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Forney ISD board approves foundation grants, 1% retention stipends and multimillion-dollar construction contracts
Summary
Trustees unanimously accepted $149,305.83 in Forney Education Foundation grants, approved a 1% retention stipend budgeted in the district and awarded construction contracts totaling roughly $85.4 million across an aquatic/golf package and the OC Academy expansion.
At its regular meeting Monday, the Forney Independent School District Board of Trustees approved a package of routine and substantive items including grant acceptance, staff retention pay, construction contracts and personnel actions.
Justin Eatherly, executive director of the Forney Education Foundation, told the board the foundation received 164 grant applications and planned to fund 75 teacher proposals this year, and he asked trustees to accept a total awarded amount of "$149,305 and 83¢." The board moved…
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