{"id":354931,"date":"2026-06-29T22:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/354931\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T22:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T22:26:23","slug":"keller-isd-approves-budget-with-staff-raises-321k-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/354931\/","title":{"rendered":"Keller ISD approves budget with staff raises, $321K surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKeller ISD<\/a> will head into fiscal year 2026-27 with a 1% raise for staff and net more than $321,000 for the general fund, following the board of trustees’ budget<\/a> approval at a June 25 school board meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By the numbers<\/p>\n

Projections from the district show KISD expects to collect nearly $346.41 million in revenue and incur a little more than $346.08 million in expenditures, leaving the district with a $321,485 surplus.<\/p>\n

\"chartKISD\u2019s revenue comes from local, state and federal sources, with local revenue sources, like property taxes, contributing about 57% of the district\u2019s revenue. State revenue makes up about 42% and federal funding contributes the remaining 1%.\"chartAcross the general fund, the district cut about $11.7 million in expenditures, with reductions to the school leadership, instructional leadership and community education. The child nutrition fund was also reduced by about $1.3 million.\"chartKISD saved about $7.4 million in staffing and administrative positions due to some positions remaining unfilled, KISD Chief Financial Officer Pamela Stranathan said at a June 11 board meeting<\/a>. The $7.4 million in savings from unfilled positions, combined with a 1% staff raise, $25 monthly increase in the district\u2019s contribution to employee health insurance and additional payroll costs like state-mandated teacher raises, caused a total payroll reduction of about $3.08 million in FY 2026-27, Stranathan said.<\/p>\n

After factoring in all budget cuts and staff raises, FY 2026-27 general fund expenditures are about $6 million lower than they were in FY 2025-26.<\/p>\n

\"chartSome background<\/p>\n

The amended FY 2025-26 budget ended with a roughly $6.5 million shortfall. After the savings from staffing and administrative positions, as well as other expenditure cuts, the district reduced the budget by about $13 million from the general and child nutrition funds, compensating for the previous shortfall.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead<\/p>\n

The Texas Education Agency can still affect KISD\u2019s revenue, assistant superintendent John Allison said at the June 11 meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still aspects of funding from the last legislative session that TEA doesn\u2019t have answers for,\u201d Allison said.<\/p>\n

Stranathan said Keller ISD will receive its certified property values and get its final revenue calculations in July, and the school board will adopt the tax rate in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keller ISD will head into fiscal year 2026-27 with a 1% raise for staff and net more than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2050,163,116,118,117,1234,7830],"class_list":["post-354931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-budget","tag-education","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-keller","tag-keller-isd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}