New Braunfels City Council is scheduled to hold public hearings and consider first readings Sept. 10 on a revised fiscal 2027 budget and a $0.415613 property-tax rate.
The city's Comal County median-homestead table pairs a $1,174 current-year city tax bill with a $1,169 estimate at the no-new-revenue rate, a $5 annual decrease. That is about 42 cents less per month and covers only the city portion of a property-tax bill. The taxpayer-impact table uses a median taxable value that declines from $287,080 to $281,180.
The rate would increase by $0.006677 per $100 of taxable value from the preceding year. The draft tax ordinance divides the proposal into $0.221692 for operations and maintenance and $0.193921 for debt service.
A higher rate with more budget capacity
The earlier proposed tax rate was $0.408936 per $100; the revised rate is the no-new-revenue rate, adding $845,000 in property-tax revenue capacity. The budget order also adds $387,000 in recurring capacity and $237,000 in one-time capacity after updating projected sales-tax revenue with June collections.
The revised order raises the General Fund's employee-compensation addition by $351,429, from $2.01 million to $2.37 million. It retains a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment for non-uniform employees and a 2.5% adjustment plus applicable step increases for uniform employees, effective Oct. 1.