Pharr government & meetings

Next meeting

Monday, Sep 21, 2026 · 4:00 PM CT

City Commission

Pharr City Commission

118 S. Cage Blvd., 2nd Floor - City Commissioner's Room, Pharr, Texas 78577

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Going to a meeting

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City budget

$84,282,181

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

18.5% more than the year before.

See the budget Original budgetCivicClerk meeting portal (opens in new tab)

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

Sales tax

$2,917,651

Sales tax the state sent the city in September 2026.

11.8% 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: $2,917,65111.8% more than September 2025
Calendar year to date · January–September 2026: $25,057,9856.9% 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	$2,917,651	$2,609,851	$307,800 more (+11.8%)
August 2026	$2,933,561	$2,602,976	$330,585 more (+12.7%)
July 2026	$2,690,153	$2,617,779	$72,374 more (+2.8%)
June 2026	$2,762,437	$2,551,312	$211,124 more (+8.3%)
May 2026	$2,892,482	$2,670,399	$222,083 more (+8.3%)
April 2026	$2,404,174	$2,171,924	$232,250 more (+10.7%)
March 2026	$2,503,515	$2,544,374	$40,859 less (-1.6%)
February 2026	$3,196,189	$3,254,383	$58,194 less (-1.8%)
January 2026	$2,757,824	$2,411,915	$345,909 more (+14.3%)
December 2025	$2,643,801	$2,401,621	$242,181 more (+10.1%)
November 2025	$2,654,920	$2,585,501	$69,420 more (+2.7%)
October 2025	$2,478,990	$2,295,307	$183,683 more (+8.0%)

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. Source: adoption meeting packet; tables retain their pre-vote “Proposed” headings. View approval · O-2025-33 · 2025-09-15

Measure	Scope	Amount	Transfers	Source
Planned spending	General Fund	$84,282,181	Excludes interfund transfers	PDF p. 173 How this amount is calculated Source total: $84,989,681.00 Less Transfers Out: $707,500.00 Comparable amount: $84,282,181.00
Planned revenue	General Fund	$61,620,600	Excludes interfund transfers	PDF p. 172 How this amount is calculated Source total: $84,989,681.00 Less Transfers In: $20,232,700.00 Less Debt Proceeds: $3,136,381.00 Comparable amount: $61,620,600.00
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.

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Is spending increasing?

Compare adopted spending plans, not actual spending.

General Fund

+18.5%$13.2M more

FY 2024–25$71,105,700

Source · PDF p. 140

FY 2025–26$84,282,181

Source · PDF p. 173

How this amount is calculated

Source total: $83,703,900.00

Less Transfers Out: $12,598,200.00

Comparable amount: $71,105,700.00

Prior-year adoption approval

All city funds

Matching spending totals excluding transfers are not 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

Balanced plan$0

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

Planned inflows and outflows are equal. 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	+$61,620,600	PDF p. 172
Transfers in	+$20,232,700	PDF p. 172
Debt proceeds	+$3,136,381	PDF p. 172
Spending	−$84,282,181	PDF p. 173
Transfers out	−$707,500	PDF p. 173
Balanced plan	+$0	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$84,282,181

Public Safety$37.7M
44.7% of totalPDF p. 173
General Government$27.2M
32.3% of totalPDF p. 173
Culture & Recreation$12.6M
15.0% of totalPDF p. 173
Highways & Streets$5.3M
6.3% of totalPDF p. 173
Health & Welfare$1.5M
1.7% of totalPDF p. 173

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 12, 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 Commission

Elected

Name	Office	Place
Ambrosio “Amos” Hernandez, MD	Mayor
Michael Pacheco	City Commissioner	Place 1
Roberto “Bobby” Carrillo	City Commissioner	Place 2
Ramiro Caballero, MD	City Commissioner	Place 3
Daniel Chavez	City Commissioner · Mayor Pro Tem	Place 4
Ricardo Medina	City Commissioner	Place 5
Itza Flores	City Commissioner	Place 6

Source: City of Pharr — Elected Officials Directorypharr-tx.gov (opens in new tab)

Meetings checked 1 day ago · Officials checked Sep 14, 2026

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