Denton budget process advances after Aug. 8 council workshop

Denton City Council held its scheduled 2026 budget workshop on Aug. 8, beginning detailed review of the city manager’s proposed fiscal-year budget, tax rate and capital program. The workshop moves the city toward decisions that will shape municipal spending and taxpayer obligations for the next fiscal year.

The session followed a July 14 council discussion that described the workshop as the next stage in reviewing structural budget pressures. That discussion referenced current-fiscal-year tax-rate components of approximately 20 cents per $100 of assessed value for the debt rate and 26 cents for the interest-and-sinking rate. Those figures are current-rate components, not Denton’s adopted 2026-27 tax rate.

What comes next

Denton’s official council schedule lists another work and regular session for Aug. 18. The budget process will also lead to later tax-rate hearings and budget-adoption decisions. The city’s public-meetings system provides access to agendas, minutes and video for applicable past meetings.

The city has not publicly established a final 2026-27 tax rate, departmental spending allocations or council-approved budget. For comparison, the prior fiscal year’s proposed property-tax rate was $0.595420 per $100 of valuation, a figure that does not set the rate for the coming fiscal year.