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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I actually put most of the blame on Elrich here, for a few reasons.

1) despite towering assessment hikes which raised the property tax by themselves, he calls for a 10% property tax hike to drastically grow basically every branch of county government.

2) He gave very generous deals to all the public service unions, across the board.

3) He has never demonstrated any concern for transparency or results of any kind in MCPS, so of course the MCEA thinks they can run over the council.

Best of all- even if he somehow got the 10% increase through- there is still a structural deficit for NEXT YEAR.   So we'll just be right back here doing it again.[/quote]

Yup. I think your assessment is spot on.

But further to your point, I have to blame MoCo voters because we voted Elrich back in, knowing this is who he was and how he operates.[/quote]

I'm not happy about this either, but I don't think that's true. He didn't increase taxes in his first term.[/quote]

Oh, he tried!  His first recommended budget was in March of 2020, right when COVID hit, and Council did not approve any additional spending or revenue increases.  But Elrich's very first budget had a proposed 3.1 % property tax increase.

[b][i]In order to meet the challenge of our rapidly growing school system over the next year, this budget proposal also
calls for the creation of a 3.1 cent supplemental property tax rate. State law provides each county with the authority to
establish a supplemental property tax rate exclusively for its public schools[/i][/b]

Page 12 of the recommended FY21 budget.  https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/OMB/Resources/Files/omb/pdfs/FY21/psprec/FY21_Recommended_Operating_Budget.pdf

The only way he has balanced a budget since then is using one-time federal funds meant to keep us afloat during COVID.  Those have mostly dried up this year.

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