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HEB ISD board reviews March financials, approves contracts, MOUs and staffing table updates
Summary
Trustees reviewed March financial statements and approved routine purchasing items and action items including construction materials testing for LD Bell, MOUs with Tarleton State University/Passport Health/Daybreak Health, donation approvals and changes to the 2025-26 staffing table.
During its May meeting the Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD Board reviewed the district's financial statements through March and approved several purchasing and personnel items.
Finance director Matthew Williams summarized fund balances and performance through March 2025. He reported a general fund balance of $231,975,229 and said the general fund showed revenues over expenditures of $53,671,945 through March; interest revenue for the general fund for the reporting period was reported at $4,960,000. Williams also reported the Child Nutrition Fund balance at $8,112,313 with revenues over expenditures of $1,193,686 and the tuition-based pre-K fund balance at $528,674 with revenue received at 79.47% of budget. He said the 2024 bond fund balance stood at $553,000,008.79 and noted that expenditures for bond-funded projects will reduce that number as construction proceeds.
On purchasing, staff presented a series of routine renewals and purchases: the renewal of the eSTAR special-education student information system (the vendor cost reported at about $73,700 to be paid largely from federal special-education funds); a bond-funded purchase to refresh 800 elementary teacher laptops; extensions for paper and hand-towel contracts; and an accelerated replacement of maintenance service vehicles using an annual $800,000 allocation (staff reported $150,000 set aside for vehicle replacements and asked the board to authorize delegation to the superintendent to approve specific purchases that meet specifications).
The board approved a unit-fee contract for construction materials testing for LD Bell (CMJ Engineering Inc.), and staff reported an estimated testing budget for Trinity that will return for action. Trustees also approved memorandums of understanding with Tarleton State University (for embedded dual-credit teachers), Passport Health (to address meningitis-vaccine barriers for enrollment), and Daybreak Health (a virtual mental-health resource). The board approved the May donations list and a staffing-table update that added a 0.5 instructional specialist in math, one counselor split between two elementary campuses, two elementary receptionists, one additional transportation dispatcher and one district behavior specialist assigned to an elementary campus for 2025'26.
When asked how the added behavior specialist will be deployed, Miss Tuttle said the new specialist will be assigned to a single campus for next year and that the district's other behavior specialists will cover remaining campuses; she said reassignment would occur only in extenuating circumstances.
All action items presented in this portion of the meeting were approved by the board.
