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Ector County ISD trustees adopt 2025–26 budget projecting $4 million deficit, hold tax-rate hearing
Summary
The Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees adopted the district's 2025—2026 official budget at a special meeting in June 2025, approving a general-fund revenue estimate of $369,000,000 and expenditures of $373,000,000, producing a planned $4,000,000 deficit for the coming year.
The Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees adopted the district's 2025—2026 official budget at a special meeting in June 2025, approving a general-fund revenue estimate of $369,000,000 and expenditures of $373,000,000, producing a planned $4,000,000 deficit for the coming year.
The budget hearing included a presentation of budget highlights, a public comment from Dallas Kennedy and trustee questions; trustees voted to adopt the budget by voice vote during the same meeting. The district's budget package includes the general fund, the school nutrition fund and the debt service fund.
The superintendent described the district as serving roughly 34,000 students in 44 schools with about 4,200 staff and said the 2025—2026 general fund plan anticipates about $10,874 in revenue per enrolled student. The superintendent said the district intends to hold a general fund available…
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