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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]County Government and MNCPPC (the owners of most of the parks in the county) are two separate entities. MNCPPC is not technically part of the Montgomery County government.  There has always been a bit of a pissing match between the two entities based on my experience dealing with them so this doesn't surprise me at all.  Completely childish and incompetent - but not unexpected.

Plenty of playgrounds open though WITH NO REQUIREMENTS - City of Rockville, Gaithersburg, ES schools, HOAs or the parks close to me where sections of the orange netting has been torn down for weeks and people are happily using them.

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What this is bringing to light is at the parks department runs separately from everybody including the state. It shouldn’t work that way.[/quote]

Well, the governing body above Montgomery Parks is appointed by the Montgomery County Council and the PG County Executive. So, there's some accountability.  It seems like an awfully strange setup, though.  How often does a parks department fall outside the normal municipal/county/state governments?

In any event, I'm the OP and am probably about as mad as anyone about this.  But, the more I think about it, the less I think it's fair to pin anything on Montgomery Parks.  It is entirely sensible for Montgomery Parks to defer to the Health Officer in the county. If the Health Officer isn't playing nicely, it puts them in an impossible situation.

I don't know how MoCo Rec was able to make a decision to reopen.  Though, I honestly can't even identify a single MoCo Rec playground, so presumably that means they don't have very many, and likely aren't terribly desirable playgrounds under normal circumstances.  Montgomery Parks is a very different situation.  Still, I'd be awfully curious what, if anything, they got from Dr. Gayles' office on playground requirements.[/quote]

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