Fort Worth and Dallas want to keep raising fees in lieu of taxes. They need to control costs first.
A Fort Worth city staff plan to introduce a steep “street maintenance” service fee averaging an extra $110 a year for residents has failed.
Beware the wily ways local government bureaucracies look to remove more money from your pocket for the same services. We see this year after year all across our region, but it’s hard to recall an effort so brazen as one that recently got quashed in Fort Worth.the story of a failed city staff plan to introduce a steep “street maintenance” service fee“Fort Worth property owners currently pay an average of $1,183.44 in residential fees annually, or $98.62 monthly, for a range of city services, including stormwater, environmental, waste, water and sewer services,” reporter Cecilia Lenzen noted.
Thankfully Fort Worth council members recognized that boosting “fees” by 10% is at best inappropriate. Street maintenance is a core function of tax dollars. Pushing some of it off on fees seems like a surefire way to ensure that more costs are offloaded onto residents without doing the hard work of ensuring City Hall controls what it spends on extras that most residents don’t need or want.Let’s be clear that Fort Worth is hardly alone in pursuing ever higher fees in lieu of raising the tax rate.
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