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2016 - $30 million

• New elementary campus (Timber Lakes Elementary)

• High school cafeteria expansion/fine arts conversion

• Additional space at the agricultural facility

• Athletic improvements

• Other District wide improvements

2012 - $13.5 million

• High school addition/expansion

• High school athletic annex, conversion of boys’ athletic spaces in high school into girls’ athletics, cheer, and dance dressing facilities

• High school agricultural building improvements

• Junior high expansion

• District improvements

• Land Purchase

2007 - $26 million

• New elementary school with purchase of land (Piney Woods Elementary)

• High school Career and Technical Education (CTE) building

• Peach Creek Elementary roof and renovations

• Splendora Intermediate roof and renovations (currently Instructional Support Services building)

• District wide technology upgrade

• Renovations at Greenleaf Elementary and Splendora Junior High

• Land purchase for future school sites

2002 - $18.7 million

• New high school

2022 - $1.3881 per $100 valuation

2021 - $1.40552 per $100 valuation

2020 - $1.4051 per $100 valuation

2019 - $1.4984 per $100 valuation

2018 - $1.60 per $100 valuation

If the bond doesn't pass, the District will have to purchase portable buildings for classrooms. Portable buildings cost approximately $150,000 each and include electricity and a porch. These can hold two classrooms, approximately 50 students. Money to purchase these buildings will have to be taken out of the Maintenance & Operations (M&O) funds. Four portable buildings (with additional costs of technology and safety/security) will cost approximately $1M, which is equal to a 3% pay increase for our teachers. 

The District will have to prioritize the needs of our aging facilities - Greenleaf and Peach Creek Elementary Schools. Funds for these improvements will be taken out of M&O or possibly our fund balance. 

For owners of ag-exempt property, taxable value per acre is usually around $180 per acre, not the $10,000-plus that it may be appraised for. If the tax rate would go up 1.7 cents, this would mean on a 500 acre farm that property taxes would go up roughly $15 a year.

When more in taxes are received, the State actually lowers their share of our funding and SISD does not see any benefit.

School district taxes on resident homesteads may be frozen in the year the taxpayer turns 65 year of age and will not increase as a result of a school bond election.

M&O taxes are used for day-to-day operations; to pay for salaries, supplies, utilities, insurance, fuel, etc. Revenue from the Debt Service tax rate can be used only to retire bonds sold for specific purposes: construction, renovations, buses, portable buildings, land, technology, and the cost of issuing bonds.

A school district’s tax rate consists of two parts: 1) Maintenance and Operations (M&O) and 2) Debt Service (I&S). Maintenance and operations taxes fund the General Operating Fund, which pays for salaries, supplies, utilities, insurance, equipment, and the other costs of day-to-day operations. The Debt Service tax pays off school bonds, somewhat like paying off the mortgage on a house.

Your district’s bonds should receive a high rating due primarily to the guarantee by the Texas Permanent School fund. Whether the market will be favorable for your district’s bonds depends on both your district’s bond rating and the current interest rates.

No. Voter approval is an authorization for the district to issue bonds. They will be sold in the future only when funds are needed.

The bonds do not cost the district anything until they are sold. Even though the voters approve the bond issue, there are no costs incurred until the bonds are sold.

A bond authorization specifies the amount of bonds the district is authorized by the voters to sell. Bond sales may occur over a period of time with the date and amount of each sale determined by the Board on an as-needed basis.

A school bond election gives individuals an opportunity to vote on paying for the construction and renovation of school facilities. It is a request to give the elected Board of Trustees the authority to sell bonds when facilities are needed.

Proceeds from a bond issue can be used for the construction and renovation of facilities, the acquisition of land, and the purchase of equipment, school buses, or vehicles for security purposes.

The sale of bonds begins with an election to authorize a specific amount—the maximum the district is allowed to sell without another election. The school district sells them as municipal bonds when funds are needed for capital projects, usually once or twice a year. The interest rate paid is based on the district’s bond rating: the higher the bond rating, the lower the interest rate to sell the bonds. Principal and interest on the bonds are repaid over an extended period of time with funds from the Debt Service tax rate.

Bonds for school projects are very similar to a mortgage on a home. To finance construction projects, the district sells bonds to investors who will be paid principal and interest. Payout is limited by law to 40 years. Splendora ISD normally issues bonds in 20-30 year maturities.