{"id":913531,"date":"2026-07-05T05:39:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/913531\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T05:39:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T05:39:35","slug":"keller-isd-approves-budget-with-staff-raises-321k-surplus-keller-roanoke-northeast-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/913531\/","title":{"rendered":"Keller ISD approves budget with staff raises, $321K surplus | Keller &#8211; Roanoke &#8211; Northeast Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kellerisd.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keller ISD<\/a> will head into fiscal year 2026-27 with a 1% raise for staff and net more than $321,000 for the general fund, following the board of trustees&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.finalsite.net\/images\/v1782333626\/kellerisdnet\/bg1t2lgejqkufo7s42si\/Budget_26-27_Proposed.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">budget<\/a> approval at a June 25 school board <a href=\"https:\/\/meetings.boardbook.org\/Public\/Agenda\/2320?meeting=742882\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By the numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Projections from the district show KISD expects to collect nearly $346.41 million in revenue and incur a little more than $346.08 million in expenditures, leaving the district with a $321,485 surplus.<\/p>\n<p>KISD\u2019s revenue comes from local, state and federal sources, with local revenue sources, like property taxes, contributing about 57% of the district\u2019s revenue. State revenue makes up about 42% and federal funding contributes the remaining 1%.Across the general fund, the district cut about $11.7 million in expenditures, with reductions to the school leadership, instructional leadership and community education. The child nutrition fund was also reduced by about $1.3 million.KISD saved about $7.4 million in staffing and administrative positions due to some positions remaining unfilled, KISD Chief Financial Officer Pamela Stranathan said at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4_4avKtkd9o&amp;t=3097s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 11 board meeting<\/a>. The $7.4 million in savings from unfilled positions, combined with a 1% staff raise, $25 monthly increase in the district\u2019s contribution to employee health insurance and additional payroll costs like state-mandated teacher raises, caused a total payroll reduction of about $3.08 million in FY 2026-27, Stranathan said.<\/p>\n<p>After factoring in all budget cuts and staff raises, FY 2026-27 general fund expenditures are about $6 million lower than they were in FY 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some background<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keller ISD will head into fiscal year 2026-27 with a 1% raise for staff and net more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":902299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,3232,407,7371,7372,13350,7805,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-913531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-budget","tag-education","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-keller","tag-keller-isd","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116865765677324153","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}