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05-06-2009, 08:47 PM
The first round of spending from the 2008 voter-approved $128 million bond for Hutto ISD has been released and will be spent on facility improvements and land acquisitions.
At the most recent HISD board of trustees meeting, school board members voted to release about $9 million for several projects, most notably increasing the capacity of Hutto High School’s football stadium by about 50 percent.
Dependant on whether HISD can get a variance from the city in time, the expansion will be completed prior to either this year’s or next year’s football season, according to Rainey Lann, HISD director of facilities and operations. The total capacity of the expanded stadium, about 6,100, will violate plumbing ordinances because of a lack of restroom facilities, which will also need to be expanded.
“Ideally we’re looking to do it this summer,” Lann said.
The money will also go toward creating a new facility for the storage of school buses when not in use. The current facility, located near Park Street and Old Hippo Stadium, is an area better suited for residential development, HISD Superintendent David Borrer said.
The new facility, called a bus barn, will be south of U.S. 79 along FM 1660, where the district has already purchased land for the new high school.
Eventually, Borrer said, the idea is to move the entire administration to that site.
“As we are able to grow and as we are able to secure more funds, we will move the whole operation out there,” Borrer said.
HISD will centralize its supply purchases with the addition of a new warehouse. Borrer said he hopes to cut back purchasing expenditures by buying in greater bulk and having a standardized shipping location. Creating a HISD-owned warehouse will give the district that place to store those pallets of pencils and pads.
Currently, purchasing is decentralized and has some logistical issues, Borrer said.
“(The current system) creates a nightmare of trying to track items and trying to ensure we’ve gotten everything we’ve ordered,” he said.
Further purchases will be allocated toward land for new schools. The first priority is land for the district’s planned sixth elementary. Then the district will look at land for a third middle school and finally a seventh elementary, Borrer said.
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At the most recent HISD board of trustees meeting, school board members voted to release about $9 million for several projects, most notably increasing the capacity of Hutto High School’s football stadium by about 50 percent.
Dependant on whether HISD can get a variance from the city in time, the expansion will be completed prior to either this year’s or next year’s football season, according to Rainey Lann, HISD director of facilities and operations. The total capacity of the expanded stadium, about 6,100, will violate plumbing ordinances because of a lack of restroom facilities, which will also need to be expanded.
“Ideally we’re looking to do it this summer,” Lann said.
The money will also go toward creating a new facility for the storage of school buses when not in use. The current facility, located near Park Street and Old Hippo Stadium, is an area better suited for residential development, HISD Superintendent David Borrer said.
The new facility, called a bus barn, will be south of U.S. 79 along FM 1660, where the district has already purchased land for the new high school.
Eventually, Borrer said, the idea is to move the entire administration to that site.
“As we are able to grow and as we are able to secure more funds, we will move the whole operation out there,” Borrer said.
HISD will centralize its supply purchases with the addition of a new warehouse. Borrer said he hopes to cut back purchasing expenditures by buying in greater bulk and having a standardized shipping location. Creating a HISD-owned warehouse will give the district that place to store those pallets of pencils and pads.
Currently, purchasing is decentralized and has some logistical issues, Borrer said.
“(The current system) creates a nightmare of trying to track items and trying to ensure we’ve gotten everything we’ve ordered,” he said.
Further purchases will be allocated toward land for new schools. The first priority is land for the district’s planned sixth elementary. Then the district will look at land for a third middle school and finally a seventh elementary, Borrer said.
Story Link (http://http://www.thehuttonews.com/articles/2009/05/06/news/news01.txt)