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Brenda Hellyer

Brenda Hellyer

Chancellor of San Jacinto College

Oct 15, 2026

11:49
What is San Jack's fiscal 27 budget looking like right now?
11:53
Well, fiscal 27 has been a tough budget.
11:57
So, you know, for community colleges, our three major revenue sources are property taxes, it's tuition from students, and then it is our state appropriations.
12:10
And so there's a lot of pressure on all three of those, right? The governor has executive order that tuition is frozen and our tuition rates are pretty low.
12:19
Our in-district rates are $83 a semester credit hour, $1,000 to go full-time to school.
12:26
And so that's frozen.
12:27
And then on the property taxes, we are very much focused around our taxpayers trying to keep our rates low.
Janet MirandaCORRESPONDENT
15:31
leverage their federal financial

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