Funding the future From the cover
Breaking it down
Sugar Land proposed bond for November 2024
Proposition A: Public safety ($144.5M)
Proposition B: Mobility ($118M)
Proposition C: Drainage ($35M)
More than 41% of the 2024 bond focuses on the city’s public safety sector, including new police department headquarters and building Phase 3 of the Public Safety Training Facility. Although council approved two modular buildings and existing space renovations in June, Police Chief Mark Poland said this only catches the department up on lost space previously used for training and doesn’t account for growth. “Policing today in 2024 is so dynamic in the challenges that our o cers face and the decisions they have to make in split seconds—whether it’s a threat or whether it’s a mental health crisis that they’re responding to,” he said. The city is proposing $118 million in streets and sidewalk projects, including $59.28 million toward the local match for 11 city projects approved in Fort Bend County’s November 2023 mobility bond. The projects help advance the city’s Mobility Master Plan adopted in July 2023 with a goal to keep the city safe and connected, Transportation and Mobility Manager Melanie Beaman said.
Proposition D: Municipal facilities ($40.5M) • $27.83M: Public services building rehabilitation and modernization • $17.33M: Fire apparatus replacement and rebuild • $11.63M: Public safety facilities rehabilitation • $63.2M: Renovation of police department and court building, and new Police Department headquarters • $32.35M: Public Safety Training Facility Phase 3 • $17.38M: Fire station expansion and rebuild
• $59.28M: Fort Bend County mobility bond project local match • $18.3M: Residential streets program rehabilitation and replacement • $11.38M: Sidewalk program rehabilitation and replacement • $8.18M: Major street rehabilitation • $5.7M: Trail system connections • $5.68M: Mobility program project implementation • $4.65M: Traf ic signal rehabilitation
• $8.18M: Austin Parkway West drainage modi ications • $8M: Hillstone Drive drainage modi ications • $6.05M: Windmill Street drainage modi ications • $5.83M: Hwy. 6 at Brooks Street drainage modi ications • $5.35M: Drainage modi ications at Chatham and McAllister avenues
Proposition E: Animal shelter ($12M) • $12M: Supplemental funding for new animal shelter
Total $350M
• $12.68M: New ield maintenance facility
NOTE: THIS PROJECT LIST IS NOT COMPREHENSIVE. READERS CAN FIND A FULL LIST ONLINE AT WWW.COMMUNITYIMPACT.COM OR WWW.SUGARLANDTX.GOV SOURCE: CITY OF SUGAR LAND COMMUNITY IMPACT
Property tax rate per $100 valuation
What it means
$0.35321
$0.4
$0.3365
$0.3465
cost to the average resident of less than $5 per month or about $20 per month by 2030, excluding property revaluation, she said. “Ultimately, each year, the City Council would have a decision to make on [the increase],” May said. “I think the goal would be to have an even implementation over that timeframe.”
If approved, the bond package would fund $300 million in capital projects over the next ve to seven years with $50 million accounting for in a- tion, May said. Funding for the bond would result in a potential tax increase of no more than $0.05 per $100 property valuation. The increase would be phased in over time, likely one cent per scal year, with an estimated monthly
$0.3
$0.3465
$0.35
$0.2
5 cents: Maximum tax rate increase if bond is approved
$0.1
$0
2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25
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