{"id":42998,"date":"2025-11-10T09:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/42998\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:25:10","slug":"hays-cisd-budget-cuts-to-come-following-tax-rate-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/42998\/","title":{"rendered":"Hays CISD budget cuts to come following tax rate rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUnofficial <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/san-marcos-buda-kyle\/election\/2025\/11\/04\/voters-reject-hays-cisd-tax-rate-proposition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voting results<\/a> show that voters rejected a 12-cent increase to Hays CISD property taxes at the polls Nov. 4. District officials say this will affect the services they are able to offer.<\/p>\n<p>The gist<\/p>\n<p>The proposed rate, $1.2746 per $100 valuation, was higher than last year\u2019s rate but lower than 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762766710_792_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\"\/>The district has been using its fund balance to keep programs running since 2019, in the hopes that the Texas Legislature would increase per-student allotment to match inflation, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/san-marcos-buda-kyle\/education\/2025\/08\/12\/hays-cisd-considers-tax-rate-election-amid-budget-woes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous reporting<\/a> by Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>The current <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/san-marcos-buda-kyle\/education\/2025\/06\/25\/hays-cisd-trustees-adopt-377m-balanced-budget-changes-to-come-july\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fund balance<\/a> is approximately $20 million, compared to the recommended balance of <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/austin\/san-marcos-buda-kyle\/education\/2025\/08\/19\/hays-cisd-calls-for-november-tax-rate-election-cites-financial-strain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$65 million<\/a> as previously reported by Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/core-docs.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/documents\/asset\/uploaded_file\/5240\/HCISD\/5967260\/000000c_FINAL_TRE_Information_Sheet_Combined_E_and_S.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">information sheet<\/a> about the tax rate election stated that in the event that it didn\u2019t pass, \u201cthe district would need to make significant cuts in staffing and programming to create a surplus budget to rebuild the Fund Balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the sheet stated they expect to consider increasing class sizes, increasing fees or adding new fees.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next<\/p>\n<p>In an email to parents, Wright said that announcements about budget cuts will come in the spring, during budget planning for the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe obviously cannot spend money we do not have,\u201d Wright said in the email. \u201cI promise to do whatever is in my power to make these budget cuts as far away from our core mission as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unofficial voting results show that voters rejected a 12-cent increase to Hays CISD property taxes at the polls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2050,409,23644,25538],"class_list":["post-42998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-budget","tag-election","tag-hays-cisd","tag-tax-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42998","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=42998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}