Garden Ridge's June 17 budget workshop used a proposed $1,840 city property-tax estimate for an average taxable homestead, unchanged from the city's FY2026 estimate and not a final tax bill.
For the agenda's $721,066 average-taxable-homestead proxy, the proposed city portion held flat year over year but ran $40 for the year—about $3.33 a month—above the no-new-revenue scenario.
The agenda's taxpayer-impact statement put FY2026 and proposed FY2027 at $1,840 and a FY2027 no-new-revenue scenario at $1,800. Those are estimates of Garden Ridge's share of the annual property-tax bill, not the household's combined bill from every taxing jurisdiction.
How the two baselines differ
The $40 comparison is against a no-new-revenue scenario, not against the prior year's city-tax estimate. Against the city's stated FY2026 baseline, the early FY2027 estimate showed no annual increase. Expressed monthly, the two matched estimates equal about $153.33, while the lower scenario equals $150.
The city used $721,066 as an estimated average taxable homestead value and described it as a proxy for the median while certified data were pending. It also said the estimates relied on taxable values then available and the tax rate adopted for FY2026.
The official event record identifies the session as a City Council special meeting at 6 p.m. June 17 in City Council Chambers, 9400 Municipal Parkway. The agenda listed the FY2027 budget workshop as the only open-session approval-and-authorization item and allowed public comments under the city's stated time limits.
How to check the record
The city's event archive gives readers three ways to inspect the meeting: the posted agenda for the written tax comparison, the official video for the workshop itself and the archived minutes for the city's outcome record. The event record says the agenda was posted June 10 and the minutes were published July 2.
Final FY2027 rates depended on certified appraisal data and Truth-in-Taxation calculations, according to the agenda.
That later-stage comparison matters because the June worksheet was an early estimate, not the amount ultimately billed. For the next step in the process, readers can place it beside Comal.News' subsequent Garden Ridge tax-bill report.
The next reporting step is to reconcile the June proxy with the certified-value calculation and adopted city rate using the same homestead baseline. That comparison should show whether the city-only annual amount stayed flat, rose or fell, and which budget or valuation change produced the difference.