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Principals' top priorities shape McAllen ISD bond planning: classrooms, HVAC, roofing and safety systems
Summary
McAllen ISD staff and architects presented a campus-by-campus list of priority-1 projects drawn from principals and the MGT facilities assessment — recurring needs include HVAC and roofing, classroom additions, security upgrades, parking and modernization of high-school CTE and fine-arts spaces.
Miss Lorena Garcia, deputy superintendent, told the Facilities Forecast Advisory Committee that the district combined MGT's facility condition assessment with principals' submitted top-three priorities to create a campus-by-campus list of priority-1 projects.
"What we did is we put the priority 1 projects, which is what MGT identified as, things that had to do with safety and security or continuity of operations," Garcia said, and then walked the committee through examples campus by campus.
Garcia and staff highlighted recurring needs across elementary, middle and high schools: network and cabling…
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