The county budget
Polk County publishes every adopted annual budget back to 2007. Here is the current one's headline figures and a direct link to all 21.
Every link below goes to Polk County's own file. PolkTX does not host, re-publish or restate any of them, and where a figure appears on this page it is quoted from the budget's own cover.
FY2027, the budget now in force
Covers October 1, 2026 to September 30, 2027. Adopted August 25, 2026.
| From the cover page | Figure |
|---|---|
| Property tax rate, per $100 of value | $0.63 |
| The year before | $0.5986 |
| No-new-revenue rate | $0.5955 |
| Voter-approval rate | $0.6351 |
| Debt rate | $0.053 |
| More property tax than last year's budget | $2,248,176 · 7.65% |
| Of which, from property new to the roll | $929,533 |
| County debt outstanding at October 1, 2026 | $7,020,000 |
Every figure in this block is quoted from the budget's own cover page, which Local Government Code 111.008-111.009 requires it to carry.
4 votes to 1 on a recorded roll call. Motioned by Jerry Cassity, seconded by Milton Purvis, to adopt with a $2,200 increase in the pay scale. Purvis, Cassity, Robertson and County Judge Murphy voted yes. Commissioner DuBose voted no.
Read the FY2027 budget in full →
Sources · 2
Read off the county's published budgets and the Commissioners Court minutes on 2026-09-15.
Every budget the county publishes
21 years, newest first. All links go to polktx.gov.
FY2027
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2026
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2025
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2024
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2023
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2022
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2021
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2020
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2019
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2018
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2017
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2016
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2015
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2014
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2013
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2012
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2011
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2010
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2009
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2008
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
FY2007
Polk County Annual Budget (PDF)
What a budget will and will not tell you
An adopted budget says what the Court intended to spend, by account, before the year started. It is not what was spent. Amounts move during the year by budget amendment, and the budgets themselves note that some money — grant and disaster funding in particular — is left out of the adopted figure entirely because the timing is not known when the budget is set.
So a line that is absent from a budget is not proof that nothing was spent on it, and a line that is present is not proof that it was. For what actually moved, the Commissioners Court approves schedules of bills at almost every meeting, and those are in the meeting record.
If a figure here does not match the county's document, the county's document is right and we want to know. See the corrections policy.