By Megan Wehring

DRIPPING SPRINGS – Dripping Springs ISD will have a lower tax rate.

At the Sept. 26 meeting, the DSISD Board of Trustees approved the annual tax rate. The newly adopted 2022 rate is $1.2929 per $100 of certified property value. The adopted rate represents a $1.74-cent decrease from the 2021-22 rate, which is the fourth consecutive year that DSISD has decreased its tax rate. 

Over the four-year span, DSISD’s tax rate has decreased by a total of 22.71 cents.

The total tax...