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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's an effort underway to dissolve the Facilities Planning Advisory Council, which is composed of community members, and instead appoint three community members to the School Board's Comprehensive Planning and Development Committee, which is currently composed entirely of School Board members.

FPAC recommendations have been ignored by the School Board for years, so perhaps it's no big deal to dissolve the committee, but this means they'll likely have less community input on facilities issues in the future.

Some of the language in the materials to dissolve FPAC is fairly insulting.  Historically, the issue hasn't been the lack of expertise on the part of the community members on the FPAC, but the lack of competence and depth in FCPS's Office of Facilities Services and Capital Planning and the lack of attention paid to FCPS facilities by School Board members.  Rather than acknowledge that, they complain that BRAC members don't provide useful advice. [/quote]

I think this is the group who recommended the Hutchison site for the new Western High School.  This was after FCPS or the BOS gave away the KAA site to the Saudis.
The site was unsuitable for many, many reasons--but mainly, it was not even in the area that needed it.  The traffic would have been impossible, and, the site was unsuitable for other reasons.

So if this is the kind of work they do, I support dissolving it.[/quote]

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