Not all Commissioners pleased with BoE meeting results; still want schools closed or threaten funding

Below is a link to the video of last Thursday’s Open Session of the Board of Commissioners meeting.  During the discussion related to the previous night’s School Board meeting, two of the four Commissioners present (Commissioner Frazier was absent) make it very clear of their intent to reduce school system funding to Maintenance of Effort (MOE) given that the school system failed to act on closing one or more facilities.  This will have a devastating impact on the school system’s operating budget.

 

The discussion related to the school board meeting, school capacity and school system funding begins 1 hr/45 mins into the Commissioner’s meeting.  It is a lengthy discussion. 

http://carrollcountymd.iqm2.com/citizens/SplitView.aspx?Mode=Video&MeetingID=1702&AgendaID=1571&FileFormat=pdf&Format=Agenda&MediaFileFormat=wmv

 

BOTTOM LINE:  Certain members of the Board of Commissioners seem determined in their assertion that the school system should identify one or more schools to close as a means of identifying “inefficiencies as it relates to capacity”. It is also clear that if the school system does not identify one or more schools to close, certain Commissioners have every intention of reducing the school system’s operating budget – this would result in massive cuts across the entire system over the next five year period!