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PROPOSITION A: $634 MILLION

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1 Middle School Nos. 5 and 6: $216M 2 Elementary School Nos. 12 and 13: $94M 3 West Fork High School Phase 2: $76M 4 Administration building: $56M 5 New Caney Elementary School replacement: $47M 6 Land acquisitions: $30M 7 Maintenance and operations building: $28M 8 Facility life cycle improvement items: $23.5M 1 New Caney High School extracurricular improvements: $32M 2 Porter High School extracurricular improvements: $16M PROPOSITION B: $61 MILLION

9 New Caney High School Career and Technical Education Facility: $21M 10 Porter High School CTE and ne arts improvements: $12.5M 11 Transportation expansion: $12M 12 Clear touch classroom interactive displays: $10M 13 Alternative Campus and Credit Recovery relocation: $7M 14 School playground accessibility: $1M

BOND BY PROPOSITION New Caney ISD’s 2023 bond package is composed of a $634 million proposition that would fund new and expanded campuses, and a $61 million proposition

3 District Agriculture Science Center expansion: $7M 4 West Fork High School extracurricular improvements: $6M

that would fund expanded extracurricular oerings.

SOURCE: NEW CANEY ISD COMMUNITY IMPACT

1,400 homes in that time. “Those are our main areas of focus,” Calvert said. Calvert pointed to several projects in Proposition A that aim to address growth, including Elementary School No. 12—a $44 million campus in The Highlands—and Elementary School No. 13, a $50 million campus in the northeast section of the district. Additionally, the $76 million second phase of West Fork High School would add 750 seats in addition to a new gymnasium and locker rooms. Middle school Nos. 5 and 6, which would each cost $108 million and house 1,100 students, would be built in the northwestern and northeastern portions of the district, respectively. Extending opportunities While many bond projects aim to expand student capacity, several items aim to increase access to extra- curricular and career and technical education oerings. In Proposition A, New Caney High School’s $21 million CTE facility would include a 50,000-square-foot addition housing the school’s agriculture, weld- ing, automotive, construction, archi- tecture and engineering programs. “That space just really isn’t functional for the demands of CTE right now [and] getting kids ready to have a career in those elds,” Calvert said. Similarly, a $12.5 million, 52,000-square-foot addition at Por- ter High School would include new

spaces for band and dance programs as well as renovations to the existing ne arts and CTE areas. The bond would also help relocate New Caney High School’s sports elds closer to the campus, meaning stu- dents would no longer have to drive across Hwy. 59 to reach them. Turf would also be installed on Porter High School’s baseball and NCISD trustees approved a tax rate of $1.443 per $100 valuation—the fourth consecu- tive year trustees approved an over- all tax rate that was lower than the year prior. softball elds. Eect on taxes Last year, Because the district’s interest and sinking rate, which is used to pay o bond debt, is already at the state’s maximum $0.50 per $100 valuation, Calvert said the approval of the bond referendum would have no eect on the district’s I&S rate. Additionally, Calvert said the in¡ux of new homes in the area would likely generate enough new revenue to stave o any increases to the district’s maintenance and operations tax rate in the coming years. “If we don’t get this bond passed, in a year, we’re going to see schools over capacity,” Bond Steering Committee Member Dennis Alters said.

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the bond aims to address projected student growth. “We know the growth is here,” Calvert said. “It’s coming, and it’s not going anywhere.” The bond will be broken up into two propositions; Proposition A totals $634 million and includes campus and facility improvements, while Proposi- tion B totals $61 million and targets extracurricular enhancements. While NCISD voters have approved seven bond elections since 2000, the May election will feature the dis- trict’s largest bond issue to date. Still, Calvert said NCISD’s property tax rate will remain unaected by the bond. Addressing growth NCISD ocials said the district’s enrollment stands at nearly 17,800 students this school year. However, an April 2022 report from demo- graphic rm Population and Survey Analysts projects that number to rise to roughly 25,000 students by 2031-32. According to the report, several residential developments are driving the growth, including The Highlands, which is projected to gain more than 1,200 new units by 2026, and Tavola, which is expected to add more than

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