FBISD school board votes for $494 million bond election this fall

Following two months of deliberating what to include, what to leave out and how much to spend, the Fort Bend ISD Board of Trustees settled on its final price tag for the district's Nov. 4 bond election on Monday. In a unanimous vote, the board called for a $484,157,027 referendum to be included on the fall ballot, in order to address the district's technology, transportation, security and - primarily - construction-related needs.

The referendum's potential amount had fluctuated several times since the school board began discussing the bond program in June, when it was first proposed for $333.4 million. After the proposed capital requirements reached $538 million during the previous week's school board meeting, the official bond amount will fund:

• $365,416,375 for construction
• $26,890,365 for safety and security (cameras, vestibules, window film, emergency generators and access control with video intercoms)
• $15,908,269 for transportation (school bus replacement, cameras and GPS)
• $39,433,847 for technology (district-wide wireless internet and other improvements)
• $18,425,880 for land
• $18,082,191 for bond support

You can read much more about the bond proposal in the Sugar Land Sun, one of our Houston Community Newspaper partners.