Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the School Budget topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Chase County Schools posts proposed $15.9 million 2025–26 budget; hearing set for Sept. 9
Summary
Chase County Schools posted a budget summary showing $15,932,518 budgeted for 2025–26 and a $8,701,640 property-tax total; a public hearing is scheduled for Sept. 9, 2025 at 5:40 p.m. at 520 E. 9th Street, Imperial, Neb. The notice cites Neb. Rev. Stat. §§13-501 to 13-513.
Chase County Schools published a proposed budget and set a public hearing for 5:40 p.m. on Sept. 9, 2025, at 520 E. 9th Street in Imperial, Neb., the district's official notice states.
The budget table included three years of figures. The totals row lists $12,588,548 for 2023–24 (actual), $13,194,154 for 2024–25 (actual/estimated) and $15,932,518 for 2025–26 (budgeted). The notice also prints a total property-tax figure of $8,701,640 labeled in the document as the total breakdown of property tax.
Line items shown in the published summary include a General Fund of $11,774,173 for 2025–26; a Special Building fund of $1,970,260 for 2025–26; an Activities fund of $976,705 for 2025–26; and a School Nutrition total of $641,519 for 2025–26. The Depreciation line shows $537,093 for 2025–26. An Employee Benefit entry appears in the table for $22,832 in 2024–25; several smaller lines (Bond, Qualified Capital Purpose Undertaking, Student Fee) are also printed with the amounts shown in the table.
The printed form includes column labels such as 'Total Available,' 'Resources Before Property Taxes,' 'Total Personal and Real Property Tax Requirement' and 'Necessary Cash Reserve.' In the transcript text the numeric columns and these labels are separated across lines; where alignment between specific right-hand column values and those labels is unclear in the provided text, this story reports the dollar amounts exactly as they appear in the table and notes the alignment ambiguity.
The notice cites Nebraska Statute sections 13-501 to 13-513 as the legal basis for the hearing and directs taxpayers to review the budget at the Clerk/Secretary's office during regular business hours and online at the Nebraska Education Portal (https://nep.education.ne.gov).
A public hearing is the next procedural step; the notice invites taxpayers to provide support, opposition, criticism, suggestions or observations on the proposed budget and to consider amendments at that meeting. No formal vote or adoption is recorded in the posted notice.
