{"id":410544,"date":"2026-08-19T05:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410544\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:40:07","slug":"bexar-county-proposes-2-6b-budget-keeping-property-tax-rate-steady-despite-value-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410544\/","title":{"rendered":"Bexar County proposes $2.6B budget, keeping property tax rate steady despite value dip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2014 The Bexar County Manager said there is a proposed $2.6 billion dollar proposed budget but the big headline is for taxpayers- the county is proposing to hold the tax rate steady.<\/p>\n<p>County Manager David Smith says even though the county faces a 1.3 % decline in taxable property values, meaning less revenue at a time when cost of providing services remains high.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges the proposed budget allows Bexar County to maintain its current level of service without increasing the overall property tax but this isn&#8217;t a done deal yet.<\/p>\n<p>On September 15, county commissioners are expected to consider the budget.<\/p>\n<p>We will have to wait to see what happens and things need to happen pretty quick after that because the new fiscal year begins on October 1.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information about the FY 2026-27 proposed budget <a href=\"chrome-extension:\/\/efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj\/https:\/\/www.bexar.org\/DocumentCenter\/View\/56634\/FY-2026-27-Proposed-Budget-Book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEXAR COUNTY, Texas \u2014 The Bexar County Manager said there is a proposed $2.6 billion dollar proposed budget&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-410544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410544","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=410544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}