Pearland City Council will meet at 6:30 p.m. April 11 and April 25 at 3519 Liberty Drive, Pearland. Meetings are streamed and available at www.pearlandtx.gov. Friendswood City Council will meet May 2 at 910 S. Friendswood Drive, Friendswood. A time for the meeting will be determined a week before the meeting. Meeting recordings are posted to the city’s YouTube channel. Friendswood ISD will meet at 5:45 p.m. April 11 at 402 Laurel Drive, Friendswood. Pearland ISD will meet at 5 p.m. April 12 at 1928 N. Main St., Pearland. Meetings are streamed at www.youtube.com/user/ thepearlandisd. Alvin ISD will meet at 7 p.m. April 12 in the Liberty Alumni Hall, 10855 Iowa Colony Blvd., Iowa Colony. MEETINGSWE COVER SCHOOL HIGHLIGHTS FRIENDSWOOD ISD Friendswood High School renovations will finish in summer 2023 for a total of $56.4 million. The new Cline Elementary School construction will be completed by May 2023 for a total of $36 million.
Larry Berger named lonefinalist for Pearland ISD superintendent
Larry Berger (fourth from left) stands with the Pearland ISD board of trustees. ANDY YANEZ/COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
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to make great things happen for our students and for our community and for the state of Texas.” Due to state law, the district is required to have a 21-day waiting period from the naming of a lone finalist to the official vote on making him the superintendent. The board aims to vote to officially name Berger the new superintendent at its April 12 regular meeting, board President Sean Murphy said. The board began the process of searching for a new superintendent in January following the announce- ment by previous Superintendent John Kelly that he intended to retire in the summer. PISD’s board of trustees then granted Kelly a leave of absence he had requested in a March 1 special
meeting, Community Impact Newspa- per previously reported. The board of trustees felt it needed to name a lone finalist for the posi- tion soon because of various factors, including the district facing a budget deficit and there being close to 70 superintendent positions open across the state, Murphy said. Additionally, the board looked only at internal candidates for the position, he added. Trustee Crystal Carbone said board members feel Berger will help the district continue academic success, provide more transparency and bolster teacher morale. “Larry is a charismatic servant leader,” Carbone said. “He is going to be the biggest cheerleader for our district that we have seen ... at the front of the helm in a long time.”
PEARLAND ISD The board of trustees in a March 22 special meet- ing named Larry Berger Pearland ISD’s lone finalist for the superinten- dent position. Berger serves as the district’s assistant superintendent for support services and has been with the district for over a decade, according to PISD officials. He also spent nine years at Pearland High School as principal and assistant principal. “I am humbled by this opportunity and by this challenge that is before us,” Berger said. “But I know that the support standing behind me, the team that I have [and] the commu- nity that I have, that we are Pearland ISD, and we are going to face the chal- lenges in front of us. We are going
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