Education
BY BROOKE SJOBERG
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$2.3M planned for campus renovations and vehicles Several Round Rock ISD campuses will undergo renovations and new maintenance vehicles will be purchased after $2.3 million in contracts and purchase orders were approved in November. What you need to know Funded by 2024 bond monies, architects and construction managers will be hired for the ren- ovations. Three middle school tracks will also be resurfaced and eight district vehicles replaced. Track resurfacing at Canyon Vista, Chisholm Trail and Cedar Valley middle schools Cost: $675,504.25 Canyon Vista Middle School renovation, design services Cost: $620,000 Raymond E. Hartfield Performing Arts Center renovation Cost: $559,943 Seven Chevrolet cargo vans, one Chevrolet pickup truck Cost: $375,805 CTE center renovation Cost: pre-construction fee of $30,000 Great Oaks Elementary School addition and renovation Cost: pre-construction fee of $30,000 Bluebonnet Elementary School and Cedar Valley Middle School renovation Cost: pre-construction fee of $18,600 RRISD Support Services building renovation Cost: pre-construction fee of $10,000 ROUND ROCK EDITION RRISD shares plans for first phase of new CTE center Round Rock ISD shared a first look at the district’s future career and technical education center in November. RRISD budgeted $51.7 million in 2024 bond funds for the facility that will host many CTE education programs, as well as the 18+ Community Access Program, part of the district’s Special Education Transition Services. What you need to know In a Nov. 18 meeting, administrators shared render- ings showing what the remodeled facility could look like. RRISD purchased the over 200,000-square-foot building at 9900 Spectrum Drive, a former LegalZoom office, earlier this year for $37.75 million. Plans for the facility show that it would host several programs in its first phase, with room to grow inside.
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The details The center is currently in the design development phase. The first phase includes plans for:
• 18+ program • Cosmetology • General education • Robotics
• Auto body shop • Semiconductor • Electrical trades • Collaborative student space
$3.4M to go to new laptops, phone system Round Rock ISD will purchase new laptops for staff and upgrade campus phone systems using bond funds. The details Trustees approved the use of about $3.4 million in 2024 bond funds to upgrade servers to support a new district-wide phone system, as well as the replacement of 1,870 laptops used by staff members. Monies used to make these technology upgrades comes from the $125.3 million Proposi- tion B passed by voters in November 2024. The $1.9 million laptop refresh will replace out-of-warranty staff devices in the spring 2026 semester, district documents show. About $1.5 million will be used to replace servers at the district level to support a new phone system, including system deployment and migration as well as five years of technology support. This project will also be carried out in the spring 2026 semester. Voters also approved the $798.3 million Prop- osition A to fund campus renovations, as well as Proposition C, which allocated $8.6 million to fine arts facilities.
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