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Texas City ISD asks La Marque council to waive about $300,000 in permit fees for new high school
Summary
Dr. Melissa Duarte, superintendent of Texas City Independent School District, asked the La Marque City Council on May 1 to place on its May 12 agenda a request to waive roughly $300,000 in remaining permit fees for the district’s new La Marque High School and athletic facilities, citing a county drainage change that increased construction costs.
Dr. Melissa Duarte, superintendent of the Texas City Independent School District, asked the La Marque City Council on May 1 to waive an estimated $300,000 in remaining permit fees for the district’s new La Marque High School and its athletic facilities and to place the matter on the council’s May 12 agenda.
Duarte told the council that the district did not ask to pay nothing for the construction project but that changes in the county drainage determination increased costs that the district absorbed. “Based on our civil engineer, Ellis Engineering, and the drainage study, we were adequate with the original planned drainage of 365 acres, but the Galveston County Drainage…
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