By Sahar Chmais Coronavirus relief funds have allocated about $1 million to the city of Buda under certain conditions. Buda City Council members agreed that the city should apply for the grant to help aid the city during the pandemic. The government will give the city 20% of the money upfront and wi...

Three-quarters of the way through the calendar year, Hays County municipalities saw a wide disparity in monthly sales tax allocations from the Texas Comptroller’s Office. All of the county’s 10 taxing municipalities showed an increase over the allocation issued in October 2018; and nine of them are ...

For more background on this story, click here:  Jumping from the EDC ship Accusations of discrimination from three female Buda Economic Development Corporation (EDC) employees were levied Tuesday against the city of Buda as the battle between the two bodies escalated. Those accusations came as the B...

Successful application of current accounting principals led to a “clean” audit of Buda’s financial records, according to a press release. The audit, conducted by Whitley Penn, LLP, showed the city’s financial records were free of “any material misrepresentations.” Whitley Penn conducted an audit of ...

Buda’s proposed $59.9 million fiscal year 2019 (FY19) budget passed its first hurdle earlier this month. By a unanimous 7-0 vote, the Buda City Council approved the FY19 budget and ad valorem tax rate on first reading; a second reading is scheduled for Sept. 18. Buda’s budget includes allocating $24...

Buda's proposed $59.9 million fiscal year 2019 (FY19) budget passed its first hurdle Tuesday. By a unanimous 7-0 vote, the Buda City Council approved the FY19 budget and ad valorem tax rate on first reading; a second reading is scheduled for Sept. 18. Buda's budget includes allocating $24.6 million ...

Buda’s annual audit on financial reports received the highest level of assurance for Fiscal Year 2016-17, according to a press release. The “clean,” or unmodified audit means the “city’s financial records have been determined by the audit firm to be free of any misrepresentations,” according to the ...

Questions over the need for additional street maintenance dollars beyond what’s already budgeted led Buda city leaders to shut down potential fundraising ideas. One of those options, which received a negative response from several council members, centered on redirecting city sales tax dollars to go...

A $2.3 million decrease in revenue over a decade’s time is how much Buda anticipates losing if it were to implement a proposed freeze on property tax for senior citizens. While no action was taken on the proposed freeze Oct. 17, city leaders continued discussion and debate over issues involving prop...

Buda residents may be seeing an increase in water and wastewater rates in the new fiscal year because of various water and wastewater capital improvement projects, the new wastewater treatment expansion and the agreement with Alliance Regional Water Authority regarding the pipeline being built. Fina...