This Just In! The County Executive has withdrawn Bill MC/PG 112-11, a measure that would have threatened Park funding and safety!
Characterized as "enabling legislation" and late filed by the County Executive, legislation (MC/PG112-11) was withdrawn by County Executive Ike Leggett today. Parks advocates characterized the bill as a "sneak attack" on the independence of the Parks system and its parent agency the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC).
The bill was proposed as a cost saving measure, a claim disputed by a number of sources.
A number of sources within the MCPD raised concerns about the possibility of decreased safety in parks as a result of merging the Park Police and MCPD.
The coalition of groups behind Save our Parks Montgomery would like to thank all the concerned MoCo Residents that wrote or called the Council, leading them to definitively vote down the proposal. You really made a difference!
This great news has come just in time to celebrate this beautiful spring day in one of the nation's very best park systems, the safe, well maintained parks of Montgomery County.
Thanks for supporting your parks!
Save Our Parks Montgomery
Save Our Parks Montgomery
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