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Trustees approve contracts, budget amendments and monthly financial reports
Summary
The board approved 16 contract awards for FY26 including software and instructional materials, budget amendments, monthly tax collection and financial reports, an investment report and several contract renewals; administration noted HB2 had been signed and highlighted recent grant awards to the district.
At its regular meeting, the Harlingen CISD Board of Trustees approved multiple fiscal items: award of up to 16 proposals and contracts for fiscal year 2025–26, two budget amendments, monthly tax collections and financial statements, the quarterly investment report and several contract renewals.
Chief finance staff and committee chairs reviewed highlights before votes. Administration said the district reviewed 16 bid awards for FY26, including an ATA‑approved web‑based assessment software contract (up to $395,000, locally and federally funded) and a web‑based personalized instruction contract for the district’s i‑Ready program (up to $514,000), which administration said will be paid from federal funds. The packet also included tier‑1 instructional materials purchases (math and reading) with vendor amounts noted in the presentation (Great Minds ~ $379,000 and Amplify ~ $643,000) that together were presented as part of approximately $1.1 million in local instructional materials purchases.
Finance staff reported a May tax levy of $46.5 million with year‑to‑date collections of roughly $43.2 million, a collection rate reported at 92.8%, up about 1.5 percentage points from the prior year. The monthly recap of cash receipts for May showed roughly $517,000 deposited across operating and debt funds.
The business office said it had been preparing revenue projections for FY26 and that, while House Bill 2 had not been signed at the time the committee met, the governor subsequently signed HB2 in Salado; staff said that development cleared the way to finalize projections.
Trustees approved a proposal to reclassify food service operations from a special revenue fund to the general fund for the coming year (presented as a proposal by the business office), and they recognized grant writer Alma Ambriz for recent success in securing grants; administration noted she brought in $10 million over prior years and $6.7 million in current period grant awards.
Other approvals included a bank depository renewal with Texas Regional Bank, a one‑year extension of the district’s auditing contract (Carr, Riggs & Ingram), and an insurance renewal with Alamo Insurance Group. The board moved each item as presented and the motions passed with board affirmation.
