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Board preview: budget adds security staff, facility work and proposes 0.75% levy increase
Summary
Assistant superintendent and finance staff laid out the board's 2025'26 budget overview, highlighting added SROs and monitors, air-conditioning planning, a reduction in leased large buses from 12 to 6, new PILOT revenue of about $151,000, and a proposed 3.9% budget increase with a 0.75% proposed tax levy change.
At a March 11 board meeting the district's assistant superintendent for business presented the board's working budget for 2025'26 and highlighted safety, transportation and facilities priorities.
The assistant superintendent said the draft budget would increase overall spending by 3.9% and that, "the taxes are going up point 75%" under the current proposal. He described a series of staffing additions and capital priorities intended to address safety and day-to-day operations: an increase in school-resource officers (one added at the high school and one at the middle school),…
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