CITY & SCHOOLS
News from Frisco, Frisco ISD & Little Elm ISD
Frisco City Council meets at 6:30 p.m. March 21 and April 4 at City Council Chambers, George A. Purefoy Municipal Center, 6101 Frisco Square Blvd., Frisco. www.friscotexas.gov Collin County Commissioners Court meets at 1:30 p.m. March 13, 20, 27, and April 3 and 10 at Jack Hatchell Collin County Administration Building, 2300 Bloomdale Road, Ste. 2302, McKinney. www.collincountytx.gov Denton County Commissioners Court meets at 9 a.m. March 14, 21, 28, and April 4 and 11 at Administration Courthouse, 1 Courthouse Drive, Denton. www.dentoncounty.gov MEETINGS WE COVER HIGHLIGHTS LITTLE ELM ISD The board of trustees unanimously voted to remove Daniel Gallagher as superintendent and place him on administrative leave with pay, according to LEISD Board President Jason Olson. This change is necessary for the immediate leadership needs of our students, teachers, sta and administration, according to a Feb. 19 district statement.
City starts 2025 planning with new committee
Frisco brewery looks to open
PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE
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our vision for the future,” Director of Development Services John Lettelleir said in a statement posted on the city’s website. The committee will also be developing policies and sustainability strategies for existing developments as well as vacant land, according to the statement. Aging populations, future land uses, walkability, connectivity, mobility and mixed-use developments along the Dallas North Tollway and overall transpor- tation policies are also up for discussion. The new committee described in Lettelleir’s state- ment is slightly larger than its predecessor for the 2020 comprehensive plan, which was formed in 2018 with 20 members—including three members who
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FRISCO O cials are looking ahead and have selected a team of residents to help. Frisco City Council approved 23 appointments to the city’s Comprehensive Planning Advisory Committee at its Feb. 21 meeting. The committee will create Frisco’s ve-year comprehensive plan, a twice- a-decade project that takes two years to complete. The 2025 committee will focus on how the last 16% of undeveloped land in Frisco will be used, according to the city’s website. “Given recent corporate relocations and other major commercial development announcements, we’d like the committee members’ help to re ne
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FRISCO A The Rail District could soon be tapping into a new source of revenue. A request from Three Empires Brewery Co. to operate a brewery on the corner of 5th Street and Main Street was approved by Frisco’s plan- ning and zoning committee during a Feb. 28 meeting. “I am excited about this,” Commis- sioner Brittany Colberg said. Local breweries are a relatively new concept in Frisco. The zoning ordinance prohibiting breweries from operating within the city was amended in spring 2020. If approved, the brewery will operate inside the Ford Building.
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Guests who attended the Frisco Public Library grand opening met Rexy, the library’s resident 23-foot-tall dinosaur skeleton intended to promote dynamic learning that acts as a gateway to the children’s area. (Colby Farr/Community Impact)
SOURCE: CITY OF FRISCO COMMUNITY IMPACT
Frisco Public Library welcomes patrons with grand opening
served on the 2015 committee and 17 new volunteers. “We could have, easily, probably put about 40 people on [the new committee],” Mayor Je Cheney said.
broke ground in April 2021. The original opening date was set in fall 2022, but shipping shortages and other complications delayed it. The new library hosted an open house on March 4, and it included previews of the new Tiny Town, MakerSpace and Kid’s Club areas, according to the announcement. Guests also met Rexy, the library’s resident T Rex skeleton. The library was o cially operational and reading-ready March 5, according to city o cials. More information about the library can be found at its website, www.friscolibrary.com.
District strikes down proposed change to teaching controversial issues policy FRISCO ISD After more than an hour of public input and discussion, Frisco ISD will not be adding a new critical race theory, or CRT, amend- ment to its district teaching policy. The board discussed the proposed amendment at its Feb. 13 meeting and ultimately chose not to consider adding it, citing confusing wording and redundancy with existing policy. The item was denied 5-2. Board Members Marvin Lowe, the amend- ment’s proponent, and Stephanie Elad voted against the denial. “I believe that [board members] all absolutely are aligned that we do not want anything CRT-related taught on campuses,” Board President René Archambault said. “What the concern is, for me, with this policy, is that there’s so much limitation that it brings to our teachers and to our students.” guidelines for addressing controver- sial issues in the classroom, which are based on existing state laws and found in the local version of the district’s policy board manual, which is available online. BY ALEX REECE If it had been added, the amend- ment would a ect the district’s
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FRISCO Get a bookmark ready—it is time to check out the city’s new public library. Library o cials welcomed patrons to view the library during a March 4 ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new 8000 Dallas Parkway location. Construction on the project rst
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LITTLE ELM 27100 Hwy 380 (972) 347-9630
LOWRY CROSSING 4100 E US 380 (972) 540-2500 THE COLONY 4901 Hwy 121 (214) 469-2113
ALLEN 1839 N Central Expressway (972) 908-3488
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