Proposed budget looks at services, water utility capacity

Georgetown’s proposed overall budget for the 2025 Fiscal Year – $842.6 million in expenditures – is about $4 million less than last year’s approved overall budget.

Georgetown looks at capital projects, debt for next five years

Ahead of budget season for the 2025 fiscal year, Georgetown City Council were presented with a five-year outlook related to debt service and capital improvement project funding.

New Georgetown YMCA property brought into city

The future home of Georgetown’s YMCA has been brought into the city limits and zoned to general commercial, paving the way for the bond-supported facility and gym on the city’s northwest edge.

Lifeguards provide summer safety

The public pools in Georgetown serve as a cooling place for residents during the scorching Texas summers. A common character seen at public pools are the city lifeguards.

Find out which streetlights are out with new city service

The City of Georgetown launched a new website tool that allows residents to report streetlight outages. The tool, which can be found online at https://bit.ly/GTXstreetlightoutagereporting, allows residents to see a map of all city streetlights and report if a certain streetlight isn’t working.

City applies for $485,000 grant

The City of Georgetown will make three requests in its application to Williamson County’s 2024 Community Development Block Grant, which the county uses to fund projects that will address urgent community development needs and benefit low to moderate income residents.

City looks at capital improvements

The City of Georgetown has “minimal capacity” to take on new capital improvement projects, and over the next four years will prioritize finishing already-approved work to open up both financial and planning capacity in the future.

New website details Georgetown projects

Residents can now find details on Georgetown roads, parks and utility projects on a new website that displays project locations, costs, status updates and timelines.

Georgetown City Council looks to address parking loss in Downtown Master Plan

Parking was a top concern for residents who submitted feedback about Georgetown’s Downtown Master Plan draft earlier this month. The feedback on the Downtown Master Plan was presented to Georgetown City Council during the April 23 workshop.

Future Bell County development requests to leave Georgetown water

Solana Ranch — a master planned community with 14,000 single-family homes planned for a 6,311-acre parcel of land located predominantly in southern Bell County and partially in Williamson County — requested to leave Georgetown’s water system at the city’s April 23 city council workshop.