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Bastrop County, Texas · Bastrop County FY2025-26 Adopted Budget

Bastrop County — the money trail

$93,738,915
Texas counties budget fund by fund, not as one grand total. This is the tax-supported budget — the General Fund (most offices and courts), the Road & Bridge Fund, and Debt Service — adopted by the Commissioners Court on August 25, 2025 for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2025. It is paid for mostly by property tax: the adopted rate is $0.42870 per $100 of value (General Fund $0.350500 + Road & Bridge $0.078210), levied on $13,474,499,007 of certified taxable value. The county adopted at its voter-approval rate — the most it could set without an election. Capital-project and grant funds are budgeted separately and left out here because they double-count transfers; every figure below traces to the county's adopted budget. Click any number to see exactly where it comes from. Where the trail goes dark, it becomes a numbered issue in the docket. New here? Read our story or take the plain-words tour.
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Where it goes — $93,738,915 appropriated

▶General Fund100$73,512,28178%✓ Sourced
The county’s main operating fund — most offices and courts. Funded mainly by property taxes. FY2025-26 adopted.
▶Sheriff’s Office (Law Enforcement)$14,735,307✓ Sourced
Patrol, investigations, and law enforcement.
▶County Jail$13,174,455✓ Sourced
Running the county jail and detention.
▶Non-Departmental$6,666,750✓ Sourced
County-wide costs not tied to one office — insurance, transfers, shared expenses.
▶Information Technology$5,205,243✓ Sourced
County computer systems and networks.
▶911 Communications$2,835,442✓ Sourced
Emergency dispatch.
▶Animal Services$2,150,675✓ Sourced
Animal control and the shelter.
▶District Attorney (21st District)$2,057,150✓ Sourced
Felony prosecution, shared across four counties.
▶Development Services$1,864,882✓ Sourced
Permits, planning, and inspections.
▶General Services$1,853,120✓ Sourced
County buildings and facilities.
▶District Court$1,838,349✓ Sourced
The felony trial courts.
▶Environmental / Sanitation$1,536,302✓ Sourced
Waste, septic, and environmental enforcement.
▶Tax Assessor-Collector$1,470,021✓ Sourced
Collecting property taxes and registering vehicles.
▶Grants$1,365,940✓ Sourced
Grant-funded programs.
▶County Court at Law$1,290,849✓ Sourced
Misdemeanor and civil courts.
▶District Clerk$1,237,882✓ Sourced
Court records for the district courts.
▶County Auditor$1,045,592✓ Sourced
County finances and audit.
▶Elections Administration$963,933✓ Sourced
Running elections.
▶Habitat Conservation$927,723✓ Sourced
The county’s regional habitat conservation plan.
▶County Clerk$749,048✓ Sourced
Public records, deeds, and vital records.
▶Courthouse Security$741,663✓ Sourced
Security at county buildings.
▶Indigent Health Care$722,073✓ Sourced
Health care for residents who cannot afford it.
▶Justices of the Peace (Pct 1–4)$1,484,052✓ Sourced
The four justice-of-the-peace courts.
▶Commissioners Court$509,786✓ Sourced
The governing body’s own office.
▶County Treasurer$468,164✓ Sourced
County banking and payroll.
▶Juvenile Probation$387,968✓ Sourced
Juvenile justice and probation.
▶Emergency Management$375,404✓ Sourced
Disaster preparedness and response.
▶County Judge$315,230✓ Sourced
The county judge’s office.
▶Other departments & budgeted contingency$5,539,278◐ Partial
The remaining smaller offices (constables, veterans, and others) plus the budgeted contingency and addition to fund balance — the General Fund total minus the departments listed above.
▶Road & Bridge Fund221-224$13,704,09615%✓ Sourced
A separate fund for county roads, split among the four commissioner precincts.
▶Road & Bridge — Precinct 1$2,878,912✓ Sourced
▶Road & Bridge — Precinct 2$4,165,86230% of fund✓ Sourced
▶Road & Bridge — Precinct 3$3,361,30025% of fund✓ Sourced
▶Road & Bridge — Precinct 4$3,298,022✓ Sourced
▶Debt Service Fund$6,522,5387%✓ Sourced
This year's principal and interest on the county's tax-supported debt (the debt booklet schedules a $6,517,537 payment; the budget appropriates $6,522,538). Behind that yearly payment: $70,025,000 of principal still outstanding as of Oct 1, 2025, or $96,508,940 counting all the interest still to come, paid down through 2044. Most of it is recent — a single 2024 certificate of obligation for $31.3M is about 42% of all the principal, and roughly tripled the county's debt. The county's bonds are rated AA+ (S&P) and Aa1 (Moody's). Full schedule: the county's Debt Service Booklet.