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City Council — 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. City of Knoxville 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 114 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 $2,923,900

    Jul 1, 2026 – Jun 30, 2027 · 8 budget decisions · 8 adopted · $2,923,900 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2026 $101,657,796.59

    Jul 1, 2025 – Jun 30, 2026 · 60 budget decisions · 60 adopted · $101,657,796.59 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2025 $15,599,487.14

    Jul 1, 2024 – Jun 30, 2025 · 44 budget decisions · 43 adopted · $15,599,487.14 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2024 $239,638,664.29

    Jul 1, 2023 – Jun 30, 2024 · 54 budget decisions · 54 adopted · $239,638,664.29 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2023 $174,574,642.29

    Jul 1, 2022 – Jun 30, 2023 · 64 budget decisions · 63 adopted · $174,574,642.29 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2022 $184,017,111.61

    Jul 1, 2021 – Jun 30, 2022 · 74 budget decisions · 73 adopted · $184,017,111.61 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2021 $646,052,901.46

    Jul 1, 2020 – Jun 30, 2021 · 112 budget decisions · 111 adopted · $646,052,901.46 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2020 $92,310,575.13

    Jul 1, 2019 – Jun 30, 2020 · 52 budget decisions · 51 adopted · $92,310,575.13 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2019 $9,071,196

    Jul 1, 2018 – Jun 30, 2019 · 36 budget decisions · 36 adopted · $9,071,196 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2018 $116,362,577

    Jul 1, 2017 – Jun 30, 2018 · 21 budget decisions · 21 adopted · $116,362,577 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2017 $19,816,298

    Jul 1, 2016 – Jun 30, 2017 · 50 budget decisions · 50 adopted · $19,816,298 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2016 $2,814,161.23

    Jul 1, 2015 – Jun 30, 2016 · 32 budget decisions · 31 adopted · $2,814,161.23 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2015 $5,000

    Jul 1, 2014 – Jun 30, 2015 · 6 budget decisions · 6 adopted · $5,000 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2014 $2,002.46

    Jul 1, 2013 – Jun 30, 2014 · 12 budget decisions · 10 adopted · $2,002.46 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2013 $192,935,225

    Jul 1, 2012 – Jun 30, 2013 · 19 budget decisions · 19 adopted · $192,935,225 written into adopted motions

  • Fiscal year 2012 $250

    Jul 1, 2011 – Jun 30, 2012 · 6 budget decisions · 6 adopted · $250 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.