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Resident urges Frederick County supervisors to withhold $200 million school request pending firm cost estimates
Summary
At a Board of Supervisors meeting public comment period, James Mulder of Back Creek District urged supervisors to delay or re-evaluate a roughly $200 million school board funding request he said contains "fluff," and called for architect-based cost estimates before advancing county funds.
A resident urged the Frederick County Board of Supervisors to withhold or re-evaluate a roughly $200 million funding request from the school board until the figure is supported by firm, architect-produced cost estimates.
James Mulder of Back Creek District made the appeal during the meeting’s public comment period, saying an unspecified vice chair at a prior school board meeting had "mentioned that she knows that there's fluff in that number." Mulder asked the supervisors to "go back and make them come back with the real…
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