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Lowell Area Schools approves 2025–26 budget appropriations and millage rates after hearing on tax rollback effects
Summary
Trustees adopted amendments to the 2024–25 budget, approved the 2025–26 appropriation resolution and millage rates, and heard that Headlee-related rollbacks reduced operating and sinking fund mills despite rising taxable values.
The Lowell Area Schools Board of Education approved final amendments to the 2024–25 budget and adopted the 2025–26 appropriation resolution and millage rates after a Truth in Taxation hearing on June 9.
At the hearing the district’s budget presenter described the millage structure that supports operations, sinking fund capital projects and voter-approved debt. "Last year, our levy was 17.9082 mills, and this year, it's being rolled back," the presenter said, citing rapid increases in taxable values that trigger the Headlee rollback and reduce allowable levy rates.
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