USD 308 board adopts 2026-27 budget, drops mill levy to 51.364
The board's agenda also carried a Dillon Nature Center agreement, an early release for homecoming and the selection of delegates to the state school boards conference.
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Sign up freeHutchinson USD 308 property owners will see a lower school mill levy after the board adopted a 2026-27 budget setting the rate at 51.364 mills, according to news coverage of the meeting. According to the published agenda, at the meeting held on Monday, August 24, the board also set the Local Option Budget — the share of spending a district may raise above its state-funded general fund — at 32.4% as Resolution 2027-011, a separate action item from budget adoption.
The agenda records no vote tallies, no 2025-26 mill levy for comparison and no stated cause for the reduction. It also lists a public participation period ahead of both votes, without indicating whether anyone addressed the board. One neighboring taxing body is moving the opposite direction: South Hutchinson has set a hearing for Monday, Sept. 14, on exceeding the revenue neutral rate — the levy that would raise the same property tax dollars as the prior year — for its 2027 budget.
According to the published agenda, the board was scheduled to open with a budget hearing from 5:50 to 6 p.m. The agenda lists building needs assessments inside that block as an information item, with an attachment that names no buildings, conditions or cost estimates and does not say what the assessments found.
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