Montgomery Community Media

Just this week,  the County Council’s Education Committee held a worksession on items in the current Capital Improvements Program. Included on that agenda is the reuse of the Old Blair High School auditorium. As Susan Kenedy reports Council members are taking this project one step at a time. Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Government Operations and Fiscal Policy (GO) Committee will hold a worksession at 2 p.m. on March 17 on proposed Bill 16-14 that would establish a system of public campaign financing for candidates for the offices of County Executive and County Council. The GO Committee, which is chaired by Nancy Navarro and […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Public Safety Committee at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 13, will receive an update on recruitment and retention for volunteer firefighters and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel. The Public Safety Committee, which is chaired by Phil Andrews and includes Councilmembers Roger Berliner and Marc Elrich, will meet in the Seventh Floor […]

The Montgomery County Council will hold a work session at 1:30 p.m. on  March 11 to discuss issues that arise as formerly rural areas face encroaching suburban/urban sprawl. This worksession follows a report that was released in fall 2013 following the “Farming at Metro’s Edge” conference that included stakeholders from Montgomery and Frederick counties. That […]

Montgomery County Council President Craig Rice will meet with members of the media on March 10, to discuss key items that will be facing the County Council and its respective committees in the near future. Among the issues Rice is expected to talk about is the possibility of the Maryland General Assembly providing additional funding […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Education Committee will hold a worksession at 9:30 a.m. on March 10 about the request of a special appropriation of $5 million for relocatable classrooms to enable Montgomery County Public Schools to accommodate student population changes for the 2014-15 school year. The Education Committee, which is chaired by Craig Rice and […]

The Montgomery County Council unanimously gave tentative approval on March 4 to a limited master plan amendment for the Ten Mile Creek area of Clarksburg that stays close to the original density projected in the 1994 Master Plan for the emerging community, but takes significant steps to protect the long-term health of a watershed area […]

Despite recent discussion that Montgomery County may not get the school construction funding they’re hoping for this session, a group of County parents, advocates and political leaders will be traveling to Annapolis on March 6 to show legislators they’re not standing down when it comes to fighting for a solution to what they say is […]

The Montgomery County Council’s Public Safety Committee at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 28, will review the Fiscal Years 2015-20 Capital Improvements Program (CIP) request of the Police Department. At 10:30 a.m., the committee will discuss the CIP request for the Fire and Rescue Service. The Public Safety Committee, which is chaired by Phil Andrews […]

The Montgomery County Council hosted a Town Hall meeting in Clarksburg on Feb. 26. The hour-long meeting covered an array of topics, but for some, it wasn’t long enough to discuss the key issues for Clarksburg’s future. MyMCMedia’s Valerie Bonk reports. “We didn’t get a chance to talk about the issues in depth that most […]