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Tempe Union approves budget revision, expands paid holidays for 9-month staff
Summary
The Tempe Union High School District board approved a revision to the 2024–25 expenditure budget to record a one-time employee stipend and adopted part 2 of the 2025–26 budget recommendations that add paid holidays for certain 9-month employees.
The Tempe Union High School District Governing Board on May 21 approved Revision No. 2 to the 2024–25 expenditure budget and adopted part 2 of the 2025–26 budget recommendations, including a plan to increase paid holidays for certain 9-month employees.
Assistant Superintendent for Business Services Roland Carranza told the board the revision primarily captures a one-time allocation received in January for free and reduced-price lunch and DAA that the district plans to use for a continuing employee stipend. “There’s approximately $662,000 change to the M&O budget, and it is for that purpose,” Carranza said, describing the update as part of the year-end reconciliation of state funding and current-year ADM.
The board then considered recommendations from the Budget Advisory Committee (part 2). Carranza said a classroom site fund increase of roughly $50 per weighted student generated about $803,000 in restricted funds; combined with savings from a district office reorganization, the committee identified approximately $852,518 in ongoing budget capacity. The committee recommended using that capacity to expand paid holidays for staff who currently receive three paid holidays.
Under the recommendation supported by the superintendent, the district will add three paid holidays for employees on the certified teacher salary schedule who were limited to three paid holidays, bringing that group to six paid holidays. The district also recommended extending the same change to roughly 32 additional employees on the professional schedules (psychologists, school nurses, RNs, social workers, speech-language pathologists) who work on a similar nine- or ten-month calendar. Carranza said the district plans to substitute Labor Day for Memorial Day in the holiday package “primarily because most of the staff that are on these 9-month calendars, in some years, the Memorial Day falls outside of the end of their duty day.”
Board members asked how staff will be notified; Carranza said HR will publish a duty-day calendar on the staff intranet and the district website. Superintendent Estesha Wilson supported the recommendation and recommended the governing board approve the fiscal year 2026 budget recommendations, part 2.
The board approved the expenditure budget revision (Item J1) and the superintendent’s budget recommendations (Item J5) by recorded voice vote; the clerk announced “Motion passes 5 0” for each.
Clarifying details recorded at the meeting include the $662,000 one-time budget change for an employee stipend, $803,000 from the classroom site fund increase, approximately $80,000 in savings from a reorganization (of which $41,740 was proposed for use), and the identified ongoing budget capacity of $852,518. Carranza estimated the covered group on the certified teacher salary schedule is roughly 600 employees; the additional professional-category employees numbered about 32.
The board also approved items J2 and J3 together in a single vote later in the meeting.
Looking ahead, the board indicated HR will communicate calendar updates to staff and that the revised budget will be reflected in closing-year financial reports.
