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Trust Your County: Partners
Gene Terry, executive director of the Texas Association of Counties and former Marion County judge, talks about the organization’s role and goals.
Trust Your County: Unfunded Mandates
Unfunded mandates are significant cost drivers for county governments that have placed an increased strain on county budgets and in turn, on local property taxes and local taxpayers. The Texas Legislature should pass a constitutional amendment to prevent future unfunded mandates on counties.
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Trust Your County: Dialog
Ector County Judge Susan Redford talks about the importance of an open dialogue between county officials and state legislators.
Trust Your County: Revenue Caps
Unfunded mandates are significant cost drivers for county governments that have placed an increased strain on county budgets and in turn, on local property taxes and local taxpayers. The Texas Legislature should pass a constitutional amendment to prevent future unfunded mandates on counties.
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Trust Your County: Efficiency
Burnet County Judge Donna Klaeger talks about efficiency and fiscal responsibility in county government.
Trust Your County: Local Government Debt
Some counties have incurred debt to invest in infrastructure projects critical to their local communities. Efforts to limit a county's utilization of this funding tool should focus on legislative initiatives to prohibit unfunded mandates on county governments, as well as an increased state investment in infrastructure.
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Trust Your County: About TAC
Gene Terry, executive director of the Texas Association of Counties and former Marion County judge, talks about the organization’s role and goals.
Trust Your County: Mental Health
Counties bear significant costs in providing mental health services to some of the most vulnerable citizens. The state should fund community mental health, crisis and transitional services at a level that will help divert the mentally ill from our jails, courts and emergency rooms and ease the financial burden on local entities and their taxpayers.
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Trust Your County: Indigent Defense
Indigent defense expenditures are one of the major uncontrollable cost drivers in county budgets. The state should fully fund this unfunded mandate.
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