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Council restores some park and planning items; warns against taking Wheaton CIP funding after state grant
Summary
Council committees recommended restoring base operating funding and staff for the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) parks and planning functions, and opposed a proposed $1.5 million capital cut that would hinder use of a newly awarded $3 million state grant for Wheaton Regional Park improvements.
Montgomery County Council committees spent a lengthy portion of the work session on the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) FY26 operating and CIP amendments, and the full council approved committee recommendations on several park-and-planning items.
Committee recommendations and hand votes: The PHP committee recommended restoring roughly $1,000,000 for compensation increases that were omitted from the executive's recommended parks budget; the executive transmitted an amendment April 24 to cover that line item, and committee members asked for the restoration to stand. The committee also recommended restoring roughly $2,000,000 to cover "same services" base needs (contractual inflationary increases, utilities, operating impacts of new CIP features) that parks said are necessary to operate newly opened…
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