Many school sites, especially at the elementary school level, face site constraints and limitations due to school overutilization, the need to place relocatable classrooms on paved play and field areas, as well as site size and other conditions. Funds included in this project will allow MCPS to more fully integrate outdoor play areas into maintenance practices and create solutions when individual schools present challenges to a conventional approach. Initial funding was approved to develop a pilot program to evaluate the outdoor program/play areas of MCPS schools, establish improved maintenance practices for these sites, and identify potential solutions to provide adequate and appropriate outdoor program/play areas, particularly at elementary schools with severely compromised sites. This project has been transform into a level of effort project to address this ongoing need. An FY 2023 appropriation was approved to continue this level of effort project, however, the County Council, in the adopted FY2023-2028 CIP, decreased expenditures in FY23, therefore, the number of projects to be completed were reduced to align with the approved expenditures. An FY2024 appropriation was approved to continue this level of effort project. An FY 2025 appropriation was approved to continue this level of effort project and address outdoor program/play areas at various schools throughout the county.