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Sep 8, 2022 · Related development

FY2022/23 budget (Ordinance 8004) adopted and ratified; first reading 5-0, final votes 4-0

Ordinance No. 8004 adopted the City budget for October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. It passed first reading 5-0 on September 6 and second reading 4-0 on September 8, 2022, with Councilmember Eddy Sauer absent; the separate ratification vote required when a budget raises more property-tax revenue than the year before also passed 4-0. The budget book puts the budget at about $490.8 million, 17.0% above the $419.5 million FY2021/22 budget, including $68.3 million for debt service, which it says rose 42.8%. Its statutory notice says the budget raises $1,587,957 (2.62%) more from property taxes.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Ginger Nelson Freda Powell Howard Smith Cole Stanley Eddy Sauer Laura Storrs

What the sources say

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Ordinance No. 8004 passed first reading on September 6, 2022, 5-0 (Mayor Nelson; Councilmembers Powell, Sauer, Smith and Stanley), on a motion by Councilmember Powell seconded by Councilmember Sauer. It passed second reading on September 8, 2022, 4-0 (Nelson, Powell, Smith, Stanley; Councilmember Sauer absent), on a motion by Powell seconded by Smith. The ratification vote that day also passed 4-0. ^[1]^[2]^[3]
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City of Amarillo FY2022/23 budget book: The FY2022/23 budget book puts the budget at about $490.8 million ($308.1 million for operations and maintenance, $114.4 million capital, $68.3 million debt service), up 17.0% from $419.5 million. It says debt service rose 42.8% because of bonds issued in FY2022 for the City Hall renovation and athletic field lighting, a planned water and sewer bond issue, a landfill cell bond issue and drainage bonds. ^[3]
Amount
$490,830,448
Prior
$419,530,054
Change
17%
Debt service
$68,300,000

Sources

1.Amarillo City Council Special Meeting Minutes, 2022-09-06 — City of Amarillo, Sep 6, 2022 · retrieved Oct 16, 2026primarySubject-authoredScanned minutes read with OCR (header reads "regular meeting"; the portal lists it as a special meeting). States: "A motion was made that the property tax rate be increased by the adoption of a tax rate of $0.40628 which is effectively a 2.35 percent increase in the tax rate" ... "the motion passed by a 5-0 vote."
2.Amarillo City Council Special Meeting Minutes, 2022-09-08 — City of Amarillo, Sep 8, 2022 · retrieved Oct 16, 2026primarySubject-authoredScanned minutes read with OCR (header reads "regular meeting"; the portal lists it as a special meeting). States: "A motion was made to ratify the Budget and Tax Rate, as adopted for Fiscal year 2022-23, recognizing such budget will require more revenue from property taxes than did the budget adopted last year" ... "the motion passed by a 4-0 vote." Councilmember Sauer absent.
3.City of Amarillo Annual Budget, Fiscal Year 2022-2023 (Final) — City of Amarillo, Oct 1, 2022 · retrieved Oct 9, 2026primarySubject-authored