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Travis County · appropriation · 2026 · dept/fund 0001

General Fund

$1,559,097,516
✓ Sourced

This number is cited to a source document, and its arithmetic re-adds to the dollar (it cross-foots, or it is counted inside a total that does).

Source
Travis County FY2026 Adopted Budget (with Recapitulation Financial Statement)
Source locator
Not yet pinned — the transcription predates storing the source PDF. Pinning every number to its page or locator is part of Docket #7.
Layer
appropriation — Layer one: what Commissioners Court (County Judge + 4 Precinct Commissioners) authorized to be spent. What was actually spent is layer two (audit and treasurer reports); which vendor got which check is layer three (check register).
Checked
Cross-foots ✓ — the 10 lines beneath this sum to this total exactly. Full report.
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89% of all county appropriations ($1,760,175,394)
Retrieved
2026-08-21

Note on this line

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.

What's inside this number

LineAmountStatus
General Government $269,549,481 ✓ Sourced
Justice System $255,236,262 ✓ Sourced
Corrections & Rehabilitation $199,188,676 ✓ Sourced
Public Safety $139,025,411 ✓ Sourced
Health & Human Services $104,534,596 ✓ Sourced
Infrastructure & Environmental $44,075,491 ✓ Sourced
Community & Economic Development $37,903,884 ✓ Sourced
Reserves (unallocated, allocated & general-purpose) $479,274,325 ◐ Partial
Debt service & interest (within the General Fund) $3,310,632 ✓ Sourced
Transfers out $26,998,758 ✓ Sourced