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Montgomery Council urges repeal of 2 charter amendments
- Montgomery County Council members are asking residents to repeal two charter amendments overwhelmingly approved by voters roughly 30 years ago that limit the county’s ability to place landfills and store sewage sludge in residential areas.
Conservative group objects to wording of referendum on transgender law
- Leaders of a group seeking to overturn a new Montgomery County law that bars discrimination against transgender people object to how local leaders worded a ballot referendum that could overturn the rule.
Consumer protection office to monitor domestic worker issues
- Montgomery County’s new domestic workers bill falls to the county’s Office of Consumer Protection, and Director Eric Friedman said his office and its 10 investigators are increasingly being asked to administer or enforce the law.
Montgomery Council OKs contracts for domestic staff
- The Montgomery County Council voted Tuesday to require residents to provide written contracts for nannies, housekeepers and others who do household work, but excluded the elderly and those with disabilities from the landmark legislation.
Advocates want some elderly left out of domestic workers bill
- Advocates for seniors say elderly people receiving in-home care should be exempt from a Montgomery County plan that would require written contracts between domestic workers and their employers.
Montgomery council members question county’s emergency notification system
- Montgomery County Council members Thursday openly questioned the ability of the county to notify residents in emergency situations, despite years of training, practice and the existence of an Emergency Operations Center with a roughly $2 million annual budget.
Officials look to bill non-Montgomery residents for ambulance use; could net $14M in first year
- People who work in Montgomery County, but don’t live there, and nonresidents visiting the area could be billed for ambulance use under an emergency transportation fee proposed by County Executive Ike Leggett.
Montgomery may ban parking of boats and oversized vehicles on most streets
- Montgomery residents who own everything from large commercial vans and trucks to boats and recreational vehicles would be prohibited from leaving them on most streets, under a new measure Council President Mike Knapp will propose today.
Bethesda home to become parkland, won’t get renovated for homeless
- Montgomery County Council members voted 5-4 on Tuesday to raze a five-bedroom Bethesda home and add green space to Hillmead Park, rather than fund the renovations necessary to allow a homeless family or people with disabilities to live there, saying the community had not been adequately included in the process.