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Every year your town spends your money. That spending is public record — buried in documents almost nobody reads. We read them, analyze every line, and publish what deserves a question.
Recent Reports
Coppell, TX — FY2026 Adopted Budget Review
Coppell, TX · Population 42154
I. Executive Summary
Coppell adopted its FY2025-26 budget on Aug. 26, 2025, cutting the property tax rate for another year (to $0.444976/$100, down 2.98%) while total spending falls 11.56% to $159.1M — largely a swing in one-time capital, …
Read full report →Saratoga, CA — FY2024-25 Budget Review
Saratoga, CA · FY2024-25
I. Executive Summary
Saratoga is an affluent, built-out Silicon Valley contract city of about 30,300 whose budget is …
Read →Southlake, TX — FY2026 Adopted Budget Review
Southlake, TX · FY2026
I. Executive Summary
Southlake adopted its FY2026 budget on Sept. 16, 2025, continuing a long record of disciplined …
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Budget Watch is an independent research project that analyzes municipal budgets in towns where no local newspaper exists to do it. We produce structured, cited, fact-based reports — not opinions — and publish them for free.
More about us →We obtain the official budget
Every report starts with the town's own published document — no leaks, no anonymous sources.
We run structured analysis
Ten sections covering everything from fund balance to pension liability to transparency scores.
We publish questions, not verdicts
Every flag becomes a neutral question for the public to ask — every figure is cited to its source.