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40 percent of MontCo public safety retirees receive disability payments, report shows
- Nearly 40 percent of Montgomery County public safety retirees earn extra money for work-related disabilities, compared with 3 percent of similar retirees in Fairfax County, according to a report released Monday by Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett.
Residents complain Leggett’s facilities plan created ‘civil war’
- Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett’s massive overhaul of county facilities has residents saying their communities are being pitted against each other as they fight to keep police and fire training grounds, and a school food warehouse out of their backyards.
Resident issues delay plans to overhaul county offices
- The massive overhaul of Montgomery County offices announced by County Executive Ike Leggett in December continues to languish, slowed by residents who don’t want busy county offices in their backyards.
Montgomery Co. tries to ward off out-of-state recruitment efforts
- With recent county figures showing a loss of more than 5,000 jobs over the last year, Montgomery leaders hit the streets last week to thank businesses for operating in the county and counter increased efforts by out-of-state recruiters to entice firms away.
Montgomery Council members knock executive’s claim of fiscal conservatism
- Montgomery County Council members are taking issue with County Executive Ike Leggett’s claims of fiscal conservatism, saying his budget has required extensive revisions and cost additions since it was released.
Leggett increases funding for youth, slashes immigrant outreach program
- In the face of rising gang crime, attacks on immigrants and a rapidly growing foreign-born community, Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett has moved to eliminate police officer positions tasked with doing outreach to immigrant residents.
County to shuffle government agencies
- Montgomery’s top elected official announced plans Tuesday to reorganize county government in ways he said would help refocus efforts and place greater emphasis on customer service.
Council questions Leggett’s music deal
- Montgomery Council members Tuesday raised questions about the deal written by County Executive Ike Leggett to bring live music to Silver Spring.
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