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:
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