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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the chances SSIMS will get some extra cash for renovations from this tax increase?[/quote]

I mean, a lot of the projects that have been put off would be solved with increased funding. Eastern and SSIMS both have actual plans at the ready, but have not been approved for funding yet because every cycle the Board looks at the list of priorities and something else ends up in front of them. [/quote]

That funding is earmarked for more CO admin positions, anti-racist audits, "leader in me" training, set-asides for the Kid's Museum, and electric school buses. The last place it is going is to renovate a DCC school or hire teachers.[/quote]

The operating budget is a separate entity from the capital budget.[/quote]

Money is fungible, and the budgets can be moved around, accordingly.  Sure, admin cites multiple funding sources and politicals like to make brownie points by delivering school-targeted taxes, but, in the end, the two pots of $ come from the same source, and the difference between operational and capital is fuzzy enough to shift on the margins between the two by recategorizing aspects of projects.

Not saying that there shouldn't be funding or more of it (or that the various example expenditures are poor choices), just that the budgets aren't really all that separate form the perspective of getting enough funding when considering the context of this thread.  For example, increased taxes targeted for the capital budget can be offset by general obligation reductions by the County Council, with those funds going, say, to pet projects (or to the MCPS operating budget); it may never really make a difference for a place like SSIMS (or Eastern) if MCPS/the BOE/the County Council are inclined to focus elsewhere, and, given the story over the past several years, I would doubt that SSIMS gets anything more than that which is absolutely necessary & convenient during the current project and for a long time afterwards.  It won't be brought up to a facility standard similar to new or recently-remodeled schools elsewhere.[/quote]

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