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Votes at a glance: Austin ISD board approves FY2025–26 budget and several consent items
Summary
At its June 26 meeting the Austin ISD Board approved the FY2025–26 budgets, adopted consent items, approved a memorandum of understanding with the University of Texas program and rescinded a proposed staff termination. Vote tallies and key mover/second details are listed below.
The Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees took several formal actions during the June 26, 2025 regular meeting. The items below summarize motions, movers/seconders and recorded outcomes as reported in the meeting transcript.
Votes at a glance
- Consent agenda (items 7.1–7.5; 8.1–8.5; 9.1–9.4; 10.1–10.4; 11.2; 12.1–12.13): Motion to approve moved by Secretary Gonzalez and seconded by Trustee de Uruyeste. Motion passed by all members present on the dais (recorded as unanimous in the meeting record).
- Item 11.1 — Memorandum of Understanding between Austin ISD and The University of Texas Principal Leadership Academy: Motion to approve moved by Secretary Gonzalez; second noted in the record. The motion passed 7–0 with 1 abstention (Trustee Foster abstained). The transcript records: “The motion passes by 7 in favor, none opposed, and 1 abstaining with trustee Foster abstaining.”
- Item 13.1 — Rescind proposed termination of a professional employee during a term contract (identified in the agenda as JG): Motion to approve the rescission moved by Secretary Gonzalez and seconded by Trustee Hunter. The motion was recorded as passing by all those on the dais.
- Item 13.2 — Adoption of the FY2025–26 proposed general fund, food‑service and debt‑service budgets: Motion to approve moved by Secretary Gonzalez and seconded by Vice President Whitley Chu. The motion to adopt the budgets was recorded as passing unanimously by those present on the dais.
Notes
- The transcript records the board’s roll-call style actions and the speakers who moved and seconded motions; some seconds were recorded without a named seconder. Vote tallies for the items above reflect the counts captured in the meeting record: 7–0 with one abstention for the MOU (11.1) and unanimous approvals for the rescission (13.1) and budget adoption (13.2).
- The budget motion (13.2) implements the FY2025–26 revenue and expenditure assumptions presented earlier in the meeting and was discussed in depth as part of the public hearing and budget presentation. The budget adoption is the major fiscal action from the meeting and will drive the district’s staffing and financial decisions for the coming fiscal year.
