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Perryton ISD trustees debate field house overages tied to bus lane and Prop A/B accounting
Summary
Trustees discussed apparent budget overages for a bond-funded field house, with administration saying furniture/equipment had been allocated to Prop A while field-house construction was in Prop B; added bus lane and parking were cited as the main drivers of the reported $180,000–$400,000 discrepancy.
Trustees at the Perryton Independent School District spent a large portion of their public meeting probing confusion over how bond proceeds were allocated and what caused the field house project to appear over budget.
Superintendent (Speaker 3) told the board the firm managing bond accounting had placed furniture and equipment in the district's Prop A allocation while the field house construction was charged to Prop B, which created a mismatch between the board's expectations and the contractor's line-item budgeting. "The way they approached it, all of the equipment and furniture, they put into the prop a budget," she said on the record, and noted that the board had been operating under different assumptions about which pot of money would cover furnishings.
Board members focused questions on which additions actually caused the field house overrun. Multiple speakers said the single largest contributor was the addition of a bus lane behind the field house, which the superintendent said accounted for roughly $180,000 of overage on Prop B. Other additions, including a west-side parking strip added later in the design process, were cited by one board member as producing a combined figure near $400,000. Trustees agreed the figures circulating in public reporting had been confusing and pledged to re-check the budget worksheets and return with clarified numbers.
The superintendent said interest earned on bond funds is available to the board to cover costs beyond the $4.9 million principal and that the board has discretion to allocate those funds. "The money that we are gonna be spending that is over the 4.9 is coming out of the interest that we've earned," she said.
Members asked staff to re-examine documentation and bring a clarified budget sheet back to the board. No new formal action on the bond allocations was taken during the open meeting.
The public record shows the board previously approved a bond package with a $4.9 million allocation tied to the field house and other projects; the superintendent repeatedly characterized the current debate as a clarification of accounting lines rather than a disagreement over intent.
