It’s budget time in Annapolis and Baltimore County, as usual, is on the hunt for state funds.
County Executive Kevin Kamenetz has a wishlist that includes a few items in the Glyndon-Reisterstown-Owings Mills area. But, in sum, Kamenetz has not set his sights too high.
That’s pretty much in keeping with Gov. Larry Hogan’s status quo budget request, which was submitted just days before the record-setting Blizzard of 2016.
Kamenetz’s one big wish: $133 million in school construction funds for renovations and new buildings, as well as air conditioning. He knows he’ll get only a fraction of that amount because Hogan’s entire school-building budget is $314 million. But there’s no harm in asking.
Baltimore County gets $2 million in Hogan’s budget to continue construction at Franklin Middle School.
Other county school projects will be decided at the Board of Public Works, which held its annual “begathon” last week — a pitiless event where school leaders from across the state plead with the three-member board — Hogan, Comptroller Peter Franchot and Treasurer Nancy Kopp — to approve their priority projects.
