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CHAPEL HILL ISD board adopts 2025 tax rate after public hearing
Summary
Board adopted a tax rate the district says lowers the M&O rate but yields more revenue because property valuations rose; trustees voted unanimously after the statutory public hearing.
The Chapel Hill Independent School District board held a public hearing and then voted unanimously to adopt the district's 2025 property tax rate.
Dr. McLean, who presented the hearing, said the district's maintenance and operations (M&O) rate being proposed is 0.6929 and the interest-and-sinking (I&S) rate is 0.38. He explained the difference between the "no new revenue" rate and the "voter approval" rate and noted that, even though the M&O rate has decreased by roughly 0.0323 (a little over 3¢), rising property values mean the motion language must show a 2.28% effective increase in revenue. "So the tax rate information this evening... the M and O rate being presented for y'all's approval is 0.6929 for the 25-26 school year," Dr. McLean said during the presentation.
The board made a motion to adopt the rate as presented; the motion was seconded and carried by a unanimous voice vote. Meeting materials indicated the adopted rates combine to a total rate equal to the sum of the M&O and I&S components (M&O 0.6929 + I&S 0.38 = 1.0729 per $100 of valuation). The presenter reiterated that the statutory motion must show the effective-percent change driven by appraisal value increases even when the district's per-dollar M&O levy decreases.
Board members asked clarifying questions about how state aid interacts with the voter-approval tax rate; Dr. McLean said the voter-approval rate "does account for state aid," while the no-new-revenue calculation does not. The adoption closed the public hearing portion and advanced routine tax-rate administration steps required by law.
