POLICY 4-3.1 FACILITY PLANNING
The Montgomery County School Board is responsible for the regular
operation and orderly development of all school facilities. The School Board
will concern itself with both short- and long-range planning. The division superintendent or his/her
designee shall present to the School Board annually a ten-year Capital
Improvement Program which will include recommendations regarding timing,
location, costs and savings associated with new building requirements and/or restoration
and renewal of existing school facilities.
Decisions pertaining to educational specifications for new buildings and
renovations may be developed after input from a broad-based committee
representing the staff and community. The committee will present to the
division superintendent its recommendations for facilities utilization,
development and closure.
Recommendations to the School Board shall be supported by researched
facts and figures that support the feasibility and need for construction and/or
renovation. Ten-year enrollment
projections will be prepared under the direction of the division superintendent
and will be reviewed and brought up-to-date annually.
LEGAL
REFERENCE: Code
of Virginia, 1950, as amended, §§ 22.1-78, 22.1-79(3),
22.1-253.13:6(A).