Budget season coming to close just in time for school
Budget season coming to close just in time for school
City Council approves decreasing property taxes and updating cemetery, Burleson ISD wins art award, plus, more in Burleson this week
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City Council approves decreasing property taxes and updating cemetery
Burleson City Council approved decreasing Burleson’s property tax rate to $.6235 in fiscal-year 2023-24 from $.6572 Monday at City Hall.
Council also approved updates to the Burleson Memorial Cemetery, including recommendations to solve its irrigation problems, changing rules and regulations of cemeteries, fees for the cemetery expansion and revisions to Burleson’s cemetery-operations contract with Lucas and Blessing.
Burleson ISD wins art award
Burleson ISD announced it received the 2023 Texas Art Education Association District of Distinction Award Tuesday.
The award indicates Burleson ISD’s visual art program is in the top 5.5% of Visual Art programs in Texas.
This is Burleson ISD’s second year to win the award.
BACC holds networking event at Belle Manor
The Burleson Area Chamber of Commers held its monthly “Network@Night” event Tuesday at The Belle Manor.
The Belle Manor’s attention to detail and excellent service made the event a success, the BACC stated in a Facebook post.
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Coming up:
School is back. Tell a friend. Burleson parks and recreation is hosting a “BTX Back to School Bash” Saturday at 4 p.m. at Mayor Vera Calvin Plaza. The free event will include waterslides, frozen treats and a DJ.
Council meeting while everybody’s working. Burleson City Council will meet Tuesday at 9 a.m. at City Hall for a special session to discuss the fiscal-year 2023-24 budget and more.
The force is strong with this work. Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas is hosting a hiring event Wednesday at 9 a.m. at its Cleburne office. Sabre Industries, Ride N Safe, Heart to Heart Hospice and Valet Living & Waste will be there with immediate job openings.
817 Day. Thursday is “BTX 817 Day.” There may be giveaways associated with this, according to Explore Burleson.
Not-so-arrested development. The City of Burleson is holding a “Developer Roundtable” meeting to discuss impact fees, property-maintenance code updates, fire-code review process, fire-code updates and building-code updates Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall.
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