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Inside the Coppell CCPD FY27 budget: SROs, ALPR cameras and carryover costs
Summary
The CCPD proposed FY2026–27 budget funds 15 FTEs (including SROs), budgets $2.5 million for automatic license-plate reader technology, and carries forward roughly $8 million in encumbrances tied to the justice center and regional radio upgrades; the board questioned revenue assumptions and encumbrance timing.
At its June 9 meeting the Coppell Crime Control and Prevention District board heard detailed budget line items that helped explain the board’s later amendment to the proposed FY2026–27 budget.
Jessica Almendes, the city’s budget manager in strategic financial engagement, told the board the proposed budget projects total revenues of about $5.2 million and total expenditures of about $6.38 million, with $1,177,480 drawn from fund balance to cover the difference. She said sales tax remains the primary revenue source and that the budget assumes roughly $4.22 million from the quarter-cent sales tax.
Almendes broke expenditures into categories: salary and benefits are budgeted at about $2.28 million to fund 15 positions (including school resource officers and a compliance officer); supplies are budgeted at about $181,000; services and contracts (including NENTech dispatch and jail services) comprise a significant share; and capital outlays total about $1.28 million for one-time radio equipment replacement.
Notable line items discussed:
• ALPR and software: approximately $2.5 million budgeted for automatic license-plate recognition cameras and supporting software services, described as the single largest expenditure category (about 38.6% of the budget).
• NENTech and radio replacement: annual dispatch services payment to North Texas Emergency Communication Center (NENTech) of about $1.61 million, plus a one-time CCPD-budgeted contribution of $385,147 toward a $685,147 regional radio replacement investment; $300,000 of that investment is proposed to be funded from the E911 fund.
• Encumbrance carryovers: staff explained an $8 million difference between originally budgeted amounts and amended totals reflects encumbrance carryovers (open purchase orders) for projects such as the justice center and related intech work; these amounts were previously budgeted in prior fiscal years and are being carried forward.
Board members asked for clarifications on specifics: Almendes confirmed one SRO’s salary and benefits average about $125,000 and that the city pays $123,000 annually for jail services from Grapevine (term of the contract to be provided later). The presentation also included a fund-balance walk-forward showing a projected FY27 ending fund balance of about $19.22 million.
Almendes and staff emphasized the presentation’s conservative revenue assumptions given potential external impacts on sales-tax collections and that final budgetary authority moves through the Coppell City Council for ordinance adoption and any formal carryover approvals.
The board’s questions and staff responses helped shape the board’s decision to remove the Coppell ISD salary reimbursement from the adopted CCPD budget on the same night.
