Texas City Pension Board to Elect Officers and Weigh Its 2027 Budget Oct. 6

The board that runs the statewide pension system for Texas city employees will meet Oct. 6 and 7 at a Round Rock resort to elect its officers, review next year’s budget and decide how it pays its own staff. It is doing so one member short.

The system is governed by six trustees, appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate, who must themselves work for a city in the system. Only five seats are filled. The sixth has been open since April 30, when a trustee resigned, and no successor has been announced. The officer election that opens the meeting is the first since December 2025, when the board chose Jim Parrish of McKinney as chair and Midland City Manager Tommy Gonzalez as vice chair.

The money items are the substance. Trustees review draft operating and capital budgets for the year beginning in October 2026, take a first look at a proposed five-year technology plan, and discuss the guidelines, salary schedules and incentive pay that govern what system employees earn. A closed session is posted for personnel matters reaching the executive director, the internal auditor and the chief legal officer, and for investment discussions the pension statute allows the board to hold privately. Any action on those has to come back to open session before it counts.

The meeting was not on the calendar the system publishes. Its posted 2026 schedule lists a February retreat in Dripping Springs and four regular meetings in Austin, the last of them Dec. 10; there is no October date. The notice was also re-filed twice. A first version set the meeting for Oct. 5 at the system’s Austin headquarters even though its agenda described an Oct. 6 and 7 meeting; that notice was cancelled and replaced with filings for Oct. 6 at the Kalahari Resort in Round Rock and for the Oct. 7 continuation.

Watch the officer election and the empty chair. A six-member board seated five can still do business, and nothing in the notice suggests otherwise, but every vote taken over these two days — on the budget, on staff pay, on who leads the board for the coming year — is taken by a body the governor has not finished filling.

Meeting at a glance

Board members

• Jim Parrish — chair; Anna; human resources director, City of McKinney.
• Tommy Gonzalez — vice chair; Midland; city manager, City of Midland.
• Isaac Tawil — McAllen; city manager, City of McAllen.
• Jaime Reyes II — Melissa; assistant fire chief, City of Plano.
• Pamela Williams — Hawley; human resources director, City of Abilene.
• Vacant — sixth seat, open since April 30, 2026.

Roster from the system’s board page, rechecked September 29, which lists five trustees and no sixth, and gives Parrish as chair and Gonzalez as vice chair. Cities and titles are reproduced as the system prints them; home cities for Parrish, Reyes and Williams come from the governor’s appointment releases and differ from the cities that employ them. The December 2025 officer election is recorded in the system’s 2025 annual report. The vacancy follows Bryan Langley’s resignation effective April 30, 2026; no appointment to the seat was found in the governor’s releases as of September 29. Statute divides the six seats between three executive trustees — a chief executive officer, chief finance officer, or other officer, executive or department head of a participating city — and three employee trustees, and bars two sitting trustees from the same city; the system does not publish which seat is which, so no claim is made here about whether the five sitting trustees satisfy that split. Jac Greene, Greg Carpenter and Cindy Demers, named on the agenda, are staff or consultants, not trustees. Meeting contact: Debbie J. Muñoz, executive director, (512) 476-7577.