MCPS warehouse

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Employees deserve a safe environment. The place looks like an OSHA nightmare, if OSHA is still operational as an agency.

But children don’t deserve a safe environment because they don’t have a union and don’t endorse candidates for public office.

Of course students deserve safe environments. And by all means organize your neighborhood to endorse candidates on behalf of your students. You have some power, if you care to put in the energy to use it. Otherwise you are just complaining anonymously on DCUM.

Wow you are an idiot. Taylor just held one of his 3 Capital Budget talks from the warehouse. Not from a school.

The CESO AUDIT that Taylor shelved last year said the workers at the bus depot were in danger of injury or death. Did he use the bus depot for his talk? No. He has never addressed the potential for death at that location.

Schools? Put them on a list that lasts forever. Keep children in portables.

Fire Taylor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cite your sources

Yes, how much will a new warehouse cost to build? Will land be purchased? What school gets bumped off the CIP for Taylor’s warehouse?

He's proposing renting existing warehouse space. It's up for a board vote on Thursday.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DMQRM26E97F5/$file/Lease%20Agree%20Commercial%20Space%20750%20Progress%20Way.pdf

Oh, wait. Is Taylor proposing spending money on leasing warehouse space AND rebuilding the old warehouse space? Is that his plan? Could he please fully communicate what the heck he is looking for? It's at best disingenuous to do this the way he is doing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cite your sources

Yes, how much will a new warehouse cost to build? Will land be purchased? What school gets bumped off the CIP for Taylor’s warehouse?

He's proposing renting existing warehouse space. It's up for a board vote on Thursday.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DMQRM26E97F5/$file/Lease%20Agree%20Commercial%20Space%20750%20Progress%20Way.pdf

Oh, wait. Is Taylor proposing spending money on leasing warehouse space AND rebuilding the old warehouse space? Is that his plan? Could he please fully communicate what the heck he is looking for? It's at best disingenuous to do this the way he is doing it.

I don't see anything suggesting he wants to rebuild the old warehouse space. It's described in the CIP as a relocation, presumably to this leased space in Gaithersburg:

Materials Management Relocation
This project would be used for the interior construction of a
centralized warehouse space, specifically designed to meet the
demands of serving the State’s largest school system in a safe
and efficient manner. The functions that would be incorporated
into this one site would reduce delivery times and thousands
of driving miles per year, save valuable operating resources,
and reduce our carbon footprint.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cite your sources

Yes, how much will a new warehouse cost to build? Will land be purchased? What school gets bumped off the CIP for Taylor’s warehouse?

He's proposing renting existing warehouse space. It's up for a board vote on Thursday.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DMQRM26E97F5/$file/Lease%20Agree%20Commercial%20Space%20750%20Progress%20Way.pdf

Oh, wait. Is Taylor proposing spending money on leasing warehouse space AND rebuilding the old warehouse space? Is that his plan? Could he please fully communicate what the heck he is looking for? It's at best disingenuous to do this the way he is doing it.

I don't see anything suggesting he wants to rebuild the old warehouse space. It's described in the CIP as a relocation, presumably to this leased space in Gaithersburg:

Materials Management Relocation
This project would be used for the interior construction of a
centralized warehouse space, specifically designed to meet the
demands of serving the State’s largest school system in a safe
and efficient manner. The functions that would be incorporated
into this one site would reduce delivery times and thousands
of driving miles per year, save valuable operating resources,
and reduce our carbon footprint.

Taylor wants to vacate FREE space and instead spend $3 MILLION dollars a year on leased commercial office space where the payments can increase. That’s $3 MILLION out of the Operating Budget taking away money for teacher salaries. And this plan was already in place! There is no public input or process to review this decision that he already made. He’s already got a lease. No bids. No competition. No use of existing land owned by the BOE. This is classic Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much will that cost?

STFU lease starts on Saturday Nov. 1st. No one cares what questions you might have about this expenditure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cite your sources

Yes, how much will a new warehouse cost to build? Will land be purchased? What school gets bumped off the CIP for Taylor’s warehouse?

He's proposing renting existing warehouse space. It's up for a board vote on Thursday.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DMQRM26E97F5/$file/Lease%20Agree%20Commercial%20Space%20750%20Progress%20Way.pdf

Oh, wait. Is Taylor proposing spending money on leasing warehouse space AND rebuilding the old warehouse space? Is that his plan? Could he please fully communicate what the heck he is looking for? It's at best disingenuous to do this the way he is doing it.

I don't see anything suggesting he wants to rebuild the old warehouse space. It's described in the CIP as a relocation, presumably to this leased space in Gaithersburg:

Materials Management Relocation
This project would be used for the interior construction of a
centralized warehouse space, specifically designed to meet the
demands of serving the State’s largest school system in a safe
and efficient manner. The functions that would be incorporated
into this one site would reduce delivery times and thousands
of driving miles per year, save valuable operating resources,
and reduce our carbon footprint.

Superintendent Taylor wants to build out a new warehouse with $13 million of CIP funds. What school projects will get bumped for this CIP expenditure? That's on top of the $3 million a year lease payments out of the Operating Budget.
https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2025/10/waste-this-week-watch-superintendent.html

[Anonymous]

So the new space in Gaithersburg is to replace the existing crumbling warehouse?

https://mocoshow.com/2025/12/12/mcps-signs-161500-sf-lease-at-progress-way-campus-in-gaithersburg/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the new space in Gaithersburg is to replace the existing crumbling warehouse?

https://mocoshow.com/2025/12/12/mcps-signs-161500-sf-lease-at-progress-way-campus-in-gaithersburg/

The warehouse isn't crumbling. The lease is to for offices and warehouse and anything else Taylor can think to throw in there to fill up the commercial space. The warehouse doesn't house children.

It doesn't replace anything. MCPS will still own the 4 properties that Taylor is emptying and moving into this commercial property.

Taylor found $43 million while he says he can't do anything about mold in schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the new space in Gaithersburg is to replace the existing crumbling warehouse?

https://mocoshow.com/2025/12/12/mcps-signs-161500-sf-lease-at-progress-way-campus-in-gaithersburg/

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the new space in Gaithersburg is to replace the existing crumbling warehouse?

https://mocoshow.com/2025/12/12/mcps-signs-161500-sf-lease-at-progress-way-campus-in-gaithersburg/

The warehouse isn't crumbling. The lease is to for offices and warehouse and anything else Taylor can think to throw in there to fill up the commercial space. The warehouse doesn't house children.

It doesn't replace anything. MCPS will still own the 4 properties that Taylor is emptying and moving into this commercial property.

Taylor found $43 million while he says he can't do anything about mold in schools.

He finds the money for what's important to him. He couldn't bring back the virtual school and expand it to allow all students access to classes not available at their home school. Yet, he has money for all his pet projects unrelated to education and his fancy logoed clothing. He also cut early education and other things.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cite your sources

Yes, how much will a new warehouse cost to build? Will land be purchased? What school gets bumped off the CIP for Taylor’s warehouse?

He's proposing renting existing warehouse space. It's up for a board vote on Thursday.

https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/DMQRM26E97F5/$file/Lease%20Agree%20Commercial%20Space%20750%20Progress%20Way.pdf

Oh, wait. Is Taylor proposing spending money on leasing warehouse space AND rebuilding the old warehouse space? Is that his plan? Could he please fully communicate what the heck he is looking for? It's at best disingenuous to do this the way he is doing it.

I don't see anything suggesting he wants to rebuild the old warehouse space. It's described in the CIP as a relocation, presumably to this leased space in Gaithersburg:

Materials Management Relocation
This project would be used for the interior construction of a
centralized warehouse space, specifically designed to meet the
demands of serving the State’s largest school system in a safe
and efficient manner. The functions that would be incorporated
into this one site would reduce delivery times and thousands
of driving miles per year, save valuable operating resources,
and reduce our carbon footprint.

Superintendent Taylor wants to build out a new warehouse with $13 million of CIP funds. What school projects will get bumped for this CIP expenditure? That's on top of the $3 million a year lease payments out of the Operating Budget.
https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2025/10/waste-this-week-watch-superintendent.html

4 properties are being abandoned without a public process.

[Anonymous]

So....what is going on? Who is moving where?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is MCPS storing that stuff, including lunch tables vs. shipping it directly to the schools for immediate use?

The equipment that schools need vary year to year. This year, our school repurposed space that was previously used for offices and as meeting rooms into teaching areas, so we needed to ship the unneeded desks and tables to the warehouse in exchange for student-sized desks, tables, and chairs. There is no extra space in our school and in many schools to store anything extra.

[Anonymous]

I really don't see the issue: the old warehouse has been inadequate for years, maybe longer. It would take entirely too long to tear down and rebuild on the free land. It's bad enough getting contractors now to work on construction as it is. It would be five to ten years before something was up and running and the pressing need for space is currently a major problem. We really don't need to second-guess this at all.

[Anonymous]

Every room and every storage closet is being used at our school and things have gotten so bad that we have several shipping containers out back. This is equally true at other schools. Sometimes the warehouse even runs out of space and is forced to redistribute materials we don't need or can't use.