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Katy ISD adopts 2025–26 budget and holds tax rate at 1.11; trustees ask questions about state funding math
Summary
Trustees approved the district's 2025–26 official budget and kept the tax rate at 1.11. Trustees discussed why the 'rate to maintain revenue' figure in state templates can appear lower when the state increases formula funding, and asked administration for clearer communications to taxpayers.
The Katy Independent School District Board of Trustees approved the district’s 2025–26 official budget and maintained the proposed tax rate at 1.11 during its Aug. 25 meeting. Trustees discussed a technical but politically sensitive point in the state-provided tax-rate notice: a line that shows a lower rate needed "to maintain the same level of maintenance and operations revenue" when state funding…
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