Guadalupe County budgeted $902,825 less for roads and bridges in FY2027, while reducing its contract-maintenance line and increasing its surfacing-material and seal-coating lines. That leaves drivers with a question: which roads will see work?
County residents who drive unincorporated roads face a different spending mix: less contract maintenance authority and more money for surfacing material and seal coating. The FY2026 adopted Road and Bridge Fund was $17,739,548. The FY2027 original amount in the adopted budget is $16,836,723.
From the source record
Selected line items, not the fund total. Figures are appropriations, not completed work.
The fiscal year runs from Oct. 1, 2026, through Sept. 30, 2027. Guadalupe.News calculated the comparison below from the county’s published budget, using its FY2026 adopted and FY2027 original columns.
What changed in the dollars
The contract road-maintenance and pavement-rejuvenation line falls from $2 million to $1 million, the largest decrease among the selected work lines. Surfacing material rises from $1.65 million to $1.8 million, and seal coating rises from $1.1 million to $1.25 million. Those two increases total $300,000, so they do not by themselves match the $1 million contract-line decrease.