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Collin County commissioner warns budget leaves little room without tax increase or cuts
Summary
Commissioner Webb told the Commissioners Court the county’s general fund is essentially balanced at current tax rates and that meeting elected officials’ supplemental requests would require voter approval or departmental reallocations.
Commissioner Webb said Collin County’s general-fund revenue leaves almost no room for the supplemental requests county elected officials and department heads have submitted for the 2026 budget.
Webb told the Commissioners Court on July 24 that the county’s no-new-revenue baseline is about $314.0 million and that keeping the current tax rate adds roughly $9 million more; increasing to the voter-approval (rollback) rate would add about another $10 million. Even after those options, Webb said the requests from elected officials, market movement and mandatory base increases would put expenses above available revenue unless the court either asks voters for more or departments find internal cuts.
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