The Pasadena Independent School District Board of Trustees voted Sept. 23 to adopt a maintenance-and-operations tax rate of 0.8322 and an interest-and-sinking tax rate of 0.34, for a combined tax rate of 1.1722. The motion carried unanimously among trustees present; Trustee Crystal Davila was absent.

Trustees said the rate is the same figure used to prepare and adopt the district's budget this summer. "I just want to remind you guys that this is what our adopted budget was based on," Board President Casey Phelan said before the vote.

The board made the decision during its regular meeting at the Administration Building, where trustees discussed the item briefly and moved immediately to a recorded vote. "This will be a recorded vote for each in the minutes," Phelan said as trustees prepared to vote.

The resolution as adopted sets the two component rates as presented by district staff. The board did not discuss adjustments to the individual component rates during the meeting; no public testimony or staff presentation on alternative rate scenarios occurred at the dais prior to the vote.

With Trustee Davila absent, the board approved the resolution and directed that the vote and member participation be recorded in the minutes.

Next steps identified at the meeting included clerical recording of the roll-call vote in the official minutes; no further action on the item was scheduled during the session.