The Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools Board of Education will hold a budget hearing at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 14, at the school district’s Central Office, 2010 N. 59th St., Kansas City, Kansas.
A public hearing on exceeding the revenue neutral tax rate for the 2021-2022 school year will follow at 5:10 p.m., according to a meeting notice.
The proposed school district mill levy rate is the same as last year’s.
During the hearings, the public may speak and ask questions about the budget.
The proposed budget for 2021-2022 is 49.65 mills, the same rate as the 2020-2021 actual tax rate, according to the district’s budget document.
In the 2019-2020 school year, the rate was 49.605 mills.
Proposed total expenditures for the 2021-2022 year are $584,877,945. Last year, they were $417,436,666.
The proposed budget will refinance bonds to save about $4 million in interest costs and will move 1.16 mills from the bond and interest fund into the local option budget (LOB) fund for additional operating expenses, according to earlier reports from district officials.
It increases the local option budget from 30 to 33 percent. District officials said earlier this year that it would not increase the mill levy rate for local taxpayers.
One of the many other items on the agenda Tuesday will be a discussion on staff vaccination numbers.
The meeting will be shown on YouTube, according to the agenda.
The meeting agenda is online at https://go.boarddocs.com/ks/kckps/Board.nsf/vpublic.
To see an earlier story on the budget, visit https://wyandotteonline.com/kck-school-board-to-consider-bond-refinance-and-raising-local-option-budget-authority/.