A pair of public hearings are scheduled before members of the Dawson County Commissioners Court take a formal vote Tuesday afternoon to adopt the county’s new budget and tax rate for the coming year. Those are among the final items on the agenda for a regular meeting of the commissioners court beginning at 4 p.m. in the county courtroom at the courthouse. Members of the commissioners court voted two weeks ago to propose a tax rate of 97.0920 cents per $100 property valuation. That is an increase of about 11.5 cents from the current tax rate but, largely because of a decrease in ...