The Board of Education of Anne Arundel County has rescheduled the public workshop on Superintendent of Schools Dr. Mark Bedell’s recommended Fiscal Year 2025 Operating and Capital budgets for 7 p.m. on Thursday, January 18, 2024. The workshop was originally scheduled for today but postponed because of today’s closing of schools and school system offices.
The workshop will be held in the Board Room of the Parham Building, located at 2644 Riva Road in Annapolis. It is open to the public, but no testimony will be taken.
Testimony will be taken at the second Board public budget hearing, scheduled for 6 p.m. on Thursday, January 25, 2024, at Old Mill High School. Testimony will be taken in person only at the hearing, and those wishing to testify can sign up beginning at 5 p.m. on January 25. Testimony at the hearing will be limited to two minutes per person. Anyone who testified at the Board’s January 9 public hearing may not testify at the January 25 public hearing.
No budget-related public testimony will be taken at the February 21, 2024, meeting at which the Board is scheduled to adopt its formal FY2025 budget request. Should the Board offer amendments at the February 21 meeting, testimony will be taken on the amendments only. The Board has also scheduled time to meet on February 22, 2024, if it is necessary to complete work on its budget request.
The January 18 public workshop will be broadcast live on AACPS-TV and on AACPS’ YouTube channel.
Dr. Bedell’s full Fiscal Year 2025 operating and capital budget recommendations as well as a text of his budget address and a Budget in Brief document are posted online at www.aacps.org/fy2025budget.