Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner met with the media on June 25 to discuss several key issues, including the county’s tax supported six-year fiscal plan for years 2013-2018. The fiscal plan projects the county’s potential revenues and expenditures and indicates that the budget for both the Maryland -National Capital Park and Planning Commission and […]

Montgomery Council Council President Roger Berliner met with the media on June 18 and transportation issues and his tree trimming bill were foremost on his mind. During the briefing he also noted that Montgomery County supports a gas tax and he’d like to see the Governor include it on the agenda if a special session […]

The Montgomery County Council’s “Shaping our Future, Adapting to Change” series focused on transportation on June 12. Find out more in this video.

Happy with the recent tree trimming in Montgomery County by Pepco crews? Find out about a new proposed bill to require a vegetation management plan in this video.

The Montgomery County Council is funding a new position in county government: a Chief Innovation Officer. The new position is funded in the 2013 budget and the new employee is expected help create new economic opportunities and embrace innovations by mining county data. Council President Roger Berliner explains in this video clip. View the entire […]

The Montgomery County Council unanimously approved a $4.6 billion total county operating budget for Fiscal Year 2013. The budget, which reflects a 5.6 percent increase over the approved budget for FY 2012, “makes strategic restorations to county services that have recently sustained deep cuts and reflects the tenor of the times: Guarded optimism for our […]

Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner updates reporters at his weekly press conference about the Governor’s decision to select bus rapid transit (BRT) over light rail as the mode of the Corridor Cities Transitway (CCT). Berliner consistently refers to the mode as the “rapid transit line” and when asked by a reporter about if the […]

Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner held his weekly press conference on May 14th at the Council Office Building where he discussed a variety of items including this week’s special session in Annapolis, the upcoming ambulance fee vote, the recent bike share grant, the Corridor Cities Transitway, the proposed Chief Innovation Officer position and the […]

In 2010, Montgomery County voters rejected an ambulance fee by a margin of 54-46 percent. In this video, Council President Roger Berliner and Nancy Floreen share their thoughts on the County Executive’s idea to bring it back.

Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner held his weekly press conference on April 30 at the Council Office Building where he again discussed ambulance fees, the Silver Spring Transit Center, fires on local buses, liquor control laws, the energy tax and a new position that he hopes to create in county government. You can watch […]