BY ADAM DOE
Breaking it down
District savings closing Dove, Bransford The district expects to save roughly $788,000 per campus closure through support staff cuts in campus consolidation. 1 Support staff and admin staff: $1,576,424
Closing the two campuses will save the district roughly $2.7 million annually between staff cuts and operations costs, including about $1.6 mil- lion in support and administrative staff cuts for positions like custodians, principals and adminis- trative assistants, according to budget projections. GCISD will also eliminate 10 teacher positions through attrition, for $704,000 in savings. Chief Human Resources Officer Kelly Mires said GCISD will work with the staff at Dove and Bransford to find them a new role in the district.
3 Benefits paid: $228,055 2 10 teachers: $704,132 4 Maintenance and operating costs: $182,109
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$2,690,720 total amount saved
SOURCE: GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD/ COMMUNITY IMPACT
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What’s next
By the numbers
GCISD fund balance projections The district’s fund balance is projected to drop below 20% of expenditures. Fund balance without consolidation Fund balance with consolidation
Bransford houses the medical assistant classroom, which serves students with special medical needs and students with disabilities. Lyons said district officials plan to move the classroom to Colleyville Elementary School for the 2026-27 school year. In addition to campus closures, trustees voted at the Dec. 10 meeting to start the process of selling three district properties— the Heritage Annex, the Professional Development and Education Center, and the Dove campus—to bring in additional revenue. “I don’t like this, and no one does,” board Vice President Mary Humphrey said at the Dec. 10 meeting. “I’m voting for this because I believe it has been inevitable for a long time.”
The district’s main source of revenue is property taxes, which the district receives in November, GCISD Chief Financial Officer David Johnson said. District officials aim to keep the fund balance above 20% of expenditures to cover the four- to-five month gap between the end of the fiscal year in June and the November tax revenue disbursement. Projections from Johnson put the fund balance for the 2025-26 fiscal year at 19.9% of total expen- ditures and will drop to under 11% by 2029 without consolidation. With consolidation, the fund balance will drop to about 15% by 2029. The enrollment drop, inflation and only a $55 increase in the basic allotment from state lawmak- ers in the last legislative session, all contributed to the district’s current financial situation, said Johnson, who is retiring on Jan. 30, at the Dec. 2 meeting.
$60M
$35.9M
$50M
$33.5M
$29.4M
$40M
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$30M
$33.2M
$20M
$28.2M
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$21.3M
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SOURCE: GRAPEVINE-COLLEYVILLE ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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