Catoosa County Board of Education unanimously adopts FY 2026 budget, sets millage at 14.346

The Catoosa County Board of Education on July 31, 2025, voted unanimously to adopt its fiscal year 2026 budget and to set the millage rate at 14.346, following staff presentation of final local tax-digest figures. Superintendent (unnamed in the transcript) recommended the board adopt the resolution as presented.

Board staff told members the district received a final local tax digest in mid-July. A staff presenter said, “there was a larger than expected increase in exemptions,” and that House Bill 90 this year allowed taxpayers to obtain exemptions during the appeal period; final exemption figures were available when the digest was certified around July 15–16. The presenter reported new property growth in the county of a little more than $46,000,000 and exemptions of $116,000,000, a difference the presenter described as producing a net decline in taxable value.

The budget adopted lists a…