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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just because many FCPS families are entitled jerks doesn’t mean this wasn’t a good acquisition for FCPS. This fills a long term need and the details will be worked out and people will whine and complain and accuse and I hope we just ignore them.[/quote]

I’d be thrilled, too, if FCPS just tossed the CIP aside and said they were going to spend $150-250M in my neighborhood that we’d previously been told couldn’t happen for many years because there isn’t enough money.  [/quote]

No. We were told there was no land.  Again, it KAA site 2as initially supposed to be for Western High. [/quote]

Let's be clear.

The last CIP indicated that the cost of a new western HS would be about $455 million, and that construction would start no earlier than 2034 (a date that FCPS was regularly postponing, leading many to believe the school would never open, especially with all the other schools getting expanded).

Of the $455 million, the only part that was funded was $23.5 million for land acquisition.  Nothing else was funded.

Now they have a deal to buy the property/school for $150 million.  Millions more (they haven't even provided an estimate) will be required to make it fit-for-purpose as an FCPS school.

They will have to come up with the money to fund what's unfunded, and this means canceling, deferring, or scaling back other projects.   Some of their other projects are wasteful, so that's great.  Other projects are not wasteful, so their getting bumped may not be well received. [/quote]

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