Police Chief Tom Manger speaks to Safe Silver Spring Meeting on 3/19, Gun Safety Bill, + more; Purple Line, Get maryland Moving and Transportation Funding Bill

This blog contains the following

I.  Police Chief Tom Manger speaks to Safe Silver Spring Meeting on 3/19, Gun Safety Bill, + more
II.  Purple Line and Governor's Transportation Funding Bill

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I. Police Chief Tom Manger speaks to Safe Silver Spring Meeting on 3/19, Gun Safety Bill, + more

This section covers the following topics
1)      Next Safe Silver Spring meeting with Police Chief Tom Manger on 3/19
2)      Legislation on Gun Safety and Domestic Violence
3)      Draft Long Branch Sector Plan
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1)      Next meeting with Police Chief Tom Manger - 3/19

 
On March 19, Safe Silver Spring hosts Montgomery County Chief of Police Tom Manger. The meeting will be held starting at 7:00 p.m. at the Long Branch Community Center, 8700 Piney Branch Road, Silver Spring. Chief Manger and leadership from the 3rd district have been asked to discuss crime stats in Silver Spring, gangs, truancy programs, prevention programs, School resource officers and school safety issues, apartment complexes, speed cameras; and legislation and programs dealing with gun safety, domestic violence, and community mental health.  He will also address questions from the audience.
 

This meeting is cosponsored by Prezco (President’s Council of Silver Spring Civic Associations), Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board, Councilmember Hans Riemer, Delegates Tom Hucker and Heather Mizeur, Greater Silver Spring Democratic Club, Montgomery County Young Dems, Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers, Renter's Alliance, Pyramid Atlantic, and Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence. 
 
 
We welcome additional sponsors for our meetings.  . 
 
2)      Legislation
 
a)      Gun Safety
  i) The House Judiciary and Government Operations Committees are tentatively scheduled to vote early this week on the Governor's gun safety bill.
  Please contact all delegates from Montgomery County who are on these committees.  The key message is that we need them to oppose any effort to weaken the fingerprint licensing system in the bill. The Delegates need to know that this piece is crucial to us   The Montgomery County members of the    Judiciary Committee     kathleen.dumais@house.state.md.us  district 15, susan.lee@house.state.md.us  district 16 ,  
luiz.simmons@house.state.md.us district  17,   jeff.waldstreicher@house.state.md.us  district 18 ,
 sam.arora@house.state.md.us  district  19
 
Government Operations
 
ariana.kelly@house.state.md.us district 16, kirill.reznik@house.state.md.us district 39, 
bonnie.cullison@house.state.md.us district  19   Phone calls are even better. Just call main number 301-970-5400  and ask for  the delegate   ii) To sign a petition on gun violence which goes to your state delegates, please go to

http://marylanderstopreventgunviolence.org/

see take action


It is very important that everyone sign this petition and call your delegates, see http://tinyurl.com/bch6npl for phone numbers or call the main number 301-970-5400 and ask for your Delegates.
 
  The following link provides a listing of article, photos, etc concerning Senate passage of the bill and the March 1 rally in which I helped organize. 

http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/1432497/b197cec62f/TEST/TEST/

iii)  Television interview

I will be interviewed on Montgomery Municipal Cable Channel 16.
http://www.mmctv.org/video.html
 
The interview will take place on 3/20, 8 a.m. and be broadcast the following weeks. 

The focus of the interview will be on Safe Silver Spring's contributions to grass roots organizing in Montgomery County. 

I would be very interested in someone recording the TV show and sending me a link to the video.  It can also been seen on the channel's website. 

Here are the show times. 

Week of:  3/25/13 and Week of:  4/8/13.  See schedule below. 

Tuesday:                 8:00 PM
Thursday:               7:30 PM
Friday:                    7:30 PM   
Saturday:               7:30PM                                                            
Sunday:                  7:30 PM

I think there is also an opportunity to see the broadcast live on 3/20 at 8 a.m.  Go to the link above and see daily taping. 

iv) Young resident of Indian Spring Citizens Association takes action.  This is my neighborhood. 

Rachel Arbacher, a ninth grader,  is seen in this photo taken by Kate Ryan, WTOP, at the rally on March 1. 

  https://twitter.com/KateRyanWTOP/status/307585704001675264
b)      Domestic Violence

i) We have submitted testimony on several bills including SB490, HB200, and HB478.  We welcome additional persons to testify at the House or Senate hearings on these bills.  Please contact me if interested.  One of the hearings is scheduled for 3/20, others to be scheduled. 

see http://www.safesilverspring.com/index.php?id=16


ii)  here is an article from 3/13 Post about Family Justice Center Awards held in Rockville with Vice president Biden

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/in-rockville-visit-biden-announces-new-program-to-curb-domestic-violence/2013/03/13/9c5acbc8-8bf5-11e2-9f54-f3fdd70acad2_story.html


The article is about Vice President Biden and Attorney General Holder announcing grant awards to a number of Family Justice Centers around the country.  The event took place at our County Council building as our county's Family Justice Center was featured.  Duchy Trachtenberg, Ike Leggett, the Council, the House of Ruth, and others are to be acknowledged for their contributions in the creation of the center. 

3)      Draft Long Branch Sector Plan
 
Worksessions were held on on 2/21 and 3/7.  An archive of the sessions can be found atthe planning board website.   The sector plan information is at http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/community/longbranch/  

As indicated previously,  I am very concerned with the impact of the purple line on reductions in affordable housing.  See my testimony on our website Safe Silver Spring  The County council needs to develop new policies to address this issue.  I am working with others to put together a group to address this issue. 

Next planning board work session is 3/21in the morning. 

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II.  Purple Line and Governor's Transportation Funding Bill

a) Here is a summary of the Governor's Bill

HB1515/ SB1054 -Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act of 2013

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b) Ways and Means Committee votes on 3/18

The House Ways and Means committee is scheduled to vote on the bill on 3/18

Here is a list of the committee members

http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?pid=cmtepage&stab=04&id=w%26m&tab=subject7&ys=2013RS

I encourage you to email and call the delegates on this committee.   Call the main number 301-970-5400 and ask for the delegate.

c) Hearing

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on the Governor's bill on 3/15.  Earlier in the day, I attended a press conference on the bill with speakers from GBC (Greater Baltimore Committee), Greater Washington Board of Trade, Maryland Transportation Builders and Materials Association (MTBMA), Construction Laborers Union, D.C. Building and Construction Trades Council.  and Beverly Pannee, RJM Engineering.

Here are the photos I took at the press conference and hearing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/42288250@N08/sets/72157633001689333/

I also took videos at the press conference and could use some help in editing the videos. 


d) Lobby day

Here is a video from Get Maryland Moving lobby day on 3/6/13. 

http://t.co/gcpmRODWKX

e) Get Maryland Moving

This is a new coalition of over 30 organizations that support transportation funding.

here is the website

http://www.getmarylandmoving.org/

they also have a facebook page

see especially their act now section




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Tony Hausner
Silver Spring, MD
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