Phyllis Marcuccio, City Council Candidate

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Phyllis Marcuccio is an incumbent member of the Rockville City Council. (Official City page.)

From the Rockville Central Interview with Candidates:

Phyllis Marcuccio says says she is just an “East Rockville kind of person,” and jokes that she has “always lived on the wrong side of the tracks.” She went to Richard Montgomery High School, and has lived here since 1942.

“I’m running because a lot of work I began still needs to be done,” she says. (She’s an incumbent, finsihing up her first term.) “Citizens of the city need someone who speaks from their point of view. I feel like I am a champion for the guy who goes to work and is just trying to live comfortably in the city.” She goes on to say, “I want to see that we get the best and do the best for our citizens who are here.”

Phyllis shows a remarkable breadth of detailed knowedge about the ins and outs of many of the issues facing Rockville. In fact, that’s one of her hallmarks: “I hope people will see I do my homework,” she says. “I really read those briefing papers.”

She says that, if re-elected, she would like to start by “cleaning up the process by which we choose candidates for boards and commissions.” In her view, “we have slipped” in the way we applied the existing process in recent years.

She also says she “would like to pursue the notion that citizens carry a tremendous burden of city costs. Tax relief is important, but there are other things we can do to make Rockville livable. Living in Rockville should be a lifetime event,” she says. “[But] fixed income people find it hard to live here.”

Phyllis says that, when it comes to restaurants, Town Square has some nice spots and “I am still getting acquainted with them.” But, she has “an old-time favorite: the Apollo Restaurant.” (Hey, I love that place.)

As for her favorite park, she has two. Pumphouse Park is one, and Mary Trumbo Park is the other — “it was our community who said, ‘hey, there’s an empty piece of ground, let’s make a park.’”

(Click here for full audio of the interview — large file, 4MB)

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