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Farmington board approves 2025–26 tax levy and general appropriations resolution
Summary
The Farmington Public School District Board of Education on June 17 approved a tax rate request and the 2025–26 general appropriations resolution, and adopted a revised 2024–25 budget. The board also approved a series of related budget motions and an expenditures report.
Farmington Public School District Board of Education members on June 17 approved the district's tax rate request and adopted the 2025—6 general appropriations resolution, following roll-call votes that carried unanimously.
The action is the formal step the board uses to set property tax rates and adopt a spending plan for the coming fiscal year. The board approved a Form L-4029 tax rate request that, as read into the record, "results in 8.3039 mills on homesteads and industrial personal property, 21.2 mills on non-homesteads, and 14.3039 mills on commercial personal property." The motion to approve the tax rate was made by Claudia Heinrich and seconded by Doctor Turner; the vote was recorded as unanimous.
Board President Terry Weems said the question would proceed by roll call and the board then moved to the general appropriations resolution for 2025—6. "I move that the Board of Education approve the 2025—26 general appropriations resolution as presented and waive the reading of the resolution," Heinrich said before the motion carried on a roll-call vote. The board also approved a revised 2024—25 general appropriations resolution in a separate motion.
In the same meeting the treasurer presented an expenditures printout that the board approved by motion. The approved disbursement totals read into the record were: General Fund $12,934,735; General Fund athletics $202,470; Capital Projects (2020 bond) $636,151; Capital Projects (2023 bond) $310,541; Nutrition Services $413,457; Benefits Stabilization $1,397,475; total $15,894,829.
Board members and staff said the budget had been reviewed in committee and at the June 3 meeting and that trustees had opportunities to ask detailed questions before voting. The board also approved other annual financial housekeeping items that night, including bank/investment institutions and authorized signatories.
The approvals send the district's tax request and spending plan into effect for the 2025—6 fiscal year and finalize year-end adjustments for 2024—25.
