was recording its largest one-month decline in sales tax receipts in more than a decade, Lometa posted its highest single-month percentage gain since 2017. Lampasas saw its sales taxes fall off 9% in September.

Selected to represent Lampasas High School at this year’s Homecoming festivities last Friday were Dylan Duvall and Kenzie Roberts. .