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Parents and teachers press MCPS to fund HVAC, fix plumbing and replace aging schools after recurring failures
Summary
Parents, PTA leaders and teachers pressed the board to protect HVAC and deferred-maintenance funding in the CIP, highlighted repeated pipe bursts and mold at Meadowhall and called for Cold Spring Elementary’s replacement to begin as scheduled to address safety and accessibility problems.
Parents, teachers and PTA leaders used the public hearing to press Montgomery County Public Schools to protect HVAC funding in the capital improvement program and to address what many characterized as years of deferred maintenance.
Bridget Howe, president of MCCPTA, urged transparent, data-driven CIP decisions and recommended reconvening the facilities advisory committee to involve communities earlier. Several cluster coordinators and PTA leaders documented recurring infrastructure failures: Leandra Campbell described three pipe bursts at Meadowhall Elementary in four years, bleeding classroom disruptions and mold remediation; speakers said Meadowhall’s facility condition index…
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