Edmond Public Schools Wants Storm Shelters At Every School - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports | (http://www.news9.com/story/26236916/edmond-public-schools-wants-storm-shelters-at-every-school)

Edmond student numbers increase over weekend - The Edmond Sun: Education (http://www.edmondsun.com/news/education/article_ffc6efce-27e5-11e4-b251-0019bb2963f4.html)

New $91 million bond issue coming to vote.


EDMOND, Oklahoma - The Edmond School Board members voted Monday night to bring before voters a nearly $91 million bond for the Feb. 10, 2015 election. School officials said they anticipate this would be followed by a similar-sized bond for the election in 2017.
School officials said the two-phase plan would fund construction of safe rooms in every school, stadium expansions at all three high schools. The plan would also allow for the purchase of technology, curriculum materials and textbooks, according to Edmond Public Schools representatives.

“Rather than build free standing safe rooms or designated safe rooms that sit idle for many months during the year, our approach encompasses adding classroom space, media centers and gymnasiums that would serve a dual purpose as safe rooms,” said Superintendent David Goin.

Every school in the Edmond district built since 1990 reportedly has multiple safe rooms. School officials said about 8,000 students can be housed in those safe rooms. And the passage of the bond issue in February would allow the district to add enough safe rooms to “adequately protect all 23,552 students during severe weather.”

Administrators said the two-phase plan includes the addition of 90 new classrooms, four media centers, four computer labs, three multi-purpose rooms, three gymnasiums, two band rooms and three high school stadium upgrades.

- Edmond Schools To Bring Nearly $91 Million Bond To A Vote - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports | (http://www.news9.com/story/27579406/edmond-schools-to-bring-nearly-91-million-bond-to-a-vote)

Here is a direct link to the official PDF: http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/griffin/NEWS9/PDF/1212/Edmond%20School%20Plans.pdf

Edmond schools seek bond money for safe rooms, stadium renovations | NewsOK.com (http://m.newsok.com/edmond-schools-seek-bond-money-for-safe-rooms-stadium-renovations/article/5374465)

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Edmond Public Schools Seeking $91 Million Bond - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports | (http://www.news9.com/story/27617779/edmond-public-schools-seeking-91-million-bond)

Schools propose $90.66M bond issue - The Edmond Sun: Education (http://www.edmondsun.com/news/education/schools-propose-m-bond-issue/article_81786cde-83b5-11e4-9942-33175e635013.html?mode=story)

Proposition 1 of 2015 bond issue includes first phase of stadium renovations - The Edmond Sun: News (http://www.edmondsun.com/news/proposition-of-bond-issue-includes-first-phase-of-stadium-renovations/article_a9c3c74c-a8f4-11e4-9c81-d7766110b030.html)

Voters to decide fate of $90.6 million Edmond Schools bond issue Tuesday - The Edmond Sun: Local News (http://www.edmondsun.com/news/local_news/voters-to-decide-fate-of-million-edmond-schools-bond-issue/article_979ce940-ae8a-11e4-ba2b-6bd833965188.html)

I am curious, is there going to be a move away from having games at Wantland? Anyone heard if that is the motivation behind the individual stadium upgrades?

I'm all for the new middle school and more class rooms but 16 million to make a high school football stadium nicer.....I'd rather them focus on academics. Our textbooks are around 8-10 years old i'd rather they work on that.

I am curious, is there going to be a move away from having games at Wantland? Anyone heard if that is the motivation behind the individual stadium upgrades?

Yes, for a couple of reasons but the biggest being that with the addition of the 4th high school in the works, scheduling, which is already rough, will be impossible with a single shared stadium. UCO has also made some... questionable... policy and scheduling changes over the recent years in regards to the stadium.

Yes, for a couple of reasons but the biggest being that with the addition of the 4th high school in the works, scheduling, which is already rough, will be impossible with a single shared stadium. UCO has also made some... questionable... policy and scheduling changes over the recent years in regards to the stadium.

Should have happened sooner.

Vote Today! (if you're voting yes... :P)

It passed.

Edmond residents vote on $88 million school bond | News OK (http://newsok.com/edmond-residents-vote-on-88-million-school-bond/article/5392420)

http://www.news9.com/story/28077398/voters-support-nearly-91-million-bond-for-edmond-public-schools

Woot!

Edmond School District?s $90.6 million bond issue passes easily - The Edmond Sun: News (http://www.edmondsun.com/news/edmond-school-district-s-million-bond-issue-passes-easily/article_f1faae22-b1a5-11e4-be1d-cfce8d53c3e7.html)

Edmond School Board given boundary change plans | News OK (http://newsok.com/edmond-school-board-given-boundary-change-plans/article/5394569)

Edmond School Board Chooses Bret Towne As Next Superintendent - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports | (http://www.news9.com/story/28735135/edmond-school-board-chooses-bret-towne-as-next-superintendent)

Safety, learning at the top of Heartland Middle School?s checklist - The Edmond Sun: Education (http://www.edmondsun.com/news/education/safety-learning-at-the-top-of-heartland-middle-school-s/article_8ae8ccc2-bf24-11e5-9860-fb9d65ab8bc0.html)

Edmond school boundaries could change | News OK (http://newsok.com/edmond-school-boundaries-could-change/article/5477195)

This is regarding the new high school east of I-35.

Towne: Edmond will begin building schools east of I-35 in 2019 - The Edmond Sun: Education (http://www.edmondsun.com/news/education/towne-edmond-will-begin-building-schools-east-of-i-/article_78091f24-cb88-11e5-9817-7b5ee734cb4c.html)

The new school boundaries were approved.

New school boundaries draw Edmond board's OK | News OK (http://newsok.com/new-school-boundaries-draw-edmond-boards-ok/article/5480591)

http://newsok.com/edmond-school-district-issues-12-million-in-bonds/article/5509427

Great article about the new turf field at Santa Fe High.

http://www.edmondsun.com/news/edmond-santa-fe-high-school-gets-nfl-quality-synthetic-turf/article_7888e3e0-5908-11e6-ae7a-27e7a7fc8786.html

Great article about the new turf field at Santa Fe High.

http://www.edmondsun.com/news/edmond-santa-fe-high-school-gets-nfl-quality-synthetic-turf/article_7888e3e0-5908-11e6-ae7a-27e7a7fc8786.html
It's behind a pay wall.

It's behind a pay wall.

It's not for me, but I don't want to copy and past content owned by someone else. Basically, it's talking about the turf, which is Speed S5-M Series synthetic turf system from UBU Sports. The UBU-Speed Series-S5-M is also the chosen practice surface for the Minnesota Vikings, Denver Broncos, New Orleans Saints, Houston Texans, Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers and Chicago Bears. It's considered to be very nice and high quality, so it's impressive to have it installed here. A couple of the folks with UBU Sports are Edmond residents, so I'm sure that helped some. Lots of colleges are installing turf from UBU as well (although varying grades of products).