{"id":178719,"date":"2026-02-24T23:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178719\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:05:06","slug":"lubbock-sales-tax-revenue-running-6-above-budget-city-manager-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/178719\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock sales tax revenue running 6% above budget, city manager says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock\u2019s sales tax revenue is running 6% above what was budgeted for the current fiscal year, City Manager Jarrett Atkinson told the Lubbock City Council Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The update comes after the city faced a $5 million shortfall in budgeted sales tax revenue last year, which forced spending cuts and a hiring freeze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Atkinson said city management budgeted conservatively for this year and does not expect to repeat those measures. The city collected approximately $10.8 million in sales tax revenue in February, which reflects sales made in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Despite the improved revenue picture, the non-public safety hiring freeze remains in place. Atkinson said the city plans to evaluate open positions individually, considering whether two positions could be consolidated into one or whether a position continues to be needed going forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Instead, we are looking at those one position at a time, maybe two positions become one different one or do we continue to need them going forward,&#8221; Atkinson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock\u2019s sales tax revenue is running 6% above what was budgeted for the current&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[71787,4519,16900,71786,319,66,168,22683,170,169,71785,71784,223,17954,17756,19157,2445],"class_list":{"0":"post-178719","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-above-budget","9":"tag-city-council","10":"tag-city-manager","11":"tag-jarrett-atkinson","12":"tag-kcbd","13":"tag-local","14":"tag-lubbock","15":"tag-lubbock-city-council","16":"tag-lubbock-headlines","17":"tag-lubbock-news","18":"tag-lubbock-sales","19":"tag-lubbock-sales-tax-revenue","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-revenue","22":"tag-sales","23":"tag-sales-tax","24":"tag-tax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}