City Manager Budget Discussion Hours

From City Manager Miranda Braatz:

The City of Mount Rainier’s Fiscal Year 2019 (July 1, 2018 – June 31, 2019) proposed budget will be available on March 20^th, with copies made available to the public.

Residents of Mount Rainier who may have questions about the proposed budget, budget line items, specific initiatives, or departments are invited to attend the City Manager Budget Discussion Hours and talk one on one with the City Manager and Director of Finance. 

Budget Discussion Hours Schedule:

March 31^st – 10am to 2pm at the Mount Rainier Nature Center during the City Egg Hunt.  Bi-lingual Spanish / English available

April 3^rd – Following the City Council Legislative Meeting at City Hall 8pm to 9:30pm

April 20^th – City Hall 2pm – 5pm. Bi-lingual Spanish / English available

May 19^th – Mount Rainier Day City Table 12noon to 5pm. Bi-lingual Spanish / English available

Regional Transit Survey

I recently completed the Regional Travel Survey, an important tool from The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board. TPB has conducted this type of household travel survey once every decade since 1968. Keep your eyes on your snail mail in case you are selected and sent a packet.

If you are selected to participate, please do! The information collected is absolutely critical to regional planning decisions around transit and transportation. As a Greater Greater Washington contributor I am obviously a transportation policy enthusiast, but I promise the survey is worth your time too.

The survey begins with a brief online form to get baseline info about the travel patterns of you and your household, and then you are assigned a future day on which you are asked to track all of your trips. I ended up being assigned a day that was very different than my regular commute, but I walked, drove, rode MARC to Baltimore, and took buses while in Baltimore City. That is a lot of transit modes in one day, which should be interesting info for transportation planners.

PGCPS Teacher of the Year nominations

Do you have a child in Prince George's County Public Schools? Do you know an excellent teacher? If so, considering nominating them for PGCPS Teacher of the Year.

More info and nomination form here. Nominations due by March 13.