Built for Texas Municipalities
From the Texas Annual Financial Report and GASB-compliant CAFRs through Public Information Act requests and homestead exemptions — MuniNow ships with the filings, workflows, and compliance hooks Texas cities, towns, and special districts actually file against.
A platform that speaks Texas
Texas has more than 1,200 incorporated cities and thousands of special-purpose districts, each producing filings the Texas Comptroller and local electorates actually read. Home-rule and general-law cities operate under different charters. Property tax runs on the Texas Property Tax Code with its own exemption hierarchy. Public records requests fall under the Public Information Act with a 10-business-day response window. And every one of them produces an Annual Financial Report alongside the GASB-compliant CAFR.
MuniNow was designed to hold all of this in the same system. The Texas AFR template generates from the same GL that produces the CAFR — one source of truth, not two. The Document Management and AI Review Hub modules handle PIA redactions with audit trails. Property tax supports Texas-specific exemptions with batch billing timed to the statutory calendar. Every citizen-facing interaction — permit applications, utility bill payments, service requests — happens on a portal your residents don't have to phone city hall to use.
Texas-specific capabilities
Baseline platform features tuned for how Texas municipalities operate, file, and publish.
Texas Annual Financial Report (TX-AFR)
The TX-AFR template ships seeded. Generate the state-required filing from the same general ledger data that drives your CAFR — no parallel spreadsheets, no re-keyed totals. The template engine extends to any additional state-specific reports your auditor or the Texas Comptroller requests.
GASB-compliant CAFR for Texas entities
Full GASB 34/44/68/75/87/96/103 coverage. Texas home-rule cities, general-law cities, and special districts all file on the same standards — MuniNow generates the 16-section CAFR package from live GL data and routes audit adjustments through a dedicated auditor portal.
Property tax with Texas exemption handling
APN-based parcels, assessed vs. market value tracking, and six exemption types including homestead, over-65, disability, and agricultural. Millage calculations use Decimal.js precision, batch bill generation atomically numbers each bill (PT-YYYY-NNNNNN), and delinquent batch processing aligns with the Texas Tax Code timelines.
Public Information Act (PIA) workflows
Texas PIA requests flow through the same document-management and FOIA workflow as other records requests. The AI Review Hub detects PII (SSN, DOB, financial data) for redaction, and the interactive Redaction Studio permanently burns redactions into the released PDF — critical for the 10-business-day PIA response window.
Open Meetings Act-ready council workflows
Meeting agendas publish to the citizen portal. Real-time WebSocket voting captures council votes (yay, nay, abstain, recuse, absent) during live meetings with simple-majority calculation. Gemini-powered minutes transcription produces structured output that stands up to open-records review.
PostGIS for parcel-rich Texas jurisdictions
Built-in GIS handles the large parcel counts typical of Texas municipalities — Regrid API bulk import, point-in-polygon parcel identification, zoning district overlays, and ward-based service request routing. Buffer-zone compliance checks support liquor and cannabis licensing distance requirements.
See a Texas configuration live
A 45-minute walkthrough tailored to your city or district — the TX-AFR template, a Texas property tax batch run, and a sample PIA redaction flow.