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City manager: sales-tax receipts below budget; staff outlines savings and hiring freezes ahead of FY26 workshops
Summary
City Manager Mr. Atkinson told the Lubbock City Council that sales-tax receipts are running below the adopted fiscal‑year 2025 budget and outlined staffing cuts, contract obligations and other savings to keep the General Fund balanced as the council begins FY26 budget workshops.
City Manager Mr. Atkinson told the Lubbock City Council on July 2025 that sales‑tax collections are below the adopted fiscal‑year 2025 budget and that the city is pursuing expense reductions and a hiring freeze to keep the General Fund balanced.
Atkinson said the city’s budgeted sales‑tax revenue was $105,600,000 and staff’s current forecasted receipts are $100,664,000. “We were still about $313,000 shy of the budget projections or just under 4%,” he said, adding that the city now projects being roughly $5,000,000 below the adopted sales‑tax target for the year.
The city manager said the pattern in Lubbock mirrors statewide receipts reported by the Texas Comptroller — construction and online retail showed mixed results while hotel occupancy taxes have declined. Atkinson…
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