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Tuesday, May 8, 2018 II Denton, Texas II Vol. 114, No. 279 II DentonRC.com
With bonds OK’d,
district plans what’s next
Plans include future
Denton High campus
on North Bonnie Brae
With more than 10,600 ballots cast,
nearly 75 percent of voters supported
the measure. The district’s turnout for
the bond proposition, roughly 9.3 per-
cent, surpassed Denton County’s over-
all turnout of 7.2 percent for Saturday’s
city and school elections.
Now that the project is officially a
go, the school board met with the Den-
ton City Council on Monday to map out
what the next few years will look like.
They also announced the location of
the new Denton High School campus
along North Bonnie Brae Street.
What is the bond paying for?
A quick recap: The bond package is
split into four sections — growth, aging
facilities, career and technical educa-
tion, and infrastructure and safety.
The largest portion of the bond
money — $483 million — will go to-
ward replacing and renovating older
campuses within Denton proper. Den-
ton High School, along with New-
ton Rayzor and Wilson Elementary
schools, will get new buildings, while
Strickland Middle School will undergo
renovations.
When it comes to growth, the dis-
trict is expected to spend $215 million
on a 25th elementary school and ninth
middle school, likely somewhere out
along the U.S. Highway 380 Corridor.
That money will also fund more trans-
portation facilities and additions to fine
arts and athletic buildings.
The district earmarked another $30
million to bring in more programs to
the LaGrone Advanced Technology
Complex, renovate career and tech-
nology classroom spaces in the high
schools and pay for a new agricultural
complex.
The last $20 million will go toward
replacement security cameras at every
campus, replacement fiber optic lines
for the district’s technology system and
added security features at the Windle
preschool campus and the Davis alter-
By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjones@dentonrc.com
More construction is on the horizon
in Denton ISD after voters overwhelm-
ingly approved the district’s $750 mil-
lion bond proposal over the weekend.
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Get set
for grad
season
City, Denton ISD to re-examine how they run and pay for Natatorium
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Universities have
ceremonies slated
for Friday, Saturday
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By Julian Gill
Staff Writer
jgill@dentonrc.com
Spring commencement ceremonies
this Friday and Saturday at the Univer-
sity of North Texas and Texas Woman’s
University are expected to make way
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for an estimated 6,091 total graduates.
At UNT, 3,675 bachelor’s, 892 mas-
ter’s and 92 doctoral candidates have
applied for graduation, according to a
news release from the university. The
UNT ceremonies will be inside in the
UNT Coliseum, at 600 Avenue D, and
the Murchison Performing Arts Center,
2100 N. Interstate 35E.
Live streaming is available for UNT
ceremonies in the UNT Coliseum at
www.livestream.com/UnionMedia/
Coliseum and the Murchison at www.
hvestream.com/UnionMedia/PAC.
At TWU, where 1,491 degrees are set
to be awarded, all ceremonies will be in
Kitty Magee Arena inside Pioneer Hall
on Bell Avenue. The TWU ceremonies
will include candidates from TWUs
Dallas Center, and each ceremony will
have its own guest speaker, a news re-
lease from the university said.
Drivers should expect heavy traffic
near both campuses, and visitors are
encouraged to provide extra time for
parking. In addition to the graduation
ceremonies at UNT, Highland Street
will be closed between Avenue C and
Welch Street for the annual Grad Block
Party, which will start at 5:30 p.m.
Friday on the University Union South
Lawn near the Library Mall.
For more information about parking,
visit www.commencement.unt.edu.
Jake King/DRC
Residents swim in one of the pools at the Denton Natatorium on Monday. The City Council and the Denton school board plan to examine how
they operate and share expenses at the indoor swimming facility in northeast Denton.
Diving into the numbers
lunch. Mayor Chris Watts said the
group’s discussion followed the same
course as other initiatives city leaders
have made in recent years.
“We just need to look at the whole
program,” Watts said. “If we had to
start over from scratch today, what
would we do?”
Since the aquatic center is oper-
ated as part of a 50-year joint agree-
ment between the city and the school
district, a real reboot isn’t possible.
The city has operated the Natatorium
since it opened in 2003. About a third
of the time it’s open, the center is used
by the school district.
City Manager Todd Hileman said
it costs about $ 1 million per year to op-
erate the center, a cost that the school
district shares. The city brought in a
consulting group to identify better
ways to run all of the city’s aquatics fa-
cilities, which includes the Civic Cen-
ter Pool along with Water Works Park
and the Natatorium.
Part of the reason was to better un-
derstand why the facilities were cost-
ing so much, Hileman said.
According to the consultant, the
city needs to not only better track but
also categorize expenses with each
facility, said Laura Behrens, the assis-
tant director of parks and recreation.
For example, those facilities seen as
By Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
Staff Writer
pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com
The Denton City Council and the
Denton school board agreed Monday
to take a fresh look at how they oper-
ate and share expenses at the Denton
Natatorium, an indoor aquatic center
located next to Water Works Park.
Council members and school
board trustees talked about pool op-
erations during a joint meeting over
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Self-driving car service
will launch in Frisco
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Frisco Mayor Jeff
Cheney is greeted
by Carter Wilson,
a Denton County
Transportation
Authority board
member, as he
emerges from
Drive.ai’s self-driv-
ing car after a
press conference
and demonstration
Monday in Frisco’s
North Platinum
Corridor.
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Partnership of city,
companies, DCTA will
bring workers to Star
The service is made possible
through a unique public-private part-
nership among California-based Drive,
ai, the city of Frisco, the Denton County
Transportation Authority and the pri-
vate developments for Hall Park, The
Star and Frisco Station. They are all
part of the newly formed Frisco Trans-
portation Management Association.
Self-driving cars are just the begin-
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The nation’s first
self-driving car service for the public
begins here in July.
It’s the latest step toward improving
mobility in one of the fastest-growing
areas of one of the fastest-growing cit-
ies in the nation where traffic conges-
tion is an ongoing challenge.
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“Frisco is making a statement that
we’re going to lead in innovation,”
Mayor Jeff Cheney told a crowd of
Louis DeLuca/
The Dallas Morning News
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