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Pasadena ISD CFO warns enrollment decline, payroll pressure will drive a deficit budget
Summary
CFO Tamika Alfred Stevens told the board that enrollment declines and state-directed compensation increases mean the district faces a multi-year budgeting challenge; payroll consumes about 87% of expenditures, and staff will be asked to justify 2026-27 budget requests to limit instructional disruption.
Tamika Alfred Stevens, Pasadena ISD27s chief financial officer, told the school board on March 24 that the district is preparing for another deficit budget as enrollment has declined and some recent state funding was directed to classroom teacher compensation rather than discretionary local uses.
Stevens said the district had projected 45,611 students for the 2025-26 fiscal year when the budget was built but that the state snapshot used for funding captured a lower count,…
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