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Agua Fria board adopts 2025-26 budget, levies $9.4 million for adjacent ways
Summary
The Agua Fria Union High School District Governing Board on July 10 adopted its maintenance and operations and district additional assistance budgets for fiscal year 2025-26 and authorized a $9.4 million levy to fund adjacent ways improvements, keeping the adjacent-ways tax rate at roughly 35.5 cents.
The Agua Fria Union High School District Governing Board on July 10 unanimously adopted the district's maintenance and operations and district additional assistance fund budgets for the 2025–26 fiscal year and authorized a $9.4 million levy to fund adjacent ways improvements, board members said during a public hearing and subsequent vote.
District staff said the adjacent-ways levy—kept at about 35.5 cents—will fund work that supports school construction projects but is not part of classroom instruction, including sidewalks, parking areas, street lamps, crosswalks, fire lanes, utilities, a forthcoming traffic signal and two short bridges from the frontage road into the campus. “Adjacent-ways funding is used to support some of our construction projects… a lot of these ancillary components around safe egress and ingress,” a district presenter told the board during the public hearing.
The board opened the item with a public hearing after publishing notice in the West Valley View and on the district website as required. The presenter said the district sequenced adjacent-ways levies over several years to limit the annual tax-rate impact on property owners. For the coming fiscal year the district intends to levy $9,400,000 for adjacent ways; officials said the amount will support projects at Goodyear High School and the upcoming Hilltop School for the Arts, among other sites.
Board members also noted that some state budget items and formula amounts were not finalized when the district prepared its proposed budget. The presenter said the district forecast a 2% enrollment increase and expects to revise the budget to reflect final state revenue figures when new forms are released, likely at the December board meeting.
The motion to adopt the maintenance and operations and district additional assistance fund budgets for 2025–26 was moved and approved during the meeting. The board separately approved a resolution to levy property taxes for the adjacent-ways fund, reflecting the $9.4 million levy discussed in the public hearing.
The budget adoption and tax-levy approvals conclude the two-step process the board followed this year: adoption of a proposed budget at a prior meeting, publication and a public hearing, then final adoption.
Items discussed in the hearing were presented by district staff and no public speaker spoke against the proposals during the allotted public-comment time.
