Community Impact reports that Willis ISD’s Director of Communications Jamie Fails said that, having been constructed in 1974, the district’s stadium was only built to seat 300 high school students.
The high school’s capacity, over the past half century, has developed a population of 2,700 students. Because of lack of stadium seating, the district has had to refuse entry to 200 to 300 people per football game.
This lack of accessibility and capacity is one of the primary reasons the district is proposing a $218.1 mlllion bond package that proposes a new stadium and pool, as well as a student activity center and ninth grade expansion.
Fails has commented that regarding the bond packages for 2020 and 2022, there was no increased tax rate due to the growing district yielding an increase in the property taxes. However, a tax rate increase is expected if the 2024 bond passes.
The tax rate would increase by $.079 per $100 of valuation, if the four bond propositions are approved by voters. Fails passed along that if not all of the propositions are approved, the tax rate amount would decrease, of course.
Voting on the bond propositions will take place on May 4th.
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