Pflugerville ISD officials continue to weigh potential school closures and attendance boundary adjustments amid ongoing fiscal struggles.

The PfISD board of trustees previously received a recommendation from the district's attendance boundary committee with 10 possible plans for different combinations of elementary school closures and boundary adjustments to bring down district expenditures.

Since then, the district has held numerous meetings with district parents, students and staff to get feedback on the plans.

On Jan. 19, representatives from the committee came before trustees again with a proposal narrowed down to just four possible plans:

• Repurpose River Oaks and Dessau Elementaries, and adjust attendance boundaries accordingly;
• Repurpose Parmer Lane and Dessau Elementaries, and adjust attendance boundaries accordingly;
• Adjust elementary attendance boundaries to relieve schools east of SH 130 with no closures; and
• Adjust high school attendance boundaries to shift students from Weiss High School to other high schools with no closures.

Chief of Staff Brandy Baker said these plans are still far from final, and the district will continue to collect input from stakeholders as it reviews and makes adjustments to the plans.

"We do anticipate these plans will change and look differently from their original versions, and so we want to continue to get feedback," Baker said.

Baker said the committee hopes to present refined versions of the plans at a February board workshop for further discussion.

According to Superintendent Doug Killian, the district will also consider other avenues for reducing expenditures, including adjustments to the district's gifted and talented program as well as the KickStart martial arts program.

Killian urged concerned community members to reach out to state legislators, who entered their biennial legislative session Jan. 10.

He said switching to a funding mechanism based on enrollment rather than attendance and raising the basic allotment would help to mitigate the financial challenges causing the district to consider school closures.

"Even if we don't close a school this year and we find other ways to cut our budget, we're going to be back in this position if the Legislature does not give us that raise," Killian said.

Information on the proposed boundary adjustments and opportunities for public input are available on the district's website.

Editor's note: This story was updated to correct the name of the Pflugerville ISD committee making the recommendation.