Saksley council adopts FY2025–26 budget and approves 2025 tax rate totaling $0.650416 per $100 valuation

The Saksley City Council voted Sept. 15 to adopt the fiscal year 2025–26 budget and to levy ad valorem taxes for 2025 at a combined rate of 0.650416 per $100 assessed valuation (maintenance and operations 0.456209; debt service 0.194207). The council also ratified a property tax increase in the adopted budget.

Finance staff presented proposed budget amendments to the current fiscal year (FY2024–25) that included reimbursable costs for mutual aid deployments (staff payroll, travel and lodging reimbursed by the Texas Division of Emergency Management), a new capital projects line for the EDC strategic plan project (Project F2513), and transfers to separate roadway, sewer and water impact fee funds for transparency. Council approved those amendments and then proceeded to adopt the FY2025–26 budget.

Council conducted required recorded voice votes for adoption and for the tax-rate ordinances. The motion to adopt the budget passed (roll-call recorded) with all council members voting yes. The council then ratified the property tax increase included in the adopted budget. Finally, the council approved the ordinance levying the FY2025 ad valorem taxes at the rates noted above; the adoption and tax ordinances received unanimous support in the recorded votes.

Staff and council thanked the finance team for completing the budget work; council members asked brief clarifying questions about specific transfer amounts among the impact fee funds and about the makeup of the budget amendments. Following the actions, staff advised the finance department will implement the adopted budget and tax rate for the coming fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2025.