{"id":442698,"date":"2026-09-21T07:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442698\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:05:19","slug":"west-lake-hills-approves-fy-2026-27-budget-and-tax-rate-lake-travis-westlake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/442698\/","title":{"rendered":"West Lake Hills approves FY 2026-27 budget and tax rate | Lake Travis – Westlake"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Lake Hills City Council approved its fiscal year 2026-2027 budget and tax rate<\/a> at a meeting on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n

The overview<\/p>\n

The city approved a no new revenue tax rate of $0.174896 per $100 of assessed valuation, a slight decrease from the previous year\u2019s rate at $0.176783 per $100.<\/p>\n

The yearly tax on the average residence with the approved rate will be $3,918.36, a decrease of over $40 from the previous year.<\/p>\n

The average appraised residence in West Lake Hills is nearly $2.49 million, according to city documents.<\/p>\n

The city is anticipating property taxes to contribute over $6.15 million to the budget. <\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

West Lake Hills City Council also approved the municipal budget for fiscal year 2026-2027, funding city projects, operations and other expenditures.<\/p>\n

The budget includes:<\/p>\n

$8.95 million for general fund maintenance and operations<\/p>\n

$3.19 million for wastewater maintenance and operations<\/p>\n

$5 million in the projected unrestricted general fund balance<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s FY 2025-26 budget shows revenues for the city at $8.95 million, with expenditures totaling $9.15 million, leaving a budget shortfall of roughly $196,000 without the use of the projected unrestricted general fund balance.<\/p>\n

Revenue from taxes makes up 80% of the city\u2019s revenue.<\/p>\n

Of general fund maintenance and operation expenditures for the city, 38% will go to the police department\u2014a nearly $100,000 increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n

In case you missed it<\/p>\n

City staff first presented the preliminary budget on July 22<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Lake Hills City Council approved its fiscal year 2026-2027 budget and tax rate at a meeting on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2050,4519,153022,672,2063,25538,8206],"class_list":["post-442698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-budget","tag-city-council","tag-municipal-budget","tag-police","tag-property-taxes","tag-tax-rate","tag-west-lake-hills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442698","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=442698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}