Board of Education denies open meeting violations in B-CC middle school decision

Friday, July 15, 2011
Board of Education denies open meeting violations in B-CC middle school decision
Attorney defends process to select site for Bethesda-Chevy Chase middle school
by Sarah Gantz, Staff Writer

Montgomery County’s Board of Education has denied improperly conducting a site selection process for a new Bethesda-Chevy Chase middle school.

The board sent a letter July 6 to the Maryland Open Meeting Compliance Board in response to accusations filed in early June by a neighborhood association. The association claimed the board did not give sufficient notice about plans to select a Kensington park as the preferred site for a new middle school, among other violations.

and:

"It is clear that the Rock Creek Hills Citizens’ Association was unhappy with the selection of the Rock Creek Hills [Local Park] as the site on which a feasibility study would be conducted for construction fo a second middle school in the B-CC area. As a result the Citizens Association has attacked the process that led to selection of the site by alleging violations of the [Open Meetings Act] and it has attacked the result by lodging an appeal to the Maryland State Board of Education,” Judith S. Bresler, an attorney for the board, wrote in the letter.

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