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Weslaco ISD board adopts slightly lower 2025–26 tax rate, approves projects and contracts
Summary
Trustees on Sept. 15 adopted a total property tax rate of 0.9433 per $100 of assessed value — a 0.51% decrease from last year — and approved final completions for athletic turf projects and two legal-counsel contracts. District leaders said the change and recent state homestead exemptions will lower the average homeowner’s tax bill.
Weslaco Independent School District trustees voted Sept. 15 to adopt a property tax rate of 0.9433 per $100 of assessed taxable value for the 2025–26 year, district officials said. The adopted rate breaks down to a maintenance and operations (M&O) rate of 0.7291 and a debt-service rate of 0.2142.
Superintendent Richard Rivera and business staff told the board the adopted rate represents about a 0.51% decrease from the prior year. Staff said the district’s certified taxable value for the year is roughly $3.5 billion and that a recent increase in the state homestead exemption (from…
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