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BOE - who are people voting for?
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Anonymous
Get your facts straight. It's not an expensive new building. It's the same building where much of MCPS already had its offices. |
Anonymous
MCPS got 99.5% of their requested budget. Surely they can make do without that 0.5%. |
Anonymous
MCPS received $52 million less than it requested from the county council. |
Anonymous
Learn to read. MCPS offices are at 45 Gude. BOE moved into 15 Gude. https://moco360.media/2024/05/20/mcps-school-board-relocate-headquarters-to-spiffy-new-digs-in-rockville/ After decades of meeting in an aging former school, Montgomery County Public Schools and the school board have moved into a modern office building — at 15 W. Gude Drive in Rockville –complete with a board meeting room with fresh blue paint, a new sleek dais for members, rows of grey plastic chairs and six flat-screen TVs. The neighboring building, 45 W. Gude Drive, was already home to “a good portion of [MCPS] operations,” such as the employee and retiree service center, division of financial services and office of facilities management, according to Seth Adams, associate superintendent of facilities management. |
Anonymous
Yes, Lynne Harris and she’s been teaching longer than Zimmerman. I’m voting for Harris and Zimmerman. I like Kim too, wish she as running against Stewart because I’m not impressed with Stewart at all. My third pick is Evans because she’s the best option of the 3 running. |
Anonymous
If you'd ever been there, say, to get fingerprinted to chaperone an after hours field trip, you'd know that the two buildings are right next to one another and part of the same office complex. Hardly new. Not like Carver, though, and probably renovated just like it would be to meet the needs of most any office tennant of size. |
Anonymous
Yeah, I don't begrudge MCPS for moving out of Carver so it can get badly needed repairs and be repurposed for educational needs. This isn't the hill to die on. Plenty of other expenditures that are more questionable. |
Anonymous
It's interesting that you consider this a blunder, because I consider it to be a good move, both fiscally and for operations. After decades of meeting in an aging former school, Montgomery County Public Schools and the school board have moved into a modern office building — at 15 W. Gude Drive in Rockville –complete with a board meeting room with fresh blue paint, a new sleek dais for members, rows of grey plastic chairs and six flat-screen TVs. The move is part of the district’s efforts to modernize its processes, facilitate community engagement, consolidate the school system into one office complex, and follow through with repairs to the former MCPS headquarters at the historic Carver Educational Services Center building at 350 Hungerford Drive, according to school officials. In addition to dealing with aging facilities at Carver, which opened in 1951 as the first and only high school for Black students in the county, district officials were hearing complaints from the community about the building and the limited capacity of the boardroom, school board Chief of Staff Lori-Christina Webb told MoCo360. “We were getting more and more complaints about people not being able to get into the board room, or how uncomfortable the hearing space was,” Webb said. “…There were just a lot of concerns about how well democracy could function in that space.” With the move, now all MCPS operations will be headquartered in a two-building office complex. The neighboring building, 45 W. Gude Drive, was already home to “a good portion of [MCPS] operations,” such as the employee and retiree service center, division of financial services and office of facilities management, according to Seth Adams, associate superintendent of facilities management. Adams said MCPS started the process of moving from the Carver building to the 15 W. Gude Drive location in 2019. After the COVID-19 pandemic caused a spike in office vacancies across the county, the district took advantage of “very favorable times” to lease the space, he said. Board President Karla Silvestre said she was excited for the public to see and use the new space. “It’s good to be in a more modern facility where everything works and the public can all fit and hear the meetings and that we can also clear out Carver so it can get the attention it needs as well,” she said. And I'll be happy to see the historic George Washington Carver High School and Junior College building get some love, too. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Okay Lynne |
Anonymous
Huh? |
Anonymous
They removed the virtual academy and other groups from their spaces and remodeled it. It was already nice but they spent a fortune making it nicer for them. Funny how they had money to remodel their space but not continue the MVA. |
Anonymous
They are working hard to trim the fat. You know, reducing musical instrument repair for poor kids and cutting CollegeTracks resources for underprivileged kids who want to go to college. And thank God they’ll postpone expanding pre-K programs. Give them a break. /s |
Anonymous
Not a big deal. If they need more they can just raise taxes again it works every time. |
Anonymous
| Even if Montoya showed up to BOE meetings high as a kite, she couldn’t screw it up more than Harris and the other incumbents. We are here due to their incompetence and failures. |