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Trustee presses pause on Reagan closure, urges equity review as board defends data
Summary
Trustees reviewed years of facility studies and projections supporting planned 2027 closures of Reagan and Bowie elementaries while a trustee called for an equity impact analysis and more transparent data after raising concerns about the cabinet's scoring worksheets and long‑term recapitalization costs.
A San Angelo ISD trustee moved on March 9 to postpone action on the planned closure of Reagan Elementary until the board receives an equity impact analysis and alternative consolidation scenarios, saying the board lacked full, dated documentation of the internal worksheets used to inform the decision.
The board heard a presentation from Dr. Moran reviewing prior facility studies, cabinet worksheets and a multi‑year process that led to the board’s January vote to close Reagan and Bowie starting in 2027. Dr. Moran said the cabinet’s worksheets were a final ‘gut check’ layered on professional engineers’ and architects’ prior recommendations and were not intended to be the sole basis for the board decision.
The trustee raising the motion said several cabinet score sheets were incomplete or inconsistently completed, that some cabinet members…
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