Irving adopts $1.08 billion budget and sets new property tax rate of $0.5891

The Irving City Council on Sept. 18 adopted a $1,082,650,246 budget for fiscal year 2025–26 and set a new property tax rate of $0.5891, measures council members said are necessary to fund city services and previously voter-approved projects.

At the public meeting, an unnamed council member moved to adopt the total budget "of $1,082,650,246" and recommended that "$100,000 be set aside in the budget, to provide funding for the inclement weather shelter services." The motion was seconded and passed unanimously. Later, the council moved and unanimously passed an ordinance setting the 2025 tax rate and levying the tax as required by the State of Texas Property Tax Code; the motion in the record describes the adopted rate as $0.5891 and characterizes that rate as "effectively a 10.8% increase."

Mayor Rick Stover, reading proclamation-style language elsewhere in the meeting and speaking in favor of the budget process, praised the city’s transparency and the staff’s work preparing the budget, saying Irving has been able to keep services and maintain infrastructure without the kinds of cuts reported elsewhere. Stover noted prior voter approval of a bond package and said the budget work aims to preserve services and city assets.

Councilmembers described the budget as the product of months of review and said the $100,000 allocation is intended to support emergency shelter operations during extreme weather events. No council member recorded a dissenting vote on the budget or the tax-rate ordinance during the meeting minutes.

The adoption starts the fiscal year 2025–26 spending plan; any administrative implementation steps or subsequent amendments were not specified at the meeting.

The council also approved related ordinances ratifying the FY25–26 budget actions required by state law. The city clerk confirmed those motions and votes were recorded as unanimous.