General Assembly accepts budget amendment that gets rid of Board of Public Works Appeal Process in School Construction

...Foxwell wrote that the request to change the school construction funding process was an affront to transparency. The letter accuses the superintendents of wanting decisions on hundreds of millions of dollars in school construction funding left solely to a little-known committee.

Franchot called Alban’s letter the “most offensive” he’s received in office.

On Wednesday evening, Peter Hamm, a spokesman for the comptroller, said the amendment would go against a process going back many years for approving school construction projects in the state.

“If the school superintendents think that these huge contracts should be signed off ... behind the public’s back, that’s a very frustrating lesson they’re teaching the young people in our schools,” Hamm said.

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