Councilmember Trachtenberg met with the members of the Middle East American Advisory Group (MEAAG) at their regular meeting last evening. This is a monthly meeting that takes place on the second Monday of every month in the Office of Community Partnerships located at 255 Rockville Pike, Suite 102.
The Councilmember gave the group a very sober update on the deepening economic crisis and told them that while this is indeed a very challenging time it also presents the Council and County Government with a real opportunity to find more efficient and creative ways to run county government in the years ahead. She said that these challenges are not likely to end until 2014. However, she reassured the group that both the County Executive and the County Council still make Education; Public Safety and Social Services to the most vulnerable their top priority and will do everything possible to protect those areas when considering how and where to make cuts to the budget.
During a Q&A period she was asked to give a sense of where Montgomery County stands in comparison to other jurisdictions to which she responded that while Montgomery County is currently facing the most serious crisis we’ve ever seen that our unemployment numbers and rates of home foreclosures are far below what most other municipalities are dealing with and that because of that our recovery is likely to also happen sooner than in other parts of the country.
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