Budget Report

  Pflugerville proposes maintaining tax rate, sees increased revenue Pflugerville Property Tax Rate[/caption]

Property tax rate

The city of Pflugerville has lowered its property tax rate annually for the past decade and proposed maintaining the current rate of $0.5336 per $100 of assessed value in FY 2015-2016, according to budget documents. Pflugerville proposes maintaining tax rate, sees increased revenue Pflugerville General Fund Revenue[/caption] As of press time, City Council is expected to vote on the tax rate Sept. 29. Budget numbers are subject to change. This year the average residential taxable property value increased 9 percent, according to budget documents.

Revenue and sources

Pflugerville staffers project a 12.9 percent—or $2.4 million—increase in property tax revenue for FY 2015-16 compared with the previous year. Sales tax revenue is expected to rise 11 percent from FY 2014-2015 because of new businesses opening.

City services and capital improvements

Pflugerville proposes maintaining tax rate, sees increased revenue Pflugerville General Fund Expenditures[/caption] The Pflugerville FY 2015-16 city budget includes 13 new full- and part-time city positions and allocates additional funding to the police and public works departments. “The police department was substantially underpaid comparatively speaking, and we have significant numbers of public works employees who, relatively speaking, are underpaid,” City Manager Brandon Wade said. Budget documents show about 42 percent of the $27.9 million general fund in the FY 2015-16 budget is dedicated to the police department, including the addition of two new patrol officers, a 911 operator, a dispatcher, two part-time animal control officers, two kennel technicians and a part-time victim services assistant. Pflugerville’s FY 2015-16 budget proposes $28,802,658 in capital improvement projects, including funding from the 2014 bond election. City capital projects include a new sports complex; park and trail developments; and improvements to Pfenning Lane, Weiss Lane, Pflugerville Parkway and Heatherwilde Boulevard.

Utilities

Last fiscal year Pflugerville adopted new utility rates and saw an increase in water and wastewater revenues although most residents using between 5,000 and 25,000 gallons of water per month saw a reduced water bill, according to budget documents. The city expects to see an increase in utility revenue in FY 2015-16, with water revenue projected to increase by 5 percent and wastewater revenue expected to increase by 4 percent.