AACPS Approves $9.7M In Construction Contracts

ANNE ARUNDEL, MD — Millions of dollars in building improvements have been approved by the Anne Arundel County Public Schools board of education. The $9.7 million in contracts will pay for work at 30 schools across the county.

More than $7.7 million was approved for the design of a new Old Mill West High School, scheduled to be built on the current site of Papa John’s Farm in Millersville. That project would be the first in a series that would see the current three-school complex on Patriot Lane – which houses Old Mill High School, Old Mill Middle School North and Old Mill Middle School South – split into three separate facilities. On its current funding track, the school would be completed in 2023.

Other contracts approved by the board also include more than $803,000 to design and construct security vestibules at 24 more schools. The vestibules will create double entryways designed to prevent visitors from having a direct path of access to classrooms or hallways. Vestibules will be constructed at the following schools under the contracts approved: Bodkin, Broadneck, Brooklyn Park, Central, Davidsonville, Four Seasons, Glendale, Hilltop, Jacobsville, North Glen, and Oak Hill elementary schools; Annapolis, Bates, Brooklyn Park, Central, Corkran, Crofton, George Fox, Lindale, Macarthur, Meade and Southern middle schools; and Marley Glen and Ruth Parker Eason schools.

“We are able to tackle these projects at a quicker pace thanks to the funding provided by the County Executive and County Council in the fiscal year 2020 budget,” superintendent George Arlotto said in a statement. “That funding is being put to use right away to create safer and more up-to-date facilities in which our children can learn and our employees can work.”

The board also approved $309,000 in contracts to conduct feasibility studies of Hillsmere, Quarterfield and Rippling Woods elementary schools; and more than $835,000 in contracts to design and construct kindergarten additions at Sunset and Van Bokkelen elementary schools.