The district began moving forward with preparing its budget for the 2015-16 school year, despite not knowing what would come out of the Texas Legislature this year.
The Frisco ISD board of trustees is scheduled to approve the budget, which is currently proposed at nearly $416 million, at its June 22 board meeting.
FISD is aiming to keep the budget tight while accommodating for the projected growth in the next school year, said Richard Wilkinson, FISD deputy superintendent of business services.
The preliminary budget is about $26 million more than the 2014-15 school year’s budget. It includes about $20 million to go toward staffing the new campuses opening in the fall, Wilkinson said.
Wilkinson said each department made budget requests and, while no services have been cut from the budget, some departments may not get as much as was requested.
“Each one of those departments had needs based on growth, and we collectively prioritized those needs,” he said. “We actually made reductions in many of those areas.”
One of the school financing bills that FISD watched during the session—House Bill 1759, which would have added about $3 billion in school funding—was not passed in the legislature.
