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NEISD presents budget study No. 3: $625M general fund proposed and HB2 guidance limits flexibility
Summary
Finance staff presented a detailed view of the proposed 2025–26 budget, including a $625 million general fund forecast, debt-service planning and how House Bill 2 and TEA reporting requirements are reshaping district budgeting.
NORTHEAST INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT — At its third budget workshop this month, district finance leaders walked the board through fund-level detail for the proposed 2025–26 budget and highlighted how new state requirements are changing long-term planning.
Susie Lackhorn, the district’s executive director of finance and accounting, presented a proposed general fund budget of about $625 million, up from $612 million in the prior year’s proposal. She described separate fund items including a roughly $412 million debt-service budget tied to recent refunding and long-term debt planning, a school-nutrition fund that is budgeted to…
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