Tarrant County\u2019s workforce board will spend $148.3 million next year, with more than three-quarters going toward childcare.<\/p>\n
The Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County and the Workforce Governing Board unanimously approved its fiscal 2027 budget Aug. 26.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The budget is up 7.1% from $138.5 million in fiscal 2026.<\/p>\n
Nearly all of that growth is in childcare, which increased $10 million, said Jack Cummings, associate director of administration. Childcare now accounts\u00a0for $114.4 million, or about 77% of the budget.<\/p>\n
Other spending includes $9.9 million for workforce center operations, $9.8 million for board and systemwide infrastructure, and $6.4 million for direct client services.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The board also renewed a contract with Child Care Management Services LLC to continue operating the group\u2019s childcare system until Sept. 30, 2027.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe extension approval will ensure continuity of high-quality service for families and continuation of services for our childcare services providers and contractors,\u201d said Tiffany Clayton, associate director for childcare program operations for Workforce Solutions for Tarrant County.<\/p>\n
Board members chose officers for 2027: Rosa Navejar as the chair, Jerletha McDonald as vice chair, and Jessica Heer as second vice chair.<\/p>\n
Workforce Solutions Board & Committee Meeting<\/p>\n
Documenter: Patrick Banis<\/p>\n
Date: Aug. 26, 2026<\/p>\n
Learn more about this meeting by clicking here<\/a>. For the agenda, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Patrick Banis is a member of the Fort Worth Report Documenters<\/a> crew. If you believe anything in this account is inaccurate, please email us at news@fortworthreport.org<\/a> with \u201cCorrection Request\u201d in the subject line.<\/p>\n This <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/10\/10\/tarrant-county-workforce-board-approves-148-3m-budget-for-2027\/”>article<\/a> first appeared on <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org”>Fort Worth Report<\/a> and is republished here under a <a target=”_blank” href=”https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/”>Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License<\/a>.<img src=”https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fortworthreport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cropped-favicon.png?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1″ style=”width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;”><\/p>\n <img id=”republication-tracker-tool-source” src=”https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/?republication-pixel=true&post=759228&ga4=2820184429″ style=”width:1px;height:1px;”><script> PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: “https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/10\/10\/tarrant-county-workforce-board-approves-148-3m-budget-for-2027\/”, urlref: window.location.href }); } } <\/script> <script id=”parsely-cfg” src=”\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/fortworthreport.org\/p.js”><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by The FWR Staff, Fort Worth Report October 10, 2026 Tarrant County\u2019s workforce board will spend $148.3 million…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8219,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-462367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-documenters","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462367","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=462367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}