Aledo

Aledo adopts a $0.352415 tax rate and its 2027 budget; no one spoke at the hearings

The rate is 0.83% below last year's but above the no-new-revenue rate, so state law required the council to vote separately to ratify the revenue increase. Both votes were unanimous.

Published Friday, August 21, 2026, by The Aledo Ledger. Publisher: Christopher Weaver.

The Aledo City Council adopted the fiscal year 2027 budget and a property tax rate of $0.352415 per $100 of valuation on Thursday, Aug. 20, by unanimous roll-call votes on Ordinances 2026-O-21 and 2026-O-22. Mayor Shane Davis opened and closed public hearings on both items; no one came forward to speak.

Last year's rate was $0.355353, so the new rate is 0.83% lower. It is above the no-new-revenue rate of $0.349703, the rate that would raise the same total as last year from the same properties, which is why the motion, in the language state law requires, described the adoption as effectively a 0.77% increase, and why the council took a separate vote under Local Government Code Section 102.007 to ratify the revenue increase. Of the total, $0.267298 is for maintenance and operations and $0.085117 for debt service on the 2022 certificates that built the municipal complex.

The rate also sits above the voter-approval rate of $0.309383 and a hair under the de minimis rate of $0.352416, the ceiling smaller cities may use without an automatic election. The council had adopted the certified roll on Aug. 6: $1,057,685,374 in taxable value, including $41,014,945 in new improvements and a tax-increment zone with $69,846,799 of incremental value. The city expects about $2.54 million in maintenance-and-operations property tax revenue this year.

The council also approved the fiscal 2027 employee benefits package. The fiscal year begins Oct. 1. Also on Aug. 20, Richard Nelson introduced himself to the council as The Community News' new reporter.

Sources: City of Aledo: Aug. 20 minutes, in the Sept. 3 agenda packet (CivicClerk); City of Aledo: truth in taxation; City of Aledo: 2026 Form 50-212 notice; City of Aledo: annual budget

How this was sourced: Primary documents: the Aug. 20 council minutes (as published in the Sept. 3 packet), the Aug. 6 minutes, the city's truth-in-taxation page and its 2026 Form 50-212 notice.

Aledo

October sales tax allocation to the city: $220,671, down 0.5% from a year earlier; 2026 stands at $2,221,575 through ten months, 8.7% ahead of 2025

The October 2026 payment is the first month of 2026 to come in below the same month of 2025. The 2026 total through October, $2,221,575, is the highest ten-month total in the Comptroller's series, which begins in 2013; the same months of 2025 totaled $2,043,811. Calendar 2025 closed at $2,506,603.

Sources: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts: Sales Tax Allocation, City (data.texas.gov dataset vfba-b57j), Aledo; The Aledo Ledger: sales tax series

Aledo Council Chambers, 200 Old Annetta Road

What the council passed Sept. 3: the $932,729 FM 1187 design contract and the sheriff's overnight renewal by unanimous vote; the Axon contract and the 112 Robert Street rezoning with one dissent

The draft minutes, on pages 42 to 46 of the Sept. 17 packet, record all six members present and four votes on the regular agenda; the Sept. 17 minutes record the consent agenda that carried them passing by unanimous vote.

Sources: City of Aledo: draft minutes of the Sept. 3, 2026 Regular City Council Meeting, pages 42 to 46 of the Sept. 17, 2026 agenda packet (CivicClerk, fileId 3273), read Sept. 27; City of Aledo: agenda packet, Sept. 3, 2026 Regular City Council Meeting (CivicClerk, fileId 3255): the Freese & Nichols, police protection and Axon memos and agreements, read Sept. 27; City of Aledo: minutes of the Sept. 17, 2026 Regular City Council Meeting, pages 5 to 8 of the Oct. 1, 2026 agenda packet (CivicClerk, fileId 3278), read Sept. 27

Aledo city limits

Aledo golf cart ordinance: what the adopted rules say. Carts on public streets posted 35 mph or less, with a plate, lamps, insurance and a licensed driver; helmets under 17 on bicycles and e-bikes (2026-O-24 and 2026-O-25)

Both ordinances passed by unanimous vote on Sept. 17, 2026 and add Article V, Vehicles, to Chapter 77 of the municipal code; ATVs, utility vehicles and recreational off-highway vehicles stay off streets and sidewalks, and a parent answers for a child's violation.

Sources: City of Aledo: Ordinance No. 2026-O-24 and the police chief's memo, pages 76 to 84 of the Sept. 17, 2026 packet (CivicClerk), read Sept. 27; City of Aledo: Ordinance No. 2026-O-25 and the police chief's memo, pages 85 to 91 of the Sept. 17, 2026 packet (CivicClerk), read Sept. 27; City of Aledo: minutes of the Sept. 17, 2026 meeting, pages 5 to 8 of the Oct. 1 packet (CivicClerk); City of Aledo: agenda, Oct. 1, 2026 Regular City Council Meeting, item 8b (CivicClerk), read Sept. 27