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Health & Fitness

Montgomery County's High Rollers

I just posted Montgomery County's High Rollers on my personal blog. I've got a district map for the county, a little information on who is who, and graphs of the very large donors. There were 540 donations in excess of $1,000 for a total of $760,000. That's only 8% of total donations but those who make them have a significant influence on what the county does.


http://nealrauhauser.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/montgomery-countys-high-rollers/

I knew it was an issue, but I didn't realize we have 450 trailers housing students from overflowing classrooms. This has to be a serious drain on the school systems energy budget - instead of heating a dozen big, solid buildings we're heating hundreds of small ones? I'd like to see the cost per classroom on that, but I suspect that such fine resolution is not available in public documents.

I have come to the point where I am really going to need some people who have been here longer than me, who know the history of various real estate development projects, and who are familiar with the schools, which make up fully half of the four billion dollar county budget.

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