Mayor Chris Fielder presented his final State of the City remarks to community leaders and audience members at a Leander Chamber of Commerce reception in Hill Country Bible Church Leander on Tuesday, Jan. 30.

1. Tuesday January 30th, 2018
Leander Chamber
Mayor Chris Fielder
State of the City Address
Six Years of Success!

3. City of Leander Mission:
The City will provide its citizens with the
highest quality of service through the effective
and efficient use of all available resources.

4. Your Leander City Council

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11. “Every Issue we are dealing with in
our City is a product of our
Success!”

12. 12
Notable development projects
approved or under construction
Austin Community College campus, Chick-Fil-A,
Holiday Inn Express, St. David’s Hospital campus,
Fire Station No. 1 relocation

13. 13
Notable development projects
in the planning stage
Texas Bullion Depository, Honda Dealership,
Northline TOD, Leander TIRZ No. 2,
Fire Station No. 5

14. •Our Leander Chamber has continued to Grow
•Hosting of the Mayors Prayer Breakfast for a 5th
year in a row
•Quarterly Lunch with the Mayor
•Leander Old Town Street Festival Celebration
•Living Leander Expo was a huge success
•New Stage in Old Town!
•Expanded the Old Town Christmas Parade!
•Please Show Ms Bridget Brandt your Support!

15. Measure Performance by Results

16. What I am Proudest of!
September of 2017 this Council Voted
to Lower the Tax rate by another
2.1133 cents to the effect rate!
That is more than two times that of
any City in Williamson County!

17. Bond Rating upgrade!
• Moody’s Upgraded the Cities Bond Rating
from AA3 to AA2
• S&P kept the same rating but increased our
outlook from Stable to Positive

18. Where Revenue Comes From

19. Where Revenue is Allocated

21. Where is the City today?
• Currently based on Active Water Accounts we
have
• Our Population Today is
56,267

22. Where is the City today?
• Sales tax for 2017 was up 11.5% over 2016
making us now up 78.45% since 2012

23. Where is the City today?
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24. Continuing to set and
break new records!

26. • Recently Leander was named the 8th Safest
City in Texas (of all population sizes) by the
security research company Safe Wise

27. Leander is the fastest growing City in the
Nation of all Cities over 50,000 people
today, yes even faster than that one you
are thinking about!

28. Forbes Magazine named Leander the 3rd
best place in America to raise a family

29. Leander is a strong and great City!

30. Leander in 2012
• Population: 30,437
• Land area: 22.82 square miles
• Operating budget: $16,104,791
• Tax rate: 67.042 cents per $100 valuation
• Bond rating: Aa3 (Moody’s), A+ (S&P))

31. Leander in 2018
• Population: 55,910
• Land area: 36.79 square miles
• Operating budget: $35,581,585
• Tax rate: 57.7867 cents per $100 Valuation
• Bond rating: Aa2 (Moody’s), AA (S&P)

32. • Martin Luther King Jr. - "If you can't fly then
run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't
walk then crawl, but whatever you do you
have to keep moving forward."

33. Proberbs 27:17
“Iron Sharpens iron as one Man Sharpens
another”

36. Liberty Fest

38. You Are, We Are Truly your
Brother and Sisters Keeper

39. “You can achieve everything you
want in life by helping others achieve
what they want in life.”
Zig Zigler

40. “The Strength of our Nation starts with the
strength of our Cities across America”
President Barack Obama

42. “From everyone who has been given much,
much will be demanded; and from the one
who has been entrusted with much, much
more will be asked.”
Luke 12:48 NIV

43. “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the
Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let
us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us
accept our own responsibility for the future.” –
President John F. Kennedy, 1958

44. “We all Pray to the same God, Democrats and
Republicans alike”
President Thomas Jefferson

45. Thank you and Thank you Council!