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Greg Redden

Greg Redden

District 1 Council Member for the City of Taylor, Texas, elected in May 2025 and a retired City of Austin Fleet Services supervisor.

Sep 16, 2026

22:34
I mean, this year, keeping the tax rate the same while values are going down for residents, right? What I was seeing is that the average person is paying 5% less this coming year in taxes, which is significant.
22:48
And if you look at a lot of the other cities that are our size, they're not able to do that.
22:52
They have to not only bump it all the way up to the to the no new tax rate to the three and a half percent but some of them are having to go back out to you know raise more money you know I saw where some communities are doubling, tripling their fees that they have so they can bring in a tax rate that way.
23:11
And we don't want to do that.
23:13
We want to be able to bring in industry that will help us with our tax rate and continue to lower it by also bringing quality of life.
23:24
I know I do some work up in Coriole County from time to time, and we went in, and they had this brand-new Chinese restaurant that opened up.
23:33
So we went in, and they had a sushi chef and everything else.
28:08
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