Flushing away $349,393 is Fine with Board of Education @mocoboe. Watch Waste in Realtime.

The Montgomery County Board of Education was notified that the Resolution before them yesterday did not align with the terms of the $349,393 grant agreement that Superintendent Monifa McKnight and MCPS attorney Leslie Turner Percival signed with the Maryland Department of Environment.  

The $349,393 grant requires a very specific purchase of 1 electric school bus and 1 charging station.  McKnight and Percival signed a grant contract under those terms.  But McKnight's Resolution to the Board of Education says the grant funds will just be funneled to an outside company with no contractual arrangement with MCPS and there is no purchase of 1 electric school bus and 1 charging station. 

At yesterday's Board of Education meeting Board of Education member Rebecca Smondrowski discussed the McKnight resolution and pointed out to MCPS administration that if the use of the grant funds doesn't align with the terms of the agreement, MCPS won't receive the $349,393.  

And that was just fine with the Board of Education members.  The entire Board of Education unanimously voted on a Resolution that doesn't follow the terms of the grant contract.  That means that MCPS won't get the $349,393.  

The Board of Education members aren't concerned, they are happy to throw away $349,393.