VLK Architects/Special to The Community News: The new ninth grade center would sit just to the east of the existing high school. Darker shaded areas would be new parking.

Prices would increase from last bond election
By Erin Cooper
Administrators at the Aledo Independent School District have been at the drawing board for several months since the failure of the November 2007 bond election.

After much deliberation, and reducing needs, the bond proposal presented to the Aledo ISD Board of Trustees came in the form of two propositions for the upcoming May election during a training session last Tuesday.

“Sixty-one percent of the individuals that voted on the bond election did not have students in the district,” Superintendent Don Daniel said. “So we missed our target; we didn’t get our parents out to vote.”

The board removed paving to McAnally Intermediate School and $500,000 of HVAC equipment replacement because it is pursuing other avenues that would be cost efficient for replacing the units.

Proposition 1, totaling $59,062,477, consists of major construction costs and building renovations, including a ninth grade campus, technology and security center and a teacher training center. Also included in that proposition is classroom instructional technology and campus security.

Proposition 2, totaling $7,965,556, covers minor renovations to campuses, paving, transportation and future school sites.

For more details, see the Feb. 222-29 issue of The Community News, on sale now.