Council President Meets With Media on Feb. 11

Montgomery County Council President Nancy Navarro will meet with the media at 11 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 11 to discuss key items that will be facing the County Council and its respective committees in the near future.

Among the topics Navarro will address is the status of state funding for Montgomery transportation priorities and the Council’s informal meeting with U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski, which will follow the Council President’s news briefing.

Navarro also will discuss her participation in the Feb. 4-8 SNAP the Silence of Poverty Challenge, in which hundreds of participants volunteered to eat on $5 per day (the average allowance for low-income residents on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP). She will talk about how participating in the challenge impacted her understanding of the challenges facing low income residents in Montgomery County.

You can find watch the press briefing on the MyMCMedia.org website following the meeting.

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