Garner ISD board approves 2023–24 amendments and adopts 2024–25 budget

The Garner Independent School District Board of Trustees approved a series of budget actions at a special called meeting on Aug. 29, 2024, including an amendment to the 2023–24 budget, adoption of the final amended 2023–24 budget, and adoption of the district's 2024–25 budget.

Trustee Brandi Bryton Horton moved to approve the budget amendment to the 2023–2024 budget; Trustee John Bradberry seconded the motion. The motion passed with five yeas, zero nays and two trustees absent. Later on the agenda, Trustee Sarah Pennebaker moved to approve the final amended budget for 2023–2024, seconded by Trustee Clay Youngblood; that motion also passed 5–0 with two absences. The board then moved to adopt the 2024–2025 budget as presented; the motion to adopt was made by Horton and seconded by Bradberry and passed 5–0 (Absent: Cathy Rogers and Kiley Zylman).

The meeting notice framed the session as a public meeting to discuss the budget and the proposed tax rate for the coming school year. The public record provided at the meeting does not include line‑by‑line budget detail or the dollar amounts of the amendments in the transcript; those figures were not specified in the public excerpt provided. The board recorded formal roll calls for each motion and recorded consistent approval for the presented budget items.

The board did not provide additional public deliberation on specific spending changes in the transcript. The next publicly recorded procedural step is the formal adoption recorded at this meeting; any administrative implementation or budget book detail will be part of district records or forthcoming staff reports.