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Richardson City Council meets May 2, 9 and 16 at 6 p.m. at City Hall, 411 W. Arapaho Road, Richardson. www.cor.net. The meetings are open to the public and are streamed live online. Richardson ISD meets May 9 at 6 p.m. at the RISD Administration Building, 400 S. Greenville Ave., Richardson. www.risd.org Plano ISD board of trustees meets May 3 and 17 at 6 p.m. at the PISD Administration Center, 2700 W. 15th St., Plano. 469-752-8100. www.pisd.edu MEETINGSWE COVER CITY HIGHLIGHTS RICHARDSON The city is implementing a limit on the residential use of outdoor irrigation systems, including sprinklers, between 10 a .m.- 6 p .m. during the summer. The restriction became eff ective April 1 and will run through Oct. 31. RICHARDSON The city’s parks and recreation department has an online survey for residents to provide feedback on its master plan at www.cor.net/ parksmasterplan through May 8.
RISDapproves guaranteed price for newLakeHighlandsMiddle School
Shafer to retire from nonpro tNetwork
RICHARDSON ISD The board of trustees unanimously approved a guaranteed maximum price of a little more than $81 million for the rst phase of construction of the new Lake Highlands Middle School during its April 11 meeting. The rst phase of the project was approved at a price of $81,167,525 and will consist of the complete construction of a three-story middle school on the existing site that can house 1,500 students. The second phase is slated to involve demol- ishing the existing school buildings and redeveloping that area for the campus. “We are very excited for this,” Assistant Superintendent Sandra Hayes said. “This is the rst time that the district has taken on creating a new school since the early 2000s, with the exception of Memorial Park Academy. We’re very excited to get this o and running.”
RICHARDSON Cindy Shafer, president and CEO of Network of Community Ministries, announced April
Work on Lake Highlands Middle School could begin as early as this summer, with the facility to open by August 2024, Hayes said. BUILDING A NEWSCHOOL Richardson ISD is moving forward
4 that she will retire from her position at the Richardson-based nonpro t later this year. “During the past 5.5 years, Cindy has fearlessly and e ectively led Net- work through unprecedented growth and change,” Board Chair Monica Scott said in a statement. “Cindy has expanded Network’s community presence and placed the organization in an excellent position for continued success.” Network is a nondenominational, community-based nonpro t that serves more than 60,000 individuals in the Richardson area with a variety of services every year. Cindy Shafer
with work on the new Lake Highlands Middle School. $81.17M
$94M
guaranteed maximum price
district budget for the project
1,500
2024
students to be housed
estimated completion date
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