Midland ISD made history on Election Day passing their $1.4 billion bond, the largest school bond passed in West Texas and the 8th largest in the State.
The next day, the District is ready to get to work.
"It’s been 20 years since we passed a secondary bond and so such an exciting time for our students," said Dr. Stephanie Howard, MISD superintendent.
A timeline for the next five years has already been posted on the Midland Bond 2023 website and a Bond Oversight Committee will meet in November.
“November 17th we’ll canvas the results at a Special Board Meeting," Dr. Howard said. "We’ll also select a project manager to manage a project of this size and then work will begin. We hope to be breaking ground on the new elementary and doing work out there in January."
Over in Ector County, the district's Proposition A passed and will now usher in a new career technical education center, a new middle school and other district-wide upgrades. As well as many maintenance improvements that ECISD Superintendent Dr. Scott Muri said will be handled first.
"Those emergency items are things that we will get busy on very quickly they typically fall in the maintenance category," Dr. Muri said. "The other items we will look at will be the really expensive items such as the construction of a new middle school, the construction of a new career technical education facility, those items we'll be pretty quick on as well just because of their cost. The longer we wait to do those expensive items the more expensive they will be."
Dr. Muri also said they are looking to get together a bond oversight committee and get a website up and running.
"We’re in the process of developing that bond website so the public can see all of the projects in the bond and all of those that passed and a timeline," Dr. Muri said. "What are the projects that’ll happen first, second and third, how long do we expect this project to take place and we’ll be adding images for the public."
Out in Greenwood, propositions A and B passed. The district's superintendent Ariel Elliott said they're working to get the right people in place to get the job done.
"Lawyers will do there part and then we’ll start working with our architects to get some designs done and then we’ll go to bid for the projects and get going on the work," Elliott said.