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Smith County · appropriation · 2026

Debt Service Fund

$20,010,664
✓ Sourced

This number is cited to a source document, and its arithmetic re-adds to the dollar (it cross-foots, or it is counted inside a total that does).

Source
Smith County FY2026-27 Budget (posted as “FY 2027 Proposed Budget”)
Page
21
Layer
appropriation — Layer one: what Commissioners Court authorized to be spent. What was actually spent is layer two (audit and treasurer reports); which vendor got which check is layer three (check register).
Checked
Counted ✓ — this fund is part of the grand total that re-adds to the ordinance's stated figure exactly. Full report.
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10% of all county appropriations ($198,056,173)
Docket
Issue #2 — The debt schedule’s own arithmetic (complete)
Retrieved
2026-09-26 — Adopted Sept 15, 2026 (3–1). The posted file still says “Proposed” and shows votes as “Pending.”

Note on this line

This year’s payments on the county’s bonds, paid by the debt slice of the tax rate ($0.056471 per $100, p. 27). Behind it: $221,005,000 still owed as of Oct 1, 2026 (cover and p. 30). The biggest piece is the 2023 courthouse bonds — $145,355,000 still owed, paid through 2047–48 (p. 29) — from the $179 million courthouse and parking package voters approved in November 2022. The yearly payment rows add to the $221,005,000 exactly, with $125,301,169 of interest still to come; the per-bond subtotals printed in the schedule leave out each bond’s first-year payment (Docket #2).