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What's on the Agenda for the Wheaton Urban District Advisory Committee?

Find out what will be discussed at the advisory committee's March 12 meeting in Wheaton.

Posted by Esther French (Editor), March 11, 2013 at 06:56 pm

What is the status of Wheaton redevelopment?

That's one of the questions on the table at Tuesday's meeting of the committee set up to advise Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett about issues pertaining to the Wheaton Urban District.

The March 12 meeting will start at 6 p.m. at the Mid-County Regional Services Center at 2424 Reedie Drive in Wheaton.

Other items on the agenda include the following:

a report from Ana Lopez van Balen, the Regional Services Center director
reports from WUDAC's Economic and Design subcommittees
a report from Montgomery County Council staff
a redevelopment update from Pete McGinnity of the county's Wheaton Redevelopment Program
a time for the public to voice community concerns

Follow more updates from the Wheaton Urban District Advisory Commmittee on its blog. WUDAC meets the second Tuesday of the month.

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AntonFisher March 12, 2013 at 01:11 am

Please post the meeting summary as soon as you can. Your site is the only place where we get these summaries. The County site does not post them for 6 months. I am not sure why, but it seems like the County staff are lazy to update the site with the draft and final summaries. I wish they have a distribution list for their correspondence.

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ED March 12, 2013 at 01:16 pm

Anton - I agree summaries should be more timely, but the County staff was cut dramatically a couple of years ago. I'm not sure it's that the staff is "lazy", I think the staff may be "understaffed". Perhaps the County should be looking at staff levels prior to giving 13% raises.

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Henriot St. Gerard March 12, 2013 at 02:18 pm

All WUDAC meeting and updates are also found on the blog site at
http://wudacblog.blogspot.com/

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AntonFisher March 12, 2013 at 02:55 pm

Thanks Henriot St. Gerard. I was excited when you posted the January draft minutes and thought that you will continue to do that. Unfortunately, when I checked for the draft February minutes, they were never posted after the meeting. Do you plan to update draft minutes shortly after your meetings?
Does WRAC have anything similar?

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Henriot St. Gerard March 12, 2013 at 05:09 pm

The February minutes should be up this week once they are approved at our meeting tonight.
I cannot speak for how and what WRAC is doing unfortunately because I do not know. Sorry.

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AntonFisher March 12, 2013 at 06:15 pm

Thanks again. Approved minutes take a whole month before posting since they need approval, will you post draft minutes (recap) shortly after the meeting, similar to what you did for the January meeting?

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