ACTION 3.2.5

Office of the Superintendent of Schools

MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Rockville, Maryland

March 28, 2011

MEMORANDUM To: Members of the Board of Education From: Jerry D. Weast, Superintendent of Schools Subject: Bethesda-Chevy Chase Middle School #2—Site Selection WHEREAS, The Fiscal Year 2012 Capital Budget and Amended Fiscal Year 2011–2016 Capital Improvements Program recommends that a site selection process be implemented to identify a middle school site to serve students in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Cluster; and WHEREAS, A Site Selection Advisory Committee was convened that considered ten potential candidate sites; and WHEREAS, The Site Selection Advisory Committee recommended that a 17.01-acre parcel, known as the Rosemary Hills/Lyttonsville Local Park, be selected for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Middle School #2; and WHEREAS, The site, located at 2450 Lyttonsville Road in Chevy Chase is well located to serve the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Cluster and is titled to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission; and WHEREAS, The future middle school could be collocated with the existing facilities at the Rosemary Hills/Lyttonsville Local Park; now therefore be it Resolved, That the Rosemary Hills/Lyttonsville Local Park be selected for the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Middle School #2; and be it further Resolved, That the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the County Council, and the State of Maryland Interagency Committee for Public School Construction be made aware of this action. JDW:LAB:JS:jlc