Financial Transparency
Please read the following message from Superintendent Malinda Golden
Texas School Finance 101 & Implications for Belton ISD
Belton ISD Board Workshop - January 27, 2025
2024-2025 District Budget Adoption
The Belton ISD Board of Trustees adopted the 2024-2025 Fiscal Year budget and tax rate.
The $150,859,691 adopted budget reflects a 1% increase over the previous fiscal year. This increase is primarily attributed to rising operating costs. Expenditures were reduced by $4,947,822 to offset declining revenues and provide for a 1% pay increase for staff. Belton ISD believes in the investment of its staff and strives to be competitive in attracting and retaining exceptional employees.
The Board of Trustees also adopted a decreased tax rate for the sixth year in a row. The adopted rate of $1.1494 per $100 of assessed value
includes $0.7552 for maintenance and operations and $0.3942 for debt service. This is a $0.0023 decrease from last year’s tax rate.
Despite the decrease in rate, this tax rate will raise more taxes for Maintenance and Operations than last year's tax rate.
Adopted Budget
Proposed Budget
Notice of Public Hearing
Tax Rate Calculation
Tax Rate Information
Financial Transparency
Check Register
According to reports and warnings from the Texas Association of School Boards and the Texas Association of School Business Officials, the publication of detailed information on school district websites containing vendors and amounts paid facilitates perpetrators to create sophisticated phishing schemes which appear legitimate. It remains the mission of Belton ISD to provide current, detailed and transparent information to our taxpayers. Therefore, we are providing the request form below as an expedited pathway for citizens to request the reports. We appreciate your understanding and regret the unnecessary steps should they cause inconvenience. We will promptly send the reports directly to the contact e-mail listed once we verify the validity of the request.