During Monday night’s meeting of the Brownwood ISD Board of Trustees, an order calling for a May bond election regarding district-wide improvements was approved unanimously.
The $59,950,000 bond is broken into three propositions and three, two, one, or none could be approved by the voters.
Proposition A, at $27,650,000, features the following district-wide projects:
- Safety and security upgrades across the district
- Renovate Snodgrass Facility
- New field house at high school (locker rooms, weight room, training room, conference room, offices, storage, laundry)
- Renovate locker rooms at high school
- Accessible seating in high school gym
- Renovate middle school locker rooms
- New gym flooring at all elementary campuses
- New intermediate school auditorium seats
Proposition B, at $16,300,000, revolves around the following improvements to Gordon Wood Stadium:
- Home bleacher addition (1,000 seats)
- ADA/code improvements (Ramp access, aisles and stairs renovated for code compliance, ADA parking)
- New lights
- New concessions/restrooms
- New press box with elevator
- New turf and track resurface
Proposition C, at $16,000,000, calls for the construction of an indoor student activity center at BHS and additional facility upgrades that will feature:
- Use by band, baseball, softball, football, soccer, PE, and others
- 80 yards of turf
- Training room, dressing rooms, storage, offices
- Tennis improvements (Remove/replace courts, new scoreboard, new lights, new bleachers, windscreen)
- Baseball/Softball improvements (renovation of baseball field with new bleachers, dugouts, backstop, canopy over batting cages); New lights for baseball and softball fields
At a November 2021 BISD Board of Trustees meeting, concerned partners and citizens presented a slideshow to the board detailing the areas within the school district that they felt required improvement, which took place prior to a vote that allowed the school district to partner with Claycomb Associates, Architects to assist in comprising a list of needs – free of charge. Claycomb Associates, Architects assisted Burnet ISD with its current renovations that are near completion. Beginning in September 2022, a 20-person citizens advisory committee met a total of five times in an effort to narrow down projects to be considered.
Additional details on the bond are expected to be released by the Brownwood Pride Political Action Committee as early as Tuesday.