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Farmington staff say preliminary levy figures are incomplete as district prepares 2026 budget kickoff
Summary
District finance staff presented preliminary tax-levy figures that show a large apparent drop but warned the state data are incomplete; board members were briefed on the levy process, referendum timing and key levy components ahead of a September certification and a December final levy vote.
Director Brian Huska, the district finance official, told the Farmington Public School District board that the report the district received from the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) showed “a reduction of 9.5%,” but he warned: “It will not be 9.5. It will be somewhere between 13%.”
Huska said the document the board received that evening was MDE’s statutory report, compiled from district submissions in August and released to districts on a statutory schedule. He said the district will return in September to ask the board to certify a maximum levy and will bring a specific final levy amount for approval at the district’s first December meeting.
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