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Weslaco ISD outlines budget pressures, enrollment and timeline at first workshop
Summary
Superintendent Dr. Richard Rivera told the Weslaco ISD Board that roughly three-quarters of the district's $210 million budget goes to staff costs and outlined enrollment, state funding and health-insurance pressures as the district prepares a July 1 fiscal-year budget.
WESLACO, Texas — Superintendent Dr. Richard Rivera told the Weslaco ISD Board of Trustees at a budget workshop Monday that the district is planning the fiscal 2025-26 budget against several uncertainties at the state and federal levels and must meet a July 1 adoption deadline.
Rivera said the district's combined general, food-service and debt-service budget is about $210 million and that about $157.4 million'roughly 75% of that total'goes to employee compensation. "Three quarters out of every dollar goes to pay for staff," Rivera said during the workshop.
The superintendent reviewed how the district's revenue depends largely on enrollment and average daily attendance (ADA), and how temporary federal funds such as ESSER affected per-student spending during the pandemic. Rivera said per-student spending rose to about $17,000 in 2022-23 because of ESSER and bond-related spending, and that without ESSER the district's pre-pandemic per-pupil figure was lower.
Nut graf: The presentation framed what the board will weigh when drafting the 2025-26 budget: enrollment…
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