Much like last week when they gave their stamp of approval to the 2021- 2022 city budget, Lamesa City Council members on Tuesday took little time to go through a series of votes to set the tax rate needed to fund that budget.Having spent multiple hours over the past 2-3 months working on the budget and eying the tax rate, they needed no further discussion Tuesday.The council voted 5-0 – with members Dore Rodriguez and Gloria Rodriguez both absent – to set the city’s new property tax rate at $85.3826 cents per $100 worth of property.An increase of about 3 ...