Approve Budgets and Transfer of Funds from Completed Project, Interest, Land Acquisition, and Unused Funds to Accommodate Program Needs for Several Bond Projects within the 2021 Capital Improvement Program Attachments: ( 1 ) Budget and Transfer of Funds Discussion: Trustee Dr. Michael Ryan: I will ask this to go onto Action Agenda. I have asked at numerous meetings that we find 50-65 acres for a f

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10.E.2.c. Approve Budgets and Transfer of Funds from Completed Project, Interest, Land Acquisition, and Unused Funds to Accommodate Program Needs for Several Bond Projects within the 2021 Capital Improvement Program Attachments: ( 1 ) Budget and Transfer of Funds Discussion: Trustee Dr. Michael Ryan: I will ask this to go onto Action Agenda. I have asked at numerous meetings that we find 50-65 acres for a future Benbrook High School, knowing that there will be over 4,500 new homes in the Benbrook attendance zone planned over the next 10 years. We have 2 elementary tracts that have been purchased and every day we put this purchase off results in higher land prices. If we are justifying the delay in the purchase as waiting on the survey, then should we have waited for the results before we did any additional work? My concern comes from moving funds from land purchase.  Are the $’s remaining  adequate to cover not only land for a new high school but also for other elementary schools that will be necessary when the Ventana and Veale areas are built out? Response: This amendment reflects budget needs of the current bond program.  It is necessary to accomplish the priorities of the projects.  The district continues to evaluate the need for additional land in the Benbrook area for a high school.  We recognize that land prices may continue to increase; however, this priority does not supersede the necessity to appropriately complete renovation and expansion projects as part of the 2021 Bond Program.