TAX RATE COMPARISON

Dripping Springs ISD Tax Rate

Hays County Tax Rate

1993                           $1.54 / hundred

August 1998              $1.97 / hundred

*August 2001             $1.97 / hundred

This is an increase of 23% from 1993 to 1998 and an increase of 28% from 1993 to 2001.

* Note that the homestead exemption was removed in 2001

January 1995           41.52 cents / hundred

(Russ takes office)

January 2000           45.39 cents / hundred

January 2001           45.39 cents / hundred

January 2002           44.61 cents / hundred

From 1995 to 2002 the Hays County tax rate has increased only 7.4% - or 1% per year.

* Note that the tax rate has not increased since 1997, and has actually gone down twice in the last 3 years. And Hays County still provides a homestead exemption.