Fairfax County is proposing to push up its school renovation schedule, with one small problem: the money they need from the county for this to work is expected to drop off — and school officials know it.
But that doesn’t mean they’re not pushing for the Board of Supervisors to keep its annual Capital Improvement Program contribution at $155 million, said Dean Tistadt, the school system’s chief operating officer. “That’s one of the reasons we keep stating out loud the assumption that they will continue” to fund at the current level, he told The Washington Examiner.
“What we haven’t done is prepare a scenario,” but he expects that any projects scheduled after 2013 — 16 of 21 — would be pushed back.
The county agreed to increase its CIP funding to the schools for six years when the school system transferred property to the county a few years ago. But that contract is expiring, and the county’s contribution is slated to drop back down to $130 million.
Tistadt said that rather than accept the $25 million shortfall, “I’d rather just continue to advocate for the $155 million and urge communities to speak to their elected officials on the importance of the $155 million.”
Read the full story on the schools’ proposed renovations in Friday’s paper.
