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Judson ISD board adopts total tax rate of $0.9796 after VADER fails
Summary
Trustees voted 7-0 to set the maintenance and operations rate at 0.6669 and interest-and-sinking at 0.3127 for a total rate of 0.9796 after the district—s VADER ballot measure failed, prompting adjustments discussed at the meeting.
With the district's VADER measure having failed, the Judson ISD Board of Trustees revisited its tax-rate plan and adopted a new rate at the Nov. meeting. Trustee Conoyer moved to set a maintenance and operations (M&O) rate of 0.6669 and an interest-and-sinking (I&S) rate of 0.3127 for a combined tax rate of 0.9796; the motion passed on a 7-0 vote.
Trustees discussed the constraints and timing of tax-rate work, including prior board actions earlier in the fiscal year that limited mid-cycle adjustments. Trustee Macias asked whether the board could reverse earlier penny adjustments in the I&S calculation next year to raise rate capacity, and district staff said any change would need legal review and could only take effect in a subsequent tax year.
Speakers in public comment had framed the failure of the VADER measure as a driver of near-term fiscal stress; the board—s tax-rate action sets the district—s property-tax policy for the coming budget cycle absent voter-approved revenue.
