On Thursday night, the Homer-Center School Board passed the 2024-25 budget, and the budget holds the line on property taxes.
By a 7-0 vote, the board approved the $20,118,654 budget that keeps taxes at 17.4270 mills. Business Manager Gregg Kalemba said that the substantial tax increase last year was one of the factors that kept the taxes at the same level, and he said another factor was the fact that the district prepared itself for when covid-19 related funding ended.
He also credited increases in the earned income tax and in state funding, but he hopes that there will be more funding coming from the budget when it is approved.
In other business, the board approved the 2024-25 Jr./Sr. High and Elementary Student Handbooks, and a guaranteed energy savings contract with McClure Company for the Elementary School Boiler replacement in the amount of $603,616.
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