WOODVILLE – Lisa Meysembourg, who serves as Woodville ISD superintendent and the president of the Rotary Club of Woodville, brought an informative program at last week’s Rotary meeting at the Pickett House.
Meysembourg gave updates on the new elementary building and the renovations to the Career and Technical Education (CTE) building at the high school.
She shared that part of the CTE building was complete, and students have already moved in, as of last week. The CTE building houses classes for culinary arts; carpentry; plumbing; welding; automotive and collison repair; animal science; early learning, Law Enforcement, and much more. Meysembourg hopes to hold an open house in January 2025 for the new CTE building.
The new elementary building is scheduled for completion in June 2025, and Meysembourg hopes to start “moving in” in early June, and begin preparing for the new school year in August; she also shared that they will have a huge open house prior to the new school year starting in August. The name of the new building will officially be Woodville Elementary, to go in line with Woodville Intermediate and Woodville High School.
She also shared that a time capsule will be buried in front of the new building, which will be opened in 25 years. When the Eagle Summit was built, a time capsule was buried and that was 25 years ago, and plans are to unearth it, and see what is inside, sometime in the year 2025.
A question was asked about the existing building, and if there were any plans for its use going forward. Meysembourg replied, “we are working with the city for potential plans for part of that, especially the amphitheater, we want to protect that, it is a part of Tyler County heritage. Right now, we are working with an attorney to get clear title to other pieces of property. Some of that property was donated by the Wheat family and other entities in the early 1900’s. When it was donated, there was a clause that stated it be used as a school. We are working to track down descendants for clear title. Or it will revert back to them and it becomes their property, we have been working on this for the last eight or nine months”.
She added that, “I have talked to several colleges and universities about the intermediate building and potentially using that, not just for higher education, but also adult education. There is a wide range of ideas, as nothing is solid”.
