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Agua Fria Union High School District adopts 2025–26 maintenance-and-operations budget, maintains adjacent-ways levy
Summary
The Agua Fria Union High School District governing board voted July 10 to adopt the 2025–26 maintenance-and-operations and district additional assistance budgets and to authorize the adjacent-ways property tax levy, which staff said will raise about $9.4 million and keep the levy rate near 35.5 cents.
The Agua Fria Union High School District governing board voted July 10 to adopt the district's 2025—26 maintenance-and-operations and district additional assistance fund budgets and to authorize the adjacent-ways property tax levy to fund noninstructional infrastructure such as sidewalks, parking lots, traffic signals and fire lanes.
At a statutorily required public hearing, an unidentified district presenter explained that the district structured the adjacent-ways levy over several years to reduce single-year tax-rate impacts. "With the budget for next school year, you will see we are maintaining that same, proposed tax rate of 35 and a half cents or so," the presenter said, adding the levy would raise approximately $9,400,000 to support projects including Hilltop School for the Arts.
The presenter told the board the state's finalized budget contained a 2% increase in the base support formula and some one-time monies; staff said they expect to revise the budget and forms at the district's December meeting to incorporate the updated state calculations. The presenter also said the district forecasted 2% student enrollment growth for 2025—26 that contributed modestly to the funding picture.
The governing board adopted the maintenance-and-operations and district additional assistance fund budget for 2025—26 "as presented" and authorized the district to levy the adjacent-ways tax. The public record in the meeting contains the formal resolution language read into the record; the transcript records verbal assent from board members but does not list a full roll-call vote tally or identify a mover and seconder by name.
Why it matters: adjacent-ways levies pay for infrastructure immediately surrounding schools that is not funded through classroom budgets. By sequencing the levy over multiple years, district staff said the board aims to smooth the tax-rate impact on property owners while funding planned construction and site-access projects.
What's next: staff said the district will update budget forms and likely present a budget revision for board consideration at the December meeting to reflect final state formula amounts and one-time allocations.
