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Budget Committee Calendar Dates for the 2025-26 Budget

• Wednesday, May 28, 2025           7:00 pm          BC – Budget Message
• Wednesday, June 11, 2025           7:00 pm           BC – Public Input/Approve Budget
• Monday, June 23, 2025                 6:00 pm         Board – Budget Hearing/Adopt & Appropriate Budget 

NOTICE OF BUDGET COMMITTEE MEETINGS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public meeting of the Budget Committee of the Greater Albany Public School District 8J, Linn and Benton Counties, State of Oregon, to discuss the budget for the fiscal year July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026 will be held at 718 Seventh Avenue SW, Albany, Oregon 97321. It will also be live on YouTube on the GAPS YouTube Page.

The meeting will take place on Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.

The purpose of this meeting is to receive information on state funding and discuss the upcoming budget.

This is a public meeting where deliberation of the Budget Committee will take place. Any person may attend the meeting.

The agenda and packet materials are posted at least 24 hours prior to the meeting and can be accessed below.

Additional meeting scheduled for the Budget Committee are as follows:

• June 11, 2025  Wednesday 7:00 p.m. – Public Input/Approve Budget

Jane Nofziger
Executive Director of Business and Finance

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Budget Committee Public Comment Guidelines

1.   A sign-up sheet will become available at the meeting 15 minutes prior to the meeting start time.  All district residents or           guardians who have signed up will be allowed to speak prior to a second comment. Information required to be listed for residents or   guardians to make a comment is name, affirmation of district residence, and school.
2.   People wishing to make a public comment via Zoom must email Lindsey Hart (lindsey.hart@albany.k12.or.us) by 11:00 am on   Wednesday, June 11, 2025 to sign up and receive the Zoom link. All district residents or guardians who have signed up will be allowed   to speak prior to a second comment. Participants will be put in a virtual waiting room until it is their turn to provide public   comment. The participant is responsible for ensuring they are ready to provide comments related to the budget when it is their   turn. After providing comment, the participant will be removed from the Zoom meeting and able to watch the remainder of the Board   meeting via YouTube. 
3.  Comments will be limited to residents or guardians of students who attend school in the district. If a comment or question is being   submitted by a guardian who lives outside the district, the guardian will be required to affirm they have a student attending GAPS who   they are representing, and list the school where the student attends.
4.  Each comment will be given a three-minute time period.  
5.  After the three-minute period, the chairperson will move on to the next commenter. With that said, that does not mean the   comment is complete. One of the Board members or district staff may follow up as needed or appropriate.
6.  Complaints about staff members will not be heard during the budget’s public comment session and must follow KL Public   Complaint and KL-AR Public Complaint Procedures. Following policy BDDH, speakers may offer objective criticism of district   operations  and programs, but the Board will not hear any complaints concerning specific student groups, district staff members and    district representatives. Comments must be directly related to the GAPS 2025-26 budget.
7.  Public comment with stakeholders will last a maximum of 50 minutes.

In 2007 the Oregon Legislature passed SB 1036, a law that provides a financial tool to help school districts pay for capital improvements, expanded facilities, and equipment needed as a result of community growth. The law authorizes a school district, in cooperation with cities and counties, to tax new residential and non-residential development. Specifically, the tax applies to improvements to real property that result in a new structure or additional square footage to an existing structure.

Albany, Millersburg & Tangent

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