EDUCATION BRIEFS
News from Conroe, Magnolia & Tomball ISDs
QUOTE OF NOTE
Rezoning committee recommends plan for Creekside area
SCHOOL NOTES CONROE ISD The Conroe ISD board of trustees named Kevin Meyer the principal of Oak Ridge High School at a May 17 meeting. TOMBALL ISD Chief Financial Officer Jim Ross on May 9 presented trustees with the proposed budget for fiscal year 2022-23, which includes a general fund budget increase of $13.9 million, or 7.8%, from FY 2021-22, according to a budget report. A projected tax rate was not included. MAGNOLIA ISD At the Magnolia ISD board of trustees budget workshop May 16, trustees were presented with a budget proposal for fiscal year 2022-23 that includes a 2% raise for all employees, including teachers, bus drivers and staff. The Conroe ISD board of trustees will meet at 6 p.m. June 21 at 3205 W. Davis St., Conroe. 936-709-7752. www.conroeisd.net The Magnolia ISD board of trustees will meet at 6:30 p.m. July 11 at 11659 FM 1488, Magnolia. 281-356-3571. www.magnoliaisd.org The Tomball ISD board of trustees does not have a meeting scheduled in June or July. 281-357-3100. www.tomballisd.net MEETINGS WE COVER “ALL THE [REZONING] PLANS THAT WERE PROPOSED ... HAD GROUPS OF STUDENTS STILL CROSSING KUYKENDAHL ROAD.” STEVEN GUTIERREZ, TOMBALL ISD CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
BY KAYLI THOMPSON
INITIAL PLAN CHOSEN The rezoning plan chosen by Tomball ISD requires students from Creekside Park to cross Kuykendahl Road if they are walking or biking to school. KEY Creekview zone 1 Creekview Elementary school Timber Creek zone 2 Timber Creek Elementary school
TOMBALL ISD The rezoning plan devised for Tomball ISD for The Woodlands area, Plan A, will be adopted for the 2022-23 school year, TISD Chief Operating Officer Steven Gutierrez said during a workshop meeting May 9. The district has been considering boundary changes affecting Creekview, Creekside Forest and Timber Creek elementary schools to alleviate overcrowding at Creekview Elementary. Superintendent Martha Salazar-Zamora previously said Creekview Elementary is at 115% capacity. Plan A sends some Creekside Park students at Creekview Elementary to Timber Creek Elementary on the opposite side of Kuykendahl Road from their homes. Plan B, which was not adopted, would have sent students from a differ- ent area across the road. “All the plans that were proposed, even the counter plans proposed by the largest community impacted, had groups of students still crossing Kuykendahl Road,” Gutierrez said during the meeting. Gutierrez said Creekview’s capacity will not drop below 100% until the 2026-27 school year, when the new ele- mentary school funded by the district’s 2021 bond package opens at the Tomball Innovation Center at Hufsmith-Kohr- ville Road and FM 2920.
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SOURCE: TOMBALL ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
Bond projects move forward at Conroe ISD
$230M bond package eyed in Magnolia ISD
SOURCE: CONROE ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER year begins, he said. In addition, infrastructure work is underway at Flex 22, an elemen- tary school on Lexington Boule- vard in the Grand Oaks feeder area set to open in August 2023, he said. WORK PLANNED Construction projects in Conroe ISD are funded by the 2019 bond. Flex 22 School TIMELINE: August 2023 opening COST: $39.42 million Galatas Elementary updates TIMELINE: summer 2022 completion COST: $5.1 million
BY MAEGAN KIRBY
BY MAEGAN KIRBY
CONROE ISD Easy Foster, Con- roe ISD’s director of planning and construction, updated the board of trustees on 2019 bond projects May 17. Oak Ridge High School construc- tion is underway for a new admin- istrative area and front door, part of a $45 million building overhaul, and Galatas Elementary School’s air conditioning system will be updated before the 2022-23 school
MAGNOLIA ISD The Magnolia ISD bond committee recommended a November $230 million bond package including three new schools at the May 16 board of trustees meeting. The bond would not change the tax rate for residents, and the recom- mended projects by the committee include a ninth elementary school costing $41 million, a third middle school costing $66 million and a third junior high costing $85 million.
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THE WOODLANDS EDITION • JUNE 2022
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