Poudre School District R‑1’s Board of Education voted unanimously Dec. 9 to certify the district’s annual mill levy for tax year 2025, a routine but legally required step that sets property tax rates the county will collect in 2026.

Chief Financial Officer Dave Montoya reviewed the levy calculation and the components that generate local property‑tax revenue: statutory levies required by state law, long‑standing voter‑approved overrides and the more recent Debt Free Schools Act. Montoya told the board that the district’s calculation uses the county’s final assessed valuation (received 11/24/2025) and noted a statutory deadline of Dec. 15 to transmit the certified levy to the county commissioners.

The resolution read into the record certified a total levy of 54.09 mills applied against the net assessed valuation shown in the board packet to produce approximately $303,737,710 in revenue. Montoya explained that part of the increase in revenue reflects statutorily required components — including a base 27‑mill statutory levy — and that some voter‑approved overrides grow annually by an inflation factor.

During the presentation Montoya walked the board through the tax‑impact examples the district includes in public materials and described the separate categories used in the calculation, including tax increment financing and small abatement components. A director asked for and received clarification that the Debt Free Schools Act amount was rolled forward from the prior year’s figure ($49,000,000) using the stated inflation factor to reach the new levy line item.

The board moved and seconded the resolution and then approved it on a roll‑call vote. The clerk called the vote: Carla Bayes, Connor Duffy, Kevin Havelda, Scott Schoenbauer, Andrew Spain, Jessica Zamora and Koronda Ziegler all voted “Aye,” and the motion passed 7–0.

Next steps: the district will upload the certified levy package to the county before the Dec. 15 statutory deadline and provide final schedule entries to the Colorado Department of Education as required.