The Ector County ISD Board of Trustees will hear a presentation from the Bond Advisory Committee during a workshop set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the board room of the administration building, 802 N. Sam Houston Ave.
The bond committee of about 60 people has been meeting for six months going over hundreds of pages of reports and hearing presentations. The committee will make its recommendations Tuesday.
The committee agreed in December to move forward with a bond.
The priorities are facility life-cycle repair and replacement needs; a new career and technical education facility; technology upgrades; and a new high school, supplemental agenda material said.
At the December bond committee meeting, Superintendent Scott Muri said a new high school would be a separate item.
Supplemental agenda material said the bond is not to exceed $400 million.
At their December meeting, the committee reviewed results from a Baselice & Associates survey and the Opportunity Odessa survey.
The Baselice survey showed lack of support for large-dollar bonds and the Opportunity Odessa survey showed support for the district.
Bond committee co-chair Lorraine Perryman said in December that Opportunity Odessa is a nonpartisan, community driven initiative funded without tax dollars by Grow Odessa, formerly Odessa Industrial Development Corporation. Its mission is to prepare long-term community vision, identify priority projects that support that vision and to facilitate plans and community involvement to achieve that vision in the community.
This committee started before the pandemic.
An online survey was conducted from Oct. 6-22, distributed by direct mail from major employers and governmental entities via social media.
There were 4,187 responses received — 4,014 in English and 73 in Spanish.
There was a scale of 1 to 5, with five being the most important, rate the following 12 priorities for making Odessa more appealing place to live, work and prosper over the next 10 years.
The top two were invest in infrastructure and support ECISD, Perryman said.
Asked how they would narrow the list of 12, the two highest were invest in infrastructure and support ECISD.
The survey asked in a single word or phrase what opportunity do you feel would have the greatest impact on Odessa’s future success?
By and large, she said, the over 4,000 people that answered the survey said education and the schools get the biggest bang for the buck in the future, Perryman said.
The average value of a home in Odessa is $148,900.
For a $300 million bond, that would be a $9 increase per month and a $105 annual increase, information from the meeting said.
For a $400 million bond, the increase would be $14 per month and $166 a year.
On a $500 million bond, it would be a $20 per month increase and $240 a year increase.
On a $600 million bond, it would be a $25 per month increase and $300 a year.
A $700 million bond would be a $30 a month increase and a $360 a year increase.
The board will also hear a presentation from the To and Through Department. Elizabeth Gray, post-secondary coordinator, Amy Anderson, director-district AVID, and
Daryton Ramsey, executive director of Student and School Support, will present an overview/update of the ECISD To and Through Department. Past and current To and Through work will be reviewed as it relates to the Strategic Plan and Indicators of Success, the material said.
