Government
BY THOMAS LEFFLER
Guadalupe County Commissioners passed a $114.54 million budget for fiscal year 2025- 26 and adopted a tax rate increase Sept. 2. The county adopted a property tax rate of $0.3304 per $100 valuation —a 4% increase over the no-new-revenue tax rate of $0.3177, according to agenda documents. The rate increase will generate an estimated $5.7 million in additional revenue, $2.9 million of which comes from new property growth, according to the county’s budget document. Investments in public safety, infrastructure, personnel and emergency response drive the increase. The budget includes 33 new full-time positions, including 24 in public safety positions, the budget document states. County approves $114.54M budget
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Guadalupe County property tax rate history per $100 valuation
Precinct 4 Commissioner Stephen Germann said the budget was “very conservative but well-meaning” in its prioritizing of public safety. “We have to provide services to our citizens for safety, for a place for them to drive, and [for] the extensive growth that we are having,” Germann said. County Judge Kyle Kutscher said he understands any feelings of frustration about a tax rate increase, but that the county is trying to be “proactive to what’s coming.” He also said the county needs to be to support the types of projects that they are going to be required to build. “We’re trying to look not just at this year, or next year, but three to five years from now. Where our county is going, where we need to be,” Kutscher said.
$0.3851
2015-16
$0.3851
2016-17
$0.3799
2017-18
$0.3819
2018-19
$0.3819
2019-20
$0.3854
2020-21
$0.3799
2021-22
$0.3439
2022-23
$0.3231
2023-24
$0.3167
2024-25
$0.3304
2025-26
SOURCE: GUADALUPE COUNTY/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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