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Papillion La Vista holds final tax hearing; board adopts 2025–26 budget
Summary
District officials outlined revenue pressures — including a drop in Title I funding, rising labor and insurance costs, and new school openings — during a public tax hearing. The board later approved the district's 2025'26 budget and related fund budgets in a unanimous roll call vote.
The Papillion La Vista Community Schools Board of Education held a public hearing on the district's final tax request and budget assumptions and later approved the 2025–26 budget.
During the hearing Superintendent Doctor Rickley and Chief Financial Officer Mr. Richards summarized revenue and cost pressures driving the budget proposal, including an estimated $550,000 loss in Title I funding, rising labor and health-insurance costs, and expenses tied to new and expanded facilities and programs. "Labor is our biggest spending item," Richards said, adding that labor accounts for roughly 85 to 87 percent of district spending.
The administration proposed a 2.6 percent general-fund budget increase that sets total budget authority at $169,816,374 and projects roughly $154,000,000 in revenues and expenditures for 2025–26. Richards said assessed…
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