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Ropes ISD board adopts 2025–26 tax rates; M&O $0.7534, I&S $0.3007
Summary
The ROPES ISD Board of Trustees voted 7–0 on Aug. 11 to set the 2025–26 maintenance & operations (M&O) tax rate at $0.7534 and the interest & sinking (I&S) tax rate at $0.3007, producing a combined rate shown in district materials. Motions were moved and seconded by trustees as recorded in the minutes.
Board President Donald Rhoads convened the ROPES Independent School District Board of Trustees on Aug. 11, 2025; trustees voted unanimously to adopt the district’s tax rates for the 2025–26 school year.
Trustee Donnie Halpain moved to adopt the Maintenance & Operations tax rate of $0.7534 for the 2025–2026 school year, seconded by Trustee Tysen Mortensen; the motion passed 7-0. "Motion made to adopt the Maintenance & Operations Tax Rate of $0.7534 for the 2025-2026 school year made by Donnie Halpain, second by Tysen Mortensen; passed 7-0" (minutes). Trustee Donnie Halpain also moved—and Trustee Tysen Mortensen seconded—the adoption of an Interest & Sinking tax rate of $0.3007; that motion likewise passed 7-0.
The minutes and accompanying tax-rate worksheet included in the meeting materials list district taxable values and the rate calculations used to set these figures. The record shows the district’s combined rate figures and the worksheet fields (compiled as Form 50-859 from the Texas Comptroller) provided the technical basis for the board’s action. A separate agenda item listing a resolution to adopt the proposed tax rate is recorded as "no action taken" in the minutes, separate from the motions that set the M&O and I&S rates.
The votes were unanimous among trustees present: Keila Ketchersid, Chad Brooks, Donnie Halpain, Tysen Mortensen, Chad Partington and Blake Thrash. The board’s formal adoption of the M&O and I&S rates governs property-tax revenue available to the district for operations and debt service in the coming school year.
