Beach Park CCSD 3 adopts 2025 tax levy as federal ESSER aid ends
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After a presentation on revenue assumptions and the end of ESSER funding, the Beach Park CCSD 3 board voted to adopt its 2025 tax levy and approved routine personnel and records actions; the district plans to file the levy with the Lake County Clerk before the end of December.
The Beach Park CCSD 3 Board of Education on Dec. (meeting date not specified) voted to adopt its proposed 2025 tax levy after a presentation from district finance staff outlining revenue assumptions and rising costs.
Finance presenter Mr. Adams told the board the proposal was adopted by the board at a Nov. 17 meeting, posted to the district website Nov. 18 and published in the Lake County News Summit on Dec. 2 in keeping with Truth‑in‑Taxation posting practices. He said the district will request a levy that, as presented, represents a 3.28% increase over the 2024 extension but that county officials will set the final extension once the equalized assessed value and the Consumer Price Index are finalized; the presenter said the actual projected extension would be about 3.19%.
Adams said federal ESSER funds that supported summer school, after‑school programs and one‑to‑one Chromebook refreshes — about $5,400,000 through September 2024, he said — have ended, and the district will need to find local dollars to sustain those programs. He also cited higher costs for materials and purchased services and projected health insurance increases (which he said could range from about 15% to 32%) as pressures informing the levy request. The presentation included an assessor estimate of roughly $3,100,000 in new construction growth and an assumed 10% increase in equalized assessed value used in levy planning.
The board moved to adopt the 2025 tax levy later in the meeting; members responded affirmatively during roll call and the motion passed. The district will file the adopted levy with the Lake County Clerk before the statutory deadline in late December, at which point county officials will calculate the final extension based on updated EAV and CPI figures.
Votes at a glance - Adopt 2025 tax levy: motion passed (individual vote tallies not specified in the transcript). - Approve 1.0 FTE special education resource teacher at Powell Elementary: motion passed. - Review of closed session minutes and destruction of eligible audio recordings (maintain confidentiality for some minutes, release others): motion passed.
The meeting record shows the board followed the statutory posting steps for the levy and then took all actions listed above during the same session. The board will receive final extension numbers from Lake County once the county assessor and clerk finalize equalized assessed values and CPI figures.