New Braunfels estimates its proposed budget and tax rate would lower the city property-tax bill by $24 for a median-valued Comal County homestead and $39 for one in Guadalupe County.
The city’s taxpayer-impact statement puts the proposed bills at $1,150 in Comal County and $971 in Guadalupe County. The current-year examples are $1,174 and $1,010, respectively.
Those are median-homestead examples attached to the agenda for an Aug. 17 City Council workshop. They establish the proposal’s estimated effect, not an adopted budget, tax rate or bill for any individual property.
What the City’s Examples Show
In Comal County, the value used for the median-homestead example falls from $287,080 to $281,180. In Guadalupe County, it falls from $246,910 to $237,372.
The statement uses a proposed rate of $0.408936 per $100 of value. It uses the same rate in its current-year examples, pairing the lower proposed bills with lower median values in both counties.
The city also calculated bills under a balanced budget funded at the no-new-revenue rate of $0.415613 per $100. Those examples produce a $1,169 bill in Comal County and a $987 bill in Guadalupe County—$19 and $16 more than the estimates under the proposed rate.
Because the statement supplies countywide median examples, it does not say what any particular property would owe. The strongest comparison available now is between the four examples the city published.
Council is scheduled to begin the special meeting at 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 17, at City Hall, 550 Landa St. The agenda also includes updates on the Westside Community Center and the 2026 Roadway Impact Fee Study.