Kerrville first responders and other city employees are dealing with changes that will increase their monthly payment toward insurance for themselves and their families.

The hundreds of pages of records, provided to KSAT Investigates following a series of public records requests, include a text thread from Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice in which he referred to U.S. Department of Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem as “basically homeland Barbie.”

Higher property tax rates could be implemented in Kerrville to pay for damage caused by the Hill Country floods, Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring said at Tuesday’s city council meeting.

The governor said Tuesday that the state had “assets, resources and personnel” in place before the July 4 floods. On Wednesday evening, the death toll rose to 120.

Federal forecasters issued their first flood warning at 1:14 a.m. on July 4. Local officials haven’t shed light on when they saw the warnings or whether they saw them in time to take action.