Public Testimony - Council Session
April 7, 2025 at 1:30pm & 7pm
April 8, 2025 at 1:30pm & 7pm
April 9, 2025 at 2:30pm
FY26 Operating Budgets and FY26-31 Public Services Program and Fiscal Policy for the following: Montgomery County Government, Montgomery College, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, WSSCWater, and Montgomery County Public Schools
Written/Document Testimony
- Testimony - 1 - Andrew Rhodes
- Testimony - 2 - Chelsea Hughes
- Testimony - 3 - Arash Soheili
- Testimony - 4 - Arileidy Ledesma
- Testimony - 5 - Kristin Link
- Testimony - 6 - Chris Irwin
- Testimony - 7 - Martin Kelly
- Testimony - 8 - Carol Pollack-Nelson
- Testimony - 9 - Qing Cheng
- Testimony - 10 - Laura Failla
- Testimony - 11 - Julia Guevara
- Testimony - 12 - Kaiser Permanente
- Testimony - 13 - Antoni Lopez
- Testimony - 14 - Robert Trumble
- Testimony - 15 - Kristin Crawley
- Testimony - 16 - Harvey Mazer
- Testimony - 17 - My Active Senior
- Testimony - 18 - Janette Rosenbaum
- Testimony - 19 - Ellen Melle
- Testimony - 20 - Dr. Stephen Corbin
- Testimony - 21 - Thomas Sherman
- Testimony - 22 - Robin E. Sparer
- Testimony - 23 - Linda Flores
- Testimony - 24 - John Henika
- Testimony - 25 - Lauren Tierney
- Testimony - 26 - Corey Dreyfuss
- Testimony - 27 - Mark Siegel
- Testimony - 28 - Montgomery Parks Foundation
- Testimony - 29 - Wilma Brier
- Testimony - 30 - Anita Lampel
- Testimony - 31 - Laura Ellis
- Testimony - 32 - Susanna Sammons
- Testimony - 33 - Carol Stern
- Testimony - 34 - Tyler McClenithan
- Testimony - 35 - Latino Health Steering Committee
- Testimony - 36 - Nature Forward (formerly Audubon Naturalist Society)
- Testimony - 37 - Lauren Hyland
- Testimony - 38 - Eric Wallace
- Testimony - 39 - Mid-CountyUnitedMinistries
- Testimony - 40 - Wendy Escobar
- Testimony - 41 - Chelsea Hughes
- Testimony - 42 - Cathleen Cooper
- Testimony - 43 - Cheryl E. Johnson
- Testimony - 44 - Arileidy Ledesma
- Testimony - 45 - Vicky Le
- Testimony - 46 - Christian Gibson
- Testimony - 47 - Ben Ross
- Testimony - 48 - George Zarubin
- Testimony - 49 - Friends of Sligo Creek
- Testimony - 50 - Lisa Mayo
- Testimony - 51 - Christopher Frye
- Testimony - 52 - Mara Greengrass
- Testimony - 53 - Dean Cooper
- Testimony - 54 - Jack McBride
- Testimony - 55 - Marciela De Grace
- Testimony - 56 - Jan Weetjens
- Testimony - 57 - Jennifer Diamond
- Testimony - 58 - Brian Bergeron
- Testimony - 59 - Montgomery County Taxpayers League
- Testimony - 60 - Zero Waste Montgomery County
- Testimony - 61 - Elizabeth Benefiel
- Testimony - 62 - Alejandro Flores
- Testimony - 63 - City of Gaithersburg
- Testimony - 64 - Danielle Herrmann
- Testimony - 65 - Barbara Schaffer
- Testimony - 66 - Christine Baker
- Testimony - 67 - Andrew Green
- Testimony - 68 - Luis Guillen
- Testimony - 69 - Ann Marie Staudenmaier
- Testimony - 70 - Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce
- Testimony - 71 - Main Street
- Testimony - 72 - Debra Liang-Fenton
- Testimony - 73 - Melissa Coretz Goemann
- Testimony - 74 - Montgomery County Community Action Board
- Testimony - 75 - Climate Coalition Montgomery County
- Testimony - 76 - Ayuda
- Testimony - 77 - Abbe Levin
- Testimony - 78 - Hafez Ghavami
- Testimony - 79 - Richa Tripathi
- Testimony - 80 - Jeremiah Langley
- Testimony - 81 - Nhi Truong
- Testimony - 82 - Bezawit Gessesse
- Testimony - 83 - Yenee Kim
- Testimony - 84 - Milton Spivack
- Testimony - 85 - Ruth Spivack
- Testimony - 86 - Janan Ghavami
- Testimony - 87 - Fredy J. Pesante
- Testimony - 88 - Rachel Mincin
- Testimony - 89 - Henry Mulzac
- Testimony - 90 - Sky O.
- Testimony - 91 - Liliana Emefa Nutakor
- Testimony - 92 - Namuun Tugsjargal
- Testimony - 93 - Julianne Elam
- Testimony - 94 - Ukele Club of Wheaton Senior Center
- Testimony - 95 - Manone Djeukam
- Testimony - 96 - Ludivine Kom Liapoe
- Testimony - 97 - Michelle Redd
- Testimony - 98 - Dr. Luqman Safai
- Testimony - 99 - Ebony Cox
- Testimony - 100 - Larry Platt
- Testimony - 101 - Kpodar Schekina
- Testimony - 102 - Jalal Naseri
- Testimony - 103 - Beth Morris
- Testimony - 104 - Rasheedah Lee
- Testimony - 105 - Bonnie Calabria
- Testimony - 106 - Marie Ngoueko
- Testimony - 107 - Ali Brill
- Testimony - 108 - Nushrat Zaima
- Testimony - 109 - Coalition to Stop Stream Destruction
- Testimony - 110 - Paulett B. Wright
- Testimony - 111 - Kathryn Hopps
- Testimony - 112 - Housing Justice Montgomery
- Testimony - 113 - Agar Mbianda
- Testimony - 114 - Edgar Rivas
- Testimony - 115 - Kevin M. Murphy
- Testimony - 116 - Leadership Montgomery
- Testimony - 117 - Samia Farouk
- Testimony - 118 - Deedee Jacobsohn
- Testimony - 119 - Evan Schwartz
- Testimony - 120 - Shelia Jenkins-Diaz
- Testimony - 121 - MCCPTA Central Area Clusters
- Testimony - 122 - Gaudy De Leon
- Testimony - 123 - Naomi Asfaw
- Testimony - 124 - Ekaterina Bennett
- Testimony - 125 - Arianna Ross
- Testimony - 126 - Alison Gillespie
- Testimony - 127 - Sally Gagne
- Testimony - 128 - Friends of Sligo Creek
- Testimony - 129 - Community FarmShare
- Testimony - 130 - Deborah Hanley
- Testimony - 131 - City of Gaithersburg
- Testimony - 132 - InterfaithWorks
- Testimony - 133 - Shanon Quiroz
- Testimony - 134 - Josefina Rios
- Testimony - 135 - Rebekah Young
- Testimony - 136 - Donohoe Companies
- Testimony - 137 - Montgomery County Commission on Veterans Affairs
- Testimony - 138 - Lucy Swartz
- Testimony - 139 - Ida Gharagozlou-Romero
- Testimony - 140 - Carrie Fitzgerald
- Testimony - 141 - Henley Construction
- Testimony - 142 - Washington Area Bicyclist Association
- Testimony - 143 - Miguelina Tejada
- Testimony - 144 - Carlos Camacho
- Testimony - 145 - Ramatou Bakari
- Testimony - 146 - Rachel Herman
- Testimony - 147 - Stormwater Partners Network of Montgomery County
- Testimony - 148 - Bushra
- Testimony - 149 - Jews United for Justice
- Testimony - 150 - Rockville Mayor and Council
- Testimony - 151 - Montgomery College Part-Time Faculty Union SEIU Local 500
- Testimony - 152 - Janna Sircus
- Testimony - 153 - Advanced Bio Science Laboratories Inc.
- Testimony - 154 - Edwige Tebou
- Testimony - 155 - Jean Eisenhaur
- Testimony - 156 - Thomas Murphy
- Testimony - 157 - Sharon Friedman
- Testimony - 158 - Anne Vorce
- Testimony - 159 - Richard Montgomery Cluster PTSA
- Testimony - 160 - Patricia Depuy Johnson
- Testimony - 161 - Montgomery County Commission on Aging
- Testimony - 162 - Tony Altar
- Testimony - 163 - Yoselind Saucedo
- Testimony - 164 - John Seelke
- Testimony - 165 - Yolanda Goettsch
- Testimony - 166 - Christine Pendzich
- Testimony - 167 - Waters Landing
- Testimony - 168 - Miguelina Tejada
- Testimony - 169 - Tatiana Pineda
- Testimony - 170 - Sybal Corp
- Testimony - 171 - Yamuna Perera
- Testimony - 172- Silvia Sandoval
- Testimony - 173 - Lilly Flower
- Testimony - 174 - Mohammad Taher Kellawi Fansa
- Testimony - 175 - Jupiter Adult Medical Day Care
- Testimony - 176 - Enclave Tenant Association
- Testimony - 177 - Nadine Masone Mort
- Testimony - 178 - African American Health Program Executive Committee
- Testimony - 179 - Robert Stubblefield
- Testimony - 180 - Rainbow Place Shelter
- Testimony - 181 - Glenn Fellman
- Testimony - 182 - Silver Spring Justice Coalition
- Testimony - 183 - Oliver Torrez
- Testimony - 184 - Montgomery County Jewish Collective
- Testimony - 185 - Alisha Small
- Testimony - 186 - Animal Services Advisory Committee
- Testimony - 187 - PTA New Hampshire Estates Elementary School
- Testimony - 188 - Debra Munk
- Testimony - 189 - Nadia Hashimi
- Testimony - 190 - Aaron Droller
- Testimony - 191 - Bonny Dieterich
- Testimony - 192 - Gisselle Melgar
- Testimony - 193 - Samuel Antonio Leiva Portillo
- Testimony - 194 - David S. Andrade
- Testimony - 195 - Anthony Perez
- Testimony - 196 - Vanessa J. Sanchez
- Testimony - 197 - Kiarah Sanchez
- Testimony - 198 - Edgar Alvarenga
- Testimony - 199 - Artsand Humanities Council of Montgomery
- Testimony - 200 - Bruce Cohen
- Testimony - 201 - Ebony Cox
- Testimony - 202 - Grace Manubay
- Testimony - 203 - Kay Management
- Testimony - 204 - InterACC
- Testimony - 205 - Community Health at Holy Cross Health
- Testimony - 206 - Montgomery College Board of Trustees
- Testimony - 207 - Carol Placek
- Testimony - 208 - Adam Myers
- Testimony - 209 - Montgomery County Partners for Wellbeing
- Testimony - 210 - Rock Creek Conservancy
- Testimony - 211 - Jeredine Yohn
- Testimony - 212 - Eva Santorini
- Testimony - 213 - Story Tapestries
- Testimony - 214 - Montgomery County Humane Society
- Testimony - 215 - Sonia Karkenny
- Testimony - 216 - Noorullah Safaie
- Testimony - 217 - Black and Brown Coalition for Educational Equity and Excellence
- Testimony - 218 - NAACP- Montgomery County MD Parents
- Testimony - 219 - Ernestein Mathai
- Testimony - 220 - Evan Weisman
- Testimony - 221 - Friends of Black Hill Discovery Center and Nature Programs
- Testimony - 222 - Montgomery County Adult Medical Day Care Coalition
- Testimony - 223 - Action Committee for Transit
- Testimony - 224 - League of Women Voters of Montgomery County
- Testimony - 225 - Montgomery County Media
- Testimony - 226 - Asian American Health Initiative
- Testimony - 227- Manna Food Center
- Testimony - 228 - Winter Growth
- Testimony - 229 - Veterans Affairs
- Testimony - 230 - Commission on People with Disabilities
- Testimony - 231 - Relationship Boosters LLC
- Testimony - 232 - Prevention of Blindness
- Testimony - 233 - Sevita Health
- Testimony - 234 - Global Sustainable Partnerships
- Testimony - 235 - Community Reach of Montgomery County
- Testimony - 236 - Susan Kerin
- Testimony - 237 - Susan McInerney
- Testimony - 238 - Mike English
- Testimony - 239 - Tyll Jones
- Testimony - 240 - Jamil R. Miller
- Testimony - 241 - Suzanne Ludlow
- Testimony - 242 - Charlie Short Jr.
- Testimony - 243 - Matthias Mbarga
- Testimony - 244 - Betty D. Thompson
- Testimony - 245 - Michelle Monfort
- Testimony - 246 - Mira Sandrine Silverman
- Testimony - 247 - Lilian Bernal Caceres
- Testimony - 248 - Melissa McKenna
- Testimony - 249 - Lucia Etienne
- Testimony - 250 - Hannah Groom
- Testimony - 251 - Bonnie Casper
- Testimony - 252 - Samuel Groom
- Testimony - 253 - Adventist Health Care
- Testimony - 254 - MedStar Montgomery
- Testimony - 255 - Suburban Hospital
- Testimony - 256 - Trinity Health Mid Atlantic & Holy Cross Health Maryland
- Testimony - 257- Francie Gilman
- Testimony - 258 - National Capital Area Chapter of the American Council of the Blind of Maryland
Video Testimony
Angie McCarthy
Donna Cawley
Jennifer Trujillo
Anthony Chatman
Lee Edwards
Danielle Ricks
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Delmar Patterson
Marisa Marinos
Sam Cooper
Jariane Martinez Mapp
Steven Ostuni