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Belton ISD adopts balanced 2025–26 budget and holds tax rate steady
Summary
Trustees approved a $153.31 million general fund balanced budget, allocated state compensatory funds for accelerated instruction, and set the 2025–26 tax rate effectively equal to last year after required statutory readings.
The Belton ISD Board of Trustees on Aug. 18 adopted a balanced fiscal 2025–26 general fund budget, approved allocations for accelerated instruction and set a tax rate the district characterized as effectively unchanged from the prior year.
Melissa Lafferty, Belton ISD chief financial officer, told the board the general fund budget for 2025–26 totals $153,309,901 in both revenues and expenditures; salaries and benefits account for about 83% of expenditures. Debt-service revenue is shown at $26,404,350 with $25,233,326 in expenditures. The school nutrition…
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