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Bay City ISD adopts 2025–26 tax rate; board passes disaster-pending resolution, trustees vote 6–0
Summary
At its Aug. 19 meeting the Bay City ISD Board of Trustees approved a disaster-pending resolution and adopted the proposed 2025–26 tax rate after district staff presented calculations showing rising property values tied to a large project; both measures passed unanimously, 6–0.
Bay City Independent School District trustees on Aug. 19 voted unanimously to adopt the district's proposed 2025–26 tax rate and to approve a disaster-pending resolution after hearing a detailed revenue and valuation presentation from district staff.
District staff outlined the tax-rate components, including the maintenance-and-operations rate and the debt-service rate, and described how large new property valuations affected the calculations. The board voted 6—0 on both the disaster-pending resolution and the final tax-rate motion.
The district's presentation said the combined proposed rate after adjustments would be about $1.0069 per $100 of taxable value. Staff said the maintenance-and-operations portion and debt service portion were calculated separately as part of the standard worksheet used with the county tax assessor-collector. The presenter explained that substantial new taxable value tied to a major project increased the district's base, which in the staff calculations allowed the district to lower the effective maintenance rate while still meeting debt obligations.
"We are adopting the disaster pennies, but lowering the INS so it still does not raise equals taxes," said a district staff member during the presentation, summarizing the staff's approach to combining the disaster-pending resolution with the proposed levy.
Staff also told trustees the district's certified taxable values rose significantly year over year, largely because of a large taxpayer project referenced in the presentation. The presenter identified the project by name during the meeting as Rome America and said that when the project is taxed at full value it accounts for a large portion of the increase in net taxable value used in the rate worksheet. The staff presentation also compared average market and taxable values for residences and noted that on the sample average residence shown in the worksheet the tax due would decline compared with the prior year's levy because of the change in taxable value.
Trustees asked clarifying questions about how average-tax calculations and homestead exemptions factored into the table the district provided. A member of the public also commented during the hearing on concerns about property-tax impacts for lower-value homes.
Formal actions recorded in the meeting minutes included: approval of a disaster-pending resolution and adoption of the 2025'26 tax rate. Both votes were recorded as passing 6 to 0.
The adopted tax-rate materials, the tax-rate worksheet, and the district's adopted 2025 budget were referenced as available in the board book and on the district website; trustees did not change the budget figures as part of the tax-rate motion.
Trustees scheduled and completed the required public meeting and published notices in accordance with statutory posting requirements before the board took its vote.
