CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Beeville ISD Superintendent Travis Fanning sat down with religious leaders on Thursday morning to go over the school district's $62 million bond package for voters to decide on May 4.
”We started this planning phase back in November of 2022," Fanning said. "We’ve been meeting all the way up to this point. Doing a facility assessment and having interest groups and things of that nature, so what we are planning to do now is just to go out and share the facts with anyone and everyone who’s interested in hearing this information.”
3NEWS asked the chief financial officer for the district, Dela Castillo, if Beeville could handle a $62 million bond. If passed, the proposal would be the first one the district has passed since 2008, when George Bush was president.
"Beeville ISD is in a very good financial situation," Castillo said. "We have a very healthy fund balance so the bond itself will be $62,380,000.”
If the $62 million bond package passes, Hall Elementary School will be demolished and a new one built in its place next door.
Jonna Greenup is the assistant principal at Hall Elementary. It was built back in 1967, the same year she was born!
Greenup said safety concerns have to override any love someone has for the old school building.
”We need a closed-in building to keep our students safe and our staff safe and we’re just wide open here so it’s makes us nervous,” Greenup said.
Fifth grade math teacher Celeste Baca has not only taught at the school for the past 13 years, she’s even a graduate.
”I’m going to ask if I can at least keep a brick, cause I did go to school here and at Thomas Jefferson and that is already gone," Baca said.
The district is also looking at upgrading and improving other school campuses. For example, the district wants to do things like upgrade the air conditioning system and acoustics in a high school auditorium.
If the bond is approved Hall Elementary and the other elementary school in town will be consolidated. That new super elementary could be open for the 2026-2027 school year.
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