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the district loses money, Wrehe said. Sta noted that prior to the COVID- 19 pandemic the district’s average daily attendance was close to 96%. In the 2021-22 school year, attendance was about 92% due to COVID-19-re- lated absences, according to o cials. “We had no way of projecting that it would be as low as it was,” Wrehe told trustees in June. Each percentage point drop costs the district about $2.5 million in rev- enue, Wrehe said. The board of trustees had the option of building a budget based on an attendance rate of 94% or 96%. It agreed to go with 94% and hope that a higher percentage of students show up for class each day. “This is another reason it’s so vital that we really hit the [Texas] Legisla- ture for attendance vs. enrollment,” KISD Trustee Ruthie Keyes said during a June budget workshop. “The atten- dance is killing us. If we had [funding for] enrollment, we wouldn’t be hav- ing this discussion.” Raises approved by the board in April for this school year varied by position. Administrators are receiving
unanimously approved the district’s FY 2022-23 budget on June 27. The budget includes $303.13 million in general fund expenditures, $11.71
a 2.1% raise; counselors are getting a 2.6% raise; teachers and nurses are seeing a 3.1% raise; operational sta members are receiving a 4.3% raise; and paraprofes-
Preliminary appraisal numbers show the district’s tax base increased 22.12% from last year to nearly $31.73 billion, according to district gures. NISD’s employee compensation plan for the 2022-23 school year includes a 3% midpoint pay raise for all employees. The board also increased the starting salary for a teacher with no experience from $56,500 to $58,250. The district is among the fast- est-growing school districts in Texas. Estimates show the district will add 2,542 students in the fall, which is more than 9% growth compared with the 2021-22 school year. NISD Assistant Superintendent for Facilities Tim McClure said he will be working with the district’s long-range planning committee in the coming school year to determine what the facility needs will be in the future. Based on the current projections, he said, “it’s almost a new elementary school a year.”
million in expenses for food service and $122.95 mil- lion in debt service payments. On Aug. 22, after this edition went to press, the board was scheduled to vote on a property tax rate of $1.2746 per $100 valuation, which is slightly less than the previ-
sional employees are getting a 4.8% raise, according to a presentation from Chief Human Resources O cer Tracy Johnson. The increases also mean the starting pay for teachers, librar-
“ BECAUSE OF THE GROWTH IT’S ALMOST A
NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A YEAR.” TIM MCCLURE, NORTHWEST ISD ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR FACILITIES
ians and nurses will increase from $56,800 to $59,000, according to the presentation. “There’s a lot of work that’s done behind the scenes, whether that’s working on salary projections [or] allocating funds to campuses and departments … as well as [using] the ever-changing state funding tem- plate,” Wrehe said. Northwest ISD The NISD board of trustees
ous scal year. The decrease occurred in the maintenance and operations rate, which went from $0.872 per $100 valuation to $0.8546 per $100 valua- tion. The portion of the tax rate for the interest and sinking fund stayed the same at $0.42. Jonathan Pastusek, the district’s executive director of nancial ser- vices, told trustees that NISD’s prop- erty tax rate is decreasing due to the increase in property values.
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