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The Rosenberg City Council will take the final vote on the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget and tax rate on Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. during the regular City Council meeting at Rosenberg City Hall, 2110 4th Street.
As required by the City Charter, the proposed Fiscal Year 2026 budget was filed by the City Manager with the City Secretary on July 29, 2025. Since then, several budget meetings have been held, including a proposed budget and tax rate meeting on Aug. 5, a Budget Workshop on Aug. 11 and a Public Hearing and Special Budget Meeting on Aug. 26.
During this year’s budget process, City staff initially proposed a property tax rate of $0.33 per $100 of valuation to fund essential public services while maintaining and enhancing municipal operations with balanced revenues. After discussions, a majority of City Council directed staff to prepare the budget with a maximum tax rate of $0.30 and to use approximately $1.5 million from the City’s General Fund fund balance to cover the shortfall created by reducing the tax rate by $0.03 below the proposed rate.
Although reserve funds are not typically used to balance recurring expenditures in the General Fund budget, this approach allows the City to maintain current service levels without reducing services, while keeping the tax rate at $0.30 as directed by City Council.
The proposed FY2026 budget totals $110.9 million across all funds, covering both operations and capital improvements. A breakdown of expenditures is as follows (in millions):
- General Fund $43.7
- Special Revenue Funds $6.4
- Debt Service Funds $8.3
- Water/Wastewater Fund $30.1
- Solid Waste Fund $5.8
- Civic Center Fund $0.7
- Internal Service Fund $7.2
- Component Unit $7.0
- Total Operating Funds $109.2
- Capital Project Funds $1.7
- Totals $ 110.9
For more information, visit the budget website at RosenbergTX.Gov/Budget or call Citizen Relations at 832-595-3301.
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