The proposed flood warning upgrades carry about $148,000 a year in two estimated New Braunfels costs, even with a grant covering part of the equipment.
The city memo describes a $1.25 million county-managed Texas Water Development Board grant and proposes up to $553,185 for the New Braunfels equipment share. The county would administer the grant-funded spending rather than transfer that allocation to the city. New Braunfels would separately contribute toward equipment and carry the identified annual operating costs.
From the source record
The total adds the first two bars; it is not an additional expense or an adopted budget total.
The city's proposal would upgrade eight sirens and add ten alarm nodes for residents who depend on flood alerts. Its memo describes redundant power and connectivity and automatic sensing as ways to improve warnings. Those are planned features, rather than measured results from an operating system.
What it costs
The city memo estimates a one-time city equipment contribution of $134,337.50. It also estimates about $65,000 a year for a technician and about $83,000 a year for a dashboard. Comal.News adds those two annual estimates to about $148,000; that sum covers only the two listed lines.