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SPRING ISD adopts compensation-plan changes, elevates CFO role and approves hiring of new CFO
Summary
The board approved revisions to the 2026 compensation plan that eliminate the deputy superintendent of business-services role, create an expanded chief financial officer (CFO) at a higher pay grade, and later voted to hire the superintendent-recommended CFO candidate under a non–Chapter 21 contract.
The Spring Independent School District board unanimously adopted changes to the district's 2026 compensation plan March 24 that reconfigure the deputy superintendent role into an expanded chief financial officer position and delete two related positions, then approved hiring the superintendent’s recommended CFO candidate after closed session.
Dr. Terrell King, the district's chief of human resource services, outlined the restructure: the district will eliminate the deputy superintendent of business-services title and instead establish a chief financial officer position that retains many of the same responsibilities—finance plus operations and technology—at a higher pay grade (from AM‑11 to AM‑12). He said the executive assistant to the deputy superintendent will be removed and a new executive assistant to the chief financial officer will be created; two positions (chief operating officer and executive assistant to the chief operating officer) have already been deleted from the budget and will not be filled.
"We will no longer [have] deputy superintendent Westbrooks—she's leaving the district—and we're replacing that position with the chief financial officer," Dr. King said during the presentation. He explained the pay grade elevation is intended to align compensation with the position's expanded responsibilities while producing some savings by eliminating vacant or removed roles.
Trustee Correa moved the compensation-plan amendments and Trustee Adams seconded; President Trustee Durant called the vote and announced unanimous approval.
After the board recessed for a closed session, the board returned and Trustee Correa moved to hire the candidate recommended by the superintendent for the position of chief financial officer and to authorize issuing a non–Chapter 21 contract to the approved candidate; Trustee Newhouse seconded. President Durant called the vote and the motion carried unanimously. The transcript records the board's approval but does not include the new hire's name in open session.
