McAllen City Commission approves $578 million 2025-26 budget with lower tax rate

The McAllen City Commission approved its 2025-26 annual budget on Sept. 22, adopting a combined $578,000,000 plan that includes a lower tax rate and funding described as supporting new jobs and upcoming projects.

The budget vote was the headline action at the meeting summary reported in the McAllen Minute. The transcript does not include a roll call, the text of a motion, who moved or seconded it, or the vote tally.

The plan’s stated priorities in the meeting summary were a reduced property tax rate, creation or support for new jobs, and funding for unspecified upcoming projects. The transcript provides the combined dollar figure but does not break down spending by department, project, or funding source, nor does it list the specific projects that will receive funding.

Because the meeting summary did not record vote counts or individual commissioner statements about the budget, this article does not attribute remarks about the budget to any individual commissioner. The adoption of the budget is recorded as an action by the McAllen City Commission, and further detail (departmental allocations, tax-rate ordinance language, or final vote tallies) was not provided in the available transcript.

The meeting summary also noted the commission issued two proclamations and that Sherryland ISD expressed gratitude to the McAllen Fire Department during the session’s reported items.