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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is having an empty school helpful? They say they will use it as a holding school but if it’s not safe how are they going to do that? So it’s not safe for the current students but safe to be used for others???! [/quote]

They can use a year with no students in the building to address the more pressing/health-related issues at a hugely lower cost than afforded with other options.  I'd guess that either means having Damascus students remain on-site, at least for a year, while their new facility is being built or delaying the Damascus & Magruder projects by a year to allow for the old Wootton facility reconditioning.

The latter may be the option chosen if the County Council underfunds the CIP request, as it pushes overall cost to later years...though we know this often is folly, not only failing due to the delay in providing educational services at an adequate level, but also often costing more in that long run due to the combination of higher maintenance expenses and inflation in construction costs outpacing budget increases.

Maybe they think they can do what is needed with the current Wootton in an intensive summer effort, placing anyone at Churchill or QO for summer programs and preserving the current Damascus/Magruder timeline?  That approach still may show overall savings, despite the presumed higher cost of crashing a Wootton reconditioning project schedule.[/quote]

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