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Hull contends redistricting would have occurred even if the bond issue had passed. “If you can maximize the use of portable buildings, they can be a good use of infrastructure as you’re building a new school,” he said. “I’m not troubled by that. “My big issue with this bond is that the district didn’t have a plan. They didn’t know where they were going to build all these schools they were proposing. I think the bond issue was really about increasing debt.” Kim said the earliest the district could schedule another bond election would be May or November 2014. “Right now, we need to study the election results from the county,” he said. “If we were to go for a May election, we’d have to call for it by February, which doesn’t leave us with a lot of time. Whether it’s May or November, all it (the bond defeat) does is delay everything by a year or two. That will put a lot of strain and stress on our middle schools and high schools.” “We need (to) figure out what to do in the meantime before we start thinking about a (future) bond, but we’ll start looking at potential plans and go forward with them to make sure our kids will be best served in the future,” he added.
“What’s a little more uncertain is (will) it happen in eight years, nine years or 10 years?” Templeton said four areas – Kinder Ranch, Indian Springs, Hoffmann Lane (in the 281 corridor) and Garden Ridge – each had more than 100 new-home starts in 2013. “Those are our four pressure-point areas,” he said. “We’re growing the district enrollment at 4.3-4.8 percent and by 2016, we see that tick up to over 5 percent.” The bond would have added schools in those areas, including two in Garden Ridge, whose students attend Canyon High and Canyon Middle schools. Garden Ridge Elementary School, which opened in 2010, is inching towards its 800-students threshold. Also nearing capacity are Canyon, Spring Branch and Smithson Valley middle schools. Kim said he now plans to present CISD trustees with several short-term options. One would add portable buildings – at a cost of $100,000 each – to schools nearing overcrowding. Another would redraw attendance zones, shifting students from Smithson Valley High and Canyon High feeder patterns into the Canyon Lake High area, resulting in longer bus trips for various students, some already enduring round-trip commutes of an hour or more.
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CHERTZ – A week following the Nov. 5 elections, voters still didn’t know the outcomes in two city council races attributed to electronic and man-made errors through the Comal County Elections Office.
An investigation by the Texas Secretary of State’s office is still pending, as electronic voting machines in Comal County, where many Schertz voters reside, erred in tallying results on election night. An unofficial audit, conducted the following day by Comal County Elections Administrator Julie Kassab, found that nearly 2,400 ballots hadn’t been counted in races for Schertz City Council, the Cibolo Creek Municipal Authority
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and a $451 million bond issue in the Comal Independent School District. The errors – which election officials attributed to faulty software provided through Comal elections vendor ES&S iVotronics – didn’t affect the outcomes of the lone contested CCMA board election and CISD’s bond issue, which was soundly defeated – but they did somewhat impact two of the three races for Schertz council. Daryl John, with 53 percent of the vote, bested opponent Bert Crawford to succeed George Antuna, who chose not to seek re-election in Place 3. However, the election-night results did affect Grumpy Azzoz’s bid to unseat Place 4 incumbent Cedric Edwards, as well as Matthew Duke’s challenge against Richard Dziewit to succeed Sydney Verinder in Place 5. Election night results from Comal, Bexar and Guadalupe counties, and posted on the Schertz city website, named John, Edwards and Duke as the winners. Comal County commissioners on Nov. 14 canvassed
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