Harford County Public Schools officials are working with their counterparts across the state to find "alternative" and "creative" methods to raise money for badly-needed capital repairs that, in some cases, could get local school systems in trouble with regulators if maintenance continues to be put off because of a lack of funding.
Prominently cited in the school officials' concerns is maintenance and repair of stormwater management systems at the county's 50-plus school sites.
"This deferred funding that we've had in the last several years is starting to catch up to us," Joe Licata, HCPS chief of administration, said.
Licata and...