MONTGOMERY — Following a special meeting Tuesday in Montgomery, the MISD school board will soon decide its plan of action on a $312 million bond election for this coming May.

The Community & Teacher Advisory Boards have spent the last six months studying and learning about Montgomery ISD’s existing facility and future facility needs due to enrollment growth.

After careful deliberation, these committees recommended holding a bond election in May to address facility needs.

“It is reassuring to know that over 75 community members and teachers have studied the MISD existing and future facility needs over the course of the last 60 months and have come to very similar conclusions,” said MISD Superintendent Dr. Beau Rees. “Now, the Board of Trustees and the Administration will take this recommendation and put together a bond election to address these needs.”

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District officials anticipate the board will come to a decision on the bond as early as its next regular board meeting on Feb. 17.

Templeton Demographics recently was tasked with assessing Montgomery ISD’s increase in students in the near future, and showed the district has grown by more than 400 students for this school year, and will likely go over 360 next.

““Based on these very conservative student growth estimates, MISD will be over capacity at Montgomery High School and in two of our elementary schools within the next two years” Dr. Rees said in a previous Courier article. “These facts have prompted our school board to take action.

“In the past six months, the board of trustees have hired a new architectural services firm, commissioned a comprehensive study of our existing facility needs, requested the creation of a new master facilities plan, directed the administration to study our grade-level alignments, and appointed a group of 35 community members to serve in an advisory role to provide input into planning a bond election for new facilities in May of 2015.”

MISD’s last bond election occurred in 2007, in which two propositions passed. The first proposition easily succeeded by voters in building two new campuses and renovating Montgomery Middle School, while the second barely passed but successfully built a natatorium and an agricultural center for the district.