Emergency! MCPS MUST Agree to Fund up to $800K for City of Gaithersburg Artificial Turf Right Now!

The Gaithersburg City Council website says that the City Council is only holding meetings that are ESSENTIAL.

Therefore, it must be essential and urgent that the City Council approve an agreement with the Montgomery County Board of Education that hasn't even been made public yet.





The Parents' Coalition has obtained a copy of the "deal" that the Gaithersburg City Council will be approving on Monday, April 20, 2020, and we have made it public below.

The "deal" is to give away City parkland to the Board of Education in exchange for the Board of Education agreeing to pay up to $800,000 for the installation of an artificial turf field at the same location.

As of today, the Agenda for Monday is empty. 

Never mind that the Board of Education has an entire, UNUSED public school site nearby, the Board of Education only wants City of Gaithersburg parkland for a new elementary school.

Never mind that the County (and the world) are in the middle of a global pandemic.

Never mind that County budgets are in crisis.

The Montgomery County Board of Education ignores the current fiscal crisis and says, 

Why use free, paid for land when you can take away City parkland and agree to pay up to $800,000 for 

another artificial turf football field? 

MCPS Agreement to Fund $800... by Parents' Coalition of Montg... on Scribd