BREAKING NEW GROUND JUDSON ISD EXPANDING

BREAKING NEW GROUND
JUDSON ISD EXPANDING
pg.17 High school under construction, elementary to open this month
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SCUCISD
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pg. 11 CONTINUING EDUCATION
New elementary
school, campus
additions under way
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Publisher
Gregg Rosenfield
Change on tap
for area ISDs
Assoc. Publisher
Rick Upton
t’s back-toschool time,
and this
month’s LOCAL
Community
News looks at the
challenges awaiting
the Judson, Schertz-Cibolo-Universal
City and Comal independent school
districts. Those districts – as well as
North East ISD – are grappling with
increasing student enrollment.
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We chose to highlight construction
plans for some of those districts,
and in the future LOCAL will look
at their academic road maps.
Texas public schools have also been
busy trying to improve standardized
test scores and follow Texas Education
Agency criteria for the implementation
of House Bill 5, which substantially
changed the state’s curriculum and
graduation requirements and increased
assessments and accountability.
The districts have several options
to reset their graduation-program
paths. Area superintendents seem
optimistic about their district’s plans,
but are wary of additional edicts coming
from the next legislative session.
Millions of dollars worth of brickand-mortar projects have either
launched or are slated to begin across
the Metrocom. However, they are only
part of the overall challenge for the
districts, which must also cope with
increased transportation and energy
costs, safety and security, and ensuring
infrastructure keeps up with growth.
Noticing that most ISDs annually grant
pay raises for teachers, administrators
and support personnel, taxpayers might
assume the districts are doing just fine.
Staff retention usually translates to
improved academic results, officials said.
Area educators must find ways
to blend all of the above – and that’s
become a year-round task.
Will Wright
Managing Editor
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local commentary
Castro’s move up,
and what lies ahead
by susan yerkes
B
y the time
you read
this, Julián
Castro could be
picking art for his
office as head of
the Department of
Housing and Urban
Development in Washington, D.C., and
San Antonio will have a new mayor.
Castro’s easy confirmation was no
surprise, nor was the fact President Barack
Obama tapped him for the position.
Our Julián is, after all, widely touted
as one of the brightest rising stars in
Democratic politics. Slightly more of a
surprise was that his confirmation was not
unanimous, as was that of one of Castro’s
avowed role models, Henry Cisneros, to
the same Cabinet post back in 1993.
Twenty-six out of 45 Republican
senators, including Texan Ted Cruz (but
not John Cornyn), voted against Castro.
Castro follows Cisneros as the second
San Antonio mayor named to a president’s
Cabinet, and the fact that both were asked
to helm HUD has generated comments
about stereotyping. However, Castro could
have made the leap to D.C. a couple of years
back, when Obama offered to make him
secretary of transportation. But with the
SA2020 push for downtown housing just
gaining serious traction, and the citywide
vote on Pre-K 4 SA looming, he chose to stay
in town to wrap up those “legacy” projects.
Anyway, Castro is headed for D.C. with
wife Erica, daughter Carina and their new
baby-in-waiting. Most pundits agree it’s
a smart move. The fact is that no matter
how hard Dems wish, most agree the Lone
Star State isn’t turning blue. The new role
allows Castro to travel the country and
solidify his D.C. and national connections.
Some observers also suggest the HUD
job is a better transitional position should
the Democratic presidential nominee
(read: Hillary Clinton) pick Castro as
a vice-presidential running mate.
But that decision rests on too many other
factors, including who ends up on the GOP
ticket. Cruz and retiring Gov. Rick Perry
both are said to be jockeying for that role. If
the GOP goes with Cruz, Castro would make
for great balance on a ticket with Clinton.
For now, it’s most likely Castro has no
definite plans, except to do the best job he
can at HUD. A Cabinet job is a good place
for an upwardly mobile public servant to
make a difference. It’s also a much better
jumping-off place for higher office than
another mayoral term. He’ll also be closer
to brother Joaquín, now a well-liked and
established congressman, and that will
likely bring them even more attention in
D.C. While family dynasties are nothing
new in politics, it’s the first time twin
brothers have simultaneously held such
visible positions in U.S. government.
Meanwhile, Castro’s departure has
really ramped up local politics.
Candidates who want to be the next
full-term mayor — including any City
Council members — should be ready to
face state Rep. Mike Villarreal, a bright,
popular Democrat who has indicated he
will resign his seat in the Legislature to
campaign for the position next spring.
Bexar County Commissioner Tommy
Adkisson, who lost his bitter run against
incumbent County Judge Nelson Wolff,
has also expressed interest in the seat.
And a few pundits have suggested
that if state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte,
another Democrat, isn’t serving as Texas’
lieutenant governor next spring, she,
too, might decide to seek the office.
However, with so many folks
apparently positioning themselves
to become S.A.’s head honcho, who
knows? Here’s a wild thought: Maybe
if things don’t work out for Cruz, Perry
or even Clinton, we could see them
running for S.A. mayor. Just kidding!
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Dems wish, most agree the Lone Star
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OUR TURN
Views and opinions about your community
Keep minors from
buying e-cigarettes
S
an Antonio is moving in the
right direction to prohibit
minors from purchasing liquid
nicotine and electronic cigarettes.
A proposal recently floated by San
Antonio Councilman Cris Medina only
regulates the sale of such products to
children under 18, just as minors are
barred from purchasing alcohol and
tobacco until they are old enough to make
responsible decisions on their own.
Far too often government oversteps
its boundaries and indulges in too
much regulation, but in this case the
proposed ordinance makes sense.
Medina’s suggestion does not alter
the city’s existing smoking ordinance.
The city is not saying retailers cannot
sell e-cigarettes and flavored liquids, only
that minors cannot buy these items.
Research cited by Medina notes
that many of the flavors correspond to
bubblegum, chocolate, cola and cherry,
which makes them appealing to children.
Let the kids buy bubblegum, not
bubblegum-flavored nicotine.
While it is true e-cigarettes use lower
levels of nicotine than traditional cigarettes,
nicotine is still considered by the medical
community as a habit-forming substance,
and no more appropriate for a 10-yearold than a whiskey sour or a cigar.
Our Founding Fathers correctly
supported the values of a free-market
economy, with consumers’ purchasing
powers deciding which merchants
rose and which ones fell. But there
are times when some oversight is
needed to protect our youth.
We applaud and champion the right
of e-cig businesses to sell these products
and make a profit, because it is the adult
consumer — not the government — who
will decide the fate of such enterprises.
But from a moral and health
standpoint, sales to children of
these items must be prohibited.
-the Local Community News
editorial board includes Harry Lees,
Gregg Rosenfield and Thomas Edwards.
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Plan your month with our calendar of
upcoming events in the community.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY
The following library events will
be held in August and September at 100
Northview Drive; for more, call 659-7048:
“Basic Internet Use,” free seminars on
navigating the Internet, are 10-11 a.m. Aug.
16 and Sept. 20. Adults must accompany
children under 12. Contact the library for
registration details. A free afternoon movie
will begin at noon Sept. 13. Bring a lunch
or snack; call the library to find out which
movie will be featured. Senior Social Days
are held 2-4 p.m. each Monday. Book Club
for Adults will meet at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 20.
A list of reading selections can be found at
www.universalcitytexas.com/bookclub. The
library reserves seven copies of each book
for members, distributed on a first-come,
first-serve basis. Each Saturday from 9 a.m.
AUG
- SEPT
TALK
outdoor
Music
to 1 p.m., Friends of the Universal City
Library offers a used-book sale at their
bookstore behind the library. It features
a wide selection of books, nominally
priced by the inch. From 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. Sept. 6, the group will host a silent
auction of painted chairs slated to go to
local businesses. (See story on page 16)
TRI-COUNTY CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE
The Chamber’s B2B Breakfasts
take place on the first Friday of each month,
with luncheons held on the second Tuesday
of each month at Bluebonnet Palace, 17630
Lookout Road in Selma. Monthly Lunch &
Learn events are held on the third Thursday,
with mixers on the fourth Thursday. For
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more, including sites and times, call 6588322 or visit www.metrocomchamber.org.
RANDOLPH METROCOM
ROTARY
The club meets Mondays
at noon at the Olympia Hills Golf and
Conference Center, 12900 Mount Olympus
Drive in Universal City. For more, visit
www.randolphmetrocomrotary.org.
AUG
- SEPT
FREE MOVIES IN THE PARK
Universal City’s summer
series ends with a showing
of “The Lego Movie” at Universal City
Park, 305 North Blvd. Activities for
the kids start at 7 p.m. with the movie
beginning at sunset. Guests may bring
lawn chairs, blankets and snacks;
some concessions will be available for
purchase. For more, including activity
details and movie schedules, visit www.
universalcitytexas.com or call 619-0721.
AUG
16
5K FAMILY RUN FOR LIFE
The event, held in recognition
of Suicide Awareness and
Prevention Month, will take place at Eberle
Sept
6
Park at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph.
Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. with
the noncompetitive races commencing
at 8 a.m. For more, call Gina Ramirez,
psychology technician with Outreach/
Resiliency Joint Base San AntonioRandolph at 487-2448 or 652-2448;
or email [email protected].
VETERANS PARK FLEA MARKET
The Committee for Universal
City Veterans Park will hold an
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. fundraiser at Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post 4676, 202 West Aviation
Blvd. Proceeds will benefit Veterans Park
Universal City. There will be many items
available at bargain prices; vendor spaces,
starting at $20, are still available. Spaghetti
dinners, $7, will be sold 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more, call 550-2645 or 658-7179.
SEPT
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NORTHEAST ROTARY
MEETINGS
The San Antonio Northeast
Rotary Club meets 6:30 p.m. every
Tuesday at the Lion & Rose Pub in
The Forum at Olympia Parkway
shopping center, 8211 Agora Parkway,
Suite 112 in Live Oak. For more,
visit www.sanortheastrotary.com.
weekly
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CHILDREN’S STORY TIMES
Converse Public Library, 601
S. Seguin St. holds free story
times 10:30-11:30 a.m. each Wednesday,
where toddlers can get an early start to
literacy through book readings, music,
and arts and crafts. Parents are urged
to arrive on time; children must be
supervised. For more, call 659-4160.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
– UNIVERSAL CITY
Through Aug. 31, the Universal
City Citizens Police Academy Alumni
Association is scheduling police officer
visits to neighborhoods and residential
groups for block parties in conjunction
with National Night Out observances.
For more, call 659-0333, ext. 526.
FIGHTING HUNGER
TexasMobilePack and Feed
My Starving Children are
seeking volunteers to help pack 4 million
meals for hungry children overseas
during a six-day event Sept. 25-30. The
goal is to line up 20,000 volunteers
to work two-hour shifts at two local
sites. More on the organizations and
their goals can be found on links at
texasmobilepack.org and www.fmsc.org.
RITA’S GIVE BACK GALA
The event, sponsored by The
OCt 18
Circle of Cancer Care, supports
female cancer patients in northeast San
Antonio, Schertz and Cibolo. It begins
at 7 p.m. at the Schertz Civic Center
ballroom, 1400 Schertz Parkway, Building
5. The gala will include dinner, live
music and a silent auction. Cost is $75
per person. For more, call 802-1740 or
email [email protected].
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NATIONAL NIGHT
OUT – LIVE OAK
The Live Oak Police Department
is registering neighborhoods and
residential groups for block parties in
conjunction with National Night Out
observances. For more, call 945-1700.
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Cibolo Fest 2014
Oct. 11th, 2014-Saturday
10:00 am to 10:00 pm
200 S. Main Street, Cibolo, TX
Carnival Rides, Petting Zoo, 5K Run
Pony Rides, Silent Auction, Games,
Car Show, Craft and Food Vendors
Entertainment and more!
For Vendor information please call Peggy Cimics
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LOCAL LOWDOWN
Take a quick look at what’s new in the community from opening and closings to news tidbits.
Open and
Opening Soon
1. MR. GOLD FINE JEWELRY, 5524
Walzem Road, offers a wide variety of
uniquely crafted jewelry and repair services.
Open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through
Saturday. For more, call 590-3645 or visit
www.mrgoldus.com. (See story on page 21)
2. ROCKET’S FEED, 9135 Schaeffer
Road in Converse, offers an array of deli
sandwiches, big burgers and side items.
Open 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through
Friday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. For
more, call 263-9688 or visit RocketsFeed/
Facebook. (See story on page 22)
3. ALAMO MOBILITY INC., 16262
Interstate 35 North in Selma, offers
wheelchair-accessible vehicles and
vehicle conversions to fit the needs of
the mobility-impaired. Open 9 a.m. to 6
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Name of local business
p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. Saturday. For more, call 7180055 or visit www.alamomobility.com.
4. ALAMO CITY AUTOPLEX, 1717 Pat
Booker Road in Universal City, offers
high-quality luxury vehicles and sports cars.
Open 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through
Friday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
For more, call 945-9000 or 885-7933;
or visit www.alamocityautoplex.com.
5. DAYS BAR-B-QUE & CATERING, 339
S. Seguin Road in Converse, specializes
in brisket, pulled pork, sausage and side
items, with catering services available.
Open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday through
Saturday. For more, call 290-8883.
7. DRE’VAWN’S HAIR SALON,
8275 FM 78 in Converse, is a 24hour women’s hair studio offering
highlighting, sew-ins, quick weaves,
color corrections, eyelash extensions
and makeup. For more, call 661-6245.
poignant feature on Sweeney narrated by
actor Gary Sinise. Sweeney’s goal led the
U.S. Sled Hockey Team to a 1-0 victory in
the gold-medal game at the Paralympics
in Sochi, Russia, earlier this year.
IN OTHER NEWS
U.S. REP. HENRY CUELLAR, D-Laredo,
said in a release he has spent much of the
summer working on a policy to deal with
thousands of unaccompanied immigrant
minors flowing into the country. Cuellar
and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, sponsored
the Helping Unaccompanied Minors
and Alleviating National Emergency Act
– legislation designed to help alleviate
the ongoing humanitarian crisis on the
southern U.S. border. Several provisions
contained in the HUMANE Act include
revisions to existing laws addressing
human trafficking, and providing swift
processing, medical treatment and
expedited court proceedings leading
to the safe repatriation of children
illegally entering the U.S. Cuellar also
sent letters to the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, congressional
leaders and others requesting financial
assistance and reimbursement for
A SAN ANTONIO JURY acquitted real estate
developer Gary Cain, who prosecutors had
accused of bilking Rackspace Hosting Inc.
out of $7 million in a 2007 deal to move
the company’s headquarters to Windsor
Park Mall. After a three-week trial, the
July 21 verdict cleared Cain, 58, of two
counts of theft and two counts of securing
documents by deception. Rackspace still has
a civil lawsuit pending against Cain, whose
brother, former Windcrest City Manager
Ronnie Cain, awaits a trial on similar
charges filed in a 2010 criminal indictment.
U.S. SLED TEAM PARALYMPIAN JOSH
SWEENEY received the inaugural Pat
Tillman Award for Service during ESPN’s
annual ESPY ceremony on July 16. Sweeney,
a bilateral amputee and Purple Heart
recipient who served in Afghanistan, said
he was humbled and “grateful just to receive
this award,” after accepting the honor,
presented by actor Jeff Bridges following a
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Courtyard location, Fiesta Lanes, First
Commercial Banks in New Braunfels, First
United Methodist Church, Frost Bank
(Landa Street location), GVTC Foundation,
Harland Clarke, Hunter Industries, Litton
Family Dental, McKenna Children’s
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New Braunfels Regional Rehabilitation
Hospital, the New Braunfels Family
YMCA, Oakwood Baptist Church, Reliance
Residential Realty and Treetop Pediatric
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161 S. Castell Ave. in New Braunfels. For
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communities affected by the crisis. He
also met twice with Honduran officials.
Both houses of Congress entertained a
$3.7 billion proposal by President Barack
Obama, but remained divided along party
lines. Before adjourning for summer
recess on July 31, the Democraticcontrolled Senate took no action. On
Aug. 1, House Republicans passed two
bills – a $694 million appropriation for
border enforcement, and a companion
bill to deny immigration hearings and
swiftly deport the migrant youths, as
well as up to 500,000 more immigrants
previously granted temporary work
permits by the Obama administration.
ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL PLACED IN
THE TOP TEN in several categories at
the Technology Student Association’s
national conference held June 27-July 1
in Washington, D.C. More than 6,500
students and educators from across the
United States, Germany and Turkey
attended, including 30 students from
Roosevelt’s Engineering & Technologies
Academy. The Roosevelt ETA, which
ranked in the top three among 26 schools
Comal Independent School District board members on July 31 welcomed Joe Moczygemba as Canyon High
School’s new head football coach and boys athletic coordinator. From left are CISD trustees Cody Mueller,
Stephen Smith, David Drastata; coach Moczygemba and trustees Amy Freund and Denise Kern. Photo courtesy
Comal ISD
competing at the Texas state event, finished
eighth among 182 schools nationally.
PACK THE BUS, an annual school-supplies
drive sponsored by Communities In Schools
of South Central Texas, began in July and
culminated in all-day events Aug. 9 at
H-E-B locations in New Braunfels, Schertz
and Bulverde. CIS provides new education
materials to thousands of students during
the school year. During July, supplies were
collected by the Broadway Bank in Spring
Branch, Bulverde Area Republican Women,
Canyon Lake Presbyterian Church, the city
GUADALUPE COUNTY CONSTABLES
have entered into the enforcement stage
of their warrant roundup, which began
with an amnesty period for those with
misdemeanor warrants July 15-Aug. 1.
On Aug. 2, constables began rounding
up those with warrants issued through
Guadalupe County justice of the peace
courts. Offenders can make arrangements
by calling 945-6685 (Precinct 3), 830372-4223 (Precinct 1), 830-379-2214
(Precinct 2) or 830-372-8916 (Precinct 4).
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“The military is still in flux and
consolidating, which is why they are
moving more to the Joint Base concept,”
Brach said. “It’s a plan so that both
the cities surrounding the base, and
the base itself, can work together to
allow for cities to continue to get the
businesses and residential developments
they need to ensure their economic
growth and development without
jeopardizing the mission of the base.”
“By just getting those folks together
with that installation … (it will) send
a positive signal to a future BRAC
commission that we, the community, are
very much interested in the installation’s
mission, and the proof of that is the
JLUS,” said retired Air Force Brig.
Gen. Robert Murdock, director of San
Antonio’s Office of Military Affairs.
He added community growth
sometimes conflicts with military
missions, such as night training.
“If there is significant light pollution
around the training area, it destroys
the function of night-vision goggles,”
Murdock said, citing bright lampposts
from a parking lot as an example.
Other issues may include gunfire
within installations, which many residents
might find disconcerting. Another
is dealing with endangered animal
species, such as the problem Camp
Bullis’ JLUS officials encountered.
“The JLUS identifies all those factors and
then provides recommendations both for
short term and long term,” Murdock said.
In the case of JBSA-Randolph, where
the chief mission is flight training, nearby
growing communities face obstacles.
“With as much residential development
as we had back in 2007, and now with
the economy rebounding, we’re starting
to get into the commercial development
that naturally follows,” Brach said.
Metrocom cities – including Live
Oak, Universal City, Schertz, Cibolo,
Garden Ridge, Selma and Converse –
have addressed problems associated
with noise reduction, light pollution,
safety, wildlife hazards and more.
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toolbox” outlining those concerns.
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been identified through the AICUZ (Air
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is basically a noise study, but also identifies
accident-potential zones – certain areas
outside the runways that have the highest
potential for possible aircraft crashes,”
Brach said. “You don’t want to have a dense
residential neighborhood underneath that.”
Brach added, “There’s this conical,
vertical-height-type thing that kind of
looks like a football stadium. (A map)
identifies certain height restrictions
you need to have to ensure that there’s
no conflict between the building
and the aircraft that’s taking off.”
These designated “clear zones” can
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landowners recently learned they wouldn’t
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money to buy it, but is basically saying we
can’t develop this land. Therefore, economic
development can’t happen on that property.”
Airborne wildlife presents another
dilemma. The Federal Aviation
Administration’s Bird Aircraft Strike Hazard
program pinpoints travel and nesting
patterns in order to minimize collisions.
“Apparently, it’s costing Randolph
about a million dollars a year in
aircraft repair with bird air strikes,”
Brach said, adding discussions for
wildlife control include ordinances
restricting certain types of vegetation,
which in turn attract nesting birds.
Randolph’s JLUS is broad in its
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maps include an airfield in Seguin and San
Antonio’s Stinson Municipal Airport.
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the noise contours and you can see the
different training pathways that occur.
This is where things are taking off and
this is where they’re turning out to go
off on flight paths, where they do their
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fall, when another public meeting will
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I
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your family. As we return to the
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success we’ve achieved over the
past several years and
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and every student.
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and at our high school level, both Judson
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bond, which authorized building a new
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the things that the city does not pay for.”
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Saturday, with proceeds benefiting the library.
Funding the new facility took a
leap on July 15, when City Council
members unanimously approved
issuing $3.2 million in certificates of
obligation – bonds not requiring voter
approval – towards construction.
The amount will cover “the demolition,
construction and equipping of the library,
as well as the adjacent park area,” said
Assistant City Manager Kim Turner, also
the city’s development services director.
“We are putting out bids for asbestos
removal and demolition of the buildings,” she
added. “Then we are looking for a location
to store all of the books and possibly run
a limited library service while the other
one is being torn down and built up.”
The city is planning discussions with
architects and setting up a tentative time
frame for demolition of the old building
– late fall or early winter, Turner said.
City and library officials insist the
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Fundraising efforts to
help cover the costs of a new
city public library are under way, as
construction and design plans for
a more modern facility – to be built
on the site of the current building
at 100 Northview Drive – are in the
development and discussion phase.
Leading the way is Friends of the
Universal City Public Library, a nonprofit
group launched 29 years ago with the
vision of aiding and supporting the
library inside the community.
“The Friends of the Universal City Library
is an organization that does fundraising and
promotes the library in many different ways,”
said Lou Ann Shircliffe, Friends chairwoman.
“We supplement the library budget for
“Our library building is currently very
old and very outdated,” added Turner.
“Library use has transitioned over the last
10 years or so. It’s no longer a place just for
books; it’s also a place to access technology
and (be) a community meeting place.
That’s what the new library will do.”
Built in the 1960s, the current
structure first served as City Hall and
an extension of the city’s Fire Station
before being transformed into the
public library during the ‘80s.
“This library in this building has lived its
life,” said Toni Davenport, library director.
“This building, itself, is very disjointed.
You can tell it’s an older building.”
The new library will contain
new technology, improved safety
standards and additional space for the
program’s expanding children’s and
adults’ programs, Davenport said.
The current facility still provides a place
for learning, research, fun and bringing the
community together, with a year-round
schedule chock-full of interesting activities
for all to learn and enjoy, Davenport said.
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“As libraries are moving forward into
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The Friends will host a fundraising
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IVE OAK – Like other school
districts in the Metrocom,
the Judson Independent School
District is experiencing growing pains.
JISD debuts an elementary school this
fall and earlier this summer broke ground
for a new high school, projects approved
by voters in an $83 million bond election
in 2013. However, the district must also
eye ways to address future growth and find
a successor for outgoing Superintendent
Willis Mackey, whose leadership helped
bolster academic performance at the high
school and junior high school levels.
Copperfield Elementary, located
at the corner of Coppergate Road
and Loop 1604 in Live Oak, is a $19.4
million facility designed to relieve
overcrowding at Salinas, Converse and
Coronado Village elementary schools.
“Those schools have seen enrollments
rise to between 800 and 900 students,” said
Steve Linscomb, JISD communications
director. “We would like all of our
elementary campuses to get back down
to 650 or 700 students, and this
new school will definitely help.”
Copperfield’s design was modeled after
3-year-old Rolling Meadows Elementary.
“That project was contained in the
2006 bond, and was built on time and
under budget,” Linscomb said. “It was
a priority for us to replicate that.”
The new high school, located near
the intersection of Nacogdoches and
Evans roads, will be the district’s third
such comprehensive facility. Projected
to cost $50 million, community
members and JISD officials celebrated
its July 15 groundbreaking.
Slated to initially accommodate up
to 1,600 students in the Kitty Hawk
Middle School feeder pattern, the
262,000-square-foot facility will reduce
enrollment at Judson High School when
it opens in August 2016, with eventual
capacity nearing 2,400 students.
Dan Kershner, the district’s executive
director of operations, said there would be
community discussions this year to select
the school’s colors, to be incorporated
into design plans. Deciding the official
name and mascot will happen in 2015,
after receiving input from junior high
students and community members.
Linscomb assured there is now
increased oversight on the newest bond
projects, approved three years after voters
soundly rejected a $198 million bond
proposal in 2010, which called for two new
elementary schools, a new high school, a
new transportation center and other items.
Linscomb blamed the 2010 loss on
perceptions formed by taxpayers angry
about cost overruns in several projects
contained in the district’s $236 million bond
four years earlier. Among them, renovations
to Rutledge Stadium – slated to cost $10
million, but finished at $14 million – and
transforming Judson High School to
accommodate students from two campuses,
which ran way past the completion
deadline and slightly over budget.
Those and other issues eroded public
trust, which Linscomb said the district
has taken steps to re-establish.
“As far as construction measures for
this bond, the administration is now
completely different,” Kershner said,
adding there were more bidders for the
current projects instead of asking for
bids for projects in the 2006 bond.
Not only have construction costs
declined since then, but the district in 2011
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community members and the mayors of
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This fall, more than 3,400 students are
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In June, the JISD board approved
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“The next superintendent will have
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“During his tenure, he produced positive
results. Some of his academic programs
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the standards at all of our campuses.”
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CHERTZ – Work on
construction projects
will abound this coming
school year in the Schertz-CiboloUniversal City Independent School
District, which is carrying out plans
approved by voters in 2013 along
with other capital-outlay items.
SCUCISD voters approved $92 million
for implementation of an eighth elementary
school, additions to Steele High School and
Dobie Junior High, technology upgrades,
land acquisitions and transportation needs.
In addition, SCUCISD trustees approved
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Intermediate School and later this month
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Wayne Pruski, the district’s executive
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million wing addition would bring student
capacity on par with the other three district
schools for fifth- and sixth-graders.
“Wilder’s (capacity) is roughly 630
(students),” he said. “We’re trying to
equalize that to about (900 students).”
SCUCISD’s $34 million elementary
school is being constructed in the
Turning Stone subdivision near Green
Valley Road and FM 1103 in Cibolo.
The project broke ground in April
and will open in August 2015.
“We’re pouring the slab for the first
floor and erecting steel on (the site),” Pruski
said of the 153,000-square-foot facility,
which will welcome 900 to 1,200 students
in kindergarten through fourth grades.
District demographer, School District
Strategies, issues quarterly report cards on
commercial and residential development
growth. Its latest report calls for the
district’s enrollment – set at 14,058 in
2013-14 – to grow 3.9 to 4.3 percent
SCUCISD continues on pg. 19
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annually through 2018 and average 3
to 3.7 percent over the next decade.
District officials forged a 10-year scenario
calling for additional projects; however,
those long-term plans are based on current
tax receipts, not projected future tax income.
SCUCISD Superintendent Greg
Gibson insists desired betterments
will go unrealized, until money begins
rolling in from the explosive commercial
growth in Schertz and Cibolo.
“Our approach is basing our budgets
on the worst-case scenario,” Gibson said.
“We base it on zero commercial growth,
but if more comes, then fine. This year,
because of Amazon and a few others, we
might have 5 to 6 percent growth from
commercial. If that does happen, then
it will give us more breathing room.
“While we’re thrilled to have the growth,
we won’t build our budgets around it.”
Between 2017 and 2023, the district
forecasts a need to construct a ninth,
and plan a 10th, elementary school;
build a third junior high; renovate
Clemens High School and plan for a third
high school, all the while maintaining
infrastructure and transportation needs.
“Those are just projections,” Pruski
said. “We’re just indicating projects
that might be coming that haven’t
(yet) been allocated bond dollars.”
While there will be income stemming
from the Crossvine and Nor-Tex projects in
Schertz, various commercial developments
springing up in Cibolo and hundreds
of additional residences throughout
the district, Gibson said there aren’t
imminent plans to press the electorate.
“If commercial values do go up,
then we could consider moving some
of those (forecasted) projects up on
the schedule,” he said. “I do anticipate
having to go to voters to talk about
(funding other) projects in May 2016.”
Gibson said the district’s 2013
Bond Advisory Committee identified
$270 million in possible projects
over the next decade. He said it was
decided smaller figures would be more
palatable to voters, despite necessitating
bond approvals every three years.
“Our community group said that by then
we’ll have better information (regarding)
commercial and residential values,” he
noted. “That’s why, after much discussion,
we agreed to do it in smaller chunks.”
Besides district construction, there’s
also implementation of House Bill 5,
instructing Texas schools to create a new
graduation formula for all incoming
freshmen beginning in 2014-15.
There are several different plans
the district can follow, Gibson said.
“We’ve been granted some flexibility
in doing it the way we want to do it
and we just want to make sure we get
it right,” he said. “We want to make
sure that we can offer all the paths and
make them available to our students.”
The district’s 2014-18 Strategic
Plan outlines a gradual timeline
for implementing standards set by
the Texas Education Agency, as
well as other academic goals.
Updated information regarding
the strategic plan, bond projects
and demographic forecasts can be
accessed through links at the district’s
website at www.scuc.txed.net.
While we’re thrilled to have the growth,
we won’t build our budgets around it.
Greg gibson,
SCUCISD superintendent
Comal Independent School District officials say they will ask taxpayers to approve a scaled-down bond
measure to construct at least two middle schools and add other improvements across the district. Photo by
Josh Michael
students this year, and for 12,000 more
expected over the next nine years.
“We’re already seeing visible signs
of the growth we predicted last summer
in the Canyon and Smithson Valley
(high school) feeder patterns,” said
Andrew Kim, CISD superintendent.
Kim said explosive residential
growth
in those areas, as well as in the
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in New Braunfels, is under way.
sight of portable buildings
“It’s very visible,” he said. “We knew
at two of its middle schools is a
about these projections and now the public
sign that growth is ramping up in the
can see the bulldozers are there. We’re
Comal Independent School District.
not the only ones talking about it now
– the parents are also talking about it.”
To keep pace, the school board in
In November, voters rejected a
September will consider reducing the
$451 million bond issue many believed
current tax rate, paying down on bond
indebtedness and proposing a much smaller was too bloated and lacked specifics.
Then in February, after discovering
bond covering the district’s necessities.
CISD overpaid contractors by over
The upcoming school year, which
$7.1 million for projects contained
starts Aug. 26, will be pivotal for the
in its 2008 bond, officials accepted a
district, which covers 589 square miles
in five counties. In the coming months,
officials must make short-term decisions
COMAL ISD continues on pg. 20
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$5.9 million settlement. That didn’t sit
well with taxpayers, who ousted two
incumbents on the board in May.
Now some board members want
to float another bond issue, but this
one will tackle only the priorities.
“Over the next several years the needs
of the individual campuses, as they were
spelled out last year, are going to be
realized,” CISD board President David
Drastata said. “That’s why in all probability
that we will go back to the voters with a
$150 million (bond) package next spring.
“All we’re going to do is identify our
immediate needs – middle schools,
transportation, infrastructure and safety.”
Demographic reports indicated the
district’s four fastest-growing home
starts occurred in the Kinder Ranch,
Indian Springs, Hoffmann Lane and
Garden Ridge areas, each with over
100 new-home starts in 2013.
The November bond would have
added schools in those areas, including
two in Garden Ridge, where students
attend Canyon High and Canyon Middle
schools. Garden Ridge Elementary
School, which opened in 2010, is also
close to its 800-enrollment capacity.
The focus is on alleviating
overcrowding at Canyon and Smithson
Valley middle schools, which have
projected student enrollment at 1,105
and 1,043 students, respectively. Both
are expected to add at least 70 students
in each of the next three years, thus the
imported buildings from other campuses.
“Using portable classrooms is always
a last resort,” Kim said, as both schools
will be near or at capacity this fall.
If voters approve the $150 million
bond, district officials hope to
construct two new middle schools.
One, planned for Borgfeld Drive and
Bulverde Road in the Kinder Ranch
subdivision in the Smithson Valley/
Bulverde sector, would also reduce
projected enrollment at Spring Branch
Middle School. The other, near the
intersection of Hubertus Road and FM
482 in Garden Ridge, is expected to
also relieve forecasted overcrowding
at Church Hill Middle School.
“If the next bond measure doesn’t
pass, then you’re left with the option
of running out of space on the
campuses – such as putting them on
the athletic fields,” Drastata said. “We
really don’t think parents will really be
open to that, but that’s a possibility.”
Kim admitted adding quick-fix
portables could be financially draining,
“but going forward, because of the fact
that we’re looking at a very short-term,
needs-based bond, I predict portables
will become part of the long-term
repertoire throughout the district.”
If another measure fails, an alternative
is redistricting. Students would shift
from Smithson Valley and Canyon high
school feeder patterns into Canyon Lake
High’s pattern, resulting in one-way bus
trips, which may total an hour-plus.
“Redrawing boundaries elicits much
more push-back than anything that a
district does,” Drastata said, “but if we
don’t get schools built, then we’ll have
to start shifting population to the areas
of the district that are under capacity.”
That would also upset CISD’s
current balance of students attending
local schools, Kim added.
“We have to be very thoughtful
about that,” he said. “While we have
to take steps to manage our growth,
we have to make sure we maintain the
concept of the neighborhood schools.”
Drastata said the board has only
taken a cursory look at formulating a
game plan to present to the community,
as last year’s bond committee already
determined the district’s needs, which
will again be shared at area meetings
in each feeder pattern this fall.
In June, the board unofficially adopted
CISD’s 2014-15 budget, which allots
$146.5 million for general fund expenses,
with an additional $9.1 million for
child nutrition, and $40 million toward
debt service. The budget is based on
a proposed tax rate of $1.39 per $100
assessed property valuation, a 4-cent
per $100 decrease from last year.
The board will make a final decision
before its fiscal year ends in September.
“In the past 10 years, through paying
down debt early and refinancing existing
bonds, the district has saved nearly $60
million in interest alone,” said Drastata,
who added the board considered
budgeting $9 million towards long-term
debt relief, but opted for $5 million.
“The consensus on the board was
to provide some tax relief,” he said.
“By bringing the (tax rate) down by
four pennies, we could still reduce
(indebtedness) by $5 million. We really felt
we needed to do a combination of both.”
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