By COLE REIF
Great Bend Post
The USD 428 Board of Education voted in favor of publishing the 2020-2021 budget which will see a slight decrease in the mill levy. The upcoming school budget will see a .019 drop in the mill rate compared to the previous year.
USD
428 Superintendent Khris Thexton noted the Supplemental General Local Option Budget
(LOB) went up just over one mill from last year, so the district dropped their
capital outlay fund to even the rate.
"Our goal is to keep our mill rate as flat as possible," said Thexton. "We have money in our capital outlay, so the reduction of one mill won't put an issue on our capital outlay."
The 2019-2020 mill levy for total expenditures was 41.459. The published budget for the upcoming school year is 41.440.
Detailed information on the budget is currently available at the District
Education Center and will also be presented at the August public hearing.
"There are other documents including a one-page graphic of all the expenditures and the codes and forms that we use to fill out the budget," Thexton said.
The hearing before the final approval of the 2020-2021 budget is set for August
10th at 5 p.m. inside the District Education Center, 201 South
Patton Road.