CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – The Clarksville City Council this week will take their first vote on a 2025-26 budget that includes more than $170 million for the city general fund, a 15-cent property tax increase, along with plans to address neighborhood flooding, rapid city growth and the Mason Rudolph Golf Course.
In a news release after Thursday’s City Council meeting, the City of Clarksville said the FY 2026 budget addresses the following key priorities:
- Retaining and recruiting the number of city employees required to ensure the workforce has the capacity and expertise to deliver vital services.
- Decisively attacking problems with neighborhood flooding that have plagued some areas of Clarksville for many decades.
- Keeping up with unsolicited growth in a city that has rapidly become one of the nation’s most popular residency destinations.
“The growth of our city’s population is driving every aspect of our budget, and we are successfully transforming our process from budget-driven goals, to goals-driven budgeting,” said Clarksville Mayor Joe Pitts.
“I am proud of how our employees in every city department work together, to respond to our citizens’ everyday needs – especially how they perform in a crisis or extreme challenge. They give us much to be proud of, and are to be commended for their efforts. That is why we are proposing a 2.5% general wage increase for all eligible employees as a centerpiece of our budget proposal,” Pitts said…