Board wants $67.5 million more for FY10 Capital Budget

This evening a unanimous Board of Education approved the following resolution in a "surprise" meeting at Rockville High School's choral room:

...Resolved, That the Board of Education request that the County Council increase the FY 2010 appropriation for the modernization of Paint Branch High School from $20 million to $87.5 million to allow Montgomery County Public Schools to accelerate the construction bid for this project to take advantage of the present market conditions...