For Your Information - Aug 20th - Cleveland Independent School District

On For Your Information this week, my guest is Dr. Darrel Myers, Superintendent of schools for Cleveland Independent School District, who spoke to listeners about some of the activities which have been happening in the district, such as: installing a new artificial-turf field at Indian Stadium as the previous natural-grass field was unable to withstand the heavy use three additional soccer teams put on a field already used by four football teams and two marching bands; the expansion at all the other campuses as well as the new chiller units at Southside; and the construction of eight new tennis courts. He also spoke to the many new temporary buildings now in place due to the 25% increase of student population in the district this year. Additionally, Dr. Myers explained all the current maintenance and construction work is either paid for from existing fund balance savings or from the $35-million bond which passed in Nov. of 2015, and concerning use of the funds from the $80-million bond which passed May 2017 they are currently in the planning stages of construction.