$99.5M Capital Budget Approved For HoCo, Includes New School

Ellicott City MD

27 September, 2021

12:34 PM

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HOWARD COUNTY, MD — The Howard County Board of Education has approved a $99.5 million capital budget request for the July 1, 2022,-June 30, 2023, fiscal year and priority listing of FY2023 state capital budget request following a public hearing and work session on the capital budget held during the board's regularly scheduled meeting Sept. 23. Big items included in the FY2023 capital budget include the expense of building a new high school to open September 2023, renovations and an addition built onto Hammond High School scheduled to be done by September 2023, and other projects such as mobile classrooms. The board amended the superintendent's proposed capital budget long-range master plan by advancing the first year of funding for the Oakland Mills Middle School renovation/addition project from FY2027 to FY2024, adding a renovation at Oakland Mills High School to receive the first year of funding in FY2026, a renovation project at Jeffers Hill Elementary School and a renovation and addition at Patapsco Middle School.