Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Leggett: 'The message of the campaign is simple. One person can make a difference in a child’s life.'
Against a backdrop of symbolic blue pinwheels, Montgomery County leaders kicked off Child Abuse Prevention Month on Tuesday. “The message of the campaign is simple,” said Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett in a statement. “One person can make a difference in a child’s life.” The child abuse prevention campaign called The Power of One was kicked off in Rockville. The campaign is a national effort sponsored by Prevent Child Abuse. The blue pinwheels—Pinwheels for Prevention—were meant to be a reminder of childhood and “the bright future that all children deserve.” The idea is to encourage adults to become foster parents or mentors, to report suspected abuse and to be there for parents who are having a hard time adjusting. Leggett was …
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett led the Harlem Shake at an event hosted by the Jewish Council for the Aging.
Last week, the leader of Montgomery County government took a break from big budget talks and power meetings to take the lead on something else—a round of the "Harlem Shake." County Executive Isiah Leggett got things shaking March 10 at the Misler Adult Day Center in Rockville for the Jewish Council for the Aging's Intergenerational Seniors Prom. According the council, the prom was a special event for Good Deeds Day, an international day of service. The YouTube clip has since been posted at the county’s official blog. The Leggett-led Shake also made for some tounge-and-cheek politicking at political blog’ Maryland Juice, where a Monday post posed the question: “Could the video … be the clearest sign that Leggett might be trying to run for…
Monday, March 18, 2013
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett got things (Harlem) shaking at an event hosted by the Jewish Council for the Aging.
Last week, the leader of Montgomery County government took a break from big budget talks and power meetings to take the lead on something else—a round of the "Harlem Shake." County Executive Isiah Leggett got things shaking March 10 at the Misler Adult Day Center in Rockville for the Jewish Council for the Aging's Intergenerational Seniors Prom. According the council, the prom was a special event for Good Deeds Day, an international day of service. The YouTube clip has since been posted at the county’s official blog. The Leggett-led Shake also made for some tounge-and-cheek politicking at political blog’ Maryland Juice, where a Monday post posed the question: “Could the video … be the clearest sign that Leggett might be trying to run for …
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Cmd. Luther Reynolds, Commander of Germantown-based 5th District, is among the County Executive’s appointees
Montgomery County Council confirmed on Tuesday County Executive Isiah Leggett’s Montgomery County Police appointments for assistant chiefs: Cmd. Luther Reynolds, and Capt. McSwain. McSwain, director of the Special Operations Division, will be assigned to head the newly created Patrol Services Bureau. Reynolds, who led the Germantown-based 5th District, will head the Management Services Bureau, a Montgomery County police spokeswoman told Patch. According to county records, the appointees will be paid $159,000 salaries. Chief J. Thomas Manger said McSwain and Reynolds would expand his team of assistant chiefs from three to four. “This is a tremendously strong team,” Manger said ahead of the County council’s vote, referring to the assistant …
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Construction would begin in winter 2013 under County Executive Isiah Leggett’s proposed amendments to the six-year capital spending plan
Construction on the North Potomac Community Center would be delayed by six months under Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett’s proposed changes to the six-year capital-spending plan released this month. Citing “fiscal constraints,” county records show construction on the North Potomac Community Center would begin in the fall or winter of 2013. The delay comes after Montgomery County Council authorized spending $38 million to build the community center, a 33,000-square-foot facility to be built next to Big Pines Park. Permits were obtained in fall 2012, county records show. Talks of building a community center have been going on for more than 10 years, but the design process did not begin until 2008. In 2009, the department completed …
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Five public forums for Montgomery County's FY14 operating budget are scheduled in January and Feburary.
Montgomery County residents can have their say regarding the county's 2014 operating budget priorities at five public forums scheduled in January and February. The forums, which are sponsored by County Executive Ike Leggett, begin at 7 p.m. on the following dates: Leggett will announce his recommended fiscal year 2014 operating budget on March 15, and the county council approves the operating budget at the end of May. The county will provide sign language interpreter services upon request with notice as far in advance as possible, but no less than 72 hours prior to the event. If these or other services or aids are needed to participate in the forums, call 240-777-6507, TTY 240-777-6505 or email a request to karen.falcon@montgomerycountymd…
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Completion ceremony held Saturday at Montgomery College’s Germantown campus.
Sixteen students were honored for completing an inaugural Clinical Trial Project Management Program at Montgomery College’s Germantown campus. The 13-week, non-credit course was developed in collaboration with Amarex Clinical Research, a Germantown company. Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett was the keynote speaker at a completion ceremony Saturday. The growing number of biotech companies in Montgomery County that managed clinical trials fueled demand for the work, sparking the idea to offer the course, according to Steve Greenfield, the dean of Business, Information Technology, & Safety in the college’s Workforce Development & Continuing Education division. “As the number of those companies has grown, there has emerged a need for …
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
In a letter to the utilities' regulatory agency, leaders of seven jurisdictions outline changes they said need to be made in light of the power failures during the derecho storm.
Less than two weeks after a massive storm disabled power to more than three quarters of a million Maryland residents, elected leaders wrote in a letter to a state regulatory agency that utility companies need to improve their performance and disclose critical outage information when government agencies request it. In the letter to the Public Service Commission, officials urged the regulatory agency to consider changes to the way utilities operate, including burying some power lines underground, mandatory staffing levels and improved disclosure of outage information to local municipal officials. The letter was signed by Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman, Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-…
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
County executive will host 'Virtual Town Hall Meeting' from 1 to 2 p.m.
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett will hold his latest “Virtual Town Hall Meeting” from 1 to 2 p.m. on June 13. Residents may submit their questions to Leggett before or during the online discussion by clicking here. During his last virtual town hall on May 23, Leggett answered 14 questions. Questions focused on pedestrian safety, the planned Costco in Wheaton, the Housing Opportunities Commission, Ride On, apartment living, soccer fields, noise metering of Intercounty Connector traffic, school construction funding, bicycle racks, the bag tax, pay raises for county teachers and tree trimming by utilities. Leggett has held the online chats every two to four months since taking office in December 2006. For more information, call …
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Public hearing tonight, Thursday, Feb. 9, at Montgomery County Council headquarters in Rockville.
Parents will head to Rockville tonight to comment on Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett’s proposed $4.2 billion construction budget. The public hearing is 7 p.m. at Montgomery County Council headquarters in Rockville. A likely point of contention is a one-year delay proposed for high school upgrades, which would hold up plans to revamp Seneca Valley High School by 2017. The school has never been modernized since it was built in 1974, school officials have said. Leggett’s construction budget includes $28.2 million to build a new elementary school within the Northwest cluster, whose boundaries include Germantown. Waters Landing Elementary School, which is in Germantown’s Seneca Valley Cluster, would receive $8.5 million for classroom …
Latisa Dorsey
9:44 pm on Monday, March 18, 2013
Priceless!! Great to see they can live a little too, Politics aside! more ›