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Fiscal Year 2027 City Budget

At a glance

  • What: Council adopted the City's annual budget for fiscal year 2026-2027 (October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027), including a 2 percent cost-of-living adjustment and a 2 percent tenured achievement adjustment for most full-time employees.
  • Where it stands: Final reading approved September 21, 2026, 8-0 with no vote recorded for Rangel.

Detail

  • Ordinance 2026-O-187 adopts the annual budget, approves estimated revenues, appropriates funds and approves the fiscal year 2026-2027 holiday schedule. Gutierrez moved, M. Cigarroa seconded; 8-0 for, no vote recorded for Rangel.
  • The minutes do not state the budget total; the amounts are in Exhibit A to the ordinance.
  • Ordinance 2026-O-192 (final reading, passed in a block 8-0 with Rangel not recorded) provides a 2 percent cost-of-living adjustment and wage schedule adjustment plus a 2 percent tenured achievement adjustment pay for full-time employees with one consecutive year of service. Excluded are contract employees, interns, co-ops, elected officials, temporary labor, and firefighters and police officers under collective bargaining agreements.
  • The 2027-2031 Capital Improvement Plan was heard at a public hearing and the adopting resolution (2026-R-233) passed on the consent agenda; see the Series 2026 Debt Issuance page for the financing approved the same night.
  • Related: Property Tax Rate Adoption, Series 2026 Debt Issuance.

Who did what

  • Gutierrez: Moved the budget.
  • M. Cigarroa: Seconded the budget.
  • Rangel: No vote recorded on the budget or the final-reading block.
  • Trevino: Voted for.

Sources

Log

2026-09-21 - City Council

Final reading of the FY2027 budget (item 24) approved 8-0; pay-adjustment ordinance 2026-O-192 (item 20) approved in the block of final readings; Capital Improvement Plan hearing (item 12) closed and introduced 7-0 (no vote recorded for Rangel and A. Cigarroa).