Pearland - Friendswood - Manvel | September 2025

Education

BY HALEY VELASCO

Friendswood ISD calls for $165M bond

What’s next

Early voting for the Nov. 4 election will run from Oct. 20-31, according to the Texas Secretary of State’s Oce. More information on the projects being pitched and how the bond was formed can be found on the district’s website.

Friendswood ISD’s board of trustees at its Aug. 11 meeting called for a $165 million bond election to help improve facilities and technology throughout the district. The measure, which trustees approved unanimously, means the bond will appear on the November ballot. It will appear as four separate measures. The bond package will be broken into four propositions and includes a tax rate increase of $0.13 per $100 valuation of a home for iscal year 2026-27, documents show. However, if approved, the bond will not affect the tax rate for the 2025-26 iscal year. If approved, the increase in FY 2026-27 translates to an estimated $585 increase annually for homeowners with a taxable value of $450,000, Community Impact previously reported.

$165M bond

$154.75M for construction of school facilities

$4.25M for construction of recreational school facilities

"I look forward to further educating the community on all these things ... and if passed by the community,

$4M for refunding and renancing the district’s maintenance tax notes

$2M for technology upgrades

I look forward to some really nice facilities for our students." TONY HOPKINS, FISD TRUSTEE

SOURCE: FRIENDSWOOD ISDCOMMUNITY IMPACT

It is the irst bond the district has called for since 2020, according to district agenda documents. That bond in 2020 totaled $127 million.

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