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Godley ISD adopts 2025–26 budget, board approves tax rate at legal maximum
Summary
Godley Independent School District trustees held a public hearing on the 2025–26 budget, discussed bond payment timing, food-service shortfalls and lunch debt, then approved the budget and proposed tax rate, voting 6–1 to adopt the plan that uses the district's maximum allowable rate without voter approval.
Trustees of the Godley Independent School District approved the district's 2025'26 budget at a regular meeting after a public hearing that addressed bond-payment timing, food-service shortfalls and lunch debt.
Spencer, a district staff member who presented the budget, told the board the next bond payment is due in August 2025 and that the district makes semiannual bond payments in February and August. "Their recommendation was that we accrue the August expense in the 24–25 school year so that we have 2 payments in every single year," Spencer said, explaining how the district timed payments to even out fiscal-year costs.
The board also discussed food service revenues and unpaid…
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