Straight answers
Questions & answers.
What's on the ballot, what it costs you, and why this campaign says no.
In November 2026, Pflugerville ISD voters decide whether to annex into the Austin Community College taxing district. If it passes, every property owner in the district begins paying a new, permanent property tax to ACC in exchange for lower ACC fees and ACC voting rights.
By ACC's own figures, the average Pflugerville home is worth $407,524 and would owe about $416 a year ($34.67 a month) after the homestead exemption, at ACC's rate of $0.1034 per $100. Seniors and residents with disabilities pay less; property with no homestead exemption pays more. Because it's based on appraised value, the amount grows as your home's value rises. See The Numbers for the full breakdown.
Yes. Annexation has no sunset clause. Unlike a bond that's eventually paid off, this tax continues indefinitely, with no built in review, renewal vote, or expiration date. ACC already charges the maximum maintenance and operations rate its voters allow, 9 cents per $100, so it cannot raise that part further without another district wide vote, but your bill still rises on its own every year as your home's appraised value grows, and the tax itself never ends.
Yes. This is not only a homeowner tax. When a landlord's property tax bill goes up, that increase typically passes through into rent. The ACC tax reaches nearly everyone living in Pflugerville, owners and renters alike.
Residents who attend ACC would pay lower fees. But that's a small share of the population. Roughly 1,291 Pflugerville area residents attend ACC, against a district population near 187,685, so fewer than 1% are current ACC students, while 100% of property owners would pay the tax.
Yes. Tuition at ACC is already free for Pflugerville graduates through the pilot program. What's left is a separate out of district fee of $201 per credit hour. This vote isn't about tuition; it's about that fee. The question is whether to pay about $23 million a year in permanent taxes to remove roughly $3 million a year in those fees.
Because most of the money never comes back to Pflugerville. The new tax falls on the Pflugerville ISD property that isn't already inside ACC's district. Netting out the parcels that already pay ACC and applying ACC's exemptions, the new levy is about $23 million a year. The real fee relief for the roughly 1,291 local students who attend ACC is about $3 million a year. That's more than a 7-to-1 imbalance, over seven dollars paid for every dollar of benefit returned. You may have heard $26 million: that is what ACC's rate would raise on the district's entire taxable base, before removing the parcels already in ACC.
Yes. Voters rejected ACC annexation in 2018 over the same cost benefit concern. Since then, the district's taxable value has risen more than 80%, so the tax burden today is significantly larger than what voters already turned down.
Yes. The city can cancel the out of district fee for its residents directly, for roughly $1-4 million a year instead of the $23 million annexation would cost, and the cost is set locally every budget year. Helping students and opposing a forever tax are not in conflict. See the better way.
The measure is on the ballot in November 2026. Sign up for updates so you know your registration deadline, early voting dates, and polling locations as they're confirmed.