The recent disclosure of a mistakenly sent email from an EPISD employee to, of all things, a news outlet has pointed out that the district is now actively planning the replacement of it’s central office.
Their current central office is on land leased from the city. The city has notified the school district that the lease will not be renewed past 2019.
Prior postings indicated that EPISD staff was aware of the lease issue but that they were still exploring options with the city.
Why not?
The city does not have to kick the school district out. We should all ask our mayor and city representatives to extend the land lease and save the tax payers the expense of building a new complex. You may use this link to contact them.
District officials are telling us that a new building will cost us about $40 million. I suspect that the number could be made smaller if the central office was more efficient. If the city’s chief financial officer came up with the number it will probably cost two or three times more than the estimate.
Before any of my readers write in telling me that there are hard working and effective workers at the central office, let me first say that I agree. We are lucky to have the services of many of those people. On the other hand we have a significant portion of the central office staff that do not measure up. Getting rid of them would reduce costs and improve performance.
We deserve better
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Maybe the city failing to renew the lease is a red herring. Maybe certain people on the EPISD board asked the city not to renew the lease so EPISD would have a good excuse to build a new monument to the massive egos of the board president and the new super. Since the size and cost of any new central office would be largely a function of staff size, maybe this is the perfect time to reduce central office staff, which would lower the anticipated $40 million budget. Please tell me that the the central office does not plan to include and maintain office space for its board members.
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