Council Cuts $32M From Montgomery County Budget

ROCKVILLE, Md. - Cutting the Montgomery County budget has made the county council cranky.
Montgomery County Council member Mark Elrich may have summed it up for everyone.
 
"I would much rather not be in this situation," Elrich says.
 
Despite the sentiment, Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett says he needs $36 million in budget cuts right now - in the middle of fiscal year 2011 - because he's staring down a budget gap of $300 million for FY 2012.
 
In the end, the council voted to cut just over $32 million from the budget.
The council elected to keep:

• Nine police officers in schools (School Resource Officers);
• 11 ambulances;
• an energy rebate program for low income households;
• pedestrian signal timing programs and road patching.

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