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Aledo ISD Administration Board Room, 1008 Bailey Ranch Road

An April budget workshop, the fourth of the spring, with Vice President Brown presiding after Collins leaves

No action was taken.

The Aledo ISD Board of Trustees held a workshop April 16, 2024, with Trustees Forrest Collins, Zachary Tarrant, Jessica Brown, Jennifer Taylor, Jennifer Loftin and David Lear present. Chief Financial Officer Earl Husfeld updated the board, and the board and staff discussed planning for the 2024-2025 budget.

Collins left at 6:13 p.m. and Brown presided for the rest of the workshop. No action is recorded.

Sources: Aledo ISD: minutes of the April 16, 2024 meeting, as attached to the May 20, 2024 agenda (BoardBook); Aledo ISD: agenda, April 16, 2024 (BoardBook); Aledo ISD meetings on BoardBook

How this was sourced: Primary documents: the minutes of the April 16, 2024 meeting as posted on BoardBook with the May 20, 2024 agenda, and the meeting agenda. Every vote, number and name above appears in those documents; the Ledger did not review the meeting video. Students and public commenters are not named. Written Sept. 5, 2026, for the archive.

Filed under Aledo ISD Board of Trustees · Topics: What has the Aledo ISD board decided on the budget, bonds and tax rate?; What has Forrest Collins moved, seconded and said at the dais?; What has David Lear moved, seconded and said at the dais?; What has Zach Tarrant moved, seconded and said at the dais?

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2024-2025 budget planning

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