Election
BY HALEY VELASCO
Clear Creek ISD, District 1
Clear Creek ISD, At-Large Position B
KEY : *Incumbent
Joe Machol Occupation: professional official for football/baseball, WWII European Theater of Operations tours owner/operator Relevant experience: eight years Seabrook City Council, 14 years President Texas Baseball Umpires Association (TBUA), four years... 281-804-0434
Jessica Cejka* Occupation: real estate agent
Rebecca Lilley Occupation: community, physician engagement director, Memorial Hermann Relevant experience: 35-year resident; parent; board member, Clear Creek Education Foundation www.electrebeccalilley.com
Scott Bowen* Occupation: chemical engineer
Relevant experience: three-year trustee, former educator, parent to three CCISD students, Parent Teacher Association volunteer www.jessica4ccisd.net
Relevant experience: two-term incumbent, CCISD graduate, hired Superintendent Engle, wrote necessary policies, balanced the budget Facebook: Re-Elect Scott Bowne for Clear Creek ISD Trustee At-Large
What are your priorities, if elected?
What are your priorities, if elected?
Help the CCISD taxpayer keep their hard earned money in their own pocket. Be fiscally responsible.
Recruit and retain quality educators by advocating for them. Maintain and strengthen academic excellence by expanding CCISD programs such as STEM [or science, technology, math and engineering], GT [or gifted and talented program], and dual- language. Encourage parent involvement and collaboration. Sustain strong fiscal accountability.
The main priority is tackling the financial and funding challenges. This needs to be accomplished while ensuring that we continue to serve each and every child well and retain our talented teachers and staff. I would like to collaborate with board members and the superintendent to ensure teachers and students …
Increasing teacher/staff pay. Keeping students safe: Enhanced security, discipline and zero tolerance for bullying and drug use. Maintaining high academic standards, prioritizing traditional education (including phonics), reducing device dependence. Increasing free time and recess for children. Expanding career and technical education. Lowering tax rates and opposing unnecessary renovations/bonds.
Would you support the district going for a bond within the next year to keep up with facility and technology upgrades?
Would you support the district going for a bond within the next year to keep up with facility and technology upgrades?
Bonds only if absolutely necessary, after looking into cost cutting measures and possible waste.
We have aging schools needing upgrades in the near future. Due to the state funding formula, this must be done through a bond. I would encourage the district to continue to evaluate facility needs and determine when a bond could be passed without increasing the tax rate for our citizens.
There are priority repairs that were identified by the citizens facility advisory committee in 2023 but not included in that bond package. I would support the district going for a bond to address these priority needs.
No. Property taxes are already too high and we still have maintenance and technology to complete on our existing bonds. Once those are done we can re-evaluate critical needs.
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