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Marion Center board adopts $30.25M budget, sets tentative 5.54% real-estate tax increase
Summary
The Marion Center Area School Board approved a $30,250,426 general fund budget for 2025–26 and set a tentative real-estate tax rate of 13.4986 mills — a 5.54% increase — after discussion of state budget uncertainty and local cost pressures.
Marion Center Area School Board voted June 23 to adopt a proposed 2025–26 general fund budget of $30,250,426, with the motion passing 8–1. Mr. Moretti moved the budget and Ms. Young seconded; Board member Beatty cast the lone no vote.
Business Manager Mr. Martini told the board that “there has yet to be a state budget approved,” and Superintendent Mr. Weimer said the district trimmed the proposal by reducing staff and identified electricity, health insurance, special education and cyber costs as the principal fiscal hurdles. In related action the board set a tentative tax structure that includes a real-estate rate of 13.4986 mills (a 5.54% increase), an earned income tax of 0.85% and a real estate transfer tax of 0.50%. That tax motion passed 7–2 (Mr. Beatty and Ms. Young voted no).
The budget vote record listed Mr. Beatty as voting no and the other eight members in favor. The board also approved routine tax-administration items: the 2025 Homestead and Farmstead Exclusion Resolution and a resolution allowing installment payment of school real property taxes. District leadership framed the package as a response to rising operating costs and uncertainty at the state level; the board did not amend the total budget figure at the meeting.
What's next: the district approved the proposed budget and tentative tax rates; final millage and budget adoption typically follow state guidance and any required public notice periods.
