El Campo ISD board commits fund balance, adopts voluntary early-resignation incentive
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At its Nov. 19 meeting, the El Campo ISD Board of Trustees unanimously approved a resolution committing specific fund balances and adopted a voluntary early-resignation incentive offering staged payments for staff who provide notice by specified 2026 deadlines.
EL CAMPO — The El Campo Independent School District Board of Trustees on Nov. 19 unanimously approved a resolution to commit portions of the district’s fund balance and adopted a voluntary early-resignation incentive for employees.
The board approved the fund-balance committal after trustees were briefed that this year’s packet includes unusually large capital and activity balances. A presenter summarized the major balances: campus activity funds totaling $82,627,000; the nutrition fund at $1,989,865; family crisis fund at $3,507; nonpermanent high-school scholarship fund at $47,006.68; permanent scholarship fund at $22,097; and a capital projects fund of $35,751,229. The board clarified that bond-related resolutions are separate and not part of this committal.
"We felt like you needed to know what was happening to $35,000,000," a presenter said during the discussion.
The board moved and approved the fund-balance resolution without recorded opposition.
After a brief closed session on personnel, trustees returned and voted unanimously to establish a voluntary early-resignation incentive program for the 2025–26 school year. The adopted schedule in the board packet sets the payments by notice date and years of service as follows: notices provided by Jan. 16, 2026, qualify for $7,500 for employees with five or more years’ service and $5,000 for employees with three or more years; notices given by Feb. 13, 2026, qualify for $2,500 (five-plus years) or $2,000 (three-plus years); notices provided by March 16, 2026, qualify for $1,000 for employees with three or more years of service.
"If notice is provided by 01/16/2026, the incentive will be 7,500," the board read from the packet when presenting the language to the group.
A board member said staff will draft the contract language and that distribution of the contract likely will wait until after the Thanksgiving holiday to avoid confusion. The board made the motions and votes by voice/hand; individual roll-call votes were not recorded in the public portion of the transcript.
What happens next: staff were directed to prepare contract language reflecting the incentive and to distribute it to eligible employees, with implementation logistics to follow the timeline outlined by the board.