Chandler and Brownsboro are posting sales tax revenues totals at or near the same level as a year ago, according to the latest figures from the Texas comptroller's office in a report posted on its Web site.

Chandler is just above, and Brownsboro just below, the numbers posted with the receipt of October checks back to each entity last year.

By October 2008, Chandler was slightly above $345,000 in sales tax revenues. After this month's receipt of sales tax revenues from the state, that city is a few pennies shy of the $350,500 mark.

The slight difference represents a 1.41 percent increase for Chandler with two months left in the year.

Brownsboro had received slightly more than $106,700 after October last year. So far in 2009, Brownsboro has received $105,631.73 in sales tax revenues - down 1 percent from a year ago.

October sales tax revenues come from the sales tax collected in August and reported to the state in September. The state returned the municipalities' porting of revenues in October.

The comptroller's report was released Friday.

Just for the month of October 2009, Chandler got a bit more than $30,000 back from the state - 2.59 percent more than it received in the same month last year. Brownsboro received a little more than $10,500 - down 6.23 percent from October 2008.

Murchison has seen its sales tax revenues fall by more than 26 percent from October 2008 until October 2009. Its October payment this year was 30.7 percent below the same one last year.

With 16 municipalities collecting the sales tax in Henderson County, the combined revenues for October surpassed the $713,000 this year - 1.94 percent below last year's receipts.

For the year-to-date numbers, all the cities combined for slightly more than $7.7 million - 3.1 percent below last year's pace.