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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those in the Wootton Cluster advocating for Option "W," it's not clear to me what their option means with regard to which building becomes a holding school for MCPS, which is absolutely needed.

Is Option W advocating for Crown to be that holding school, as Taylor proposed? Is it not taking a stance on that?

If it's the latter, I think that sinks Option W because a secondary holding school is absolutely necessary for all of the schools currently in and likely to be moved into the CIP.

Also, if Wootton is advocating to be included in the CIP, who are they advocating be bumped out? I'm not seeing how they're creating leverage with Option W. It just basically seems like the Wootton Cluster wants its cake and to eat it too.[/quote]

Wootton does not want to serve as a holding school. That position is independent of whether MCPS ultimately designates Crown as a holding school. Framing this as a black-and-white choice oversimplifies the situation. Taylor is already exploring a P3 model for school renovations, which makes it possible for two or even three schools to be renovated at the same time

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You are kidding yourself if you think the choice is independent of the Crown decision. In order for Wootton to be added to the CIP as advocated, SOMETHING needs to be removed to add Wootton to the CIP.

MCPS already stated there would be serious savings in time and money if Damascus, which is the only high school currently in the CIP, was able to use Crown as a holding school. It sounds like they might have been willing, based on the Wootton community's advocacy for a safe and modern building, to shift them into Crown and use Wootton as the holding school, but it appears the Wootton community is rejecting that too.

The only other alternative to make Option W happen would be for Wootton to ask for Damascus to be bumped from the current CIP and added in its place. Is that what Option W is asking for? Again, Option W wants to wave a magic wand without making any difficult decisions or tradeoffs but doesn't explain how or why that would be feasible.[/quote]

Wootton isn’t even included in the CIP, and the boundary study isn’t going to put Wootton into the CIP either, so I don’t see your point. Framing Crown as a holding school as if it’s Wootton’s problem only muddies the water. If Damascus needs a holding school, that’s something Damascus should advocate for. It’s not Wootton’s responsibility to advocate on Damascus’s behalf. Wootton is simply asking to remain where it is and receive an emergency fix for failing components of the building.
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You might want to talk to your colleague. The PP who I was going back and forth with said Wootton wants emergency fixes AND to be put into the queue for a renovation in the CIP.

You're saying you don't want to get into the CIP. Which one is it?[/quote]

I thought Wootton was already in the CIP for 2035+?  https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OMB/Resources/Files/omb/pdfs/fy25/cip_pdf/P652115.pdf

What's wrong with performing emergency fixes now, and then Wootton waiting 10+ years for a full renovation?  Has anyone done a financial assessment for the costs of the emergency fixes Wootton is requesting?  Maybe some of the FY26 amount of $1.456M includes this (see above link)?  One would think that emergency fixes wouldn't bump anyone down in the CIP, which I thought only included full renovations (hence the name "Capital Improvement Plan")?  Emergency fixes could be done over the summer of 2027, obviating the need for any holding school for Wootton, thereby causing the least amount of disruption.[/quote]

No, that’s not CIP. CIP only covers 6 years. That slide is only MCPS projection and nobody will guarantee it’ll be on CIP at this point [/quote]

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