Marble Falls is looking at a modest budget for the coming fiscal year, maintaining current services and keeping its tax rate the same amid lagging sales-tax revenue and less-than-expected ad valorem revenue.

The City Council approved a proposed 2025-26 fiscal year budget and proposed tax rate on Tuesday, Aug. 19, starting a countdown to the Sept. 16 public hearing and possible adoption of both.

The proposed budget sees most city departments maintain or reduce their expenses from the 2024-25 fiscal year to the 2025-26 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.

“One of our major streams (of revenue) is sales tax,” City Manager Mike Hodge told DailyTrib.com . “What’s happened is that our sales tax revenue has been stagnant. We are used to 2- to 4-percent increases per year, and that is not happen

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