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Tomball staff outlines revenue assumptions, reserves and insurance pressures in pre‑budget workshop
Summary
City staff presented conservative revenue assumptions — a sales‑tax‑driven general fund, a 6% assessed‑value growth assumption for budgeting, and a 72.5% general‑fund reserve — and warned of a projected 12% jump in employee medical insurance premiums used in early FY26 planning.
City staff presented a high‑level pre‑budget overview on May 5 that laid out the assumptions driving the initial FY26 proposed budget, including conservative assessed‑value growth, sales‑tax volatility and personnel‑cost pressures.
Staff said sales tax remains the single largest revenue source for the general fund (presented as roughly 44% of general‑fund revenues in staff charts) and is the most volatile line item.…
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