State’s projected budget gap bodes ill for Montgomery

Montgomery County officials are bracing for another year of disappointing state funding for local school construction projects in the wake of information that the state could be facing as much as a $1 billion budget gap next year.

“At this point it sure looks like we are in for a bumpy ride,” Warren Deschenaux, director of the state Office of Policy Analysis, told legislative leaders in an Aug. 27 letter, saying the budget gap is at least $500 million, and perhaps $1 billion.