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Denton County adopts multiple FY2026 budget actions and proposes tax rate; mixed approval on appeals and tech requests
Summary
Denton County Commissioners Court on Aug. 19 approved multiple FY2026 budget actions — including a 6% pay-scale adjustment, approval of 31 recommended new positions, several departmental funding reallocations, and a proposed property tax rate of $0.185938 per $100 of valuation — while taking several departmental appeals under further review.
Denton County Commissioners Court took a series of votes Aug. 19 to finalize multiple actions tied to the FY2026 recommended budget and to propose a property tax rate for tax year 2025.
The court approved a countywide 6% increase to the pay structure minimums and maximums, applied across pay scales including probationary employees, appointed and elected officials, and court reporters. The court also approved salary-setting for two judicial positions (associate judge at $166,204 and criminal juvenile magistrate at $171,750) consistent with the 6% adjustment and approved a suite of salary revisions, reclassifications and market adjustments listed in the recommended budget. Separately, the court approved the list of new positions included in the recommended budget (31 full-time, 1 part-time) and several associated personnel reports: transferred slots, deleted slots, temporary/expired slots, and grant-funded slots absorbed into the county budget.
On discrete line items earlier in the agenda the court approved administrative reallocations and additional funding requests: a reallocation in Public Health Clinical…
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