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Bastrop County · appropriation · 2026

Debt Service Fund

$6,522,538
✓ Sourced

This number is cited to a source document, and its arithmetic re-adds to the dollar (it cross-foots, or it is counted inside a total that does).

Source
Bastrop County FY2025-26 Adopted Budget Report
Source locator
Not yet pinned — the transcription predates storing the source PDF. Pinning every number to its page or locator is part of Docket #7.
Layer
appropriation — Layer one: what Commissioners Court authorized to be spent. What was actually spent is layer two (audit and treasurer reports); which vendor got which check is layer three (check register).
Checked
Counted ✓ — this fund is part of the grand total that re-adds to the ordinance's stated figure exactly. Full report.
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7% of all county appropriations ($93,738,915)
Retrieved
2026-08-21

Note on this line

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.