As a professor of government at Tarleton State University, Bo Kabala is grateful to teach the next generation “how the sausage gets made” in federal and state government. Seeing the capacity for Dublin’s growth, he wanted to share his policy experience while helping his neighbors. This is why he’s running for Dublin City Council, Place 1.
“Everybody knows the taxesaretoohighinDublin,” said Kabala. “Stephenville has a significantly lower tax rate because they’ve attracted economic growth. They’ve brought more companies, and so they don’t have to set the tax rate as high to generate the same amount of revenue.”
If Dublin needs more business and homes to bring these rates down, how do you do it?
He said making the area as attractive as possible can bring in businesses and industrial parks to Dublin and the highways surrounding it. “What do you see in industrial parks?,” he asked. “It’s the very type of businesses that might be coming back with the tariffs imposed by President Trump.”
Making an attractive city and offering incentives like TIRs can help bring these businesses in to increase the tax base, lightening the load for residents when tax time comes.
“It also involves moving beaten up properties when owners are ready to let those go,” he said. To that end, he was part of a meeting with Stephenville City Manager Jason King, who has now been talking with interim Dublin City Manager Cameron Ray to utilize the Stephenville city dump in demolition of dilapidated homes.
“Branding, marketing and telling the story of Dublin” is another way of making the city more attractive to Bo, who is speaking with Rick Taylor about promoting our rich rodeo history as well as the current rodeo champions and major companies associated with the area like Cervi Championship Rodeo and Barnes PRCA rodeo.
He would also like to see Dublin take an active role in driving tourism like Stephenville does and a more thorough comprehensive plan like neighboring cities. All of this would foster growth and benefit Dublin and the area.
“It doesn’t have to be growththat’soutof control,” Bo assured, saying a comprehensive plan and input can help guide it.
“It’s all about making Dublin great again,” he said.
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