What will Comal County’s 33 new budgeted positions cost?

The adopted budget adds 33 county positions. For taxpayers, the clearest priced group in the checked staffing rows is nine school resource officer posts totaling $952,050.

By Comal.News Government Desk · Source-linked local reporting

Published October 18, 2026 at 7:53 AM CDT3 min read

Adopted budget; fiscal year begins Jan. 1

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Comal County’s adopted FY2027 budget adds 33 positions and sets aside $952,050 for nine sheriff posts identified as Comal ISD school resource officers.

Commissioners Court adopted the $214,178,527 spending plan Sept. 17. The number to watch is the price of the positions once the full adopted staffing schedule is counted—not the price of the entire county budget.

What the checked positions cost

The listed additions are assigned to district courts, Comal ISD school resource officers and public health. Comal.News checked selected rows in the adopted Court’s Budget column, rather than treating department requests or the county judge’s proposal as final spending. These rows illustrate where part of the 33-position expansion goes; they are not a total for every new post.

Comal.News’ check of the adopted rows finds $130,561 for a district-court reporter, $84,270 for a court administrator, $805,680 for eight sheriff deputies, $146,370 for one sheriff lieutenant and $40,277 for a public-health coordinator with a July 1, 2027, start date. The deputy figure is eight budgeted posts at $100,710 each. Adding the lieutenant yields the $952,050 school resource officer subtotal.

Selected new positions in Comal County’s adopted FY2027 staffing rows
Position or group	Posts	Court’s Budget amount
District-court reporter	1	$130,561
Court administrator	1	$84,270
Sheriff deputies, Comal ISD SROs	8	$805,680
Sheriff lieutenant, Comal ISD SRO	1	$146,370
Public-health coordinator	1	$40,277

Source: Comal.News check of selected adopted-budget staffing rows. The coordinator’s listed start date is July 1, 2027; its budget amount should not be treated as a full-year salary. Rows shown are selected examples, not a reconciliation of

Who pays, and what would count as a payoff?

For taxpayers, the sheriff subtotal is a budgeted personnel amount, not a calculation of the county’s eventual net share after any school-district funding. The next document to compare with these rows is the county’s agreement with Comal ISD. That would show how the school resource officer posts are funded. Authorized posts also do not establish that anyone has been hired or that a service measure has improved.

Comal County’s FY2026 adopted budget totaled $180,844,201. That is a whole-budget baseline, with spending beyond personnel, so the difference between the two annual totals is not the cost of the new positions. The FY2027 budget separately includes a 4% cost-of-living adjustment and an additional 2% law-enforcement pay adjustment; those pay changes should not be folded into the selected new-position rows as though they were new posts.

The next test

The county’s FY2027 fiscal year begins Jan. 1, 2027, and the public-health coordinator row lists a July 1 start. The useful follow-up is to compare the complete adopted personnel schedule with authorized and filled positions, then track court workload, school officer coverage and public-health service measures as the year proceeds. Readers can inspect the county’s adopted budget summary and staffing schedule to see the underlying allocations.

From the source record

Adopted FY2027 budget33 new positions

Selected adopted staffing rows identify court, school resource officer and public-health posts and their budgeted costs.

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Comal County’s adopted budget summary and staffing schedule are the basis for this account.

What will Comal County’s 33 new budgeted positions cost?

What the checked positions cost

Who pays, and what would count as a payoff?

The next test

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