Mission government & meetings

Next meeting

Tuesday, Sep 22, 2026 · 4:30 PM CT

City Council Regular Meeting

Mission City Council

City Hall Council Chambers, 1201 E. 8th Street, Mission, TX 78572

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City budget

$66,445,959

Planned spending for the 2025–26 budget year from the main fund.

Not comparable with the year before.

See the budget Original budgetmissiontexas.us (opens in new tab)

A plan, not what was actually spent. From the official budget document.

Sales tax

$2,545,727

Sales tax the state sent the city in September 2026.

7.3% more than the same month last year.

See the trend Official datadata.texas.gov (opens in new tab)

One part of the city’s income, not the total. From the Texas Comptroller’s September 2026 report.

Sources

City, county, school and special-district governments have different responsibilities and boundaries.

Sales tax

What the state sent the city, from the Texas Comptroller’s September 2026 report. Reported allocations, not total city revenue.

Monthly allocation · September 2026: $2,545,7277.3% more than September 2025
Calendar year to date · January–September 2026: $22,957,5764.1% more than January–September 2025

Monthly allocation history

Allocation payments, rounded to the nearest dollar
Report month	Allocation	Same month last year	Change
September 2026	$2,545,727	$2,373,411	$172,315 more (+7.3%)
August 2026	$2,747,239	$2,507,010	$240,229 more (+9.6%)
July 2026	$2,301,804	$2,282,227	$19,577 more (+0.9%)
June 2026	$2,515,540	$2,291,592	$223,948 more (+9.8%)
May 2026	$2,829,475	$2,557,120	$272,354 more (+10.7%)
April 2026	$2,156,621	$2,038,701	$117,920 more (+5.8%)
March 2026	$2,247,503	$2,229,485	$18,017 more (+0.8%)
February 2026	$3,213,073	$3,319,352	$106,279 less (-3.2%)
January 2026	$2,400,593	$2,450,334	$49,741 less (-2.0%)
December 2025	$2,262,293	$2,242,263	$20,030 more (+0.9%)
November 2025	$2,465,482	$2,479,045	$13,563 less (-0.5%)
October 2025	$2,205,263	$2,107,827	$97,436 more (+4.6%)

About these numbers

Payments can reflect sales from two or more months earlier, reporting adjustments and tax-rate changes. Increases are not necessarily economic growth. Comparisons use the same period last year, not the previous month. Calendar-year totals are separate from the city’s fiscal-year budget. Amounts are rounded to whole dollars. Percentages are unavailable when the prior amount is zero or negative, or either amount is missing.

Source: Texas Comptroller of Public Accountsdata.texas.gov (opens in new tab) · September 2026 report.

Budget

FY 2025–26 · Adopted budget. Planned amounts, not what was actually spent.

Budget at a glance

Manually extracted · AI-assisted

FY 2025–26 · Adopted plan. View approval · Ordinance No. 5710 · 2025-09-09

Measure	Scope	Amount	Transfers	Source
Planned spending	General Fund	$66,445,959	Excludes interfund transfers	PDF p. 7
Planned revenue	General Fund	$64,929,780	Excludes interfund transfers	PDF p. 5
Planned spending	All city funds	Not available · Citywide spending excluding transfers and component-unit scope have not yet been reconciled.	Transfer treatment not established

The General Fund is part of the all-funds budget, not additional spending. These are spending plans, not actual results.

Read original budgetmissiontexas.us (opens in new tab)

Is spending increasing?

Compare adopted spending plans, not actual spending.

General Fund

Prior adopted budget not yet available.

All city funds

Prior adopted budget not yet available.

Both years exclude interfund transfers. General Fund spending is already included in all city funds; do not add them together. Changes are not inflation-adjusted. Bars are scaled within each card.

From revenue to surplus or deficit

General Fund · FY 2025–26 · After transfers

Planned surplus$305,137

Start with revenue. Add transfers and other financing coming in, then subtract spending and financing outflows. The final bar is what remains, not another source of money.

+ Money in− Money out= Remaining balance

A surplus means planned inflows exceed spending and financing outflows. It is not the city’s bank balance or proof of actual savings. Beginning fund balance is excluded. This is the General Fund only, not the whole city.

See exact calculation & source pages

General Fund · USD · FY 2025–26
Step	Amount	Source
Revenue	+$64,929,780	PDF p. 5
Total Operating Transfers In	+$4,784,244	PDF p. 6
Spending	−$66,445,959	PDF p. 7
Total Transfers Out	−$2,962,928	PDF p. 7
Planned surplus	+$305,137	Calculated from the rows above

Spending is subtracted once; capital or debt service already included in it is not deducted again. Transfers and other financing must be fully accounted for before this chart can show a result.

Where the money goes

General Fund · Excludes interfund transfers

Show exact amounts

General Fund spending$66,445,959

Public Safety$39.6M
59.7% of totalPDF p. 6
General Government$13.8M
20.8% of totalPDF p. 6
Culture and Recreation$6.4M
9.6% of totalPDF p. 6
Highways and Streets$4.8M
7.2% of totalPDF p. 6
Health and Welfare$1.8M
2.8% of totalPDF p. 6

All categories included. Rounded percentages may not total 100%. Original city categories are preserved.

Sources & how these numbers were prepared

Transcribed from the archived city PDF with AI assistance in this workspace. No API extraction was run and no independent human audit is claimed.

Fiscal period: 2025-10-01 to 2026-09-30. This summarizes the linked adopted document; later amendments may not be reflected.

Prepared Sep 15, 2026. Figures may contain interpretation errors. Follow each PDF page link to check its source.

Officials listed on the official published directory. Office and place labels follow the source; places are not necessarily geographic districts.

City Council

Elected

Name	Office	Place	Contact
Norie Gonzalez Garza	Mayor
Jessica Ortega	City Council Member	Place 1	Official page (opens in new tab)
Ruben Plata	City Council Member · Mayor Pro Tem	Place 2	Official page (opens in new tab)
Marissa Ortega Gerlach	City Council Member	Place 3	Official page (opens in new tab)
Jose Alberto Vela	City Council Member	Place 4	Official page (opens in new tab)

Source: City of Mission — Mayor and City Councilmissiontexas.us (opens in new tab)

Economic Development Corporation

Appointed

Name	Office	Contact
Richard Hernandez	Director · Board President	Official page (opens in new tab)
Deborah Cordova	Director · Vice President	Official page (opens in new tab)
Estella Saenz	Director · Secretary	Official page (opens in new tab)
Julian Alvarez III	Director · Treasurer	Official page (opens in new tab)
Jose G. Vargas	Director	Official page (opens in new tab)
Carl Davis	Director	Official page (opens in new tab)
Norie Gonzalez Garza	Director	Official page (opens in new tab)

Source: Mission EDC — Board of Directorsmissionedc.com (opens in new tab)

Meetings checked 1 day ago · Officials checked Sep 15, 2026

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