Update: City Council Wants "Memorial" Library

As you may know, there is a move afoot to name the new Rockville Public Library in honor of former Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan. This has become a controversy. See the >earlier post on this subject here.

On Monday, according to the Gazette:

The [Rockville city] council voted 4 to 1 to send a letter to County Executive Isiah ‘‘Ike” Leggett (D) asking that a five-year county waiting period, designed to delay naming a building after a person until a handful of years after his or her service ends, not be waived. Leggett has the final say on the matter.

Their vote, instead, is to name it the Rockville Memorial Library, in honor of local soldiers kiled in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Councilwoman Susan R. Hoffman cast the dissenting vote. ‘‘Naming the library after our native son, I think, is perfectly appropriate,” she said, reports the Gazette.

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