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Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science asks board for capital and funding path after presentation on aging campus
Summary
MSMS officials detailed HVAC and mechanical needs, a $7.83 million list of past facility investments, rising support fees paid to Mississippi University for Women and asked the State Board of Education and legislature to consider funding pathways and scholarship partnerships.
Leaders from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science told the State Board of Education on Aug. 21 that the residential school is operating on an aging campus, faces rising operating costs and needs a clearer funding path for maintenance and capital projects.
Ginger Tedder, executive director of MSMS, and Thomas East Rolling, director for academic affairs, told the board that MSMS currently houses about 232 residential students and occupies roughly 154,000 square feet across multiple buildings on the Mississippi University for Women campus. Tedder said MSMS pays $113,000 per year in support fees to MUW and estimated the effective maintenance-fee rate the school pays now as about $0.73 per square foot; she said the goal to cover recommended facility stewardship would be closer to $4.00 per square foot.
Tedder presented a compiled inventory of facilities investments dating back to 1994 and…
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