CITY & COUNTY
News from Richardson, Plano ISD & Richardson ISD
COMPILED BY JACKSON KING
Richardson City Council meets Oct. 10, 24 and 31 at 6 p.m. Due to a re at city hall, council meetings have been temporarily relocated to various city-facilities. Updated info on meeting locations can be found on the city’s website at www.cor.net. Richardson ISD board of trustees meets Oct. 13 and 20 at 6 p.m. at the RISD Administration Building, 400 S. Greenville Ave., Richardson. The meetings are streamed live online at www.web.risd.org. MEETINGS WE COVER approved the sale of 5.6 acres of district-owned land for $6 million during its Aug. 2 meeting. The plot of land at 3540 14th St. was the location of the district’s Shiloh Center. PISD had owned the property since 1997 when it was bought from Albertsons for just under $2 million, o cials said. CITY HIGHLIGHTS RICHARDSON ISD The district is updating its strategic plan for the rst time in ve years, according to an August board meeting. O cials stated strategic planning is a process used by organizations to identify and accomplish their goals while establishing ways to evaluate progress. RISD last underwent strategic planning in 2017. RICHARDSON ISD The board of trustees is pushing to provide more summer instruction for students who need to take end- of-course exams, according to a Sept. 15 meeting. As part of the Texas Education Code, the district is required to perform an evaluation aimed at investigating the e ectiveness of the summer school program. O cials said the evaluation showed 2022 summer school attendees earned higher scores during their annual State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness compared to those who took it during spring. PLANO ISD Trustees unanimously
Richardson IQ headquarters building opens as ‘global in uencer of technology and innovation’
RICHARDSON The city’s Innova- tion Quarter headquarters opened at 1302 E. Collins Blvd. on Sept. 14. The headquarters is a partnership between the city and The University of Texas at Dallas in the 1,200-acre industrial area east of Central Expressway. The IQ is a city-led revitalization e ort in the former Telecom Corridor of Richardson. “Today, we celebrate a signi cant milestone in the ongoing e ort to bridge interest in the Richardson IQ, the premier tech hub in Texas,” Richardson City Manager Don Magner said. Magner said the implementation of the IQ headquarters will help establish The IQ’s focus on “public and private investment, [and] business cultivation, and support
the creation of an innovation ecosystem.” Richardson has already estab- lished city o ces at the headquar- ters, while UT Dallas is expected to fully move in around December, according to UT Dallas sta . “The vision we have here is that we will be a global in uencer of technology and innovation, which is big in Richardson,” Mayor Paul Voelker said. The headquarters is expected to include ve new research centers and an extension of its Venture Development Center. Richardson Director of Communications Greg Sowell said the headquarters will help temporarily house several city facilities that were impacted by the city hall re.
THE RICHARDSON INNOVATION QUARTER Known as “The IQ,” Richardson is working to turn this industrial area east of Central Expressway into the “premier tech hub in Texas,” a city vision statement states.
1,200 -acre urban hub
19,000 -plus workers in the district
1,000 -plus businesses
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SOURCE: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
City approves budget, lowers tax rate RICHARDSON City Council nal- ized its budget ahead of scal year 2022-23 during an Aug. 29 meeting. The approved budget will increase the city’s expenditures compared to the previous year by 7.2% to over $354 million, according to a budget presentation. The city’s tax rate decreased com- pared to the previous year to $0.56095 per $100 valuation. The new tax rate is the lowest for Richardson residents since 2006, a city release stated.
UT Dallas opens passport center office
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS The university opened a new U.S. Passport Center on the third oor of the Student Services Building at 780 Franklyn Jenifer Drive, Ste. 762. According to UT Dallas o cials, the center processes passport applications not only for students, sta and faculty, but also for members of the public who live in Richardson or anywhere in the North Texas area. Passport services will not be available during univer- sity holidays or closures.
Individuals must schedule appointments in advance for all passport services.
BEFORE YOU GO Items to have before heading to the passport o ce:
DS-11 form
Proof of U.S. citizenship Proof of identity
Check or money order made payable to the U.S. Department of State SOURCE: THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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RICHARDSON EDITION • SEPTEMBER 2022
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