Aledo ISD Administration Board Room, 1008 Bailey Ranch Road
School board adopts the 2024-2025 budget and tax rate and calls part of its 2016 refunding bonds for early redemption
The public hearing ran from 6:30 to 6:37 p.m. with no speakers. Every vote was 6-0. The adopted rate and budget totals are not stated in the minutes.
The Aledo ISD Board of Trustees met in special session Aug. 26, 2024, with Trustees Forrest Collins, Hoyt Harris, Zachary Tarrant, Jeremy Pruett, Jim Scott and David Lear present. Chief Financial Officer Earl Husfeld reviewed the proposed 2024-2025 budget and tax rate, and Collins opened a public hearing at 6:30 p.m. that drew no speakers and closed at 6:37 p.m.
The board adopted the 2024-2025 fiscal year budget, approved a resolution calling a portion of the district's Unlimited Tax Refunding Bonds, Series 2016, for redemption before maturity, adopted the 2024-2025 tax rate, and approved the final amended budgets for 2023-2024, each 6-0. The minutes do not state the adopted rate or the budget amounts. Husfeld also discussed upcoming changes to the Tarrant Appraisal District's appraisal process. Executive session items were posted, and the meeting adjourned at 7:33 p.m.
Sources: Aledo ISD: minutes of the Aug. 26, 2024 meeting, as attached to the Sept. 17, 2024 agenda (BoardBook); Aledo ISD: agenda, Aug. 26, 2024 (BoardBook); Aledo ISD meetings on BoardBook
How this was sourced: Primary documents: the minutes of the Aug. 26, 2024 meeting as posted on BoardBook with the Sept. 17, 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.