San Marcos CISD stadium on schedule

Kirbo said the stadium would start going up in the spring and be completed by August.

"Delivering $29.7 million of construction in about 10 months is pretty phenomenal," Kirbo said. "That's K-12 construction, and that's stadium construction."

News on the construction of a prekindergarten campus and the Phoenix Learning Center was not as positive, Kirbo said. When the district budgeted the projects, it planned on paying up to $175 per square foot. The bids for the prekindergarten campus and PLC came in at a "staggering" $225 per square foot, Kirbo said.

"This is not gold-plated design," Kirbo said. "This is basic design."

The prekindergarten facility was originally expected to be completed in August 2014, but Kirbo said opening the projects to bid again would delay the project's completion. Kirbo said the new timeline would take 12 months and would be complete in December 2014.

The district will put the project out to bid again in November. Kirbo said the new timeline should bring in lower bids.

"I will tell you we have stuck with the bond square footage real close, and we have delivered what was in the bond—nothing more—and this is where we are now," he said.