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Tarrant County court approves FY2026 budget with targeted amendments; tax-rate vote deferred
Summary
Tarrant County Commissioners Court on Sept. 16 approved the county'wide fiscal year 2026 budget as amended but did not set the county'wide tax rate because state law requires four commissioners present to adopt a rate.
Tarrant County Commissioners Court on Sept. 16 approved the county'wide fiscal year 2026 budget as amended but did not set the county'wide tax rate because state law requires four commissioners present to adopt a rate. The court adopted three targeted amendments to the proposed budget that cut administrative positions, reduced commissioner travel budgets and eliminated planned new road-and-bridge hires for Precinct 2.
The amendments approved by the court reduced the number of administrative positions to one for each office of the commissioners in Precincts 1 and 2 and capped salary and benefits for each position at $100,000; reduced the travel budget for those two commissioner offices to…
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