March 25, 2008...3:20 am
Montgomery County Rushing New Office Building
The Daily Gazette rightly editorializes below that while Montgomery County may be running out of office space, the County Board of Supervisors is moving too rapidly to solve the problem. That is quite typical in Montgomery County, and the solution often is worse than the problem.
It’s funny how Montgomery County needs more office space, yet its population has remained approximately the same for more than a century, around 50,000 people. It makes me wonder if Montgomery County needs to cut the size of its government so it can fit in its current office space rather than expand.
Here is the Daily Gazette’s editorial of March 24, 2008
“Montgomery County may well be having office space problems, but its leaders appear to be moving entirely too quickly on a proposal to remedy them by leasing a 90,000-square-foot building in the town of Glen that hasn’t even been built yet, for $1.1 million a year. As several current and former county legislators have noted in recent days, the county is facing quite a few economic storm clouds at the moment, and there are too many questions about where the money to pay for this extravaganza would come from.
Lawmakers should absolutely vote to table the resolution to move ahead with this proposal at tomorrow’s meeting.”
Read the entire editorial by the Daily Gazette.
Read former supervisor of the Town of Root, Brian S. Cechnicki’s, letter on the proposed plan for the Montgomery County office building.
2 Comments
June 26, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I’m doing some family history and wanted to know if there is a website that has photos of historical buildings there. I’m looking to find some of my ancestors houses from photographs that I have. Many of my ancestors lived there at one time and are buried in the Greenhill Cemetery. (Brownsons/Bronsons) My great grandfather was a fireman at E D Bronson Steam and Hose Co. and my great, great grandfather owned the Bronson Broom Factory. Just thought I might ask, since I keep hitting dead ends.
June 26, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Try this web site http://fmphotoarchives.org/homepage.htm
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