31-05-2025
Weber County School District considering tax increase
WEBER COUNTY, Utah (ABC4) — The Weber County School District held a special meeting today, May 30, to consider possible future tax hikes.
The district held a meeting on the topic this week — local officials saying they may need to raise taxes in order to maximize state funding. The district's business administrator highlighted the need to keep up with covering their expenses, including teacher salaries.
'I think to be prudent with making sure that we are keeping up with our expenses of the district as different things come up, you know, within capital and safety,' Weber County School District Business Administrator Brock Mitchell stated. 'And then our educators' salaries.'
These tax hikes are not yet final, according to Mitchell. Local officials also said it's possible the tax increase could be enacted incrementally, instead of all at once.
'Every year, the county changes their rates, and what they're guaranteeing you is the same amount of tax revenue as the previous year, plus any new growth in the area,' Mitchell said. 'That's why these rates change, and they decrease — because as a district, we chose over time not to raise those rates and essentially stay with the new revenue that was generated because of the new growth in the county.'
That's the reason there was no need, until two years ago, to raise tax rates, Mitchell said.
The next meeting by the Weber County School District Board will take place on June 11, which will be a budget hearing. All meetings start at 6 p.m. and are located at the Weber School District Office, 5320 Adams Avenue Parkway, Ogden.
A full list of upcoming meetings is available here.
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