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MCPS tells council it would take billions to fix backlog as HVAC and IAQ needs mount
Summary
Montgomery County Public Schools told the Education & Culture Committee that bringing facilities to a stable condition would cost "over $5 billion," with the board requesting roughly $2.78 billion for the FY27–32 CIP and an urgent need to replace aging HVAC systems, address mold and IAQ, and consider boundary studies and consolidation.
Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) staff and Superintendent Doctor Taylor presented a wide-ranging capital plan that described a multi-billion-dollar backlog and a prioritization framework grounded in facility condition assessments.
MCPS said the hard truth to bring the system to equilibrium is "over $5,000,000,000". The Board of Education tempered that total into a multi-year request; in the transcript that board request was presented as approximately $2.78 billion for FY27–32 (the original audio/text rendered that number awkwardly in the record). MCPS staff said the county executive's January recommendations reduced or deferred parts of the board's package and that the…
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