Commissioners Court Approves Child Safety Fee Allocations
Belton, TX – On Monday, November 22, the Bell County Commissioners Court approved the distribution of just over $417,270 in Child Safety Fee Allocations to Bell County and Bell County cities.
Shay Luedeke, Tax Assessor-Collector for Bell County, made a report to the commissioners regarding this year’s Child Safety Fee Allocations. These funds come from a $1.50 fee collected on 309,090 eligible vehicles registered in the county during the 2022 fiscal year. These fees totaled $463,635 in Child Safety fees. This represents an increase of just under 1% over fiscal year 2021.
Child Safety Fee Allocations are distributed to city’s based on populations reported in the 2020 Census. Each municipality will receive more money this year than last year.
By Texas law, the funds must be used for Crossing Guard Programs. However, if a city does not have such a program, School Districts can use the funds on health, nutrition, child abuse prevention and intervention, or drug and alcohol abuse prevention.
Below is a breakdown of this year’s allocations by city:
|
CITY/TOWN |
2020 CENSUS |
POPULATION % OF TOTAL |
ALLOCATION |
|
Killeen |
153,095 |
41.30% |
$ 172,333.13 |
|
Temple |
82,073 |
22.14% |
$ 92,383.91 |
|
Bell County (Unincorporated Areas) |
59,151 |
15.96% |
$ 66,596.54 |
|
Harker Heights |
33,097 |
8.93% |
$ 37,262.34 |
|
Belton |
23,054 |
6.22% |
$ 25,954.29 |
|
Nolanville |
5,917 |
1.60% |
$ 6,676.34 |
|
Morgan’s Point Resort |
4,636 |
1.25% |
$ 5,215.89 |
|
Salado |
2,394 |
0.65% |
$ 2,712.26 |
|
Troy |
2,375 |
0.64% |
$ 2,670.54 |
|
Little River-Academy |
1,992 |
0.54% |
$ 2,253.27 |
|
Rogers |
1,113 |
0.30% |
$ 1,251.81 |
|
Holland |
1,075 |
0.29% |
$ 1,210.09 |
|
Bartlett |
675 |
0.18% |
$ 751.09 |
|
Total to be Allocated |
370,647 |
100.00% |
$ 417,271.50 |
Luedeke will work to schedule presentations of these funds during city council meetings wherever possible. Other checks will be sent by mail.
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