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City Of Haltom City Adopted Budget, FY2026 Introduction

BUDGET CALENDAR

Fiscal Year 10/01/2025 - 9/30/2026

BUDGET CALENDAR - FISCAL YEAR 2026
DATE DONE BY TYPE TASK/ACTION
DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET (March - May)
Thursday, April 3 All Dept’s Meeting-Departments Budget Planning Meeting - City Manager meets with departments for individual departments
budget
Wednesday, April 9 All Dept’s Training Munis Budget Training- The Finance Department will collaborate with budget owners to utilize
To Munis for entering, modifying, and submitting their budget.
Friday, April 11
Thursday, May 1 All Dept’s Deadline All Below items due to Finance Dept:
Fleet requests from Fleet Division
IT requests (from all depts)
Budgets, Decision Packages, Rate Changes, Revenue Estimates
Thursday, May 22 Finance Deadline City Manager's Working Copy due. A working draft of the line-item budget with Fund Summaries
and Decision Packages are provided to the City Manager.
CITY MANAGER'S BUDGET (May - July)
Thursday, May 8 All Dept’s Meeting-City Council Strategic Planning w/ Mayor & City Council.
Strategic Goals are set by City Council members.
Thursday, June 5 All Dept's Special Meeting - Budget Budget Draft: workshop with City Council to present departments decision packages and
Workshop departmental goals/objectives
Monday, July 7 Finance Publish Publish Notice of Public Hearing for CCPD Budget. This hearing will be held by the CCPD Board
(7/17/25 meeting). The Proposed CCPD budget is filled with City Secretary for review and
inspection by the general public.
CITY COUNCIL'S BUDGET (July - September)
Monday, July 14 Council Regular Meeting Preliminary Budget - Preliminary budget is provided by the City Manager to the City Council for
review prior to the first budget workshop.

Thursday, July 17 CCPD CCPD Board Meeting CCPD Public Hearing - The CCPD conducts a public hearing on the proposed budget. The Board will
adopt the budget after the hearing and forward it to the City Council for consideration.
Thursday, July 25 TAD Tax Information Sent Receive certified tax roll from TAD.
Thursday, August 7 Council Special Meeting - Budget Proposed Budget - Proposed budget is formally presented by the City Manager to the City Council.
Workshop Council must also schedule public hearing date for adoption of the budget.
Friday, August 8 Finance Publish Proposed budget distributed to the City Council, filed with City Secretary office, and posted on the
Haltom City website.
Monday, August 11 Council Regular Meeting At the Regular Council Meeting, the City Council will discuss the tax rate needed to support the
Proposed Budget. If the Proposed tax rate will raise more revenue than the preceding year, the
Council must vote on the proposed tax rate and schedule a Public Hearing. Council must also
schedule the public hearings for the Proposed Budget
CCPD Public Hearing - City Council conduct a public hearing to approve or reject the CCPD
proposed budget. If rejected, the Council and CCPD Board must meet together to amend and
approve the budget before the beginning of the fiscal year.
Other documents to be approved include:
• Fee Schedule approved.
• Waste Connection rate adjustment.
Wednesday, August 20 Finance Publish Deadline for publication of Public Hearing for proposed budget and tax rate.
Monday, August 25 Council Regular Meeting Other documents to be approved include:
• Authorized signatures designated.
• Investment policy approved.
Tuesday, September 2 Council Special Meeting A Public Hearing will be held on the proposed budget and a Public Hearing on the proposed
property tax rate. First reading of the budget appropriations tax rate, and other rate ordinances.
The tax rate can be adopted the same night as the public hearing, But the tax increase vote cannot
be held later than 7 days from the public hearing. The Council must "ratify" the property tax
increase reflected in the budget when revenues raised are greater than the previous year. A vote
on the adoption of the budget must be a record vote.
Monday, September 8 Council Regular Meeting Second reading of the Budget Appropriations, Tax Rate, and other Rate Ordinances. This must
occur no sooner than three and no more than fourteen days from the September 2 meeting.