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Blue Valley Board approves 2025‑26 legal maximum budget, including 33% local option budget; vote 6‑1
Summary
The Board of Education voted 6‑1 to approve the district’s 2025‑26 legal maximum budget and estimated tax rate, incorporating a 33% local option budget resolution; trustees debated mill levy levels, bond strategy and taxpayer impacts before the vote.
The Blue Valley Board of Education approved its 2025‑26 legal maximum budget and estimated tax rate, including a local option budget (LOB) resolution set at 33%, by a 6‑1 vote.
The motion—recorded in the meeting as “the Board of Education approve the 2025, 26 legal maximum budget and estimated tax rate, including the approval of the local option budget resolution”—was moved and seconded during the board’s regular meeting and carried after discussion. The board president called the vote and announced the motion passed 6‑1.
Trustees and staff spent substantial time debating the bond and interest (debt service) mill levy. District finance staff described a proposed 9‑mill levy on the bond and interest fund intended to smooth tax burden over multiple years and to support a planned bond…
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