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Van Zandt County adopts fiscal 2026 budget; commissioners ratify tax increase
Summary
Van Zandt County Commissioners Court adopted the fiscal year 2026 budget and separately ratified an increase in property tax revenue; the court approved budget amendments and noted contingency, American Rescue Plan funds and higher indigent-defense costs for CPS cases.
Van Zandt County Commissioners Court voted to adopt the countybudget for fiscal year 2026, which begins Oct. 1, 2025 and ends Sept. 30, 2026, and separately ratified the property-tax increase reflected in that budget. The court voted to approve the budget with amendments and later approved a separate motion to ratify the increase in property-tax revenue.
The adopted budget includes an estimated shortfall shown in the materials presented to the court as roughly $179,000 and shows estimated total revenue and expenditures that the judge described in the hearing. The judge told the court that American Rescue Plan funds and other dedicated funds are available in county accounts and that those funds are not part of property-tax revenue. The court also approved a set of technical and substantive amendments to salary worksheets, increased allocations for information technology tied to sheriffs vehicle equipment, and an increase to indigent defense funding for child-protection services (CPS) cases after…
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