McLendon-Chisholm News

McLENDON-CHISHOLM - To implement its first property-tax funded budget in the history of McLendon-Chisholm, the council has chosen to follow closely the recommendations of a citizens committee on the subject and has presented a balanced budget.

The 23rd Annual Hot Rocks Bike Ride went off as planned on Saturday with riders touring the Rockwall County countryside on courses of 10, 20, 43 and 57 miles.

Frugal Web site and computer management is all in a day's work for Deborah Sorensen, city secretary at McLendon-Chisholm. Twice, as McLendon Chisholm's court clerk and city secretary, she has received e-mails from the State Court of Administration that computers were free for the asking.

In a unanimous vote taken in front of about 50 citizens, the full McLendon-Chisholm city council voted unanimously Tuesday night to instruct staff to prepare for instituting an ad valorem tax.

As storms rolled through north and south of Royse City the evening of June 10 and morning of June 11, Royse City Volunteer Fire Department and Fate Volunteer Fire Department were called to aid in two separate house fires, each set by lightning, authorities say.

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A Thursday morning housefire in Heath is still being investigated as of Thursday afternoon.

All members of the McLendon-Chisholm city council, both the three new and the three veterans, are agreeing on key decisions - the apparent need for a property tax to sustain the 2009-10 draft budget, the need to keep the city staff salaries in it, and the need to communicate with the public on fiscal matters, as well as in general.

Revenue for this town of less than 2,000 people, which levies no property tax, has been projected down to $129,000 for fiscal year 2008-09 as approved in a budget amendment Tuesday.

When storms rolled through southern Rockwall County in the early morning Thursday, June 11, lightning triggered a fire which basically destroyed a house in McLendon-Chisholm, which took nearly all day to extinguish.

The Rockwall County Appraisal District mailed appraisal value notices on May 15, to approximately 15,000 property owners.

Because the City of McLendon Chisholm is considering levying a property tax for the first time in the city's history, all residents of McLendon Chisholm are to have received property valuations from the Rockwall County Central Appraisal District.