On September 17, 2025, the Utah State Tax Commission notified the Granite School District Board of Education that the property tax rate approved by the board during the August 5th, 2025 truth-in-taxation hearing would not be certified. Instead, the final property tax rate was set at the original certified tax rate from the Salt Lake County auditor that did not include the planned increases in the board local levy and capital local levy. These increases were budgeted to generate $14.57 million in the General Fund and $3.23 million in the Capital Outlay Fund in 2025-26.
The District is responding to these budget challenges in 2025-26 by doing everything possible to make only necessary expenditures, including a soft hiring freeze for all non-classroom positions, restrictions on non-student travel, and other adjustments to reduce overall expenditures in 2025-26. Ultimately, the District will be required to go through the same Truth-in-Taxation process in the next budget cycle in order to recover the revenues lost this school year.
Information regarding the budget challenges and options for budget reductions to respond to these challenges were presented in the November 18, 2025 board meeting.
Granite School District remains committed to providing a quality education to all of its students while seeking for ways to balance its budget given these challenging circumstances.