Katy Votes Down $69 Million High School Stadium

[TexasTowelie]

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]

1. You know the stars have shifted when Texans vote down a High School football stadium. I couldn't

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]

2. Wow, a Texas town voting down football! I would rather see them spend

the $69 Million on teaching science in the classrooms.

[onestepforward]

3. Me too. n/t

[Gothmog]

4. I live near Katy

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.