Doesnt any of this song and dance sound familiar? Oh wait, Waxahachies will be played to the tune of a 125 million dollar bond..not 13.7 million. By the way, the Central Heights bond went through at the 13.7 million, without the state funding. Wake up Waxahachie! Dont allow someone who has been here less than a year, decide what is best for our kids! The school board should be ashamed of themselves. We needed a superintendent, whose priority is what happens inside our schools walls; not Bob the Builder, who is only preoccupied with building his monstrosity of a high school, while ruining the things that work perfectly in our district. Central Heights ISD proposes bond election Posted: Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:00 am | Updated: 2:14 pm, Tue Jun 4, 2013. KEITH LANSDALE | 0 comments In the hopes of building a new high school at Central Heights, the CHISD held a public forum Thursday night to outline a proposal for parents and taxpayers for a school bond election to generate the funds. The $13.7 million price tag presented came from research done by the Central Heights ISD facility study committee. A group comprised of 24 Central Heights taxpayers submitted the proposal for the project, but the bottom line covers more than plans for a new high school building. It will cover the cost of a new high school, a new wing on the middle school and needed renovations on the elementary school, Dr. Jeremy Glenn, Central Heights superintendent, said. Well have one bond election that will cover all the costs. The $13.7 million price tag will not fall entirely onto the taxpayers shoulders, according to Glenn, as more than half of the money needed is expected to be generated through state funding. Were anticipating the state will kick in 61 percent of the entire project for us under the parameters of Existing Debt Allotment funding, Glenn said. We also qualify for $2.7 million from the state with the Instructional Facilities Allotment funding. The Central Heights district has also agreed to bestow $1 million of its own money for the renovations, Glenn said. Glenn took questions from the collection of parents, teachers and concerned members of the community who attended Thursdays forum, but began the meeting with a statement saying no official action would happen tonight. However, questions were welcome. A slideshow was used to illustrate how the state funding would affect the bottom line, but the question on most peoples minds was how the proposal affected them, specifically in the pocketbook. Glenn made it clear that construction would be done in phases, based on secured funding from state programs, thus minimizing the need for local supplemental funding. As the project will be done in phases, the first is to begin in November with the construction of the new high school. We expect to complete the new building and start moving in students in January 2011, Glenn said. The reason for the phases is we are not going to do anything until we know we have qualified for the state funding. The issue of where the money would come from for additional staff for the new classrooms was asked, to which Glenn stated the money is already available, and is currently not being used. The entire project is expected to take three to four years, according to Glenn. A second public forum will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 16 in the Central Heights ISD board room.
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