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The Rockport City Council held a regular meeting on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, at 5:00 PM. The agenda covered the consent calendar, a presentation of the proposed FY 2026–2027 budget, setting a tax rate hearing date, second readings of three ordinances, a special election call for the vacant Ward 1 seat, and an appointment to the Planning and Zoning Commission. The meeting concluded without entering the scheduled Executive Session.
The Council approved the consent calendar unanimously, which included the following items:
The provided transcript begins with the budget discussion. No public comments were recorded from the Citizens to be Heard portion of the meeting in the supplied material.
Tax rate as that that we are in right now. So it would it would say flat the overall tax rate would and uh and that's what uh is being proposed for the two six two seven year. Are there any questions, please? Or the Andrew, go ahead. Okay no, I I just want to this clarify two though things um on the general fund where you have the uh resources you've had last year at 16 million one hundred and eighty one, this year's nineteen million eight hundred nine. That's because of the gas sell in there, correct? The higher number the resources about the about the increase yes in it. Uh it is well also uh the appropriate appropriation uh appropriation for the uh the 200,000 and the 800,000 and also the thousands. And the police one million for the uh police. Yeah, so that's just that's where that extra plan is going in, and that's why the when you go with exposures, you're gonna be spending that because that's the extra that we had put in there. I just want to clarify that to people so it's not like we're getting an extra four million dollars out of nowhere that there's that is appropriate funds. Yes, because we have to have a balanced budget, so we have to put those numbers in there. When they do our audit, they're gonna drop those numbers out, so it will lower our cash our fund balance. Correct. And then the other one I just wanted to kind of clarify just for citizens out there, it's the wastewater and water fund, how it went from 13,000 to the 16,000, and then you go back into our what we spent last year was 15,000, and this is why we had to do that pass-through rate is because of how much we were bleeding into that into that budget. I just wanted to show why those numbers look the way they are and why you had to factor that 16,000 this year into the proposed budget, so then we're not leading that that money in there. Yes, yes, we do. Okay, so I'd clarify those two on that page. Any other question? Did you guys want us to go through the budget for each fund, or you just want to look at them yourself, and if you have any questions, just we looked at everything in the learning workshop. I think it's a big book. I think I need to go and sit down if you have questions because we still have to adopt the actual tax rate. Today is just getting you guys to go forward with the the budget that you have put together in front of us, but I think we probably will have questions at the meeting before adoption. This is not approval of the budget. That will happen in September, the first council meeting. September will be first and second. But anyway, yes. So we appreciate that. Thank you very much. I know it's a lot of hard work. Thank you. I might add that this is also on the US.