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The Budget Department institutes and operates a governmental budgeting system that provides financial information to both external users and internal management. This information is used to monitor the expenditure of public funds and to ensure that the financial transactions of the City are conducted in accordance with statutory and contractual requirements and City policy.
Budget oversees the preparation of the annual budget and monitors compliance during the year. The following budget documents are the original budgets adopted by Council. They have not been updated since that adoption and do not include any subsequent budget amendments adopted by Council.
Additional information related to tax and revenue collection can be found here.
Fiscal Year 2022 Budget is based on Tax Year 2021 expected revenue. The City of Carrollton contracts with the Denton County Tax Assessor/Collector to calculate the city’s tax rates. For Fiscal Year 2022, the following rates were calculated used by the City of Carrollton to produce it’s preliminary budget. For a complete explanation of how the rates were calculated, please click here .
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2021 No-New-Revenue Rate |
$0.562693/$100 |
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2021 Maintenance & Operation No-New-Revenue Tax Rate |
$0.416060/$100 |
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2021 Maintenance & Operation Voter-Approval Tax Rate |
$0.477762/$100 |
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2021 Debt Service Rate |
$0.146354/$100 |
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2021 Voter-Approval Rate |
$0.617297/$100 |
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2021 Proposed Tax Rate |
$0.587500/$100 | |
The estimated unencumbered Fund Balances* for FY2021 are in compliance with the city’s adopted financial standards and are as follows:
Type of Property Tax Fund Fund Balance
General and Administrative Services Funds $ 4,835,000
Special Revenue Funds $ 4,999,549
General Debt Service Fund $ 5,096,000
Governmental Capital Projects Funds $184,074,000
Enterprise Operating Funds $ 16,522,000
Enterprise Debt Service Funds $ 1,964,000
Enterprise Capital Projects Funds $ 25,991,000
Internal Service Funds $ 14,000,000
The City of Carrollton will pay $23,972,966 in debt service during Fiscal Year 2022. The City’s Debt Obligations are as follows:
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2022 Debt Service |
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Description of Debt |
Principal or Contract Amount to be Paid from Property Taxes |
Interest to be Paid from Property Taxes |
Other Amounts to be Paid |
Total Payment |
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2012 General Obligation |
$1,765,000 |
$122,263 |
$0 |
$1,887,263 |
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2013 General Obligation |
$435,000 |
$255,225 |
$0 |
$690,225 |
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2014 General Obligation |
$925,000 |
$496,094 |
$0 |
$1,421,094 |
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2015 General Obligation |
$2,770,000 |
$954,211 |
$0 |
$3,724,211 |
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2016 General Obligation |
$2,145,000 |
$848,050 |
$0 |
$3,726,211 |
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2017 General Obligation |
$1,120,000 |
$613,350 |
$0 |
$1,735,350 |
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2018 General Obligation |
$1,045,000 |
$686,213 |
$0 |
$1,731,213 |
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2019 General Obligation |
$2,865,000 |
$1,728,100 |
$0 |
$4,593,100 |
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2020 General Obligation |
$955,000 |
$864,950 |
$0 |
$1,819,950 |
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2021 General Obligation |
$1,480,000 |
$1,262,319 |
$0 |
$2,742,319 |
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$16,140,000 |
$7,832,775 |
$0 |
$23,972,966 |
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2022 General Obligation
| Period Ending | Principal | Coupon | Interest | Debt Service |
| 9/30/22 | $425,000 | 5.000% | $210,080.83 | $635,080.83 |
The anticipated collection rate for Fiscal Year 2022 is 100%, and the amount for debt service to be collected by taxes for Fiscal Year has been decreased by $186,503 because of excess debt collection from July 1st through June 30th of previous year. Additional information related to the City’s debt can be found here.
Tax Rate & Budget Information
The current Fiscal Year budget is adopted by City Council in September along with the Tax Rate adopted at the same time. For questions related to the annual budget, the Budget & Management Analysis office can be reached at:
City of Carrollton
1945 E. Jackson Rd.
Carrollton, TX 75006
972-466-3110
ManagementAnalysis@cityofcarrollton.com
Or you can reach out to your council member, whose information can be found here.
The City of Carrollton resides in three counties: Dallas, Denton, and Collin. Each county must maintain a database of Property Tax Related Information. The links for each county’s Tax Transparency Website are found at:
Dallas County: www.DallasCountyTexasTaxes.gov
Denton County: Denton County (truthintaxation.com)
Collin County: https://collintaxes.org
The City’s Annual Budget can be found here and the most recent Comprehensive Annual Financial Report is found here.
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FY2019 |
FY2020 |
FY2021 - Amended |
FY2022 - Preliminary |
Amount Change |
% Change |
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Tax Rate (per $100) |
0.594970 |
0.589970 |
0.587500 |
0.587500 |
- |
0.00% |
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Annual Recurring Budget Amount |
84,016,514 |
91,009,375 |
94,307,109 |
98,512,158 |
4,205,049 |
4.46% |
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Property Tax Rate for Maintenance & Operation (per $100) |
0.430220 |
0.438870 |
0.441146 |
0.447807 |
0.006661 |
1.51% |
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Property Tax Revenue Budgeted for Maintenance & Operation |
60,751,937 |
67,700,535 |
70,455,777 |
74,725,695 |
4,269,918 |
6.06% |
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Property Tax Rate for Debt Service (per $100) |
0.164750 |
0.151100 |
0.146354 |
0.139693 |
(0.006661) |
-4.55% |
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Property Tax Revenue Budgeted for Debt Service |
23,264,577 |
23,308,840 |
23,851,332 |
23,786,463 |
(64,869) |
-0.27% |
*Accounts for Compensated Absences