Hendersonville adopts FY2027 budget after $6,000 RTA amendment

Hendersonville’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen unanimously adopted the city’s FY2027 budget and tax-rate ordinance May 26, approving a final amendment that moved $6,000 from a central-services subscriptions-and-dues line to Regional Transportation Authority reserves.

The action approves Ordinance 2026-07, which covers the city fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027. The available ordinance record does not provide the complete adopted-budget total or the tax-rate schedule.

For residents and city departments, the ordinance establishes the municipal spending plan and tax rate for the coming fiscal year. The board’s recorded amendment also identifies a specific change within the final central-services budget.

What the amendment changed

Before adopting the ordinance, the board unanimously approved an amendment to the FY2027 Central Services Expenditures budget. It reduced the subscription-and-dues line from $7,500 to $1,500.

The $6,000 difference was assigned to RTA reserves, according to the City of Hendersonville’s May 26 agenda record. The board then unanimously approved the amended budget ordinance.

The record documents a budget allocation change, but it does not say that the reserve assignment will change Regional Transportation Authority service or establish any particular transit project. It also does not provide enough information to characterize the adopted tax rate as an increase or decrease.

Fiscal year begins July 1

The new budget period runs from July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027. Adoption before the start of that period gives the city an approved framework for the fiscal year’s spending and tax rate.

Because the available public record is an ordinance agenda document rather than a full budget book, it does not list the overall amount of city spending adopted by the board. It does, however, record the central-services change made before the final unanimous vote.

The ordinance is a final board action, not a proposed budget awaiting later approval. The council’s unanimous votes applied first to the amendment and then to Ordinance 2026-07 as amended.

Another July 1 city policy date

July 1 is also the implementation date Hendersonville previously set for its development-impact-fee ordinance. In a February legislative record, city staff requested time before implementation to prepare administrative procedures, make software updates and establish financial-account structures.

That impact-fee record defines covered development to include single-family and multifamily residential construction, including duplexes and townhomes. It does not establish the fee amounts for each type of development in the material reviewed.

The impact-fee implementation is separate from the FY2027 budget ordinance. Together, the two July 1 dates mark the start of the city’s next fiscal year and the scheduled rollout of a development-fee system after administrative preparation.

The next known date is July 1, when the FY2027 fiscal year begins and the city’s development-impact-fee ordinance is scheduled to take effect.