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Waverly School Board holds budget hearings, approves 6% base growth increase to set tax request
Summary
At a Sept. 3 board meeting, Waverly School District 145 held a budget hearing and a special hearing to set its final tax request. The board then passed a resolution to increase its base growth percentage by 6%—$1,885,384—to determine property tax authority.
Waverly School District 145’s Board of Education opened a budget hearing at 5:33 p.m. Sept. 3, where Business Manager Mikal Shalikow presented the district’s budget summary for the upcoming fiscal year. The hearing closed at 5:44 p.m., and a special hearing to set the district’s final tax request followed; Shalikow presented details on the tax request for the 2025–2026 budget before that hearing closed at 5:59 p.m.
After the hearings, at the regular meeting session, the board unanimously passed a resolution to increase the base growth percentage used to determine its property tax request authority by 6 percent, an increase shown as $1,885,384. The motion was made by Board member Scott Claycomb and seconded by Board member Cole Stark; the board recorded a unanimous vote in favor. The resolution sets the formula basis the district will use when preparing its final tax request for the county and state tax authorities.
The board noted that notice of the meeting and budget hearing was provided in advance and that a copy of the Open Meetings Act is posted in the meeting room. The Business Manager’s presentation and the hearings did not record additional budget line-item debate in the segments provided.
Next steps recorded in the meeting minutes are procedural: the board closed the hearings and proceeded with the regular meeting agenda; the district will file its final tax request in accordance with state deadline requirements.
