The latest city royalty payment for gas leases on city property totals about $392,000, Cleburne City Manager Chester Nolen said Tuesday.
“It’s not like it was, but it’s moving back up,” Nolen said. “We’re on track to come in above what we budgeted to collect this year.”
Cleburne issued one single-family residence permit and three commercial business permits in February, said Donna Jackson, Development Services director.
Residential property sales in Johnson County totalled 84 in February compared with 82 in January, said Jerry Cash, Cleburne Economic Development director.
Drilling permits issued for sites in Johnson County totalled 39 in February compared with 121 permits issued for sites in Tarrant County, Cash said.
As of Feb. 26, there were 23 working rigs in Johnson County, 17 in Tarrant County and six in Parker County, Cash said. He said those numbers tend to change weekly.
The January unemployment rate for Cleburne totalled 9.6 percent compared with 9 percent for the county, Cash said.
The national rate totalled 9.7 percent, he said, with Texas having a rate of 8.6 percent, or 8.2 percent seasonally adjusted.
Texas 121
Although a few details remain to be worked out, Nolen said the Texas 121 project appears set to go. Plans call for extending Texas 121 from Fort Worth to Cleburne.
Nolen estimated that construction on the project would begin toward the end of this year or the beginning of 2011 and be completed sometime in 2013.
“With the news on Texas 121, I’ve been getting some calls from large tract developers [commercial and retail builders],” Cash said. “Basically inquiries about when we think the construction is going to begin and be finished.”
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