What Pflugerville can already use
Programs already exist. No permanent tax required.
Before voting for a $23 million a year forever tax, see what Pflugerville students and workers can already use right now.
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Tuition at ACC is already free for Pflugerville graduates.
ACC's own free tuition pilot already covers tuition for Pflugerville graduates: three years free for the graduating classes of 2024 through 2028, and five years for a bachelor's pathway. The affordability annexation is sold as providing largely exists today, with no taxing district and no permanent tax.
Source: ACC free tuition pilot announcement.
Already running, no annexation required
Five programs Pflugerville can use today.
Each of these already serves Pflugerville students or workers without a taxing district.
Workforce Solutions Capital Area
The regional workforce board offers free career training scholarships for high skill, high growth occupations, with help choosing a career path and connecting to employment. Many programs add support like transportation, child care assistance, and mobile hotspots, and paid apprenticeships are available.
It funds in demand, high growth career training drawn from the Targeted Occupations Lists.
ACC Adult Education Career Pathways
ACC's own Adult Education division runs free programs that combine training, financial assistance, and support services: free certificate programs for industry credentials, the Level Up program with free college credit classes, textbooks, and academic support, and the Ability to Benefit program, which gives students without a diploma early access to federal aid while working toward a certificate.
It serves adult education students: high school equivalency, ESL levels 2 to 4, and adults working past other barriers.
PfISD and ACC dual credit partnership
PfISD already has a formal partnership agreement with ACC for dual credit: approved ACC course lists, a signed partnership agreement, and dedicated dual credit contacts at Connally, Hendrickson, Pflugerville, and Weiss high schools. Students earn college credit while still in high school through this agreement, today, without annexation.
It serves high school students earning college credit through the existing partnership agreement.
Pflugerville Education Foundation
An independent nonprofit established in 2006, the Pfoundation awards student scholarships and educator grants for the PfISD community: 25,000 students served and more than $2.6 million raised to date. It already runs a scholarship pipeline for Pflugerville students, and it is exactly the kind of local partner that could administer a city funded access program.
An established local partner that already runs scholarships and could administer a city funded access program.
Capital IDEA
An Austin nonprofit that has paid ACC tuition for local adults since 1998, funded by the City of Austin and Travis County under what the city calls “a contract for workforce development services.” It sponsors only high-demand careers that lead to a living wage, and it already uses the same college annexation would tax us to join. It is a 28-year Texas precedent for covering ACC costs without a taxing district.
A proven model for paying ACC tuition and fees through a service contract, no annexation required.
We already built it
Pflugerville's own $76 million CTE Center.
PfISD's Career and Technical Education Center is a $76 million facility funded by Pflugerville's own 2022 bond, on about 20 acres of donated land at 4801 Killingsworth Lane. It broke ground November 18, 2025 and opens fall 2027.
PfISD's own announcement, written a year before this election, says the building includes “flexible classrooms and meeting spaces for industry partnerships, community training, and after-hours workforce development.” The other side's local plan is Career Academies inside that building. Pflugerville already paid for it.
PfISD 2022 bond program; PfISD CTE Center announcement (groundbreaking November 18, 2025; opening fall 2027; 4801 Killingsworth Lane).
Will annexation bring a campus?
Two ACC campuses are already nine miles away. A tax doesn't add one.
Pflugerville sits about nine miles from two ACC campuses, Northridge and Round Rock. Annexation does not build anything here. ACC's eleven campuses are in Austin, Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Elgin and Kyle, plus the Lockhart Center.
Manor ISD and Del Valle ISD have both been inside ACC's taxing district for years, paying the tax the whole time, and neither has an ACC campus. ACC's 2026 service plan for Pflugerville commits to nothing more than “future consideration of ACC facility expansion,” and ACC's own plan states that it only builds or owns facilities within its taxing district.
ACC campus locations; ACC Service Plan for PfISD, FY26 (“future consideration of ACC facility expansion”).
The remaining gap
What these don't cover.
Put together, these programs already reach the groups most often named to justify annexation: workforce trainees, adult learners without diplomas, ESL students, and high schoolers. What is left is the out of district fee for a regular degree seeking resident, who still pays $201 per credit hour.
That remaining gap is about a $3 million a year problem, not worth a $23 million fix, and a direct agreement can close it without a permanent tax. See how a direct agreement works.
The real choice
The choice was never annexation or nothing.
It is a $23 million a year permanent tax, or the programs that already exist plus a city program that closes the fee. One of those is a forever tax. The other is not.