See where the money goes.
Then have your say.

1 · The short version — one minute

Travis County plans to spend $1,760,175,394 in 2026. That is about $1,364 for every person who lives here.

The biggest pieces of it: General Fund ($1,559,097,516), Debt Service Fund ($169,433,251), Road & Bridge Fund ($31,644,627). Walk the whole money trail →

Everything here is checked arithmetic. Every branch of the money tree adds up to the dollar, and you can see the receipt. Where a number isn't known yet, the page says so out loud — a dead end means "not yet ingested and navigable," never "hidden."

2 · Who actually decides — the map of power over this money

The budget is adopted by Commissioners Court (County Judge + 4 Precinct Commissioners), while Andy Brown (County Judge) runs the day-to-day. If you live here, one of these 4 people — your commissioner — answers to your vote:

Cities and school districts set their own budgets and tax rates through their own boards. See the full roster and how to reach them on the who-decides page, and each city's own budget on the cities & towns page.

3 · How to be heard — the calendar is the strategy

The budget is written August–September. The Commissioners Court adopts the next-year budget and tax rate in late summer; the fiscal year begins October 1. A concern raised while the budget is being written lands in it; the same concern raised after waits a year. If you care about a number in this tree, that window is when it moves.

Put it on the record — here. Say what to prioritize, and why, on the priorities board, or answer an open question. When enough neighbors back the same thing, it is carried to the people who decide, and what they do with it is tracked in the open.

The records are yours. The Texas Public Information Act (Tex. Gov’t Code ch. 552) gives every citizen the right to public records — budgets, minutes, contracts, the check register. Most of what this site publishes came from records anyone could have requested. The docket lists exactly which records would fill the remaining gaps.

Check the math yourself. Every number links to its source. Every branch is re-added by a program, and the receipt is public. If you find an error, that is a gift — the whole point is that it can be checked.

4 · What we still cannot see — the honest gaps

The First Issues Docket tracks every gap — the records still to pull, the pools no document yet itemizes. Each entry says what is known and what only a records request or a counter visit can answer. That open-to-answered loop is the platform's running work, in public.