{"id":277117,"date":"2026-05-03T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277117\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T12:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T12:36:20","slug":"scucisd-voters-ok-295-million-bond-for-facility-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/277117\/","title":{"rendered":"SCUCISD voters OK $295 million bond for facility upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voters in Guadalupe County and Bexar County overwhelmingly passed all three parts of a $295 million bond for Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District during the May uniform elections.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the district will have access to funds for big-ticket upgrades including new technology, stadium renovations and school facilities refreshes.<\/p>\n<p>While bond elections are tax-rate elections that allow school districts to take on huge amounts of debt, SCUCISD officials say the bond shouldn\u2019t increase taxpayers\u2019 bills.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s election results come after voters rejected money-centric proposals at school districts all across the Bexar County region <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/voters-reject-east-central-isds-5-cent-property-tax-increase\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the past year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonioreport.org\/schertz-cibolo-universal-city-isd-asks-voters-to-increase-tax-rate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The district attempted to increase its tax rate in November<\/a> to access more funds for day-to-day costs like staff wages and students programs, but just over 50% of voters rejected the proposal. <\/p>\n<p>This time, when considering a smaller ask, voters in SCUCISD, a semi-rural district which includes the far East Side of Bexar County, said yes.<\/p>\n<p>Proposition A was approved with 67.53% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>It allocates $230.7 million for safety and security upgrades like replacing fire alarms and new security vestibules; learning space additions and renovations to Dobie Jr. High School and different career and technical education building; and facility infrastructure projects like replacing buses and upgrading HVAC systems.<\/p>\n<p>Proposition B was approved with 60.1% of the overall vote. Though a majority of voters based in Bexar County rejected the proposition, Guadalupe voters, who made up most of the electorate, carried the proposition forward.<\/p>\n<p>This proposition allocates $55.3 million for renovations to multiple district stadiums, expanding seating, updating safety measures and replacing artificial turf at different fields.<\/p>\n<p>Proposition C passed with 68.9% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>This proposition allocates $9.1 million for technology replacement, specifically funding computers, iPads, and Chromebooks for both students and staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voters in Guadalupe County and Bexar County overwhelmingly passed all three parts of a $295 million bond for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13819,102494,2507,102495,82,84,83,36654,17424,8912,102496],"class_list":["post-277117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-bexar-county-elections","tag-education-races","tag-guadalupe-county","tag-may-2-uniform-elections","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-schertz-cibolo-universal-city-isd","tag-school-bonds","tag-scucisd","tag-tax-rate-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}