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April 22, 2008

Leggett Seeks Applicants for Silver Spring Urban District Advisory Committee

News Release from the County Executive's office

County Executive Isiah Leggett is seeking applicants to fill five vacancies on the Silver Spring Urban District Advisory Committee. Two vacancies are for representatives of optional method developers; two vacancies are for small business representatives from businesses that employ fewer than 25 employees; and one vacancy is for a representative of a residential community in the urban district.

The committee provides information and advice to the Silver Spring Regional Services Center regarding promotions, maintenance, service levels, and budgetary guidance for the downtown Silver Spring Urban District.

Members serve three-year terms without compensation and meet the third Thursday of each month at 3:30 p.m. in Silver Spring.

Applicants should write to County Executive Isiah Leggett no later than May 16 at the Executive Office Building, 101 Monroe Street, Rockville, MD 20850, or send an e-mail to CountyExecutive.Boards@montgomerycountymd.gov.

The application should include a cover letter outlining the reasons you wish to serve, and a brief resume including home and work telephone numbers. Members of County boards, committees, and commissions may not serve on more than one such group at a time. Members of this committee are eligible for reimbursement for travel and dependent care for meetings attended.

Leggett’s appointments are subject to confirmation by the County Council. Applications of those selected for appointment are made public as part of the confirmation process.

July 12, 2007

Silver Spring Transit Center to move forward

The following is a press release from the Montgomery County Planning Board, dated July 12, 2007. —ed.

Resolving an important issue about a parkland easement on the site of the Silver Spring Transit Center—a proposed hub for Metro trains, buses, taxis and bicycles in the community’s downtown—the Montgomery County Planning Board today worked out an agreement with two public works agencies that allows the project to proceed.

The Board, part of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, owns an easement on a public plaza that they needed to abandon to allow construction of the transit center, slated for Colesville Road and Wayne Avenue at the site of the existing Silver Spring Metro station. Yesterday, the Board agreed to let the county Department of Public Works and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority replace that plaza in exchange for two new parks.

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