Brown County adopts FY 2025–26 budget and sets total property tax rate at 0.49482
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Summary
At its Sept. 8 meeting the Brown County Commissioner's Court adopted the FY 2025–26 budget, approved official salaries for election officials and set a total property tax rate of 0.49482 per $100 valuation, after a public hearing on the rate that drew no speakers.
Brown County Commissioner's Court on Sept. 8, 2025 adopted the county's FY 2025–26 budget and set a total property tax rate of 0.49482 per $100 valuation, the court stated at a regular meeting held at the Brown County Courthouse. The court also approved official salaries for next year and closed the public hearing on the tax rate after no members of the public addressed the court.
The court's action breaks the total rate into a maintenance and operations rate of 0.39624, a debt-service rate of 0.02385 and a road and flood rate of 0.07473. "Brown County property taxes will be increased by the adoption of a total tax rate of 0.49482," the Presiding Official read from the resolution, which also states the new levy will collect more for maintenance and operations than last year's levy.
The Presiding Official told the court the proposed budget had been on file in the county clerk's office and posted on the courthouse bulletin board since the previous Tuesday and that a notice about the tax-rate ramifications had been issued. The court opened the public hearing on the tax rate, gave members of the public an opportunity to speak and, finding none present, closed the hearing before taking final action.
During preliminary remarks the Presiding Official summarized recent state-level legislative activity related to the net-revenue threshold for tax actions, saying the legislature considered lowering a 3.5% net‑revenue threshold to 2.5% and that proposed changes did not become law during the session. The court's decisions at this meeting were procedural and local: formal motions to adopt the budget, the official-salary schedule and the tax-rate resolution were offered, seconded and approved with all present voting "aye," and no opposing votes recorded.
The resolution and the proposed budget documents were entered into the public record as part of the meeting. The court did not direct additional staff work or request follow-up reports on the tax rate during the portions of the meeting recorded in the transcript.
