Alvin, Pearland ISD trustees to consider 2025-26 tax rates
Alvin and Pearland ISD’s board of trustees will both consider their district’s respective tax rate for the 2025-26 fiscal year at their Sept. 9 board meetings.
Alvin ISD: For AISD, trustees will consider a tax rate of $1.15 per $100 valuation of a home—which is a decrease of $0.02 per $100 valuation of a home compared to the 2024-25 rate, according to district documents.
This tax rate would result in a tax bill of over $2,550 for an average residence—about a $415 decrease compared to last year’s bill of nearly $2,970, according to district documents.
Pearland ISD: For PISD, trustees will consider a tax rate of $1.135 per $100 valuation of a home—which is the same rate as last year’s rate, according to district documents.
This tax rate will result in a tax bill of over $3,070 of taxes due on an average residence—about a $420 decrease compared to last year’s bill of nearly $3,500, according to district documents.
Visit Pearland opens calls for nonprofit arts organizations to apply for $6K grant
Visit Pearland is accepting applications from Pearland-based nonprofit arts and cultural organizations for its Cultural Arts Matching Grant Program, which offers funds for up to $6,000, officials said in a Sept. 8 news release.
The details: The application period for the fiscal year 2026 program runs through Oct. 20, and grants will be awarded in early December, according to the release.
The background: Commissioners and department leaders have spent the last eight-plus months weighing how to offset at least $102 million in cuts and other savings surrounding the projected $2.95 billion FY 2025-26 budget. Factors impacting county department cuts in the budget process, according to the proposed budget document, included jail costs, indigent defense costs, health care costs and law enforcement contracts.
Items worth mentioning: The county clerk and administration offices will request discussion as part of a Texas law that allows for the creation of a salary grievance committee for elected officials. Several officials from elected offices went to Commissioners Court seeking higher pay in August, including judges within the county’s district courts and the county’s eight elected constables.
What to know: Most Texas school districts required to display donated Ten Commandments posters under state law
Most Texas public schools are required to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms under Senate Bill 10, a state law that took effect Sept. 1.
The details: On Aug. 20, a Texas federal judge temporarily blocked the following 11 school districts from displaying the Ten Commandments:
Alamo Heights ISD
Austin ISD
Cy-Fair ISD
Dripping Springs ISD
Fort Bend ISD
Houston ISD
Lackland ISD
Lake Travis ISD
North East ISD
Northside ISD
Plano ISD
Attorney General Ken Paxton appealed the ruling and directed other school districts to begin displaying donated copies of the Ten Commandments.
The debate: Proponents of SB 10, including Paxton and Republican state lawmakers, have argued that seeing the Ten Commandments on a daily basis will help Texas students better understand U.S. history and learn about morality.
Some religious scholars have stressed the importance of teaching students about religion in an “appropriate educational context.” Democratic lawmakers have expressed concerns that non-Christian students will feel left out or be bullied by their peers for not following the Ten Commandments.
