The city of Allen’s property tax rate will slightly decrease when the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1.

Allen City Council approved a decreased tax rate and a $380 million budget for Fiscal Year 2026-27 following a public hearing at a Sept. 8 meeting.

The overview: The approved property tax rate is $0.4147 per $100 of assessed valuation, which is a $0.0007 decrease from FY 2025-26, per city documents.

Allen officials are predicting $157.3 million in general fund revenue and additional $222 million in special revenue for a total budget of $380 million, per city documents.

“This budget is a balanced budget,” Chief Financial Officer Pete Phillis said. “It’s a budget that is in the best interest of all stakeholders of the community.”

Be Fit Modern Pilates celebrated one year in business in Allen Aug. 22, said Gabi Budihas, who handles public relations and media for the business.

The details: Be Fit Modern Pilates offers 45-minute exercise classes to help individuals improve their strength, balance and core flexibility, its website states. The business is located within Watters Creek Village.

• 979 Garden Park Drive, Ste. E200, Allen

Dallas Area Rapid Transit ridership data is now available to the public through two dashboards DART launched at the end of August. This is the first time monthly ridership data is publicly available, per a news release from DART.

The gist: DART published a dashboard specifically for light rail data, as well as a system-wide dashboard that covers all ridership data for DART’s bus, commuter rail, light rail, paratransit and GoLink services. The dashboards are published and updated monthly and include data by city and service area as well as by month, day and time.

A closer look: Data shows Plano and Richardson have the fourth and fifth highest DART ridership in the system during fiscal year 2025-26.