Report finds that FBISD decisions, not a missing email, to blame for bond project overruns

Months after the news broke about a projected $136.2 million cost overrun for Fort Bend ISD’s record $1.26 billion bond program, a report of an outside investigation released Tuesday finds that the main culprits behind the overrun are the prior administration’s failure to account to new inflation costs while not incorporating changes in the scope of many projects into the budget – not the failure of one former employee to forward an email about cost projections to others in the administration.