Marc Duchen

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514 appearances 8 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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Austin City Council · City Council Budget Work Session · 16 Jul 2026 meeting

Is this just sort of a statistical anomaly, or is this relevant, or is there even a sense that homeowners are increasingly cost burdened, and that's why you're seeing that slight increase? podcast-host

Okay, thank you. podcast-host

We're just seeing, like, you know, going one year back, an increase from 0.6 to 0.7, two years from 0.3 to 0.4, and so on. podcast-host

And I just was wondering if there's a narrative that you all are working with that might explain that. podcast-host

But on that same page, when we look at the property tax summary chart, I think this is page 54, podcast-host

I'm seeing decreasing, and I think we've discussed it, decreasing taxable valuations running from fiscal year 24 to 27, and the loss looks to be around $12 billion or so over that window. podcast-host

So our tax levy during the same period is increasing around $240 million. podcast-host

So I'm just curious if you can help me understand, is there a model that's helping us explain or giving us some insight as to this trend? podcast-host

Is this trend going to reverse at some point? podcast-host

At what point do we think we'll see revenue increasing because taxable property in the city increases rather than us taking a larger and larger share of kind of a shrinking pie? podcast-host

And do you see that, again, with some of the other things that you're predicting in terms of job growth, et cetera, do you see that continuing for the next couple of years? podcast-host

So podcast-host

again. podcast-host

Okay, so there are canary in the coal mine. podcast-host

Got it. podcast-host

On page 65, there's a page there about the national economy. podcast-host

And in the section, it says to the effect that continued expectations are that inflation is going to exceed the Fed's 2% target, mean that interest rates are more likely to increase later this year. podcast-host

So if we're expecting the Fed to increase interest rates, podcast-host

My assumption here is that the increased cost to borrow money is going to further depress home values. podcast-host

And if that bears out, will we need to further increase our tax rate to meet the 3.5% increase that seems to be our baseline right now? podcast-host

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