Friendswood has approved its fiscal year 2025-26 budget and a tax rate that matches last year’s rate.

The details

Friendswood City Council voted unanimously to approve the proposed tax rate of $0.514172 per $100 valuation at its Sept. 8 meeting .

Though the approved rate is the same as last year’s tax rate, it’s also higher than the no-new-revenue rate of $0.501177 per $100 valuation.

Still, Mayor Mike Foreman said that since the tax rate is the same as last year’s tax rate, if individual tax bills rise, it’s due to higher appraised values, not a higher city rate.

The city projects the average annual tax bill to be about $1,892 for a typical Friendswood home, which has a median value of $367,599. That tax bill is projected to be $20 more than last year, according to agenda documen

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