REAL GRASS for HEALTHY STUDENTS and budgets
ACTION NEEDED:
- Between June 18 and June 24: Use this action alert to email BOE members and call them at 240-740-3030 on this issue. The Board will continue to accept written, pre-recorded audio and video submissions for the meeting on June 25th, so please send them to both BOE@MCPSMD.org and BOETestimony@mcpsmd.org. All accepted testimonies will be made available to the public - see more on the MCPS website).
- June 25th at 4pm: Please join us at the BOE meeting, where BOE will consider changes to full FY27 budget. The location for Board of Education meetings is 15 West Gude Drive, the Patricia B. O'Neill Board of Education Room, Rockville, Maryland 20850.
- June 26 through July: Changes may take place through July so please continue calling 240-740-3030 for the Board members and please email BOE@MCPSMD.org to reach all Board members.
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
By speaking, writing and calling, you can encourage the Board of Education to start to rescue our kids - and the county budget - from the unhealthy extravagance of plastic play surfaces. Even a reduction in overall funding for athletic field installation leaves sufficient funding for MCPS to fully upgrade all the fields in question as state of the art grass fields. The Board of Education and MCPS have a choice: either a few fields as plastic synthetic turf or at least 4 times as many fields as modern, cool, healthy, more durable grass fields at the targeted schools, and more.
Unless it is stopped, Montgomery County Public Schools is set to pave ALL remaining MCPS high school playfields with dozens of acres of hot, toxin-laden, disposable, plastic fake grass carpets (aka artificial or synthetic turf) instead of more modern, safe, healthy, cost-effective, durable, sustainable turf-grass fields -- at an extravagant cost of over $60 million, just in the next six years.
Furthermore, MCPS will be locked in to continually replacing some of the 60+ acres of plastic carpeting at $1 million per field for decades to come, a cost NOT associated with real grass). In the meantime, the majority of the hundreds of school fields that are still grass, and will remain grass, languish from neglect and lack of equitable investment and oversight.
Take action today and use this Action Alert to reach out to the Board of Education to support natural grass fields at MCPS!
Make your voice heard, your opinion matters!
The Board of Education members contacts are available here! Call the Board members at 240-740-3030.
Read here for more information and feel free to include any of it in your letters or calls.
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