Board of Ed. Used Money for NEW Artificial Turf Fields to Pay for RMHS REPLACEMENT Field

At this evening's Board of Education meeting MCPS Chief Operating Officer Andrew Zuckerman explained to the Board of Education that the money that was going to be spent for the replacement of the Richard Montgomery football field had already been approrpiated by the County Council. He said the money was coming from the Artificial Turf fund. 

Here is the Council's PDF form for the MCPS Artificial Turf Program (See page Circle 8)  The description of the fund is shown in the image below.  

The Artificial Turf Program was set up to fund the installation of NEW artificial turf at the 19 high schools that did not have artificial turf.

Richard Montgomery High School was the very first high school to have an artificial turf football field installed and is one of the six schools mentioned in the Description above.  

The Artificial Turf Program was not set up to fund the replacement of artificial turf fields.

If the Board of Education is using this fund to pay for the replacement of the RMHS field they are using funds that were appropriated for another purpose and they are taking away money meant to put in a new field at a high school that currently does not have an artificial turf football field.