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Duncanville ISD board adopts 2026'27 budget, approves compensation plan and personnel hires
Summary
The Duncanville ISD Board of Trustees adopted the district's 2026'27 general, child nutrition and debt service budgets, approved a compensation package that includes a 1% general pay increase and market adjustments (about $3.4 million), and confirmed several personnel hires; votes were recorded in the meeting transcript as passed.
Duncanville ISD trustees voted to adopt the district's 2026'27 budgets for the general fund, child nutrition fund and debt service fund and approved a compensation plan designed to improve market competitiveness and retain staff.
Chief Financial Officer Shauna Pumphrey opened the required public hearing under Texas Education Code 44.004 and summarized the budget assumptions, saying the district is projecting enrollment of "10,926 students" and an average daily attendance rate of "91.37%," which she explained equates to funding for about 9,983 students. Pumphrey told the board the district is working from preliminary certified taxable values (about $7.9 billion) and will finalize tax-rate calculations after July certification.
Pamela Brown presented the proposed 2026'27 compensation plan, which the administration said reflects a market alignment delivered through new minimum, midpoint and maximum pay ranges, stipends for hard-to-fill teaching assignments, and a proposed 1% general pay increase. "These recommendations represent an estimated investment of approximately $3.4 million," Brown said. She and presenters said the plan also relies on roughly $2 million in staffing efficiencies already identified in the budget to offset costs.
Trustees asked clarifying questions about how the compensation adjustments were benchmarked to neighboring districts and how the teacher pay scale change affects bilingual and self-contained special education assignments. After discussion the board approved the compensation plan and then voted to adopt the FY 2026'27 budgets as presented.
The board also acted on personnel items carried out after closed session: motions to hire and issue one-year contracts for Brianna Estrada as director of partnerships and engagement and Christina Johnson as principal of Actton Elementary School were made and recorded as approved. The transcript records multiple routine approvals (consent agenda, contract closeouts and the compensation and budget votes) as passing.
The district's administration said the proposed general fund is a deficit budget of roughly $11.3 million (compared with a larger deficit last year), with an expected fund balance decline from about $63 million to approximately $54 million, representing roughly five months of reserves. Pumphrey emphasized the legal deadlines: "the budget must be adopted by June 30th," and she described the next steps for tax-rate adoption pending certified values in July and a September hearing to adopt the tax rate.
The board concluded the financial portion of the agenda after voting to approve the budget, the compensation plan and the listed personnel actions. The administration said any necessary technical budget amendments tied to final certified property values will be brought back to the board later in the summer.
