Zooming in
At a Sept. 2 meeting, Fulshear City Council unanimously approved $87.5 million in expenditures for FY 2025-26 with a $19.4 million general fund, which includes $6.2 million for police services.
“I'm really glad that at the end of the day we have a balanced budget and one that is sensitive to the taxpayers, but also gets critical projects done,” City Manager Zach Goodlander said.
Council also approved a tax rate of $0.167903 per $100 valuation for FY 2025-26, a 3.74% increase from last year’s $0.161856 per $100. The number is equal to the city’s no-new-revenue rate and below the $0.189901 per $100 voter approval rate.
The tax rate approval comes after City Council postponed the budget and tax rate adoption at an Aug. 18 meeting, where council decided against a 1-cent tax rate increase. Instead, city officials will eliminate one of the police department’s four open positions, using the savings to give a short-term $2,000 bump to hourly police positions, Goodlander said.
By the numbers
The city shifted half of the $1 million budgeted for City Hall repairs toward debt, council member Jason Knape said. The other half will go to water and wastewater asset management, Goodlander said.
Knape said the city made several other budget changes, including:
- Moving $445,000 from the budget surplus to make up for the county's undercalculation of MUD rebate numbers
- Adding $150,000 in plan review fees
- Adding $150,000 in building contractor fees
Looking ahead
Fulshear’s budget will start Oct. 1, the first day of FY 2025-26, according to budget documents.
