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Caroline school board sends revised BGES MOU to attorneys, requests joint meeting after legal review
Summary
The Caroline County School Board voted to forward its redlined memorandum of understanding on the Bowling Green Elementary School expansion to attorneys and to seek a joint meeting with the Board of Supervisors after counsel produces a single draft the parties can review together.
The Caroline County School Board voted Aug. 18 to send a school-board redline of a proposed memorandum of understanding on the Bowling Green Elementary School (BGES) expansion to the Board of Supervisors’ attorney, ask both attorneys to draft one consolidated MOU, and establish a joint meeting for boards to review and collectively adopt the agreement once counsel has reconciled legal language.
Board Vice Chair Lydell Fortune said the revised MOU clarifies “the framework for the funding and construction of 2 to 6 classrooms and a gym” at BGES and asks that certain statutory text be included in full rather than summarized.
The vote followed a lengthy public discussion among board members about process and timing. Board member Michael Hubbard opposed the motion, saying he preferred lawyers to work through the…
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