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Duncanville ISD outlines FY26–27 draft budget with $11M–$15M shortfall; bond planning and track repairs highlighted
Summary
At a June budget workshop, Duncanville ISD officials presented a second draft FY26–27 budget showing a projected general operating deficit, plans to roll $1M–$2.7M in track repairs into next year, $500,000 budgeted for bond-election preparations, and continued child nutrition and debt-service updates.
Board President Janet Veraracruz convened the Duncanville Independent School District board for a budget workshop in which Chief Financial Officer Miss Pumphre presented the district’s second draft FY26–27 budget and several near-term funding decisions.
Miss Pumphre told trustees total expenditures now appear as $142,860,478, a figure that includes a $2.7 million budget amendment approved May 18 for track repairs. That amendment, she said, raises the current amended-year deficit to about $15.4 million but some work on the tracks is unlikely to be completed by June 30; she therefore expects part of the $2.7 million to roll into FY27 and estimates a roughly $1 million reduction in current-year expenditures as a result.
The presentation laid out the district’s budget priorities — safety and security (including additional school officers and vehicles), compensation increases to retain staff, maintenance and utilities, and academic investments — and identified enrollment, average daily attendance, property values and staffing/compensation as the primary budget drivers.
Miss Pumphre summarized draft-two increases of about $3.3 million, including $1 million set aside in the FY27 column to complete track repairs, $500,000 earmarked to prepare for a potential May 2027 bond election (facilities assessments, consultants and legal fees), and vehicle purchases for maintenance and campus police. She also noted spending on instructional software (Elevate K12) and that the budget assumes a 50% vacancy budgeting approach to be conservative about payroll costs.
On child nutrition, Miss Pumphre said the fund balance at June 30, 2025 was $3.4 million. Proposed FY27 child-nutrition expenditures are $7.2 million with projected revenue of $7.0 million — a budgeted deficit intended to keep the fund balance within program guidelines. Two refrigerated trucks previously approved (not to exceed $267,000) are not expected to be delivered until July, she said, and therefore will roll into next year’s spending.
The board also received a debt-service update: the district is proceeding with bond refunding paperwork to potentially lock in favorable rates and expects to close refunding by August, contingent on certified property values in July.
Trustees asked for additional detail on historical fund-balance slides and vacancy reports; Miss Pumphre said those materials are in trustees’ packets and that staff will print historic fund-balance slides and vacancy-duration reports for follow-up.
The workshop concluded with trustees agreeing to further discussion as needed before the formal budget adoption in June, and the board adjourned without any votes on budget adoption at this meeting.
