Colleyville City Council will meet at 7 p.m. July 18, Aug. 1 www.colleyville.com Grapevine City Council will meet at 7:30 p.m. July 18, Aug. 1 www.grapevinetexas.gov Southlake City Council will meet at 5:30 p.m. July 18, Aug. 1 www.cityofsouthlake.com Tarrant County Commissioners Court will meet at 10 a.m. July 18, Aug. 1 www.tarrantcounty.com Carroll ISD MEETINGS WE COVER HIGHLIGHTS COLLEYVILLE Plans to develop a neighborhood called The Bluffs at Colleyville have been denied again. City Council unanimously denied two plans that were presented to rezone the area for the neighborhood June 20. As council denied the original plan on Feb. 21 and denied these plans without prejudice again, developers can resubmit plans for development in 30 days.
Board approves $215.23M operating budget
Board looks at TASB replacement
BY HANNAH JOHNSON
BUDGET ADOPTED The bulk of the district’s budget will be used for general operating expenses for fiscal year 2023-24.
GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD The district’s board of trustees approved the fiscal year 2023-24 budget in a 6-0 vote June 20. Trustee Mary Humphrey was absent from the meeting. The gist: Chief Financial Officer Derick Sibley presented the budget’s components to the trustees. The district’s budget is split into three pieces. • The general operating fund budget is $215.23 million. • The debt services budget is $49.28 million. • The child nutrition budget is $6.49 million. The details: Sibley said the district built the budget around three major assumptions. • Board members adopted a mea- sure that would increase revenue by $2.1 million. • Traditional enrollment is 12,218.
BY HANNAH JOHNSON
CARROLL ISD Trustees were presented information June 19 on Texans for Excellence in Education—a new organization that claims to be an alternative to the Texas Association of School Boards. What’s happening? The orga- nization was created over a year and a half ago “in response to the demand for an alternative” to the TASB, said Hava Armstrong, executive director of Texans for Excellence. What else? Starting June 1, Tex- ans for Excellence in Education began offering several services to school districts, including model policy drafting, legal guidance, group insurance and a model board book, according to a press release.
General operating fund: $215.23M
total FY 2023-24 budget $271M
Debt services fund: $49.28M
Child nutrition fund: $6.49M
SOURCE: GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD/ COMMUNITY IMPACT
• iUniversity Prep enrollment is 1,400.
The district’s recapture payment was projected to be about $66.06 mil- lion. In the final budget the recapture payment was set at $64.38 million. The current proposed tax rate is $1.0704 per $100 valuation, about $0.06 less than 2022-23’s rate of $1.1308 per $100 valuation.
will meet at 5 p.m. July 24. www.southlakecarroll.edu Grapevine-Colleyville ISD will meet at 7 p.m. July 24. www.gcisd.net
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