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El Paso ISD finance committee hears budget update as state tax changes threaten multimillion-dollar shortfall
Summary
District leaders told trustees April 2 that roughly 60 central-office positions have been identified for attrition-based reductions and that state changes to homestead exemptions and frozen-levy calculations could cut district revenue by millions, jeopardizing a previously balanced budget and planned raises.
EL PASO — At an April 2 finance committee meeting, El Paso Independent School District leaders presented a fiscal year 2027 budget update that outlined administrative staffing reductions and warned trustees that recent state changes to property-tax exemptions and frozen-levy calculations may create a multimillion-dollar revenue shortfall.
"We are looking at central office positions and as they become vacant is opportunities for us to reduce the budget," said Dr. Lusk, opening the presentation on budget development and administrative costs. The presenter said the district has identified roughly 60 central-office positions that can be reduced through attrition while aiming to preserve classroom services.
Patty Cortez, chief of human capital management, described the approach to staffing reductions as an attrition-driven "right-sizing" process and said central-office roles are being re-evaluated and, where appropriate, consolidated. "We are at an estimate of about 60 positions at the district level where we have been able to identify efficiencies,"…
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