Shavano Park Financial Transparency

Shavano Parks current budget overview will help raise more revenue from property taxes than last year’s budget by an amount of $186,863, which is a 5.41% increase from last year’s budget.  Almost $84,000 will be raised from new property added to the tax roll.

Currently the budget allows for $5.4M for “City Operations” from October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2020.  Included in “City Operations” is all the cities operational, service and staff expenses. Shavano Park breakdowns of the $5.4M operating budget basically is broken down into 3rds.  1/3 Police, 1/3 Fire and 1/3 All other Departments.

Below is a list of the items your tax dollars purchased this year:

• Wages and benefits for 47 City employees (4 others are Water funded)
• Fuel and maintenance to operate 26 City vehicles
• $297,582 transferred to Capital Replacement Fund for future capital purchases
• $75,350 for street striping and general street maintenance
• $20,000 for engineering work on the 2021 NW Military Highway improvement project
• $20,000 to beautify landmarks across the City

The first item listed, wages and benefits is the lion’s share of the City budget. The heart of City operations and services is City staff.

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