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Related: About this forumKaty Votes Down $69 Million High School Stadium
It was a bad night for stadium financing in the Houston area, with one suburban district voting down a bond issue that would have built a deluxe high school football stadium.
Voters in the Katy school district on Tuesday voted down a bond package that would have provided $69.5 million for a new, 14,000-seat football stadium.
The rejection came the same day as voters in Harris County at large rejected a plan to turn the Astrodome into a convention center.
Some local tea party members opposed the Katy bond program, saying the district shouldn't take on more debt.
More at http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Houston-Suburb-Votes-Down-69-Million-High-School-Stadium-230761101.html .
[font color=green]The impetus for a new stadium came when Katy opened a seventh high school in the district which created scheduling conflicts for at the only stadium within the district.[/font]
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)believe the stadium Baytown has when I first moved to the area.
Compared to our mid-michigan football 'fields', this place was a palace.
sinkingfeeling
(51,444 posts)the $69 Million on teaching science in the classrooms.
onestepforward
(3,691 posts)Gothmog
(145,046 posts)High School football is very big in this area. There is a very active tea party group in that part of the county. One of the tea party nutcases came and spoke at a Fort Bend Democratic Party County meeting. That lady was so nutty that she expected us to agree with her crazed views.