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Board hears how Prince George's County used P3s to accelerate school construction; Howard County staff begin feasibility steps
Summary
Presenters described public–private partnership (P3) models Prince George's County Public Schools used to replace and consolidate aging schools, saying P3s accelerated delivery, shifted lifecycle risk, and required secured revenue commitments. Howard County staff said they will fund a study and continue exploring options.
Presenters at the Howard County Board of Education's Jan. 16 meeting briefed members on public-private partnership (P3) models used by other jurisdictions to speed school construction, replace aging buildings and transfer some long-term maintenance risk to private partners.
The P3 presentation, led by Dan Lubli, executive director of Capital Planning and Construction, and presenters from the Association for the Improvement of American Infrastructure and Prince George's County Public Schools, described phased programs that paired private financing, design-build teams and private maintenance contracts to deliver multiple schools on an accelerated timetable.
School system staff said P3s are not a form of privatization: the public sector retains ownership, operations and oversight. Sean Matlock, who directed Prince George's County's Office of Alternative Infrastructure Planning and Development, told the board his district used a design-build-finance-maintain model (DBFOM) for two…
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