Goose Creek CISD adopts 2025–26 proposed budget and revises compensation plan to align with House Bill 2

The Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees on Thursday adopted the district’s legally posted 2025–26 proposed budget and approved a separate revision to the 2025–26 compensation plan to incorporate provisions from Texas House Bill 2. The board voted to approve the proposed budget, as posted, and then approved a follow-up compensation plan amendment intended to reflect HB2’s raises for classroom teachers and related salary-scale changes.

The adoption and compensation revisions were the product of a public hearing and staff presentation by Chief Financial Officer Bridget Clark followed by board discussion. The district posted a 2025–26 budget that did not initially include HB2 funding because certified property values and the Commissioner of Education’s interpretations were not finalized; the board then approved a process to amend the posted budget and the compensation plan so the HB2 provisions can be added in the legally required order.

Clark told the board the public hearing was the final step in the budget process and that preliminary property values were “basically flat,” though values and final tax-rate calculations remain subject to change when counties certify values. Clark said the district’s posted budget showed a $3.6 million general-fund deficit under the previously approved 2% general raise, and that after adding HB2 revenue and HB2-directed raises the district’s working estimate showed a roughly $3.7 million surplus in the amended presentation she had previously shared with trustees. “This is the budget that we… adopted and this is what was legally posted,” Clark said; she explained the board must adopt the posted budget first and then approve two stand‑alone compensation and amendment items to incorporate HB2 in the correct sequence.

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