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Court debates tax-rate options as finance chief presents multi-year budget scenarios
Summary
McLennan County finance staff presented scenarios showing fund-balance trajectories under different tax-rate increases; court members signaled support for holding discretionary outside-entity increases to 2025 levels and discussed a 1'to-2-cent permanent tax-rate adjustment as a strategy to protect fund balance.
McLennan County Commissioners Court spent a substantial portion of its July 15 meeting on preliminary FY2026 budget scenarios and tax-rate options after the county finance director presented multi-year projections.
Nut graf: Finance staff modeled three scenarios (1 cent, 1.5 cents and 2 cents of additional tax rate) with conservative assumptions: 5% annual taxable-value growth, 3% annual expenditure growth and a 3% assumed under-budget (vacancy/turnback) rate. The scenarios showed that a modest tax-rate increase…
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