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El Campo ISD approves 2025–26 budget, keeps tax rate at $1.0527; authorizes bond defeasance
Summary
El Campo Independent School District’s board on Aug. 27 adopted the 2025–26 general operating budget, set the M&O tax rate at 0.7487 and the I&S rate at 0.304 (total 1.0527), approved final 2024–25 amendments and authorized up to $1.95 million in bond defeasance.
The El Campo Independent School District Board of Trustees on Aug. 27 adopted the district’s 2025–26 general operating budget and set the tax rates the board will levy for the coming year.
The board voted unanimously to set the maintenance and operations rate at 0.7487 per $100 of valuation and the interest and sinking (I&S) rate at 0.304, for a combined rate of 1.0527. Trustees made the two tax‑rate motions separately and voted to approve both.
Finance staff told trustees that staff calculations and the packet figures show the proposed 2025–26 general operating budget at $39,274,584 and explained the state’s teacher retention allotment will flow to classroom pay increases. Staff also reviewed final…
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