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La Jolla ISD board adopts 2025-26 tax rate at $1.0025 per $100
Summary
After a staff presentation that said the proposed rate would be lower than the prior year, the board voted to adopt a $1.0025 tax rate for 2025–26 and approved a resolution certifying the district's tax rate.
La Jolla Independent School District trustees voted Sept. 10 to adopt a $1.0025 per $100 valuation tax rate for the 2025–26 year and approved a resolution formalizing the district's tax rate. The board moved and seconded the measures and approved them by voice vote; the meeting minutes record the motions as carrying.
The board heard a presentation from Miss Crespo, who described the district's proposed 2025–26 tax rates and explained related state and local factors. Crespo said the district's proposed tax rate — the voter-approval rate of $1.0025 per $100 of assessed value — is lower than last year's adopted rate. “This year's tax rate is a decrease from the prior year adopted rate, by 50¢,” she said, and she told trustees the change would lower most homeowners' levies by about $50 under the projected homestead-exemption changes that are on November's ballot.
The presentation reviewed the difference between last year's total tax rate (listed in the presentation as 1.0533 per $100) and the district's non-new-revenue rate (0.9035), and explained that the adopted voter-approval rate equals the highest rate the district may levy under prior voter authorization. Crespo also noted the Hidalgo County appraisal district provided certified property values to the district and that the Texas Education Agency sets compressed tax-rate calculations that affect state funding.
At the Sept. 10 meeting the board approved two related motions: one recorded in the minutes as adopting a property tax rate of $1.0025 and another adopting Resolution No. 2025-10 to formalize the 2025–26 tax rate. Meeting minutes show the motions were moved, seconded and approved by voice vote.
Why it matters: property tax revenue is the district's primary local funding source and interacts with state funding formulas; the tax-rate decision sets the local share of revenue for next year's budget and shapes property owners' bills.
Supporting details: Crespo told trustees that under two homestead-exemption proposals on the November ballot (an increase in the general homestead exemption and an expansion to the elderly/disabled exemption), a house with an average market value in the district (presented as $173,000) could have a substantially lower taxable value and thus a smaller tax bill. She said the district followed statutory notice and publication deadlines for tax-rate adoption and that final adoption was required by Oct. 1.
Board action: the motions were approved by voice vote. The meeting transcript records the motions and the chair's announcement, “All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries.” The minutes do not record a roll-call vote tally by individual trustee names.
What to watch next: the district will implement the adopted rate in the 2025–26 budget and reconcile revenue as taxes are collected; the final tax burden for many homeowners may change depending on whether state-level exemption ballot measures pass in November.
