And probably a tax increase too
Budget cuts are coming to Austin’s public schools next year, but will they impact students? Austin ISD Superintendent Matias Segura said his team is working to keep that from happening.
Segura’s promise came at an April 4 meeting of the board of trustees, as he and Chief Financial Officer Eduardo Ramos presented the district’s plan to halve a $60 million shortfall in the Fiscal Year 2025 budget. The administrators propose cutting the deficit by $30 million and carrying the remaining $30 million into the following school year.
The district proposes to save $26 million by cutting operations in the district’s warehouses, transportation, and the technology center, and by limiting overtime and trimming contracts. The remaining $4 million will come from the district’s Central Office; 42 positions, some of them already vacant, will be cut in the Talent Strategy, Finance, and Technology divisions, among others.
While Segura and Ramos emphasized that the cuts will spare students and teachers, they said the same would probably not be true if another $30 million has to be cut in the next budget cycle. And they floated a solution: asking for a tax rate election, to allow voters to vote on whether to raise the rate at which property owners are taxed. At theState law allows school districts some flexibility in the rates at which they assess taxes.
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