{"id":12399,"date":"2020-03-25T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12399"},"modified":"2020-03-25T14:19:04","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T18:19:04","slug":"elrich-sends-budget-letter-to-the-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12399","title":{"rendered":"Elrich Sends Budget Letter to the Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facing severe crises to public health, the county\u2019s economy and its budget, County Executive Marc Elrich sent the letter below to the county council about the budget.\u00a0 The main takeaways are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. The executive has instituted freezes on hiring and procurement for functions not related to COVID-19 response.\u00a0 Overtime has also been restricted to COVID-19 response departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. The finance department has begun estimating the crisis\u2019s impact on county revenues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. The executive has begun talking to the county\u2019s unions about \u201ca range of compensation issues.\u201d\u00a0 No further details were provided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Office of Management and Budget Director Rich Madaleno has been designated as the liaison to the council on \u201cissues related to fiscal response and recovery.\u201d\u00a0 When Madaleno was a State Senator, he was a key player in working on the state\u2019s budget problems during the Great Recession.\u00a0 Few people in Maryland understand the state budget better than Madaleno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We reprint Elrich\u2019s letter below.\u00a0 Bethesda Beat has <a href=\"https:\/\/bethesdamagazine.com\/bethesda-beat\/coronavirus\/council-executive-uncertain-about-next-years-proposed-county-budget\/\">reactions from some members of the county council<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"883\" height=\"957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Elrich-Letter-to-Council-on-Budget-3-23-20-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Elrich-Letter-to-Council-on-Budget-3-23-20-1.png 883w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Elrich-Letter-to-Council-on-Budget-3-23-20-1-277x300.png 277w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Elrich-Letter-to-Council-on-Budget-3-23-20-1-768x832.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 883px) 100vw, 883px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"856\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Elrich-Letter-to-Council-on-Budget-3-23-20-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Elrich-Letter-to-Council-on-Budget-3-23-20-2.png 885w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Elrich-Letter-to-Council-on-Budget-3-23-20-2-300x290.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Elrich-Letter-to-Council-on-Budget-3-23-20-2-768x743.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. Facing severe crises to public health, the county\u2019s economy and its budget, County Executive Marc Elrich sent the letter below to the county council about the budget.\u00a0 The main takeaways are: 1. The executive has instituted freezes on hiring and procurement for functions not related to COVID-19 response.\u00a0 Overtime has also been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=12399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elrich Sends Budget Letter to the Council<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,33,84,53],"tags":[1545,1368,1508,1485],"class_list":["post-12399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-budget","category-marc-elrich","category-rich-madaleno","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-budget","tag-marc-elrich","tag-rich-madaleno"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3dZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12399"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12404,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions\/12404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}