With no property tax increase to complicate matters and no big shifts in spending, the county’s 2020 Fiscal Year budget was adopted by Bandera County Commissioners’ Court on Thursday, Sept. 26, without controversy. The new budget that goes into effect this month totaled just over $23 million once budget amendments were finalized. That is up from the $22.6 million budget adopted last year. It includes a general fund of $14.5 million, almost $1.4 million larger than the prior year, and an ambulance budget of $2 million, up from almost $1.9 million last year. Added to the Emergency Medical Service budget this year is ...