What is the Irving ISD hiding? They are not giving voters the information they need on the upcoming bond election. We cover that and more in this podcast:
On the “required postings” page of the ISD website, www.irvingisd.net/about-us/required-postings, all the bond information is from the 2023 bond.
The postings are “required” yet not actually posted.
If you want the details of the 2023 bond, feel free to click the links!
Plenty of data from 2023:
More broken links: on irvingisdbond.com, the order of election says “Coming Soon” (!)
On the Irving Facility Planning page irvingisdfpc2026.com, all the links say “Coming Soon”: including “Facility Needs” and “Finances.”
On the Facilities Planning Committee page, they do not list the committee members: https://irvingisdfpc2026.com/committee.
This is a major transparency gap. With interest, this is a $1.5 billion decision. The Facilities Planning Committee was supposed to provide community input. What was that input and who gave it? As of yet there is no public document identifying who those people actually were.
But does it really matter who they were? They were most likely just props. Rubber stamps. Box checking for the real movers of the bond: WRA Architects.
These folks are not just architects but political consultants for bond elections. They brag about how good they are on their website:
And we actually paid them $93,000 for these services!
The contract pays them to push these bonds on us:
The consultant “will assist in the facilitation of facility committee to measure opinions and gather feedback to develop a recommendation for a bond election.” Shocking that the recommendation was for an enormous bond…
Yeah, the public input was worthless. The contractor’s opinion was all that matters — the same contractor that stands to benefit from the projects once they are approved.
It was WRA, after all, who got the contract to do the $102 million Crockett Middle School project — the eyesore off of 183 that looks like a data center.
It therefore is not surprising that the websites have no information, the links are broken, and we have no idea who was on the facilities planning committee: WRA is in the driver’s seat, and they have no incentive to share anything relevant with us.
They just want to get rich off our tax dollars.
Good luck trying to request information either. Our public information request from August 11 for basic information about the bond election says “completed” and has the status of “full release”…
…yet no documents have been forthcoming.
A closer look at the email says you can log in to see the documents … “or view the full details of the request.”
No response documents at all. They label it “complete” and send the email for you to log in … so you can view your own request, without anything you requested. Gee, thanks.
Who needs transparency when deciding about going $1.5 billion in debt?
Watch this to get more information about this corrupt bond election.
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