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Nassau County School Board adopts $333.44 million budget, sets millage rates
Summary
At a special meeting, the Nassau County School Board adopted the fiscal 2025-26 final budget of $333,439,034.29, approved millage rates including a 3.043 required local effort and an amended 1.4 capital improvement millage, and adopted resolutions 1377 and 1378.
The Nassau County School Board adopted a $333,439,034.29 final budget for fiscal year 2025-26 and set the property tax millage rates at a special meeting focused on the budget and financial report.
The board approved the required local effort millage at 3.043 mills and the discretionary millage at 0.748 mills, and it amended the advertised capital improvement millage from 1.5 mills to 1.4 mills before approving it. The board also approved the voted additional operating millage at 1 mill and adopted resolution 1377 determining revenues and millage levies and resolution 1378 adopting the final budget for 2025-26.
“The rollback rate is the rate that, if set by the board, would generate the same revenue in dollars as the previous year,” said Ms. Harper, the board’s finance director, explaining the required public notice under state law. Ms. Harper said the rollback rate for the Nassau County School Board is 5.949 and that the board had advertised a rate of 6.291.
Dr. Burns presented the board’s recommendations for the millage rates and the budget. “Recommend approval of the required local effort millage is 3.043 mills,” Dr. Burns said, and later recommended approval of the district summary budget in the amount of $333,439,034.29.
Board members discussed the capital improvement millage after members noted the advertised figure differed from materials they had received. A motion to amend the capital improvement millage to 1.4 mills was made and seconded; the board voted to accept the amendment and then to approve the capital improvement millage at 1.4 mills.
Ms. Harper told the board the state funding formula would provide $40,119,767 in required local-effort-related state funding. Board members and staff noted that some report figures had been updated during the meeting and that the district summary budget totals would change accordingly in the packet before final adoption.
The board also voted to move the year-end financial report to the next meeting, after staff said an updated post-employment benefits number had just been received and needed inclusion. Board members noted the next meeting will be Thursday in Hilliard, with public comment at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting at 6:00 p.m.; an executive session was also announced for that Thursday meeting.
Votes recorded in the public transcript were taken by voice; no individual roll-call vote totals or member-by-member tallies were provided in the meeting record available for this article. The motions described above were announced and put to a vote and were approved as stated in the meeting transcript.
