The announcement means a big hole for the school system, which has a budget of $4 billion. It’s on decent financial footing now, but is projecting a five-year deficit and must confront the need to fix or replace many of its old 200-plus school buildings.
Monson has close ties to Shapiro, who was chair of the Montgomery County Commissioners when Monson was Montgomery County’s top financial official. Along with announcing Monson as budget secretary, Shapiro also named Jennifer Selber, his current executive deputy attorney general in charge of the office’s criminal division, as general counsel, and his campaign manager, Dana Fritz, as chief of staff.Published