Selected lines are components of the posted budget; they should not be added to the totals as separate spending.
The city contract is one obligation; communications and facilities are other large budget lines. A delay to a project would affect the spending plan differently from a change to ongoing fire-service payments. The posted amounts do not establish what the district would choose if sales tax falls short.
Who pays and who benefits
The September 24 board minutes report $7,208,224 in January–August revenue, including $4,007,090 in sales tax, and $4,017,790 in expenses over that same period. Comal.News calculated that sales tax supplied 55.59% of the reported revenue. Eight months of reported receipts and a full-year budget describe different periods, so the smaller share by itself does not measure the year-end result.
Sales tax gives the district an income source beyond the property-tax line. The same dependence creates a test: if taxable sales produce less than planned, the district has less income against its spending plan unless another source or a spending change makes up the difference. The documents establish a budget exposure, not a change in any household’s tax bill or fire service.
What has to go right
Here’s how the sensitivity works. A 10% miss against the $6 million sales-tax plan means $600,000 less income. Holding every other posted budget figure fixed, Comal.News calculated that the planned $1,394,106.16 gap would become $1,994,106.16. This is an illustration, not a prediction of collections or a service cut.
Comal.News arithmetic from the posted budget; the second row is a hypothetical scenario, not an adopted amendment or forecast.
The minutes report $339,394 in checking and $23,791,782 in TexPool, for $24,134,177 in total assets. They also describe remaining LCRA funding, a pending $1.3 million engine and a training facility for which the district had not received an invoice. An account balance and money available for recurring payments are different questions; the project commitments make the next treasurer report especially useful.
What the records don’t say
The September 24 minutes say sales tax from limited-purpose annexations was not being distributed as expected and that an interlocal sales-tax allocation was expected the following month. That is a board report about an expected next step, not a recorded receipt. The next posted treasurer report and any amended budget should let readers compare the allocation, available funds and contracted-service payments with the posted plan. The district’s resources page is the public route for checking those records.
