MCPS contracted with an external entity to conduct full facility assessments of all schools during the spring and summer of 2018. This provided an important baseline of facility condition information across all school facilities to inform decision making about capital projects, systemic replacements, and other work needed to address facility infrastructure challenges. The Key Facility Indicator (KFI) data was compiled into a public facing website in the spring of 2019. At the secondary level, the first set of schools identified were Neelsville MS; and, Poolesville, Damascus, Thomas S. Wootton, and Col. Zadok Magruder high schools. An FY 2023 appropriation was approved to complete the projects at Poolesville HS and Neelsville MS, for planning funds for Damascus HS, and funding for site modifications at Thomas S. Wootton HS. In addition, the FY 2023 appropriation will fund the architectural planning and design for Eastern MS. Construction funds will be considered in a future CIP for Eastern MS, therefore, this project has a TBD completion date. Due to fiscal constraints, the County Council, in the adopted FY2023-2028 CIP, delayed the major capital projects for Thomas S. Wootton and Col. Zadok Magruder high schools by two years. Therefore, the new completion date for these two projects is August 2029. An FY 2023 supplemental appropriation in the amount of $12 million was approved for Neelsville MS due to increases in construction costs. An FY 2024 appropriation and amendment to the FY2023-2028 CIP was approved for additional funds for the Poolesville HS project due to the impact on construction costs as a result of the Covid-19 health pandemic. In addition, an FY 2024 appropriation was approved for construction funds for the Damascus HS project. As part of the Board of Education's Requested FY2025-2030 CIP, the construction timeline for Damascus HS was extended one-year, with a completion date of August 2027. In addition, as part of the FY2025-2030 CIP, construction funds were included for the Eastern MS project, with a completion date of August 2028. An FY 2025 appropriation was requested for construction cost increases for Damascus HS and planning funds for Wootton and Magruder high schools. Due to fiscal constraints, as well as the inclusion of expenditures in the outyears of the CIP for some countywide projects to reflect level of effort funding, the County Council approved FY 2025-2030 CIP shifted construction funding for the Damascus, Magruder, and Wootton high school projects and the Eastern MS project. These expenditure shifts also resulted in "to be determined" completion dates. With respect to Wootton HS, the ADA site modifications will remain on schedule. Appropriations for planning and construction funds will be considered in a future CIP based on the approved expenditure schedules.

MCPS asserts that this project conforms to the requirement of relevant local plans, as required by the Maryland Economic Growth, Resource Protection and Planning Act.