With 16 years of nonprofit leadership experience, I bring a unique skill set to the Wylie ISD School Board. As someone who has worked for several nonprofits – large and small – I have spent years creating and implementing budgets. As a fundraiser, this also meant creating budgets that would meet the needs of the organization, but at the same time were fiscally responsible. I spent years knowing how to create budgets that were efficient but yet helped the organization grow and succeed.

Unfortunately, that is not what I am seeing within Wylie ISD. After sitting through every board meeting during the current budget cycle, I noticed that there was not a single thought to ensuring costs were appropriate or that new spending was justified.

As your next Trustee for Place 6, you can be assured that I will ask the administration to look for redundancies and savings within the budget. As a Trustee, it is not my job to manage the organization, but as the steward of taxpayer dollars it is important that I ensure that money is being spent wisely.

And, I promise to you that I do not, and will not, advocate for cuts to the number or pay of teachers. There are always ways to trim a $180 million budget without touching teacher pay.