OAKLAND — The Garrett County Commission voted unanimously on Tuesday to conditionally give the board of education $2.2 million for fiscal 2015.

The conditions require that the school board discontinue all plans to close schools in fiscal 2015 and that the Garrett County Public School System remain an entity participant in the Garrett County Employee Health Care Coalition.

“It has been a primary objective of budget deliberations to develop a comprehensive funding model that will allow the Garrett County Public School System to keep all schools open,” said Monty Pagenhardt, county administrator. “The board of county commissioners is now at a point that this objective can be met.”

“It sounds like we will be able to continue to nurture grade-school students in their community schools, as was always our intention,” said Cynthia Downton, school board president.

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