On Feb. 12, an advisory committee recommended that San Marcos CISD call an $80 million bond election in May to build a new football stadium and prekindergarten campus, among other facilities projects.
The 19-member San Marcos CISD citizens advisory committee also asked the board of trustees to use about $18.6 million in reserve funds to complete the proposed projects at a total cost of about $98.6 million.
"We want a bond package that will pass," committee co-Chairman Mark Newton said. "We want our community to pass a bond for everything we talked about. It's not a Cadillac version. It is needed for our students, it is needed for our community, but there is that reality of what will pass and what we can afford."
The committee proposed 13 projects, all of which were previously identified by an architect hired by the district:
