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Willis ISD projects balanced $96.8 million 2025–26 budget while flagging grant and insurance uncertainties
Summary
District finance staff told trustees a projected $96.8 million budget for 2025–26 is balanced on current assumptions about attendance, state school finance changes and property values; officials warned of a delayed U.S. Department of Education notice that could reduce federal grant funding and flagged a continuing health-insurance deficit.
Willis Independent School District finance staff presented a $96.8 million preliminary budget for fiscal year 2025–26 on July 9, saying the plan is balanced under current assumptions but depends on several uncertain factors, including attendance (average daily attendance), state funding formulas and property-value changes.
“At the end of the day, I am looking at a balanced budget,” staff presenter Garrett Montay said during the meeting’s budget workshop. Montay said his planning ADA (average daily attendance) figure is 8,750 students and that figure is intentionally conservative; last year the district’s ADA was roughly 8,470 while total enrollment ended near 9,313.
Montay told trustees he is projecting a total tax rate “under a dollar at 98.7” cents, with an anticipated maintenance-and-operations (M&O) rate of 0.6190 and an interest-and-sinking (I&S) rate expected to remain about 0.368. He said property-taxable values supplied by Montgomery County showed roughly 17% growth before homestead and other…
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