Fifth Report Added to Election Code Gaithersburg’s mayor and City Council voted on May 6 to add a fifth campaign finance report to the election code. The fifth report will be required for the upcoming elections in November 2013 and is due 14 days after the election. “I certainly agree with the fifth report....
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Looking up at the vast ceilings of a temperature controlled warehouse at the old Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) laboratory during a tour of four new city park sites on April 26, Council members Ryan Spiegel and Michael Sesma had fun imagining what the building could be turned into: an indoor tennis court? Indoor...
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Here is the key information on the fourth annual Gaithersburg Book Festival: You don’t want to miss it. On May 18, more than a hundred authors will speak alone and on panels in nine great big tents in a comfortable, relaxed setting on the quaint campus of Gaithersburg City Hall in Olde Towne. The...
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Finally, local officials say, thanks to funding legislation passed in the final moments of the recent state legislative session, there is good transit and transportation news for the state, for Montgomery County and for the city of Gaithersburg. “I am happy there is going to be a significant influx of transportation funding,” said Gaithersburg...
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The Gaithersburg Planning Commission plays a vital role in making sure development projects are consistent with the city’s overall goals while also meeting the diverse needs of residents, commission members and city officials say. Balancing those needs can be tricky, but the city’s long track record of thriving developments — including Kentlands and Lakelands...
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City of Gaithersburg Website Changes in the Works Residents of the city of Gaithersburg will soon see more changes to the city’s website. According to Britta Monaco, director of community and public relations, the city plans to move the site to a content management system and will be migrating information onto it in the...
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Mayor Sidney Katz delivered the annual Gaithersburg “State of the City” address April 11 in the theater of the Rosborough Cultural Arts and Wellness Center at Asbury Methodist Village to a crowd of about 300. His message, and the message from four members of the City Council who spoke as well, was strictly positive...
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City Manager Tony Tomasello gave a detailed overview of the proposed FY 2014 Gaithersburg budget, including a prioritized listing of capital improvement projects, at the meeting of the mayor and City Council on April 15. The total budget proposed for FY 2014 is $56.6 million, Tomasello said, which represents a 9.9 percent increase over...
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A large majority of respondents to a recent survey rejected the idea of the city of Gaithersburg opting into the Commission on Common Ownership Communities (CCOC) program, according to a city official who spoke at an April 8 mayor and City Council work session. More than 3,500 surveys were mailed to a random sampling...
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Tax Changes Proposed for City Public hearings were held on April 2 and 15 about proposed changes to the city of Gaithersburg budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The proposed changes include establishing a constant yield tax rate that will increase by 0.4 percent from the previous year’s rate. In addition, the...
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