Trachtenberg Office Attends African American Advisory Group Meeting

The Trachtenberg Office was represented at the annual budget meeting of the County Executive’s African American Advisory Group in Rockville, Maryland.

At the meeting, County Executive Isiah Leggett received the AAAG’s recommendations regarding the FY11 Operating Budget to be submitted to the County Council in March 2010. The Group’s recommendations addressed issues of spending reductions; new revenue sources; efficient, effective operations; collaboration on state budget cut mitigation; critical services prioritization; and strategic management of the financial crisis.

The County Executive was accompanied by Bruce Adams, Director of the Office of Community Partnerships, Reverend Timothy Warner, Staff Liaison, Office of Community Partnerships, and Joe Beach, Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

The AAAG is co-chaired by Dr. Sheryl Brissett-Chapman and Julian Norment. Our Chief of Staff Alan Bowser, who is a member of the Executive’s African American Advisory Group, represented Councilmember Trachtenberg.

East Silver Spring Citizens Association

The Trachtenberg Office was represented at the monthly meeting of the East Silver Spring Citizens Association held at the Sligo Recreation Center in Silver Spring.

The featured speaker at the ESSCA meeting was Montgomery County Council President Nancy Floreen, who discussed a broad range of issues and answered many questions from ESSCA members. Among the issues discussed were redevelopment in Silver Spring, the Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza, a new Silver Spring Library, the Purple Line, financing infrastructure, supporting small businesses, community gardens, recyling, clean energy, and the County budget.

The Trachtenberg Office was represented by Chief of Staff Alan Bowser, who lives in Silver Spring. Reemberto Rodriguez, Director of the Silver Spring Regional Services Center and Joseph Ayong, representing Councilmember Valerie Ervin and State Senator Jamie Raskin were also present.

The Trachtenberg Office attends Local First Wheaton Holiday Fiesta

The Trachtenberg office was represented in the Local First Wheaton Holiday Fiesta this past Friday, December 18. Wil Gutierrez joined the Latino Economic Development Corporation and the small business members of Local First Wheaton to celebrate the holiday season and Wheaton’s local, independent businesses. Wil enjoyed talking to LEDC employees and local business owners. He especially enjoyed the empanadas from Dejabel Café!

Montgomery County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

The Trachtenberg Office was well represented at the Montgomery County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce‘s Holiday Event at Guapo’s Mexican Restaurant in Bethesda. Staff members Alan Bowser, Naomi Bloch and Wil Gutierrez enjoyed talking and networking with representatives of the County’s Hispanic business community. Among the firms attending the event were FEEP Corp, Rill Architects, Creative Guys USA, C Accounting Solutions Inc., Open Global Marketing, Liberty Power, Landscape by Today Inc., and Sandglass.