Trustee wants Nixon HS renovated

By Nick Georgiou
Laredo Morning Times

Throughout the years, facilities at Nixon High School have been neglected while tens of millions of construction dollars have been poured into Martin and Cigarroa, said George M. Beckelhymer, president of the LISD Board of Trustees.

During back-to-back meetings last week, in which trustees tried to prioritize construction projects that LISD promised voters in the 2005 and 2006 bond elections, a visibly frustrated Beckelhymer said Nixon High cannot be ignored any longer.

"I sat quietly for the most part for six years and watched a couple of board members drive the majority of construction projects for alma mater's sake, for the sake of their area," Beckelhymer told his fellow Laredo Independent School District trustees.

"And I didn't realize, or maybe I'm wrong, that administration was kowtowing to these individuals as they did their prioritizations.

"It’s not a coincidence that a significant amount of Nixon's work that has been planned out for a decade has been thrown to the side.

That's just a simple fact."

The most pressing issue facing the poorly laid out Nixon High is the traffic-safety issues that students face when crossing busy streets to get from class to class.

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