The Burnet County Commissioners Court approved the county’s budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year during a lengthy meeting Tuesday, Sept. 16, at the Burnet County AgriLife Extension building in Burnet. Before the document was adopted, county leaders butted heads over how public dollars would be spent.

The approved budget maintained most of its key features, like a reduced tax rate, no new debt, moderate spending, limited governmental growth, and a focus on county road and bridge infrastructure projects. But a few major changes were worked out on Tuesday in the public eye.

The originally proposed 2.7-percent cost-of-living raises for elected officials were cut, along with a few hundred thousand dollars from several sources to fund the hiring of four new deputies and promotions for mid-leve

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