When does proposed FCPS CIP 2025-2029 come out?
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Anonymous
| Last year we got the proposed FCPS CIP around this date. Anyone have a sense of when it’ll be available this year? Thanks in advance. |
Anonymous
| It seems very delayed. I think there is a school board work session about it on January 9. |
Anonymous
| It’s always underwhelming. Planning in FCPS sucks. |
Anonymous
+1. Same old "Monitor student membership" year after year while they're gridlocked unable to handle overcrowding. |
Anonymous
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If you had a corporation that made decisions about where to invest in property, plant, and equipment based primarily on a business plan developed over 15 years ago, and then provided no real explanation to shareholders when it did deviate from that plan, shareholders would demand new management.
But that’s basically what FCPS does. It is easily the worst public school system in the area when it comes to managing its capital investments. The leadership was basically glorified general contractors with no planning skills. |
Anonymous
Let’s be clear: you just voted for more of this same dysfunctional leadership in November. There is again single-party control of the school board, with Karl Frisch at the helm. And this school board has repeatedly and vehemently stated: academics are NOT their first priority, nor is facility maintenance, overcrowding, etc. Equity is their first priority. Anything else in FCPS comes in a far distant second. |
Anonymous
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A work session on the CIP is scheduled for January 9 2024. A PDF presentation is on BoardDocs:
http://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=CZ4S8671600E |
Anonymous
Same garbage as always, including the Dunn Loring ES that isn't needed, and the "Western HS" that remains part of the CIP even as there's been no site announced and they plan to expand Centreville HS to 3000 seats. It would seem like especially with construction costs increasing, they'd stop doing business as usual and take a harder look at where the needs really are, but FCPS is too much of a behemoth to do anything like that. |
Anonymous
| Hopefully the new school board does a better job than the previous one |
Anonymous
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Work session underway.
Anderson already asking for several schools in her district to be added to the renovation queue and to jump ahead on other schools. Of course she's one of the members who has refused for years to address the needs at schools OUTSIDE her district if they weren't in the existing queue. Reid at least is honest and tells her that there are schools in the queue that objectively shouldn't be prioritized for capital investment now, and schools not in the queue that should be receiving priority. |
Anonymous
| Anderson is the one who used the r-word, right? |
Anonymous
No. |
Anonymous
| Discussions about the CIP always underscore how FCPS is way too big to manage effectively. So many problems ignored, while so much money wasted. |
Anonymous
| Sure wish they would kill the Dunn Loring folly and give that bond money back to the Oakton/Fairfax area it was intended for. The county just approved for a huge new housing development on the ATT site and another off Arrowhead between Chain Bridge and Jermantown Rd. City of Fairfax has a new townhouse Development going in off of 50, so those kids would go to Providence so the county is going to have to stick the new development kids somewhere, I suspect Oakton will be overcrowded, as well as Providence and I don't believe that the Mosaic Reno will solve crowding there for long. |
Anonymous
Cost of Dunn Loring ES is now estimated at over $84 million. They continue to include reference to a new western HS but have never acquired a site. Kids are left in cheap trailers and modulars. They’ve made no meaningful process in creating a new renovation queue. All the enrollment projections are still limited to five years out. Just one mess after another. |