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Barbers Hill ISD adopts 2025 tax levy totaling $1.0523 per $100 valuation
Summary
The Barbers Hill ISD Board adopted a 2025 tax levy Sept. 22 setting the maintenance and operations rate at $0.8022 and the interest-and-sinking rate at $0.2501 (total $1.0523); trustees voted 7-0. The I&S portion services 13 bond issues with payoffs through 2054.
The Barbers Hill Independent School District Board of Trustees voted 7-0 on Sept. 22 to adopt the district's 2025 Tax Levy Ordinance and Resolution. Assistant Superintendent of Finance Becky McManus presented the ordinance and said the maintenance and operations rate is $0.8022 and the interest and sinking (I&S) rate is $0.2501, "equals a total rate of $1.0523." The board approved the motion to adopt the rates (mover: Benny May; second: Fred Skinner).
McManus told trustees the I&S rate will pay principal and interest on thirteen bond issues, with payoff years listed from 2027 through 2054 (including the 2024 $180.4M issue and the 2020 $139.5M issue). The board also held a public hearing on the tax rate but recorded no public comments. The motion to adopt the tax levy passed unanimously (George Barrera, Eric Davis, Benny May, Clint Pipes, Fred Skinner, Becky Tice and Mark Wilson: yea 7-0).
