The Geneva Board has begun work on a strategic plan that will include priorities for the next several stages of our campus buildout. This plan will be finalized over the summer. We have also begun the process of securing the necessary platting to allow us to begin building again. However, given the current regulatory and permitting challenges in Boerne and Kendall County, we will have to be wise and flexible about priorities and footprints. Nevertheless, preliminary discussions suggest that the Board will likely be adopting the following priorities after the driveway is completed and the land debt is retired:

CAMPUS REORIENTATION
Reorienting our campus to restrict access and increase security fencing.

Our original campus master plan located the primary administrative offices and entrances on the interior campus road. This plan allows guests and visitors to drive into the interior of our campus, once they have passed the security booth. To increase our security, we plan to move these offices to the exterior of the campus and add security fencing so that all guests, visitors, vendors, deliveries, etc. must park and check in at an administrative office space before they have walking access to the campus interior. We expect this to involve:

    • Adding a new main entrance and administrative office space likely near Cascade Caverns Road

    • Creating a new Grammar entrance road, drop-off and office

    • Renovating the current Grammar School entrance area as a permanent library

    • Creating new Logic and Rhetoric drop-offs and offices

    • Adding additional security fencing

    • Creating additional parking on the campus perimeter

ATHLETICS ENHANCEMENTS
We have a vibrant Athletics Department and our current facilities are insufficient to allow us to fully meet our program’s needs. Over the next 5 to 10 years, we would like to add:

    • A multi-use practice field

    • Additional locker rooms and storage spaces

    • A practice gym adjacent to the Competition Gym

FINE ARTS AND COMMON ARTS ENHANCEMENTS
Like our athletics programs, our Fine Arts Department has created an unusually broad selection of opportunities for a school our size. We hope to build facilities that will better support our commitment to these programs such as:

    • Larger scale practice spaces for orchestra, band and choir

    • Better storage for instruments and theater materials

    • A “black box” theater space for smaller scale performances

We also desire to increase our arts offerings by expanding into the “Common Arts” which are defined as the useful and practical arts. We believe this is an appropriate curricular mandate in parallel with the fine arts and athletics because God created us as more than intellects to be cultivated. He gave us bodies to train and His creation to steward. Preparing for Common Arts offerings will potentially involve:

    • Shop facilities for woodworking, welding or other similar skills

    • Barn facilities for animal husbandry and/or horticultural areas

ACADEMIC BUILDINGS
Our Logic and Rhetoric short-term academic buildings and boardwalk have served us well and continue to do so. Our donors generously funded additional upkeep and beautification of those spaces with Benefit 2024. These buildings are aging, however, and reaching a stage where ongoing maintenance costs will continue to increase. We hope that our donors will be generous to allow us to replace these buildings in the coming years with permanent academic buildings that will not only be more beautiful but more functional.

FUTURE “FELLOWS” HOUSING
Attracting highly qualified and passionate teachers is one of our most important priorities. One of the ways we hope to do so is by partnering with the Society for Classical Learning to develop a “fellows” program which would allow young teachers to join the Geneva community for a semester or a year to train and gain experience. This would not only benefit classical, Christian education as a movement by helping prepare teachers, but would also allow us to develop a pool of potential future faculty and vet them for an extended period. To support this future program, we would need to:

    • Prepare the residential house on our western property as temporary faculty fellows/teacher housing

    • Eventually build small-scale faculty fellows housing units

As you can see, our wish list is long and ambitious. Our Board is still wrestling with finalizing the list and selecting the order in which we will tackle these priorities. Please pray God will give them wisdom as they do so.

2004 – The initial 32 acres were purchased from the Davis family

2017 – An additional 19 acres were purchased from the Cavender Chevrolet dealership for $2.8M to give Geneva future access to IH-10 frontage road

2021 – An additional 10 acres were purchased from the Magdeleno family for $1.7M on the eastern edge of campus near the Grammar School

• Allows the long-term campus reorientation for security and adjusted Logic and Rhetoric access points

• Gives access to IH-10 which improves traffic flow and safety

• Provides easier access to current and future athletic and fine arts facilities with additional parking spaces

• Relieves traffic congestion on Cascade Caverns Road and Old Fredericksburg Road as development increases in the area

• Provides easy access for emergency vehicles to all areas of campus

• Avoids low water crossing on Old Fredericksburg Road

2018:

    • Geneva purchased 19 acres from Cavender Chevrolet to build an additional access driveway connecting to the IH-10 frontage road.

    • The development of Southglen was annexed by the City of Boerne bringing Geneva’s campus into the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (“ETJ”) of the city which required compliance with city codes.

2020:

    • COVID temporarily halted work with the City of Boerne.

2021:

    • The City of Boerne created a new 392-page Unified Development Code (“UDC”) replacing previous building requirements. Unfamiliarity with implementation of the new code caused difficulties and delays for city employees and developers alike.

    • During improvements to IH-10, Geneva’s Master Planning Committee (“MPC”) secured permission from TxDOT to connect our future access driveway to the IH-10 frontage and TxDOT installed a turn lane.

2023 & 2024:

    • The city and county negotiated an interlocal agreement to determine permitting authority for properties like Geneva’s in the ETJ. No progress could be made on permitting until an agreement was reached identifying the appropriate authority. The agreement that was ultimately reached requires Geneva to meet both city and county requirements.

    • Due to the passage of State Bill 2038 allowing qualified property owners in the ETJs to remove their properties from their respective ETJs, the MPC applied to have the school’s property removed from the City of Boerne ETJ. We were denied because of proximity to Camp Stanley and Camp Bullis.

    • The city required a full plat of Geneva’s 61-acre property with all improvements as a condition for a permit to build the access driveway. This would have involved significant expense and impractically limited Geneva’s future use of the property. The MPC and its members conducted numerous meetings with city officials in attempts to negotiate a more efficient process.

September 2024:

    • The city conducted a traffic study documenting the benefit of an additional entrance to Cascade Caverns Road traffic. This beneficial use justified an expedited permitting process without a full site plat which the MPC began immediately.

December 2024:

    • The county then required Geneva to obtain a 1098 permit from TxDOT despite TxDOT’s installation of the turn lane and curb cut.

    • The county also required three engineering reviews including a drainage study and remediation actions to ensure zero increase of drainage outflow. The resulting required drainage control work significantly increases the cost of the driveway.

    • The county also required a letter of approval from our neighboring property, Cavender Chevrolet.

March 2025:

    • As a result of successfully completing the steps outlined above, the MPC obtained a permit to build the driveway with the required drainage remediation.

The MPC is currently working on securing an amendment to the permit in the hopes of reducing some of the obtrusiveness and cost of the drainage control.

    • Benefit 2022 and an end-of-year 2022 campaign raised about $650,000 for the IH-10 entrance driveway project. Engineering costs in response to regulatory requirements have totaled approximately $200,000 over the last three years. This, combined with the initial clearing and fencing work, leaves $400,000 remaining to seed the project.

    • With changes in construction costs and increased drainage requirements, the budget to build the driveway, gating, security booth and drainage infrastructure is now at $1.9M. The fundraising goal for building the driveway is the remaining $1.5M.

    • $3,400,000

    • Current land debt and budget for building the driveway:

        ○ $1.9M remaining on the land note

        ○ $1.5M needed to complete the entrance driveway construction with associated drainage

The Master Planning Committee (formerly known as the Architectural Review Committee) is a Board committee comprised of volunteers with expertise in real estate, land development, building design and engineering. The committee develops and adjusts the master plan for the school, engages with and supervises contracted professionals executing site work, and works with governing agencies to obtain permitting.

The current members of the MPC include:

• Zack Burkhart, Board member and Committee Chair

• Leslie Moeller, Head of School

• Jim Guy Egbert

• Kevin FitzGerald

• Johnny Friesenhahn

• Matt Howard

• Travis Roberson

• Robert Thornton

    • Engineering – Welborn Engineering, LLC

    • Legal – Ashley Farrimond of Killen, Griffin & Farrimond

    • Building Contractor – J3 Company, LLC