EDUCATION BRIEFS KISDofficials approve portables for 5 campuses
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NUMBER TOKNOW generator for Cinco Ranch High School $451,278 MEETING HIGHLIGHTS KATY ISD The board of trustees at Katy ISD was selected as one of nine boards in Texas to participate in the Raise Your Hand Texas Trustee Advocates Program. The newly formed program aims to provide district leadership the tools they need to positively influence policy making, according to a district statement Jan. 31. The 18-month program aims to help participants learn how to advocate for education-related public policy. for a new emergency KATY ISD Two longtime Katy ISD educators, Steve and Elaine Robertson, will have their names displayed at the district’s newest elementary school. The school was named Steve and Elaine Robertson Elementary School at a Jan. 24 meeting. Together, the Robertsons have worked in public education for 64 years. Both educators retired from KISD in 2020. Located at 7400 Innovation Drive, the new school will provide enrollment relief to Bryant Elementary School.
KATY ISD Five campuses in Katy ISD will be getting new portable classroom buildings after the board approved the purchase of 12 of the buildings at a Jan. 24 meeting. The buildings, which cost $81,036 each, will go to five campuses throughout the district, including Leonard Elementary School, McElwain Elementary School, Adams Junior High School, Mayde Creek Junior High School and WoodCreek Junior High School. The portables will cost $972,432 with an additional $144,000 for furniture and $399,120 for technology. KISD documents said the buildings will support enroll- ment growth and special programs. Officials said they are reused for decades and that KISD has some portables as old
PORTABLE BUDGET The 12 buildings will go to five campuses throughout Katy ISD.
in technology $399,120 for each portable $81,036
total cost $1.52M in furniture $144K
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as 40 years. Officials said they will be usable in time for the 2022-23 school year. The project will cost $1.52 million.
District purchases emergency generator KATY ISD The board of trustees at Katy ISD approved the $451,278 pur- chase of an emergency generator for Cinco Ranch High School at a Jan. 24 meeting. Officials said the unexpected expense is needed after the original
generator—which was installed when the school was built in 1999—failed. “The emergency generator at Cinco Ranch High School has failed and is extremely cost prohibitive to repair due to its age,” said Nathan Fuchs, KISD’s executive director of mainte- nance and operations. “We currently have a rental generator on-site ... until a new generator can be installed.” The funding source for the
generator is the district’s fiscal year 2021-22 general operating fund, and district officials said they will work to offset the unexpected expense. “From a financial perspective, we are going to cover that in this budget— but I am going to bring up a budget amendment next month to replenish that budget because a $450,000-some- thing [purchase] like this is not expected,” Fuchs said.
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