Moderately MOCO cover: County Council committee, tax credits advance 3-0, bodywork bill also clears 3-2

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The Montgomery County Council’s Government Operations and Fiscal Policy (GO) Committee voted 3-0 Thursday, Oct. 29, to recommend three property tax credit bills to the full Council, after a Department of Finance official gave the panel cost estimates higher than the figure in one bill’s written fiscal note. In aContinue Reading

Moderately MOCO cover: Medicaid in Montgomery County, 1,082 residents affected, open enrollment starts Nov. 1

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Montgomery County health officials gave the County Council a new figure Oct. 29 for how many residents are affected by a federal law that narrowed Medicaid eligibility for noncitizens starting Oct. 1: 1,082. Officials described the number in two ways. A slide shown to the Council’s Health and Human ServicesContinue Reading

Moderately MOCO cover: senior housing in MoCo, 27,274 units and beds, 418 in market-rate rental buildings, Planning Board briefing Oct. 29

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Montgomery County has 27,274 age-restricted housing units and beds for older adults, and 418 of them are in market-rate independent-living rental buildings, according to a July 2026 Urban Institute report going to the Montgomery County Planning Board on Thursday, Oct. 29. The Urban Institute report, Aging Well in Place inContinue Reading

Moderately MOCO cover: Dickerson incinerator, keep it or close it? Council vote targeted Nov. 10

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The Montgomery County Council will introduce two resolutions on Tuesday, Oct. 27, that take opposite positions on the Resource Recovery Facility, the county’s trash incinerator in Dickerson. Option 1 supports keeping the incinerator open for the long term. Option 2 supports closing it and disposing of the county’s trash atContinue Reading

Moderately MOCO cover: MoCo's 2027 wish list asks Annapolis for a local sales tax

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Montgomery County’s draft list of requests for the 2027 Maryland General Assembly session asks state lawmakers for the power to levy a local sales tax and to set different property tax rates for commercial, industrial and residential property. The draft, which the packet calls County Executive Marc Elrich’s recommended priorities,Continue Reading

MCPS dual enrollment: 289 students lost MCPS tuition aid, 102 dropped

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MCPS told 289 high school students this summer that it would no longer pay their Montgomery College tuition, and 102 of them dropped their college classes, according to a County Council staff memo discussed at a committee session Monday. MCPS officials told the committee they do not know why theContinue Reading

MCPS budget: 415 positions cut, 47 laid off, 162 transferred

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The fiscal 2027 budget the Montgomery County Board of Education adopted in June cut 415 full-time positions. At a County Council committee session Monday, MCPS officials said the cuts ended with 47 people laid off, and a Council staff memo shows 162 more were involuntarily transferred and 20 retired fromContinue Reading

Montgomery County Isn't Processing Care for Kids or Senior Dental Applications, Council Staff Say

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Montgomery County is not currently processing applications for two county-funded health programs for low-income, uninsured residents, Care for Kids and Senior Dental, because there are no staff to process them, according to a Montgomery County Council staff report prepared for the council’s Oct. 20 meeting. “Applications are not currently beingContinue Reading