Montgomery Soccer, Inc. (MSI Soccer) sued the Montgomery County Board of Education because they said the MCPS Bid Process was "highly irregular and rife with conflicts of interest, false statements..."
The case did not go to a trial, instead the Board of Education reached an out of court settlement with MSI Soccer that gave MSI Soccer the use of 3 school fields in exchange for MSI Soccer paying for the installation of artificial turf at each of those schools.
On May 2, 2017, the Montgomery County Council approved the appropriation of a $4.9 million contribution from MSI Soccer to pay for the 3 artificial turf fields.
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| https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/AXVPH464979A/$file/Award%20Cont%20Install%20Turf%20Walt%20Whtiman%20HS.pdf |
On June 12, 2018, the Montgomery County Board of Education approved a
contract for the installation of artificial turf fields at Einstein High School and
Julius West Middle School.
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| https://go.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/files/AZEH84473086/$file/Award%20Cont%20Turf%20Install%20Julius%20West%20MS%20Albert%20Einstein%20HS.pdf |
Now do the MCPS math:
$1,344,000 + $3,717,579 = $4,900,000
If that doesn't add up then that means that the Board of Education had to kick in $161,579 to pay the difference between what MSI Soccer contributed to these fields and the actual cost of installing these 3 plastic fields.
Didn't the Board of Education just vote to not install water bottle filling stations at all middle and high schools because they had to make "trade offs" in the budget and they couldn't afford the $200,000 for the water stations?
Here's the trade off: Artificial turf for MSI Soccer instead of water bottle filling stations at middle and high schools.
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