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Mercedes ISD CFO warns of preliminary 2025‑26 deficit and legislative uncertainty
Summary
At a budget workshop, the district CFO outlined preliminary revenue and expenditure estimates for 2025–26, noted possible impacts of pending Texas legislation and recommended maintaining the current M&O tax rate while staff refine projections.
Mercedes Independent School District officials told trustees March 18 that the district’s proposed 2025–26 budget is preliminary and sensitive to pending state legislation, property value changes and attendance projections.
Miss Garza, the district chief financial officer, opened the budget section by telling the board, “This is very preliminary.” She laid out revenue estimates already baked into planning — including a working assumption of a $220 increase in the basic allotment per ADA used in early revenue modeling — and listed several pending bills the district is monitoring, including proposals described in the workshop as a teacher retention allotment, property tax changes and a potential education savings account program.
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