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Hardee County School Board adopts FY 2025–26 budget and sets millage at 5.252 mills
Summary
The Hardee County School Board on Sept. 8 approved a suite of budget measures including a 5.252-mill rate (3.004 required local effort, 0.748 discretionary, 1.5 capital outlay) and adopted the original and final FY 2025–26 budgets after a public hearing; motions passed unanimously.
The Hardee County School Board unanimously adopted millage rates and the district’s fiscal year 2025–26 budget during a Sept. 8 public hearing and regular meeting. The board set the required local effort at 3.004 mills, the discretionary operating rate at 0.748 mills and the capital outlay rate at 1.5 mills, totaling 5.252 mills.
At the start of the hearing, the presiding speaker said, “The proposed millage rates represent a 16.33% increase in millage from the old rollback rate,” and noted taxable property values in the county rose by more than $545,000,000 (about 17.72%) to over $3,600,000,000, which affected revenue projections. The board said the discretionary…
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