Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County Councilmember Roger Berliner recently brought local officials and residents together in hopes of finding solutions for the county’s infrastructure issues. Susan Kenedy reports. Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

Save the date: On March 7, Councilmember Roger Berliner will host a forum to address school and transportation planning. The meeting is open to the public from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Bethesda Chevy Chase High School. Register at montgomerycountymd.gov/berliner.

Officials at the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission want customers to know that WSSC is responsible for water mains in the street and the connections to your home or business, but not the pipes on your property. Property owners are responsible for frozen and broken pipes on their property and inside their homes. WSSC officials are telling […]

The proposal to limit the use of non-essential pesticides on lawns, certain athletic playing fields, and county-owned public grass areas continues to be a hot topic as about 350 people showed up for a public hearing on the legislation before the Montgomery County Council’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee Thursday night. According to Montgomery […]

A Montgomery County Council committee is scheduled to discuss today a bill that would ban the use of styrofoam as packaging for most food products. The meeting is to be held at 2:30 p.m. in the Third Floor Conference Room before the Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee, which is chaired by Councilmember Roger Berliner […]

In this MyMCMedia extra, County Council at-large candidate Marc Elrich, a democrat, talks about taxes and says he believes developers need to pay taxes for infrastructure in Montgomery County.  Take a look: Elrich and the other candidates running for the at large County Council seats participated in a candidates forum at MCM on Oct. 13. […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment (T and E) Committee will hold a worksession at 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 25 to follow up on the Office of Legislative Oversight report “Coordinating Utility and Transportation Work in County Rights-of-Way.” The report, released in July, identified opportunities to better coordinate projects in County rights-of-way […]

Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner will testify in Annapolis at 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 21 in the first of several roundtable discussions in response to Governor Martin O’Malley’s Executive Order seeking recommendations on improving electric reliability and strengthening the state’s utility infrastructure. Berliner will be joined by representatives from the Maryland Public Service Commission, […]

At the July 19 Pepco debriefing, Montgomery County Council member Marc Elrich blasted Pepco and said he was astounded at the Public Service Commission’s (PSC) lack of information. Take a look.