White Oak ISD board adopts 2024–25 budget and approves tax rates

The White Oak Independent School District Board of Trustees approved the district’s 2024–2025 budget during a special called meeting on Aug. 26, 2024. Trustee David Carr moved to adopt the budget and Trustee Donna Stagner seconded; the outcome was recorded as (6-0-1). Individual roll-call votes were not specified in the meeting transcript.

At the same meeting the board approved a tax-rate ordinance for 2024–2025 and recorded approval of the district’s maintenance and operations (M&O) rate of 0.788300 and the interest and sinking (I&S) rate of 0.397800. The agenda and actions note those rates were covered and approved as part of the budget and year-end amendment items. Motions to adopt the tax ordinance and related budget items are recorded but the transcript does not include the ordinance text or a roll-call listing of each trustee’s vote.

The board’s formal motions on the budget and related tax items are noted in the official agenda and motion lines. The meeting record indicates the vote totals as (6-0-1) for the listed motions; the transcript does not specify whether the final digit denotes an abstention or an absence for each vote. Trustee Stephanie McKinney was noted as having to leave at 6:20 PM in the attendance list, but the transcript does not link that departure to any individual vote tallies.