Knox County

Board of Commissioners — Budget season

The body's budget & taxes decisions, grouped into the annual fiscal-year arc — proposal, amendments, and adoption, in the order they happened. Items are identified mechanically by the neutral budget & taxes topic — the fiscal instrument itself (the annual budget, the tax rate, appropriations), never every motion that happens to spend money.

How the years are grouped. A decision is placed in the fiscal year in which its meeting was held. Knox County runs a July 1 – June 30 fiscal year, named for the year it ends — so FY 2026 runs July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. This groups the record; it makes no claim about which budget any single motion “belongs to.”

Excludes 13 motions not yet published. Contested and deferred votes publish only after review, so a year's arc can run short until the queue clears.

Fiscal year 2027 $314,396,415.48

Jul 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2027 · 14 budget decisions · 7 adopted · $314,396,415.48 written into adopted motions
Fiscal year 2026 $58,142,035.04

Jul 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2026 · 29 budget decisions · 22 adopted · $58,142,035.04 written into adopted motions
Fiscal year 2025 $35,751,238.01

Jul 1, 2024 – Jun 30, 2025 · 23 budget decisions · 19 adopted · $35,751,238.01 written into adopted motions
Fiscal year 2024 $257,816,246.31

Jul 1, 2023 – Jun 30, 2024 · 29 budget decisions · 29 adopted · $257,816,246.31 written into adopted motions
Fiscal year 2023 $172,233,131.93

Jul 1, 2022 – Jun 30, 2023 · 31 budget decisions · 31 adopted · $172,233,131.93 written into adopted motions
Fiscal year 2022 $101,258,899.80

Jul 1, 2021 – Jun 30, 2022 · 30 budget decisions · 30 adopted · $101,258,899.80 written into adopted motions
Fiscal year 2021 $225,200,770.02

Jul 1, 2020 – Jun 30, 2021 · 31 budget decisions · 31 adopted · $225,200,770.02 written into adopted motions

How this is built. Budget decisions are the published motions carrying the neutral budget & taxes topic, grouped by the fiscal year of the meeting they were decided in. Dollar figures are copied verbatim from the motion text and summed only across adopted motions — a deferred or failed motion approved no money. These are approved amounts in motions, not the county budget document or actual outlays. See spending approved and Methodology.