Hays CISD Gets $17.3M Transportation Facility
Hays CISD voters approved the construction of a new transportation facility to house the district’s fleet of over 200 buses in the May 2017 bond election…
Construction on a $17.3 million transportation facility for Hays County Consolidated Independent School District is scheduled to begin in March.
The new facility will be located at 120 Camino Real in Uhland and will also house the district’s in-house print shop.
The 43,276-square-foot metal building will have a paved parking lot with space for 210 buses, 212 spaces for employees and 40 spaces for fleet parking. A stormwater retention pond will need to be relocated before construction begins.
The original cost of the project was projected to be $16,062,000; the new facility will replace the district’s current “outdated” facility, which comprises of only four mechanic bays, which sits on the I-35 access road in Kyle. Construction is projected to take a year to complete.
This article was originally published by strategic partnerships.
$400 a square foot for a metal building and a parking lot? That seems reasonable. NOT!
So HCISD can afford a S17.3M bus barn and print shop, but they cut needed buses to various areas mid-school year for hundreds of kids stating the district could no longer afford the $125,000 cost associated with those long standing bus routes? HCISD need to be more fiscally responsible in many of their budgetary items, as there is a tremendous amount of waste. One such addition that is proposed and, my understanding, a done deal is the new $5M HCISD aquatics center that is going to be built and permitted for use by the YMCA as well. Yet, we need to have bus services that have been in existence and greatly needed and used being cut due to budgetary constraints? As a HCISD taxpayer, I am not pleased with the choices being made by our officials to further run our district into deeper debt for projects that may not be as essential as the ones being cut that are significantly less of a draw on the district’s budget. Fiscal responsibility is something we all need to be aware of when it is time to look at the next election of board members.