Local staff and teachers will have a little more cash ahead of the holidays.Elgin Independent School District announced that employees will receive a retention incentive payment Dec. 15 with their payroll distribution. The news during the board of trustees’ Nov. 28 meeting when they heard an update on the planned goal.“Our retention incentive was included in the 2022-23 development of our budget process we did this past spring and adopted in August,” said Jeffri Orosco, EISD chief finance officer. “We budgeted $400,000 in the retention incentives, and it was allocated out all across our different functions based on historical amounts. We said that we would pay this retention ...