The school board met to discuss the initial recommendation of the district’s Facilities and Bond Oversight Committee (FBOC) about the May 2025 Bond. Their meeting on Nov. 18 led to a vote and the recommendation was accepted. 

From December to mid-January the board will revise the recommendation by cutting or inputting items until they decide on if they should call a bond election at all on January 27, 2025. The state’s legal deadline is February 14, 2025 if the school district wants to be on the May 3, 2025 ballot. So if the Board calls for a bond election then voters will be allowed to vote for or against certain groups of projects on the ballots.

Buda citizens are able to give their comments before the Board on Dec. 16, the week of January 13, 2025 (Date TBD) and January 23, 2025 in the Meredith Keller Board Room at the Academic Support Center. 

Although the 2023 bond allowed for the construction and expansion currently happening, the board will be discussing adding a Multipurpose Activity Center to all Hays CISD high schools while they also contemplate if they should call for a bond election this upcoming spring. 

But a big effect of the bond would most likely be a new high school built near the Sunfield subdivision. If the district were to build a fourth high school then this would help relieve the overcrowding problems JHS has been experiencing. There are 2,862 students enrolled from the 2024-2025 school term with the number to almost double by the next ten years. So the new high school would help ease the rapid growth of students and mitigate any traffic issues. 

The 2025 bond will also be covering new projects to JHS like the addition of a parking lot on the west side of the campus and a weight room with an estimated cost of $14,436,487. Overall the bond has an estimated cost of $885,278,431.