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Seguin ISD asks voters to approve Proposition A to add $2.3 million for operations
Summary
Seguin Independent School District is asking voters to approve Proposition A, a voter-approval tax ratification election (VATRE) on the Nov. 5 ballot that the district says would generate $2.3 million in new annual maintenance-and-operations revenue—about $1.3 million of which the district says would come from state funding—to support teacher and staff pay, transportation and special-education services.
Seguin Independent School District announced that it will place Proposition A, a voter-approval tax ratification election, on the November ballot to seek voter approval of a maintenance-and-operations tax rate that the district says would produce $2.3 million in new revenue for the current fiscal year.
An unidentified district speaker described the measure as a way to “maximize the amount of state funding the district receives per dollar of local property tax collections” and said 57% of the new revenue would come from the Texas Education Agency in the form of state funding.
The district framed the measure as an effort to shore up teacher and staff pay, maintain student programs and address staffing challenges. Seguin ISD serves more than 7,200 students across 13 campuses and employs roughly 1,100 full-time staff; the announcement said the district had 22 open positions on the first day of school and that it currently needs 10 bus…
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