Pflugerville staff present FY26 budget built on voter-approval tax rate; proposal trims events and 13 funded positions

Tracy, the staff presenter, told the Pflugerville City Council the proposed fiscal 2026 budget was distributed Aug. 1 and is grounded in the council’s strategic pillars, with some line items beginning implementation this year.

Tracy said the budget was built using the voter-approval tax-rate calculation and showed the proposed aggregate tax rate landing at about 53.50 cents per $100 of valuation, with a debt-service component around 28.50 cents; she estimated that choosing the voter-approval rate yields roughly $686,000 in additional revenue compared with a no-new-revenue scenario. "We are sitting at a 53.50 proposed rate," Tracy said during the presentation.

The proposed budget packages the city’s government funds, special revenues (including hotel-occupancy tax), PCDC funds and utilities. Tracy reported general-fund revenues rising modestly (about $800,000) while recurring expenditures increase by roughly $1.4 million, and she said capital requests tied to the CIP could require up to about $99 million in issuance in coming years. "That ceiling is what…