The Grapevine-Colleyville ISD board of trustees hired an appraiser for district property and approved a committee to provide recommendations for long-term sustainability and capacity for the district at the Aug. 25 board meeting.

The gist

GCISD officials appropriated $20,000 for a property appraiser to determine the fair market price for the Heritage Annex property, which is located on Heritage Avenue near Hall Johnson Road in Grapevine, according to district documents.

“This would be the first step to being able to appraise that property [and] see, professionally, what the value of that is,” Chief Operations Officer Paula Barbaroux said.

The Heritage Annex houses iUniversity Prep staff, which uses the building daily, GCISD officials said.

The $20,000 is for the purpose of setting a budget and is not based on actual proposals, which the district must obtain, according to district documents.

More details

The board of trustees approved the education master planning committee for the 2025-26 fiscal year during the Aug. 25 meeting, as well. The committee will provide recommendations for reducing facility and program-related costs and increasing facility and program-related revenue, according to district documents.

“This has enabled us to go out and be pretty systematic and calculated about decisions instead of having to make very quick decisions," board President Shannon Braun said. “We can be thoughtful and brainstorm.”

For the past eight months, committee members were educated about the district, facilities, demographics and capacity of the district’s facilities, Superintendent Brad Schnautz said.

“We’re now going to start putting all that data together and getting to the recommendations phase of the education master planning committee work,” he said.

The district will be launching a webpage for the committee Aug. 27, Barbaroux said. GCISD officials did not provide the date for when the committee would meet.

At a special meeting on July 16, Barbaroux updated the board on ideas the committee suggested that the district study:

• Selling the Heritage Annex property
• Consolidating elementary schools due to declining enrollment and reusing campuses for an early early childhood center
• Expanding the ASPIRE Academy, a program for highly gifted students, to a stand-alone campus

Editor's Note: The story was edited to clarify that the education master planning committee will make recommendations for long-term sustainability and capacity, that the iUniversity Prep staff uses the Heritage Annex building daily and that the special meeting occurred on July 16.