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Speakers urge council to restore school construction funds, fix maintenance backlogs
Summary
At a Montgomery County Council public hearing on the FY26 capital budget and FY25–30 CIP amendments, city and parent leaders urged restoring construction funds for Twinbrook Elementary and Wootton High, funding auditoriums at Woodward and Crown Farm high schools, and increasing HVAC and roof-repair funding across Montgomery County Public Schools.
At a Montgomery County Council public hearing on the FY26 capital budget and amendments to the FY25–30 capital improvements program, local officials and parents asked the council to restore construction funding for several Montgomery County Public Schools projects and to increase allocations for maintenance and system replacements.
The appeals focused on Twinbrook Elementary School, Wootton High School and auditorium and systems work at several new or renovated high schools. Monique Ashton, mayor of Rockville, told the council the executive’s recommended CIP “removes $3,000,000 in out years expenditures for the Twinbrook Elementary School major capital project”…
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