ANNAPOLIS — A $3 billion gap in state funding needed to satisfy
growing statewide school construction needs could lead to a wholesale
changes in how Maryland funds and builds the projects.
Requests from the state’s 23 counties and Baltimore city are expected
to approach $4.5 billion through fiscal 2022 but anticipated funding
only will approach about one-third of that, according to David G. Lever,
the executive director of the Interagency Commission on School
Construction.
“The problems are quite different across the state and yet we can say
that every jurisdiction in one way or another is facing major capital
requirements,” Lever said Thursday while speaking to the 21st Century
School Facilities Commission.
The 28-member commission, established by House Speaker Michael E.
Busch and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., met for the first
time in an effort to make recommendations on how the state can better
address the billions of dollars in school construction and renovation
needs statewide. Those recommendations could result in the most
wide-sweeping overhaul of how Maryland pays for construction and
renovation since former Gov. Marvin Mandel established the state school
construction program in the early 1970s...
http://thedailyrecord.com/2016/04/29/panel-considers-sweeping-changes-to-md-school-construction/
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