{"about":"Travis County, Texas 2026 budget, compiled by County Commons (independent, nonpartisan; not a government website). Every amount cites its source document and page.","page":"https://travistx.countycommons.us/budget","meta":{"document":"Travis County FY2026 Adopted Budget","title":"Travis County — the money trail","grand_total":1760175394,"year":2026,"note":"Texas counties budget fund by fund, not as one grand total. This shows the tax-supported budget — the General Fund, the Road & Bridge Fund, and Debt Service — adopted by the Commissioners Court in September 2025 for the year beginning October 1, 2025. It is paid for mostly by property tax: the adopted rate is $0.375845 per $100 of value (maintenance & operations $0.333824 + debt $0.042021), the voter-approval maximum, levied on the county’s 2025 total taxable value of $326,206,918,474. Counting every fund (internal-service and grant/capital funds, and net of inter-fund transfers), the county’s all-funds budget is about $2.16 billion; those other funds are left out of the total here because they largely recirculate money already counted. Every figure traces to the county’s adopted budget and its Recapitulation Financial Statement."},"documents":[{"id":"travis-fy26-budget","title":"Travis County FY2026 Adopted Budget (with Recapitulation Financial Statement)","jurisdiction":"travis-county","layer":"appropriation","source_url":"https://www.traviscountytx.gov/images/planning_budget/Docs/2026/FY_2026_Adopted_Budget.pdf","retrieved_at":"2026-08-21","status":"ingested","note":"Adopted Sept 2025. General Fund $1,559,097,516; Road & Bridge $31,644,627; Debt Service $169,433,251. All-funds memorandum total ~$2.16B. Adopted tax rate $0.375845/$100. Recap statement pp.439-440."}],"verification":{"total_checks":8,"passed":8,"failed":0},"nodes":[{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"general-fund","parent":null,"name":"General Fund","code":"0001","amount":1559097516,"children_complete":true,"status":"sourced","note":"The county’s main operating fund, paid mostly by property tax. The biggest offices inside it: the Sheriff (patrol + the jail) $252.9M, Transportation & Natural Resources $91.4M, Technology & Operations $83.0M, Health & Human Services $71.8M, Juvenile Probation $54.7M, the District Attorney $36.6M, and EMS $29.0M. The tree below groups spending by function, as the county’s own financial statement does; note the Sheriff’s budget spans both Corrections and Public Safety, so a single “policing” figure would overstate it."},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"gf-general-government","parent":"general-fund","name":"General Government","code":null,"amount":269549481,"status":"sourced","note":"Countywide administration, elections, records, tax collection, and the commissioners/judge offices."},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"gf-justice","parent":"general-fund","name":"Justice System","code":null,"amount":255236262,"status":"sourced","note":"The courts, District and County Attorneys, District and County Clerks, and related legal services."},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"gf-corrections","parent":"general-fund","name":"Corrections & Rehabilitation","code":null,"amount":199188676,"status":"sourced","note":"The county jail (the Travis County Correctional Complex) and rehabilitation programs. Run by the Sheriff."},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"gf-public-safety","parent":"general-fund","name":"Public Safety","code":null,"amount":139025411,"status":"sourced","note":"Law-enforcement patrol, the constables, and emergency response. (The Sheriff’s office spans this and Corrections.)"},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"gf-hhs","parent":"general-fund","name":"Health & Human Services","code":null,"amount":104534596,"status":"sourced","note":"County health, mental-health, and social services."},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"gf-infra","parent":"general-fund","name":"Infrastructure & Environmental","code":null,"amount":44075491,"status":"sourced","note":"Transportation and natural resources, facilities, and environmental work in the unincorporated county."},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"gf-comm-econ","parent":"general-fund","name":"Community & Economic Development","code":null,"amount":37903884,"status":"sourced","note":"Community services, veterans, and economic development."},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"gf-reserves","parent":"general-fund","name":"Reserves (unallocated, allocated & general-purpose)","code":null,"amount":479274325,"status":"partial","note":"Travis County carries large General-Fund reserves — unallocated ($157.6M), allocated ($58.5M), other general-purpose ($167.0M), and special-purpose ($96.2M). Reserves are budgeted but held, not spent, unless the Commissioners Court appropriates them."},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"gf-interest","parent":"general-fund","name":"Debt service & interest (within the General Fund)","code":null,"amount":3310632,"status":"sourced","note":"Interest costs carried inside the General Fund."},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"gf-transfers","parent":"general-fund","name":"Transfers out","code":null,"amount":26998758,"status":"sourced","note":"Money moved from the General Fund to other funds."},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"road-bridge","parent":null,"name":"Road & Bridge Fund","code":"0145","amount":31644627,"status":"sourced","note":"County roads and bridges in the unincorporated areas, funded by a share of property tax and road revenues."},{"year":2026,"layer":"appropriation","section":"appropriations","docket_ref":null,"source":{"doc":"travis-fy26-budget","page":null},"id":"debt-service","parent":null,"name":"Debt Service Fund","code":"3001","amount":169433251,"status":"sourced","note":"This year’s principal and interest on the county’s tax-supported debt (the I&S property-tax rate funds it). Total outstanding debt obligations were about $1.17 billion as of the FY2026 budget."}]}