Plano ChatGPT Enterprise Deal: What $390,000 Would Buy

Plano Municipal Center with its clock tower behind a shade tree, where the council will take up the Plano ChatGPT Enterprise item

Plano’s Oct. 12 consent agenda includes up to $390,000 for ChatGPT Enterprise, Teams Premium, an AI governance tool called Darwin AI and a reserve. The city would start with 150 ChatGPT licenses at an estimated $57,024 a year, about $380 per seat, with training and human review required.

Garland Cuts Tax Rate to 67.99 Cents, Sets November Vote to Shift 3 Cents to Operations

Garland city hall civic facade with FY2026-27 tax rate and November shift election banner

GARLAND, The Garland City Council adopted the fiscal year 2026-27 operating budget and a property tax rate of 67.99 cents per $100 of taxable value on Aug. 17, 2026, about one cent lower than the current rate, while calling a November tax-rate election that would ask voters to shift three cents from debt service to … Read more

McKinney Keeps $0.412284 Tax Rate on $880.5M FY2026-27 Budget

McKinney city hall exterior FY2026-27 budget

MCKINNEY, McKinney City Council adopted an approximately $880.5 million Fiscal Year 2026-27 budget on Sept. 1, 2026, and held the city property tax rate at $0.412284 per $100 of taxable value, the same total as the prior year, according to the city’s official news release and budget table. The all-funds total on the city’s Budget … Read more

Dallas Adopts $5.66B FY2026-27 Budget, Cuts Tax Rate to 69.78 Cents

Dallas city budget documents for FY2026-27 tax rate story.

DALLAS , Dallas City Council approved a Fiscal Year 2026-27 operating and capital budget totaling $5.66 billion, including a $2.05 billion General Fund, and cut the property tax rate by one-tenth of a cent to 69.78 cents per $100 of valuation, according to the city’s official Sept. 16, 2026 release. The fiscal year began Oct. … Read more

Mobile Council Passes $404M Budget After Adding Library and HBCU Game Funds

Mobile city budget passes with library and arena fund shifts for FY starting Oct. 1

By Mike Joe MOBILE, Ala. – Mobile City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a roughly $404 million budget for the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1, after a last-minute fight over about $1.5 million that had been set aside for the new downtown arena and turned out not to be needed, according to FOX10 / … Read more