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Boards spar over revenue‑sharing and transparency as budgets tighten
Summary
County and school board members used the joint session to press one another on timing, transparency and whether the county’s proposed unshared tax‑rate increase broke norms; several members called for structured 2‑by‑2 or joint review of the revenue‑sharing agreement and earlier exchange of needs data.
A central thread of the joint budget work session was the two boards’ debate over the revenue‑sharing agreement and how the county and schools communicate about budget assumptions.
Several school board members said they learned only recently that the county's proposed 1.5‑cent tax‑rate increase would not be shared with APS and said that the timing and manner of that decision undermined trust. "There has not been a meeting of our two boards or a set of 2 by 2s…
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