{"id":167209,"date":"2025-08-22T19:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167209\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T19:08:15","slug":"north-east-isd-to-hold-495-million-bond-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/167209\/","title":{"rendered":"North East ISD to hold $495 million bond election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gTrlhgWN7GQ&amp;list=PLG14EAEfK50o8GcOGM5oC1GbaLxvm2I59&amp;index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 11<\/a>, the North East ISD, NEISD, Board of Trustees voted to call a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neisd.net\/bond2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$495 million bond election<\/a> Nov. 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you need to know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to district documents, the proposed bond package was created after a review of NEISD facilities, enrollment trends and instructional needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bond funds will be used for:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Renovating and repairing existing school buildings<\/li>\n<li>Enhancing campus safety and security systems<\/li>\n<li>Improving fine arts, athletics and extracurricular spaces<\/li>\n<li>Upgrading instructional technology and classroom equipment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bond projects were selected after a review by a facilities steering committee, which was formed in December 2024. The committee consisted of parents, community members and NEISD staff.<\/p>\n<p>Bond funds can not be used for daily operating expenses, including salaries and utilities, which are paid using the district\u2019s maintenance and operation budget. Bond funds can only be used for approved capital projects.<\/p>\n<p>Though the bond is set to raise $495 million for the district, according to district documents, there will be no increase to the current tax rate for at least five years.<\/p>\n<p>Teri Chidgey, vice president of the NEISD Board of Trustees, said the facilities steering committee worked diligently to keep the bond low enough so that it didn\u2019t raise taxes for residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very important to [the committee] to keep [the bond] down to a similar amount of the bond issued 10 years ago, even with all of the inflation,\u201d Chidgey said. \u201cSo quite honestly, there were more things that I wanted on there, but&#8230;they were serious [about keeping] it down to where it did not raise taxes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the vote, Chidgey also stressed that this bond wasn\u2019t to build luxury accommodations, but to provide the necessary essentials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t want to be the board that&#8217;s on the news because our air conditioners or heaters are out, as we&#8217;ve seen around the city,\u201d Chidgey said. \u201cI want to take care of our children. That doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;re going to build a Playland Park, but it does mean we&#8217;re going to keep them cool in the 100 degree weather and keep them warm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>District 2 Trustee Tracie Shelton expressed reservations about Proposition B, which included a desire for additional information, such as who the vendors were for each option, what was included in each proposal and whether leasing may be a better option instead of purchasing new equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Shelton also said she was concerned that students from alternative schools would not receive Chromebooks due to $145,000 being cut from the bond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am uncomfortable with Proposition B&#8230; we said earlier we can create a policy that helps the kiddos and have the Chromebooks follow the kids,\u201d Shelton said. \u201cI need us to create a policy for that. We have to make sure that those kids, those students, have the same level of access and material that the other students that are in our other campuses [have].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sean Maika, NEISD superintendent, assured Shelton that the district will always strive to provide the same resources to students across the district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to absolutely make certain that students at our alternative school have the exact same type of devices and functionality that every other student in our district is afforded,\u201d Maika said.<\/p>\n<p>The vote to call a bond election passed 6-1, with District 7 Trustee Marsha Landry voting against.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stay tuned<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NEISD will hold community meetings prior to the vote to provide as many opportunities for residents to ask questions about the bond. Registered voters that live within the NEISD boundaries are eligible to vote on the bond election Nov. 4.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Aug. 11, the North East ISD, NEISD, Board of Trustees voted to call a $495 million bond&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":167210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[96064,5229,96063,20702,93628,96062,19297,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-167209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-495-million-bond","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-bond-election","11":"tag-neisd","12":"tag-north-east-isd","13":"tag-north-east-isd-board-of-trustees","14":"tag-november-election","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-sanantonio","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115073994139747166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}