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McDaniel becomes ninth LISD candidate
By CHRIS ROARK, roarkc@acnpapers.com
Mike McDaniel filed Monday afternoon to run for Place 3 on the LISD Board of Trustees.
McDaniel will face incumbent Tommy Kim, as well as Jeff Knapp, in the May 8 election.
In all, there will be nine candidates running for the board.
“My heart has always been deeply concerned with our LISD schools,” McDaniel said. “And lately, several compelling issues have moved me to seek a position from which I can address these concerns.”
Atop the list of concerns is searching for a new superintendent once Dr. Jerry Roy’s contract expires this summer.
“I am quite concerned with the board’s decision against performing an exhaustive outside search for a new superintendent once Dr. Roy retires,” McDaniel said. “Rather than providing leadership and discernment, the current trustees plan on letting Dr. Roy choose whom the board will interview. It is the duty of our school board members to take the lead in this decision rather than relinquishing the responsibility to one person.”
District officials said, however, that the board will play a crucial role in the search process.
McDaniel also questions the plan of new field houses.
“Also, in these difficult economic times, LISD has decided to indulge itself in the luxury of five new 17,000-square foot high school field houses at the gaudy price of $295 per square foot, costing up to $5 million for each of the five high schools,” he said. “As stewards of the taxpayers’ money, the board has a responsibility to ensure that needs are met and our children are served, not build palaces.”
McDaniel said future projects should be put on hold while the economy is struggling.
“If elected, I will support a plan to ease this additional taxpayer burden by shelving unneeded bond projects until better economic times when the taxpayers can more comfortably absorb any necessary increases,” McDaniel said.
McDaniel is also an ordained deacon and serves on the Denton County Child Protective Services board of directors. For the last three years he has served as president of the LHS Grand Ball Booster Club, which puts on the annual prom for special needs children at LHS, an event McDaniel has been involved in since its inception in 1995.
He has been awarded an Honorary Life Membership by the Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers. In 2009, ISS Magazine, the trade magazine for the self-storage industry, named McDaniel and his wife, Linda, its Volunteers of the Year.
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