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j Coppelllndependent School District Board of Trustees agreed to extend the final agreement for the North Lake proper-
ty until Oct. 2.
BY JESSE WIU~~
STAFF WRITER
The Coppell Independent School
District (CISD) Board of Trustees
called a special meeting Tuesday
morning where they approved the
extension of the school district's por-
tion of the final North Lake agreement
from Sept. 17 to Oct. 2.
CISD administrators met Sept. 4
with city of Coppell officials,
Billingsley and Luminant representa-
tives and reached an agreement where
CISD agreed to huy 122 acres of land
on the North Lake property. The agree-
ment was made before Sept. 8, the offi-
cial date when the dispute would have
gone to tlia!. However, the final agree-
ment's deadline would have been
tomorrow.
"[Monday!, we realized that so
many things have to come together
between the surveys and the title
insurance and all these other docu-
ments and exhibits that we were not
going to make tomorrow's deadline,"
said Sid Grant, assistant CISD supertn-
tendem for business and support serv-
ices. "That was a very ambitious date
to meet. We trted our best to meet it.
We just didn't quite make it there. To
ensure that we don't make any errors
on trying to put all this documentation
together, it would be best if we take a
step back and slow down and extend
the closing for a couple of weeks."
CISD plans to use the land to build
more school facilities. Seventy acres
would be used for a high school and 12
acres could be used for an elementary
school. The distrtct also has two 20
acre areas that could be developed
into an elementary school or space for
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an inch of rainfall, no reports of flooding
and wind speeds in the upper 30s. On
Sunday, the city alertness dropped. to a
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"I think it was a great exercise to test '
our abilities," Richardson said. . , .
Although some people would say the ' ,
preparedness procedures wereunneces- .
sary because of the light storm, city offi-.'
daIs felt otherwise. ' , .
"This was an excellent exercise, cer-
tainly not a waste of time,"
Logan said.
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of Since 2004, ClSD has spent more than $2 million in litigatIon fees concerning the North
-a- Lake property. The distnct has $9 million to use for the land purchase but may have to
W hold a bond election m the spring to raise more money.
on Grant SaId the city of Coppell, who was granted to buy 475 acres, was also relieved to
have more time to get all ItS documentation ready for the fmal closing of the land
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