{"id":56,"date":"2026-10-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2026-10-02T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:00:00","slug":"county-adopts-fy27-budget-and-tax-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/02\/county-adopts-fy27-budget-and-tax-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"County adopts FY27 budget and tax rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>Hays County approved a $653.8 million budget for FY 2027 with a tax rate of $0.4097 per $100 valuation. The budget funds infrastructure projects, new positions in public safety and services, new election equipment, and market-based salary adjustments. It aims to balance growing needs while maintaining a reasonable tax rate, resulting in an average homeowner saving about $8.41 annually on county taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hayscountytx.gov\/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=71\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hays County approved a $653.8 million budget for FY 2027 with a tax rate of $0.4097 per $100 valuation. The budget funds infrastructure projects, new positions in public safety and services, new election equipment, and market-based salary adjustments. It aims to balance growing needs while maintaining a reasonable tax rate, resulting in an average homeowner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":57,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keys2homes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}