Montgomery County Council Committee Meetings on April 25, 2025 – MocoFeed

The EC Committee will meet to review the FY26 Operating Budgets for the following items:

• K ID Museum NDA: The County Executive recommends an increase of $57,499, or three percent, from the approved FY25 Operating Budget. The recommendation represents the inflationary adjustment for nonprofit service provider contracts.

• Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS): The EC Committee will continue reviewing the Board of Education’s more than $3.4 billion requested FY26 Operating Budget. The committee held meetings to review the MCPS budget request on April 9 and April 2 3 . The committee has one additional meeting scheduled on April 30. The Board of Education’s adopted FY26 tax-supported budget (excluding grants and enterprise funds) is more than $3.4 billion, an increase of more than $308 million, or 9.9 percent, compared to the current FY25 tax-supported budget. The FY26 budget assumes Montgomery County will continue to fund $27.2 million of MCPS retiree health benefits costs from the County’s Consolidated Other Post Employment Benefits Trust Fund. On March 14, the County Executive recommended $3.62 billion in funding for MCPS, of which would fund more than 99 percent of the Board of Education’s request. This recommendation includes $250 million of the $284 million in additional local funding requested by the board and is $256 million more than the required Maintenance of Effort (MOE) level. Additional detail is available in the staff report.

The HHS Committee will meet to review the FY26 Operating Budget for the following items:

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• Office of Food Systems Resilience: The County Executive recommends a decrease of $253,791, or 1.79 percent, from the approved FY25 Operating Budget. The change reflects the elimination of $2.85 million in one-time items and a more than $2.5 million increase for programmatic enhancements.

• DHHS – Administration and Support : The County Executive recommends an increase of $7.2 million, or 8.6 percent, from the approved FY25 Operating Budget. The changes are due to programmatic and staffing enhancements, including increases for social services state reimbursements and a decrease to remove American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) food funding.

• DHHS – Aging and Disability Services: The County Executive recommends an increase of more than $5.5 million, or seven percent, from the approved FY25 Operating Budget for Aging and Disability Services. The recommended increase includes more than $1 million in programmatic enhancements for the Developmental Disability Provider Supplement, Senior Nutrition Services, Senior Nutrition Program, Adult Medical Day Care Provider Supplement, and an annualized respite care provider rate increase.

The PHP Committee will meet to review the FY26 Operating Budget for the following items:

• Office of Agriculture : The County Executive recommends an increase of $76,563, or 5.26 percent, from the approved FY25 Operating Budget. The increase is due to costs for programming and staffing, including a $61,843 increase for compensation adjustments which reflect a continuation of current staffing levels.

• Department of Housing and Community Affairs General Fund, Housing Initiative Fund and Affordable Housing Acquisition Program : The County Executive recommends an increase of $5.2 million, or 6.7 percent, from the approved FY25 Operating Budget. These expenditures are partially supported by revenue collections estimated at more than $59.8 million, which is an increase of $2.5 million, or 5.2 percent, over the FY25 approved amount. This includes the General Fund, Grant Fund, and Housing Initiative Fund (HIF) portions of the DHCA operating budget.