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News from Plano & Plano ISD
COMPILED BY ERICK PIRAYESH & WILLIAM C. WADSACK
Plano City Council meets at 7 p.m. Feb. 28 and March 14. Meetings are held at 1520 K Ave., Plano, and can be streamed online. 972-941-7000 • www.plano.gov Plano ISD board of trustees meets at 6 p.m. March 1 at the PISD Administration Center, 2700 W. 15th St., Plano. 469-752-8100 • www.pisd.edu MEETINGSWE COVER PLANO City Council voted Jan. 24 to continue the city’s existing curfew for at least three more years. The curfew only applies to unsupervised minors ages 10-17 in public spaces. The curfew starts at 11 p.m. Sundays to Thursdays and at 12:01 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays and runs until 6 a.m. each day. PLANO The city’s planning and zoning commission approved plans for renovations at Caddo Park in January. The work will include a new looped trail with lighting, a new and larger playground, tness stations, a disc golf basket and more. The park is located at 2701 Round Rock Trail just north of Davis Elementary School. NUMBER TOKNOW Hill said. The increase from the previously reported $188 million is due to changes in estimated tax collection, state revenue and student attendance. $213M payment for the 2021-22 school year, Chief Financial O cer Johnny CITY HIGHLIGHTS PLANO The city’s Veterans Memorial Park will see renovations to construct a new plaza and trail around the park later this year. The new features will give residents the opportunity to honor military service members. A new seating area will be built along with planting beds and more to further improve the park’s appearance. That will be Plano ISD’s recapture
Plano ISD to conduct internal search for next superintendent
PLANO ISD The district’s board of trustees accepted Superintendent Sara Bonser’s letter of retirement and voted to begin an internal search of Plano ISD for her replacement during a Jan. 27 meeting. accepted “with great reluctance.” Each of the trustees o ered thanks for the superintendent’s service to the district and understanding of her decision to spend more time with her family. During the meeting, Bonser said her older sister was diagnosed with liver cancer last year. “Over the winter break, we just didn’t get the news that we had hoped for,” Bonser said. “So with a lot of thought and prayer and conversation, Several board members said Bonser’s retirement was being
I am going to live the values that I have always asked my sta to do, which is to put your family rst. Because while I love being superintendent and I would only want to be a superinten- dent here ... this time with [my sister] is my priority.” Board President David Stolle said the district plans to celebrate Bonser’s career and the role she has played in PISD’s success at a later date. “While there is a touch of sadness in the air, we are not saying goodbye today,” Stolle said. “Today there is work to do, and there will be work to do every day to maintain and build upon what you and your teams and all of our teams in Plano ISD have established.” Stolle then explained the district
Superintendent Sara Bonser speaks after the Plano ISD board of trustees accepted
her letter of retirement Jan. 27. WILLIAM C. WADSACK COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
usually does either an internal search of the district or an external search for outside applicants for the superinten- dent position. Trustee Angela Powell then motioned to post the position of superintendent for an internal search for candidates, and that motion was approved unanimously. In addition to Bonser, PISD’s district leadership team includes Theresa Williams, the deputy superintendent and chief operating o cer, and ve assistant superintendents.
Report forecasts gradual enrollment rebound for district PLANO ISD Following a student decline of nearly 5% between the 2019-20 and 2020-21 school years, a demography report presented to the Plano ISD board of trustees Feb. 8 shows the district’s enrollment gures are expected to decrease by around 1% per year through 2027-28. After that, the report predicts min- imal decreases of enrollment each year until 2031-32, when the district is expected to see a 0.3% increase. “We expected a pretty good bounce back [this year, but] we did not bounce back as much as we thought,” consultant Rocky Gardner from Zonda Demographics said. “[PISD] declined by about 800 students [this year]. We really expected it to come back a little stronger than that, [and] we’re not sure exactly where some of these students are now.” Gardner said the lack of available homes at a ordable price points was a factor in the projected future decreases of expected students for the district. “We are projecting [enrollment] to continue to bounce back gradually,” Gardner said. ENROLLMENT FORECAST Plano ISD’s enrollment is forecast to decline for the next several years. 45K 0 50K 55K *PROJECTION SOURCES: PLANO ISD, ZONDA DEMOGRAPHICS COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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