Thursday, February 28, 2013
Mandated federal budget cuts, if not averted, could impact the large federal presence in Maryland.
Maryland's congressional Democrats are taking to Twitter Thursday afternoon to talk about the coming sequestration cuts to federal budgets. The cuts, equally split between defense and non-defense spending, could have a large impact on Maryland if not averted. Civil employees could be furloughed a day per pay period, and the cuts would also impact work at military bases in Maryland, including at Fort Meade and Aberdeen Proving Ground. In Elkridge on Wednesday, Gov. Martin O'Malley said sequestration could cost 12,000 jobs in Maryland. The town hall from 4 to 5 p.m. Thursday will be held on the hashtag #AskMDDems and questions and answers will be posted on the delegation's own Twitter feed. We will be following the responses and updating …
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Pipkin: Governor "spells out a world where the pie’s not big enough and the revenue is not big enough."
Gov. Martin O’Malley warned county leaders to be ready for more state budget cuts and possibly tax increases when the General Assembly meets in January. “We will all have to be open to more cuts, and at the same time—to protect our children’s future—we must be open to new revenues,” O’Malley said Saturday in a nearly 25 minute speech to county leaders at the Maryland Association of Counties conference in Ocean City. "One year I hope to be able to come before you and proclaim a return to full employment, a restoration of all highway user dollars and other state grants," O'Malley said. "One year I hope to come here and proclaim the existence of a giant, deficit-slaying surplus. But that year isn't this year." The governor met with county …
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Proposal to convert four county libraries into “neighborhood libraries” denied by County Council
Recently, the Montgomery County Council voted to restore almost $1.5 million dollars to maintain staffing levels at the Silver Spring, Long Branch, Chevy Chase and Twinbrook branches as well as purchasing new materials countywide. “On behalf of the staff and the whole public library system, I’d like to say that we are extremely grateful that the County Council and County Executive came together to restore funds so that the neighborhood library reorganization was not necessary this year, said Dan Beavin, library manager. County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) had been looking at the library system in an attempt to save the county $1.2 million, by reducing the collection and staff size at these four libraries. “This is nor a quiet time for …
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
The Silver Spring Library will see a significant decline in services, groups warn.
The Silver Spring Library will lose nearly a third of its staff, close the information desk, and see its available collection and services greatly reduced if proposed budget cuts for fiscal year 2012 are approved, library supporters warn. Speakers representing four library groups testified before the Montgomery County council Wednesday evening, the third of five public hearings on the proposed county budget. A large group of library supporters stood out in the overflowing crowd, wearing bright orange shirts reading "Libraries Matter, No More Cuts." "We're asking for a zero percent cut this year," said Kathlin Smith, Silver Spring Library Advisory Committee Chair, who testified before the council. The total recommended fiscal year 2012 …
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Monday, January 24, 2011
County’s budget woes finally touch programs for local seniors.
Since opening in 2000, Silver Spring’s Gwendolyn Coffield Community Center has offered bingo, guest speakers, arts and crafts, informational speakers, games, music, exercise classes, health screenings and more as a part of their “Gwendolyn Coffield Seniors” programming. But now, as with many County services, that is changing. “Today [January 20] is actually the last day of Neighborhood Senior Programs at this center,” said Coffield Center recreation specialist Derrick Felton. “We’ll still run some components, like Senior Fit, which we do with Holy Cross Hospital, but we can’t do all of it any longer.” One of the more popular events - day trips - now originates from another Silver Spring location for seniors, the Margaret Schweinhaut Senior…
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Monday, August 30, 2010
Programs for children are among those affected by the shrinking budget.
In a down economy, library patronage increases significantly, and it's no different in Silver Spring. Family trips to the local multiplex are replaced with free DVD rentals, loaner CDs take the place of downloading the latest hits from iTunes and trips to the bookstore for summer blockbusters become borrowing (and returning!) bestsellers from our local branches. From fiscal year 2009 to fiscal year 2011, the budget for Montgomery County's 21 libraries shrank almost 29 percent, from $40 million to $28.5 million. Some signs of reduction, such as limited hours, are immediate and obvious, but there are other effects that patrons may see happen over a longer period of time. Dan Beavin, library manager at the Silver Spring Library, has seen …
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Roland
10:55 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Of course the democraps had nothing to do with the coming sequestration cuts. It's all the rethuglicans fault. congress is the worst enemy America has.... more ›