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Hamtramck Board Approves Proposed 2025–26 Budget, Restores 18-Mill Levy and OKs $8.6M Grant Match
Summary
The Hamtramck Board of Education approved the district’s final 2024–25 amendment and the proposed 2025–26 budget, set tax rates including an 18-mill non-homestead levy, and voted to reserve about $4.3 million as the local match for an $8.6 million infrastructure grant; the board also approved personnel and contracting items.
The Hamtramck Board of Education on the evening approved a package of budget and operational measures, including the final amendment to the 2024–25 budget, the proposed 2025–26 budget and the district’s tax rates for the coming fiscal year.
Speaker 3, who led the budget presentation, said local revenues in 2024–25 rose by about $268,000 due largely to roughly $200,000 in investment earnings and about $70,000 from restoring the non-homestead levy to 18 mills. “We restored the 18 mills and it equated to about $70,000,” Speaker 3 said during the presentation.
Why it matters: Speaker 3 described a sharp projected increase in state revenue for 2025–26—driven primarily by an $8.6 million infrastructure/health-and-safety grant the district received—which the presentation said reduces the district’s need to use roughly $12 million in general-fund…
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