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Budget committee recommends $33,052,494.66 budget and imposes permanent tax rate
Summary
The Brookings-Harbor School District 17C budget committee voted to approve the proposed 2025–26 budget and recommended it for board adoption, and also moved to impose the district’s permanent tax rate of $3.2494 per $1,000 of assessed value. The committee recorded the approval by roll call after a presentation that emphasized one-time funds and projected staffing reductions.
The Brookings‑Harbor School District 17C budget committee voted to approve the proposed 2025–26 budget and to impose the district’s permanent tax rate of $3.2494 per $1,000 of assessed value.
Nathan Hanscomb, the committee member who moved the committee motion, read the formal motion recommending the proposed budget for the 2025–26 fiscal year in the amount recorded in the meeting materials as $33,052,494.66. “I move that the budget committee of Brookings Harbor School District 17C approve the proposed budget for the 2025–26 fiscal year,” Hanscomb said when presenting the motion; a second was recorded and the chair conducted a roll-call vote that resulted in approval.
The committee then separately moved to impose the district’s permanent tax rate. A committee member moved the tax-rate motion and it also passed on a roll-call vote. The presenters explained the permanent rate is unchanged from last year and is set by statute unless voters approve a bond or levy.
Why it matters: the budget committee’s approval is the formal committee recommendation to the district board of directors; the board will hold a budget hearing and is expected to act on the committee’s recommendation at its June meeting. The committee noted the approved document is a working budget that may be adjusted if the state’s biennial school‑fund forecast changes.
Details from the presentation: presenters emphasized that the budget relies partly on one-time revenues — including a one-time $750,000 federal forest-fee payment and $1,000,000 of a $2.8 million carryover — that will not recur. Presenters told the committee that, absent additional revenue, the district foresees additional reductions of roughly $1.7 million later in the biennium and has already budgeted staff reductions to align spending with expected enrollment-based state funding.
Next steps: the board will hold a public budget hearing at its regular June meeting and is the body that formally adopts the budget; the fiscal year begins July 1. The committee’s vote forwarded the recommended budget and confirmed the permanent tax rate for the district’s notice and county filing requirements.
