NOTICE OF TAX FOR SCHOOL CAPITAL OUTLAY

Posted by LCS Finance on 7/25/2025 9:00:00 AM

NOTICE OF TAX FOR

SCHOOL CAPITAL OUTLAY

 

The Leon County School Board will soon consider a measure to continue to impose a 1.500 mill property tax for the capital outlay projects listed herein.  The tax is in addition to the school board’s proposed tax of 3.866 mills for operating expenses and is proposed solely at the discretion of the school board.

 

**THE PROPOSED COMBINED SCHOOL BOARD TAX INCREASE FOR BOTH OPERATING EXPENSE AND CAPITAL OUTLAY IS SHOWN IN THE ADJACENT NOTICE.

The capital outlay will generate approximately $41,994,154 to be used for the following projects:

CONSTRUCTION AND REMODELING

  • District Wide Locations
  • Administration of Projects/Sites

MAINTENANCE, RENOVATION AND REPAIR

  • Preventative and Emergency Management
  • Reimbursement of the maintenance, renovation and repairs paid through the General Fund as permitted by Florida Statute
  • Paint, Roofs, HVAC, Fire Alarms, Sprinklers, Intercoms, Security Systems, Emergency Management, District Wide Locations

MOTOR VEHICLE PURCHASES

  • Purchase of Maintenance Vehicles
  • Purchase of 10 School Buses
  • Purchase of Student Transportation Vans

 

NEW AND REPLACEMENT EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER AND DEVICE HARDWARE AND OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE NECESSARY FOR GAINING ACCESS TO OR ENHANCING THE USE OF ELECTRONIC AND DIGITAL INSTRUCTIONAL CONTENT AND RESOURCES, AND ENTERPRISE RESOURCE SOFTWARE

  • Purchase of tablets district wide
  • Purchase of new computers district wide
  • Purchase of network equipment
  • Purchase of classroom furniture & equipment, including instruments, district wide
  • Purchase of software applications for district wide administration of enterprise resource software acquired via license/maintenance fees or lease agreements

PAYMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES AND SITES DUE UNDER LEASE-PURCHASE AGREEMENT

  • Annual master lease payments for various facilities and renovations
  • Annual lease payment for qualified school construction bonds for various facilities
  • Annual lease payment of qualified zone academy bonds for various facilities
  • Annual master lease payments for site purchases
  • Debt service payments on certificates of participation for various facilities

PAYMENT OF COSTS OF COMPLIANCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL STATUTES, RULES, AND REGULATIONS

  • Removal of hazardous materials

PAYMENT OF PREMIUMS FOR PROPERTY AND CASUALTY INSURANCE NECESSARY TO INSURE EDUCATIONAL AND ANCILLARY PLANTS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT

  • Insurance premiums on district plant

PAYMENT OF COSTS OF LEASING RELOCATABLE EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES

  • Leasing of portable classrooms

PAYMENT OF SALARIES AND BENEFITS

  • Salaries and benefits for school bus drivers

CHARTER SCHOOL CAPITAL OUTLAY PROJECTS PURSUANT TO S.1013.52(4), F.S.

  • Purchase of real property
  • Construction of school facilities
  • Renovation, repair, and maintenance of school facilities
  • Purchase of vehicles to transport students
  • Payment of costs of opening day collection for library media
  • Purchase or lease of permanent or relocatable school facilities
  • Purchase of the cost of premiums for property and casualty insurance necessary to insure school facilities
  • Purchase or lease of driver’s education, maintenance, security vehicles or vehicles use in storing and distributing materials and equipment
  • Computer and device hardware and operating system software necessary for gaining access to or enhancing the use of electronic and digital instructional content and resources, and enterprise resource software

 

All concerned citizens are invited to a public hearing to be held on:

 

July 29, 2025 – 6:00 p.m.

at The Aquilina Howell Center

3955 West Pensacola Street

 Tallahassee, Florida

A DECISION on the proposed CAPITAL OUTLAY TAXES will be made at this hearing.

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