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Forney adopts FY2026 budget, keeps employee pay changes and raises no-new-revenue tax rate
Summary
City Council adopted a $45.6 million FY2026 budget with technical revenue adjustments to avoid cutting employee COLA and merit increases, approved updated water/sewer fees tied to a North Texas Municipal Water District increase, and set the tax rate at 0.421431 per $100 assessed value.
The Forney City Council on Sept. 16 adopted the city———year 2026 budget and set a property tax rate while approving changes to water and sewer fees and personnel agreements.
Council approved an ordinance adopting the FY2026 budget after agreeing to reclassify roughly $804,092 in revenue so the budget could be adopted "as presented" without reducing the proposed cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) and merit pay elements for city employees. Council then set the city—s combined tax rate at 0.421431 per $100 of assessed value.
The budget action: Councilmember James Traylor moved to adopt the budget with the revenue adjustment; Zann Schlenzker seconded. In a recorded roll call on the ordinance, Mayor Pro Tem Greg Helm, Traylor, Councilmember Cecil Chambers, Councilmember Sarah Salgado and Schlenzker voted yes; Councilmember Jay Weatherford voted no. The motion carried. The budget ordinance was assigned No. 2522, as read into the record.
Why it matters: City staff said the FY2026 spending plan incorporates a revised recommendation from the North Texas Municipal Water District to raise water rates 7.5% (down from an earlier 8.8% projection). Council and staff said the…
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