anchor Description
MCPS utilizes relocatable classrooms on an interim basis to accommodate student enrollment in overutilized facilities. Units around 15-20 years old require general renovation if they are to continue in use as educational spaces. An FY 2019 supplemental appropriation was approved for $5 million to accelerate the FY 2020 appropriation request for the placement of relocatables classrooms for the 2019-2020 school year to address enrollment growth and overutilization at schools throughout the county. An FY 2020 supplemental appropriation was approved for $6 million to accelerate the FY 2021 appropriation request to ensure placement of relocatable classrooms for the 2020-2021 school year. An FY 2021 supplemental appropriation was approved for $5 million to accelerate the FY 2022 appropriation request to provide relocatable classroom placement for the 2021-2022 school year. An FY 2022 supplemental appropriation was approved to accelerate the FY 2023 appropriation request to provide relocatable classroom placement for the 2022-2023 school year. An FY 2022 supplemental appropriation of $3 million was approved to implement the Wellness Program Initiative and provide Wellness spaces at high schools in Montgomery County that currently do not have a Wellness Center. An FY2024 appropriation is for the placement of relocatable classrooms for the 2023-2024 school year to address enrollment growth and overutilization at schools throughout the county. Also, an amendment to the FY 2023-2028 CIP is requested as a result of increases in construction costs, as well as to implement the new Blueprint for Maryland's Future for schools that are currently overutilized.
anchorFiscal Note
FY18 supplemental appropriation was approved for $5.0 million in Current Revenue: General to accelerate the FY2019 request to enter into contracts to allow for the placement of relocatable classrooms by the start of the 2018-2019 school year. Funding switch in FY19 and in FY20 to reduce Current Revenue: General and increase Recordation Tax.
anchorDisclosures
Expenditures will continue indefinitely.
anchorCoordination
CIP Master Plan for School Facilities