Council adopted a property tax rate of 0.295343 after the chair announced that the motion passed. That equals 29.5343 cents for each $100 of taxable property value.
In the city’s median-homestead example, the city tax rises from $1,358 to $1,605, an increase of $247 a year, or about $20.58 a month. The example also assumes the median homestead value increases from $522,710 to $543,481.
The packet’s $0.295343 rate is 13.7% above the 2025 rate of $0.259798 per $100. On an unchanged $100,000 of taxable value, the city portion would increase by about $35.55 a year. A previous Comal.News report covered the earlier rate proposal.
Two no-new-revenue figures
The no-new-revenue rate is a statutory comparison, not last year’s tax rate. It estimates the rate that would produce the same revenue from property taxed in both years.
Bulverde’s taxpayer-impact statement lists a no-new-revenue rate of $0.258874 per $100. A later tax-hearing notice in the packet lists $0.255874. That later notice also lists a $0.273376 voter-approval rate and a $0.295343 de minimis rate.
The required tax-rate motion describes the adopted rate as an effective 15.43% increase. That statutory comparison uses the no-new-revenue benchmark; it is different from the 13.7% increase over the city’s 2025 rate.
The budget pages do not carry one spending total
The budget presentation lists $10,597,573 in general-fund revenue and $10,326,549 in expenditures, while the detailed summary lists $10,597,572 in revenue and $10,335,823.27 in expenditures.
That produces a $1 difference between the revenue totals and a $9,274.27 difference between the expenditure totals. The detailed summary projects a $261,748.73 general-fund surplus, compared with $205,018 in the fiscal 2026 adopted column.
The packet’s detailed schedule places proposed general-fund revenue at $10,597,572 and proposed expenditures at $10,335,823.27. It lists public safety at $2,919,244, the largest departmental total, plus $2.59 million in transfers to other funds.
What happens next
The city’s signed budget ordinance and final adopted budget are the next records needed to establish whether the packet’s proposed $10,597,572 general-fund revenue plan changed at adoption.
Bulverde’s meeting archive gives residents a route to agendas, packets, minutes and council recordings. The full meeting recap covers the tax vote alongside the McCarti Ranch decision, park fees, street controls and city-manager compensation. The Sept. 22 agenda guide explains what council was scheduled to consider.