Surprise! Taylor Moving 495 Buses to Residential Neighborhoods! Taylor Skipped this Slide in his Public Presentation.

 Read this article on our new Substack website:

https://parentscoalitionmd.substack.com/p/surprise-taylor-moving-495-buses

Board wants to Condemn More Property. Remember last condemnation? What happened to swap?

On Monday, July 29, 2013, Board of Education Agenda:

Resolved, That the Board of Education authorizes initiation of condemnation proceedings to acquire Pulte Home Corporation’s interest in the parcel adjacent to the current William H. Farquhar Middle School site because the land is needed for the modernization of William H. Farquhar Middle School under Option Two, approved by the Board of Education on September 13, 2011, and the site’s owner and Montgomery County Public Schools have been unable to reach agreement with Pulte Home Corporation to convey its interest in the property...

Now, let's recall the last time the BOE went to court to condemn a property. What happened?  The BOE had to pay MORE than they had offered for the land. So, the BOE got the land, but at a huge cost to taxpayers!

Now, the BOE wants the Pulte property.  They have apparently made an offer and Pulte has said no.  So the Superintendent wants the BOE to go to court again! (Pulte is smart to say no. The land was set aside as part of open space for a housing development under construction.)

Remember also that the BOE had said they could just "swap" the Pulte property for the Farquhar property.  That was back when the BOE had been told that the Pulte property had already been transferred to Park and Planning.

Remember this bad information from MCPS staff?  The BOE used this bad information to make their decision.

http://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2011/09/fact-check-board-got-fact-or-fiction.html

The BOE got bad information from MCPS staff, made a bad decision, and now the BOE is going to go to court.  Who is paying for the wrong information, bad decisions and litigation?  You are.