Infomaniacs: January 25, 2011 (8:15am)

College Station ISD School Board Adopts A Budget For The 2026-27 School Year

College Station ISD school board members adopt a budget for the 2026-27 school year which requires taking more than $6 six million dollars out of savings and decreases the property tax rate by almost one cent. CSISD chief financial officer Healther Wilson told board members the budget reflects adding $4.5 million for pay raises and adding employees at the expanded career and technical education center. Wilson is estimating fewer students in CSISD next year will result in a loss of $2 million in state funding. Wilson also said 60 percent of CSISD’s net taxable value was in the appeal process. As of the June 17th board meeting, Wilson said successful appeals lowered CSISD’s total valuation by $588 million dollars. That lowered Wilson’s estimation of valuation growth from seven to 3.9 percent. Not impacted by property taxes is a separate fund controls CSISD’s food service operations. The board approved Wilson’s recommendation to increase student school lunch prices for the first time since 2019. Wilson said the 25 cent increase was due to the end of temporary federal grant money. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials shown at the June 16, 2026 College Station ISD school board meeting. Click below to hear some of Heather Wilson’s comments at the June 16, 2026 College Station ISD school board meeting. Listen to “College Station ISD school board approves the budget for the 2026-27 school year” on Spreaker.

Bryan ISD School Board Approves Purchasing Online Monitoring Of School Buses & Expresses No Opposition To A Proposed Bus Replacement Schedule

Bryan ISD school board members approve the purchase of online monitoring of buses and express no opposition to the administration’s plan to schedule the replacement of buses. The cost of a pilot program to track buses, more than $261,000 dollars, will be paid from surplus money in BISD’s 2020 bond issue. BISD’s transportation director Brian Washington says this will benefit students, their parents, and bus drivers who will no longer have to read paper bus routes while they are driving. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials about the online bus monitoring pilot program that were shown at the June 15, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Washington’s proposed bus replacement program is to ensure BISD buses are driven for no more than 15 years. Washington’s proposed use of new buses from year one to year five will be for out of district trips. Year six through ten, the bus will move to in-district routes. And after ten years buses will be used on a substitute basis. Washington also said BISD currently has 40 buses that do not have seat belts, which is a state requirement that starts in 2019. Click HERE to read and download presentation materials about the proposed bus replacement schedule that was presented at the June 15, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Click below to hear comments from the June 15, 2026 Bryan ISD school board meeting. Listen to “Bryan ISD school board members address two school bus proposals” on Spreaker.

Federal Authorities Accuse Iola Man Of Making Social Media Threats

A Grimes County man is accused by federal authorities of making threats against federal officials on social media. A news release from the U.S. attorney’s office in Houston says 35 year old Peter James Bloomfield of Iola posted on X, killing federal agents and spending money to blow up the White House. On Facebook, Bloomfield is accused of making a hit list of federal agents and other notable figures. And the news release made a reference to a search warrant at an undisclosed location where law enforcement led by the FBI office in Bryan found more than 20 guns and what was described as a significant amount of ammunition.