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Goose Creek CISD board adopts balanced 2026–27 budget, keeps tax-rate components unchanged
Summary
The Goose Creek CISD Board adopted balanced general and debt-service budgets for 2026–27, approved a child-nutrition spending plan with a $5.361 million planned deficit, and approved a 2% general pay increase for employees; the board did not raise the district's tax-rate components.
The Goose Creek CISD Board of Trustees on June 1 voted to adopt the district's 2026–27 proposed budgets, approving a balanced general fund and debt-service budget while also authorizing a planned deficit in the child nutrition fund and a 2% general pay increase for all employees.
The vote followed a public hearing at which Bridget Clark, the district's budget lead, summarized the highlights. Clark told the board the district is presenting balanced budgets for the general fund and debt service and is including a planned deficit of $5.361 million for the child nutrition fund under a Texas Department of Agriculture spending plan. Clark also said preliminary taxable values show only a slight decrease and recommended maintaining the current tax-rate components: 0.745 for maintenance and operations and 0.325 for interest and sinking.
Why it matters: The child nutrition fund deficit is part of a state-approved spending plan and will be managed under Texas Department of Agriculture rules, Clark said; the board's decision preserves current tax-rate components while allowing the district to move forward with planned spending and staffing commitments.
Board action: Mr. Clem moved to adopt the budgets as presented; Miss Bratton seconded. The motion passed and the budgets were adopted as presented. Clark and district staff told trustees detailed line-item materials were included in the board packet for review.
Key details from the presentation: Clark said the child nutrition column showed $21.44 million in total expenditures and that the district is required to hold a percentage of fund balance per TDA rules; the district will use a TDA-approved spending plan to spend down toward the required level and then rebuild reserves. Clark also confirmed the district plans a 2% pay increase for all employees in the 2026–27 budget.
What the district said about next steps: The adopted budgets set the district's spending framework for the coming year. Administration indicated further action items related to the budgets were included on the meeting's action calendar and that certified property values in late July will be the precursor to any formal tax-rate adoption steps that remain required by state law.
The board took additional consent-agenda action and approved multiple procurement and interlocal items in the same meeting; separate votes on those measures were recorded on the consent calendar.
