ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — The ECISD Bond Committee met Thursday and made some final decisions about what they want to see from a proposed bond.
"A new Career and Technology Education Center, they would like us to address maintenance needs, kind of our priority one and two, maintenance needs in each of the 45 schools in ECISD," said Superintendent Dr. Scott Muri. "A new middle school, we'd like to put a new middle school in the environment."
The committee also agreed they wanted a bond that wouldn't tax the people of Ector County.
"We've developed the ability to have around a $400 million bond without raising the tax rate of local property owners and that was of great interest to the bond committee," said Dr. Muri.
The top priority being a new CTE facility that will cost around $80 million.
"We have multiple career and technical education pathways that we do not have capacity to add more students and so a new facility will allow us to expand our Career and Technical Education capacity," said Dr. Muri. "Second, the new facility will allow us to remove some students from Permian High School and Odessa High School and lowering the numbers because we'll have a subset of students that will attend school on this campus full-time."
From here, the ECISD Bond Committee will present to the Board of Trustees.
"They'll bring a recommendation to the Board of Trustees and then from there they'll spend the summer deliberating," said Dr. Muri. "And by August 21st, the Board of Trustees is scheduled to call a bond election for November of 2023."
Dr. Muri says the Bond is a good way to invest in local education.
"A bond opportunity is a powerful way for a community to invest in their children," said Dr. Muri. "It is a way for, in this case, Ector County to demonstrate to its own children how much it values the education that they're receiving."
The ECISD Bond Committee will present to the Board of Trustees at the end of June.