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Boone County Board approves 65.5¢ tax rate, FY2026 working budget and expansion of student opportunities
Summary
After a public hearing with dozens of speakers both for and against, the Boone County Board of Education voted 4–1 to levy a 65.5¢ tax rate per $100 of assessed real and tangible property, approved the FY2026 working budget and authorized an expansion of student opportunities.
The Boone County Board of Education voted to levy school tax rates and adopt its working budget for fiscal 2026 after a public hearing in which parents, teachers, students and residents spoke both for and against the proposal.
Chairman Parks opened the public hearing on the proposed tax rate levy before the board’s financial presentation. Kelly Reed of the Boone County Education Association told the board she supported renewing the levy, saying the proposed rate is “almost exact to the penny of what we had 10 years ago” and credited the funding for recent steps to recruit and retain teachers. "We were the first local board to hit a $50,000 base pay for our earliest teachers," Reed said.
Opponents warned of the levy’s impact on fixed-income homeowners. Randy Stegall, a resident of Hebron, said…
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