Story, photo by Steve Nash - Special Contributor to BrownwoodNews.com EARLY - Early City Council members adopted a $12. 9 budget Monday night for the 2026-'27 fiscal year and adopted a property tax rate of $.

66 per $100 valuation, the same as the current rate.

The new budget is just slightly larger then the current budget - by about $60,000, City Administrator Tony Aaron said.