{"id":447968,"date":"2026-09-26T01:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447968\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T01:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T01:02:10","slug":"humble-city-council-approves-tax-rate-reduction-lake-houston-humble-kingwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447968\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble City Council approves tax rate reduction | Lake Houston &#8211; Humble &#8211; Kingwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 24, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityofhumbletx.gov\/city-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Humble City Council<\/a> members approved a tax rate for fiscal year 2026-27 that\u2019s a roughly 5% decrease from the city\u2019s FY 2025-26 tax rate.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>Council members approved a tax rate of $0.245682 per $100 valuation for FY 2026-27, down roughly 4.8% from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/lake-houston-humble-kingwood\/government\/humble-city-council-lowers-property-tax-rate-amid-rising-home-values\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">last year\u2019s rate<\/a>\u00a0of $0.258171 per $100 valuation.<\/p>\n<p>Budget documents show the average taxable value of homes within the city rose from $127,084 in FY 2025-26 to $129,620 in FY 2026-27.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to budget documents, average tax bills for individuals living within the city\u2019s boundaries are estimated to decrease by roughly 3%, dropping from $328.09 to $318.45. However, individual tax bills may vary depending on home values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as you\u2019re living in the city of Humble, you\u2019re never going to have to worry about being priced out of your homes because of the ad valorem tax rate,\u201d Mayor Norman Funderburk said. \u201cWe\u2019re doing a good job with stewardship and keeping our tax rate low.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funderburk added Humble\u2019s tax rate is the fourth lowest in Harris County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some context\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new tax rate is coming about two weeks after Humble city officials\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/lake-houston-humble-kingwood\/government\/humble-city-officials-approve-between-4-5-6-raises-for-most-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">approved<\/a>\u00a0a budget for FY 2026-27 that included 4.5%-6% raises for most employees, with some employees receiving raises as high as 11%.<\/p>\n<p>At the council\u2019s Sept. 10 meeting,\u00a0Funderburk said the city\u2019s general fund is projected to contain roughly $43.6 million in expenditures based on roughly $44.5 million in new revenue.<\/p>\n<p>In a Sept. 10 letter included in agenda documents, City Manager Jason Stuebe said\u00a0the new employee raises will cost the city roughly $1.8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sept. 24, Humble City Council members approved a tax rate for fiscal year 2026-27 that\u2019s a roughly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2050,405,56,58,57,17040,17042,20477,2063,25538],"class_list":["post-447968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-budget","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-humble-city-council","tag-jason-stuebe","tag-norman-funderburk","tag-property-taxes","tag-tax-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447968","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=447968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}