In a 6-1 vote this week, the Killeen school board approved a general pay increase of 2.25% for all Killeen ISD employees.
In the budget plan presented, trustees also approved a starting teacher pay of $57,000 for the upcoming school year,
Board member Marvin Rainwater was the single holdout during Tuesday’s board meeting, stating in previous discussion that he would not vote to approve the plan as presented to the board by Kallen Vaden, KISD’s chief financial officer. Rainwater and other board members requested additional information about the budgeting process and asked Vaden for different “scenarios” using a 3% pay raise or raising the lowest paid employees to a starting rate of at least $16 per hour.