The Proposed City Budget Raises Your Tax Rate and Utility Bill. Plus, a Free Art Talk at The Grand Tonight.

Tuesday, September 8th (today).

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Everyone attending, at any age, is asked to bring enough supplies to make 25-30 meals:

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Lewisville has put a $148 million proposed General Fund budget for Fiscal Year 2026-27 on the table, and it comes with two increases residents will feel directly.

The proposed property tax rate goes from the current .419009 to .436381 per $100 of valuation. On a home valued at $350,000, that works out to roughly $61 more per year before any change in appraised value. The proposal also includes a 7.8 percent increase in the utility rate.

The city's framing is that even with the bump, Lewisville's property tax rate stays among the lowest in North Texas. That is accurate, and it is also the kind of comparison that is easier to accept when you have looked at the actual document rather than the summary.

You can. The full proposed budget is posted on the Annual Budget page at cityoflewisville.com, and paper copies are available at the City Secretary's Office and at Lewisville Public Library during regular hours. Budget Manager Ashley Carlisle takes questions at 972.219.3411.

Two hearings are scheduled, and they cover different things. The budget hearing is Monday, September 14. The separate hearing on setting the property tax rate is Monday, September 21. Both happen during the regular City Council meetings in the Council Chambers at City Hall, 151 W. Church Street.

One scheduling note that trips people up. Council normally meets the first Monday of the month, which would have been yesterday, but the Labor Day holiday pushed that meeting to September 14. So the meeting you may have expected last night is the one now carrying the budget hearing.

Source: City of Lewisville

The Visual Art League of Lewisville brings artist, curator and designer Jennifer Monet Crowley to Lewisville Grand Theater tonight, Tuesday, September 8, at 7 PM.

Crowley works across colored pencil, pastel, gouache, acrylic, watercolor and collage, and her practice now spans fine art, wearable art and independent curation. She spent time as Curator at the African American Museum at Fair Park in Dallas, where she put together several notable exhibitions.

What VAL is pitching here is not a lecture on technique. Crowley talks openly about a creative path that has not been smooth, and about a style that keeps shifting rather than settling. That is a more useful conversation for anyone making things than a polished career retrospective would be.

One practical warning if you are driving in. There is heavy road construction at the Main Street interchange with I-35E, so leave earlier than the map tells you to. Free public parking is available along Main and Church streets, or at City Hall across Church Street from The Grand.

Event Details

📅 Date: Tuesday, September 8

🕐 Time: 7 PM

📍 Location: Lewisville Grand Theater, 100 N. Charles Street

💲 Admission: Free

Source: City of Lewisville

Lewisville-Flower Mound Teen Court is running a four-part series called Teen Talks, built to walk teenagers through real-life situations and how the law actually applies to them. The first session is Thursday, September 17, from 5:30 to 6:30 PM at Lewisville Municipal Court, 1197 W. Main Street.

That opening session covers youth empowerment, recognizing abuse and protecting yourself. Each meeting mixes presentations, video and conversation with people who work in the field, rather than a single lecture from the front of the room.

The rest of the schedule runs through December and alternates between the two cities. Distracted driving and CPR comes October 15 at Flower Mound Municipal Court, 4150 Kirkpatrick Lane. A MADD presentation on drunk driving lands November 19 back in Lewisville. The series closes December 17 in Flower Mound with a session on when, how and why to call 911.

Here is the part worth passing along to a teenager who is not naturally excited about a Thursday evening at municipal court: attending earns two hours of community service credit. Teen Court and Diversion participants can be eligible for additional credit when they bring a parent, guardian, sibling or friend along.

All teens are welcome, and registration is handled through a link on the city's news page. Kay Minnis takes questions at 972.219.3799.

Event Details

📅 Date: Thursday, September 17, first of four sessions running through December 17

🕐 Time: 5:30 to 6:30 PM

📍 Location: Lewisville Municipal Court, 1197 W. Main Street

💲 Admission: Free, and worth two hours of community service credit

Source: City of Lewisville

In 2011, T-Ronn Hicks's daughter Lexi came to him with a request. She wanted him to come to Degan Elementary and talk to her class about bullying. His first instinct was to ask whether she was being bullied. She was not. She told him she just thought they should be proactive instead of reactive.

He took a Thursday off work and went. Fifteen years later, that one talk has grown into Simply Badd Ministry and a set of outreach programs including Stop Bullying Our Purpose, and Hicks has spoken to more than 3.2 million people. Not just in Denton County, but in Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Before any of that, he was a professional wrestler. He competed under the ring name Simply Badd for 18 years, won 19 world titles on the independent circuit and is a five-time Hall of Famer. These days people call him The Champion Against Bullying, which is a better fit.

One of his programs came from a student too. In 2017, an eighth grader at his son's school suggested what became Emma's Circle, which brings the student accused of bullying and the student who was bullied into the same room with a mediator to work it out. Hicks says it still has a 100 percent success rate and gets requested locally and nationally.

His read on why bullying persists is blunt and not especially comfortable. He thinks too many kids are growing up without mentors and without being taught to like themselves first, and that the frustration and jealousy that follows is where the behavior comes from. Roughly one in five students aged 12 to 18 report being bullied at school, and the number is higher at younger ages.

Hicks still lives in Lewisville with his wife Marian and their children Lexi and Zayy, and works as hospitality manager for a Chick-fil-A in Argyle between speaking engagements. He has picked up humanitarian awards and proclamations from Denton County, the cities of Lewisville and Highland Village, and the state of Texas along the way.

Source: Cross Timbers Gazette

The small brick building near City Hall known as the Old Well House, put up around 1927, may hold the record for most career changes of any structure in town. It started out housing Lewisville's water well and storage tank.

From there it became the garage for the town's fire truck, and later on it served as the police station. The original jail cell is still inside the building today, which makes it one of the more unusual things sitting quietly a block from where the City Council meets.

Source: City of Lewisville Historic Sites

Lewisville Lake was 87.8% full as of the September 6 reading from Water Data for Texas, the most recent daily figure published before this issue went out. The average water level sat at 519.38 feet, about 2.6 feet under the 522-foot conservation pool that counts as a full lake.

The slide is steady rather than sudden. The lake was 89.3% a week before that and 95.8% a month before, which is the ordinary late-summer pattern of evaporation and downstream releases outrunning rainfall. For comparison, it was 94.4% on the same date last year.

No lake advisories are posted. At roughly two and a half feet down, main boat ramps and swim areas including Party Cove are still usable, though shallow shoreline edges keep creeping outward, so give sandbars and submerged stumps a wider berth than you would in spring.

Source: Water Data for Texas

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