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CCISD Forms Citizens Facility Advisory Committee
Clear Creek Independent School District
Office of Communications
2425 East Main Street
League City, Texas 77573
Contact: Elaina Polsen, Director
(281) 284-0020 or epolsen@ccisd.net
September 11, 2012
CCISD Forms Citizens Facility Advisory Committee
League City, Texas- The Clear Creek Independent School District Board of Trustees has established a citizens committee to prioritize and recommend a list of capital projects to meet the district’s growth and replacement needs for the next three to five years. The special purpose committee of educators, parents, and community members will tour schools, interview staff, review facility assessments, and make a final recommendation to the school board on the timing, funding, and priority of capital projects by February 25, 2013. “As with any growing organization, public or private, capital needs exceed available funding. This creates the framework for CCISD to engineer cost effective solutions to its infrastructure deficiencies and capacity shortages, stretching limited dollars as far as possible,” said Ken Baliker, School Board President. “In my view, the FAC Committee will provide an important barometer to the Board of Trustees to prioritize infrastructure projects proposed throughout CCISD and to gauge public willingness to fund them.”
The Clear Creek Independent School District is home to 44 schools and more than twenty-percent of the campuses are 40 years or older. “While we have done a great job in maintaining these aging facilities, the truth is many of our classrooms do not have the capacity, technology, or even meet current educational standards,” said Greg Smith, Superintendent of Schools. “In addition, we are still growing as a district and so we need to look down the road and around the corner to make sure we are prepared to handle such growth.”
The Board of Trustees outlined specific guidelines for the committee. They are as follows:
- address any identified safety deficiencies;
- provide learning environments conducive to improved student achievement;
- relieve physical and financial capacity constraints and/or maximize efficient use of facilities and;
- increase student and staff access to technology, consistent with the district’s long-term technology plan
- maintain the district’s fiscally responsible position;
- consider the district’s current and projected operating and debt service fund financial position;
- avoid the use of short-term general fund dollars to meet long-term capital needs; and
- avoid the use of disaster, emergency, and operating reserve funds to meet long-term capital needs where practicable
The Facility Advisory Committee will begin meeting on Tuesday, September 18, 2012 and will continue meeting bi-monthly until February. A website will be established to keep the community updated on the committee’s work. For more information, contact the Office of Communications at 281-284-0020 or email information@ccisd.net.
