{"id":294760,"date":"2026-09-27T01:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294760\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T01:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T01:34:10","slug":"pearland-approves-first-reading-of-137-8m-budget-pearland-friendswood-manvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294760\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearland approves first reading of $137.8M budget | Pearland – Friendswood – Manvel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pearland City Council<\/a> unanimously approved the first reading to adopt a $137.8 million budget and a $0.627892 tax rate per $100 valuation of a home for fiscal year 2026-27 at its Sept. 14 meeting.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Compared with FY 2025-26, the proposed budget represents a nearly 4% increase in both revenues and expenses, city documents show.<\/p>\n

What residents need to know<\/p>\n

The city approved a property tax rate<\/a> of $0.627892 per $100 valuation of a home, which is nearly 0.3% lower than last year\u2019s rate of $0.63 per $100 valuation of a home.<\/p>\n

For a property with a taxable value of $379,925, the annual property tax bill is around $2,385, city documents show.<\/p>\n

The rate includes $0.351681 for maintenance and operations, or M&O, which funds daily operations, and $0.276211 for debt service, which primarily funds capital improvement projects.<\/p>\n

Also of note<\/p>\n

City Council also approved a 9.9% utility rate<\/a> increase, which brings the average monthly bill up by about $11.31, city documents show.<\/p>\n

The increase in utility debt service stems from $524 million in capital projects to \u201cmeet regulatory requirements, growth and aging assets,\u201d according to previous reporting<\/a> from Community Impact.<\/p>\n

Budget explained\u00a0<\/p>\n

The FY 2026-27 budget is balanced and includes approximately $137.8 million each in expenses and revenue, according to city documents.<\/p>\n

The budget also reflects $2 million for employee salary adjustments, including a 4% raise for civil service officers, as previously reported<\/a> by Community Impact.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Salaries and benefits represent nearly 71% of the total FY 2026-27 budget, documents show.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Looking ahead<\/p>\n

City Council will vote on the second and final readings of the budget and the tax rate at its Sept. 28 meeting, according to city documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pearland City Council unanimously approved the first reading to adopt a $137.8 million budget and a $0.627892 tax…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[222,78312,121968,121964,121965,121966,128,130,129,121967],"class_list":["post-294760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-budget","tag-capital-projects","tag-fiscal-year-2026-27","tag-pearland","tag-pearland-city-council","tag-property-tax-rate","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-utility-rate-increase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}