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Southwest ISD approves 1.1598 tax rate; board reviews proposed 2025–26 budget
Summary
Trustees approved a voter‑approval tax rate of 1.1598 per $100 and heard staff presentations on the district's proposed 2025–26 general, child‑nutrition and debt service budgets, including enrollment and revenue projections and planned budget amendments.
The Southwest Independent School District Board of Trustees approved a voter‑approval tax rate of 1.1598 per $100 of assessed value and heard a staff presentation on the proposed 2025–26 budget, which staff presented with a projected enrollment of 15,216 students and average daily attendance of 13,668.
Staff framed the district's three recommended budgets — the general fund, child nutrition fund and debt service fund — around projected revenue of $182,046,935 and total expenses the presentation listed at about $185,000,000. "We are writing a budget that will have a projected enrollment of 15,216 students with an average daily attendance of 13,668," Speaker 3, a staff member, said during the presentation. Speaker 3 also described a recommended deficit figure in the presentation: "we're recommending, $3,400,000 deficit that we're looking at tonight."
The presentation said the district's expected revenue would come mostly from state sources, with about 1% from federal sources and roughly 30% from local…
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