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Meeting coverage and details

Going to a meeting

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City budget

$5,396,952

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

Not comparable with the year before.

See the budget Original budgetfile download (opens in new tab)

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

Sales tax

Sales-tax figures aren’t on this site yet. That doesn’t mean zero revenue.

Sources

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

Sales tax

Sales-tax figures aren’t on this site yet

No city allocation records here yet. Missing data does not mean zero revenue.

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 2025-09-11-E01-OR · 2025-09-11

Measure	Scope	Amount	Transfers	Source
Planned spending	General Fund	$5,396,952	Excludes interfund transfers	PDF p. 4
Planned revenue	General Fund	$4,464,661	Excludes interfund transfers	PDF p. 2 How this amount is calculated Source total: $5,964,661.00 Less 10-4078 Loan Proceeds- 1 YR Notes: $1,000,000.00 Less Revenues from Fund Balance: $500,000.00 Comparable amount: $4,464,661.00
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

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$567,709

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	+$4,464,661	PDF p. 2
Loan Proceeds - 1 YR Notes	+$1,000,000	PDF p. 2
Revenues from Fund Balance	+$500,000	PDF p. 2
Spending	−$5,396,952	PDF p. 4
Planned surplus	+$567,709	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$5,396,952

Total Bond repayment$2.5M
47.2% of totalPDF p. 4
Total ex public safety$1.4M
25.3% of totalPDF p. 4
Total Professional Services Expenses$1M
19.4% of totalPDF p. 3
Total Operational Expenses$242.2K
4.5% of totalPDF p. 3
Total Other Municipal Expenses$140.7K
2.6% of totalPDF p. 4
Total Municipal Court Expenses$48K
0.9% of totalPDF p. 4
Total Utility Expenses$3K
<0.1% of totalPDF p. 4

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 16, 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

Name	Office	Contact
Bobby Peden Elected	Mayor
Jordan Buss Elected	City Commissioner
Lois Wallace Appointed	City Commissioner

Source: City of Starbase — City Commission and Staffstarbase.texas.gov (opens in new tab)

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

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