EPISD is having a board meeting Thursday, March 12, 2020.
One of the items they will discuss is their debt service fund budget projections.
Here is what the backup material for the agenda item shows:
They evidently don’t want the public to know.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Mr. Moore over at elpasomatters.org published a remarkable set of statistics the other day in a post about public school enrollment in El Paso:
El Paso County schools – including both traditional school districts and charter schools – had 34,603 students enrolled in kindergarten, first grade and second grade this year, according to data released in March 2019 by the Texas Education Agency. That’s down more than 5,000 from the 2011-12 enrollment in those grades, according to TEA records, a decline of 13%.
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Those 5,000 fewer students will soon be missing from upper grades at the children get older.
Yet the school districts continue to build new schools.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Item J on the EPISD February 18, 2020 board of trustees meeting consent agenda reads:
Approval of Change Order No. 05 for EPISD Downtown Administration Building 1100 N. Stanton, CMAR #18-030, Project No, 17.634A, to HB Construction, for $428,537.00 (177X Maintenance Tax Notes)
The backup material explains:
The change order is for an Owner-initiated request for modifications to the floor plans on the second through the eighth floor. These modifications are a result of changes in the District’s organizational structure. This change order, if approved, will increase the contract sum by $428,537.00, or 1.9%, bringing the contract amount to $21,914,439. Prior change orders to date total $151,323, and are included in the contract amount of $21,914,439. Board Policy CV (Local) requires administration to present any changes for an adjustment of cost greater than or equal to $50,000.00 or changes in the aggregate above fifteen percent (15%) of the original contract value be taken to the Board for approval. The project includes a contingency of $794,852.09 of which $210,954 has already been used leaving a balance of $585,898.09. Staff is recommending this change order be funded from other project funding and not the contingency account as doing so would leave a balance of $155,361.09 in contingency for any potential change orders. Given that the project is approximately 28% complete, reducing the contingency to that amount is not recommended.
We haven’t heard anything from the district about changes to their organizational structure. Yet they want to make changes on the second through the eighth floor.
It is in particular troubling to see that they don’t want to take the money out of the contingency fund out of fear that they will not have enough money left to make any more changes.
We deserve better
Brutus
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It looks like EPISD is going to sell that last of the 2016 bonds.
Note that they expect to have them paid off in the year 2048.
Today’s 17 year old high school senior will be 45 years old.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Yesterday’s EPISD special board meeting that was going to be held to review and potentially modify the superintendent’s contract was cancelled.
Does anyone know why?
We deserve better
Brutus
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