Mayor and Council Take Official Stand on Courthouse

Tonight about a dozen citizens spoke up at the Rockville City Council Meeting’s citizens’ forum in support of >moving the proposed District Courthouse from the former library site. One was Carl Henn, President of the Hungerford Neighborhood Organization, referring to that group’s recent vote to oppose the courthouse at the library site. In addition, one speaker provided the city with eighteen letters from like-minded citizens who live in the Twinbrook neighborhood. No one spoke in favor of the project.

Council member John Britton later presented an excellent summary of the many problems with the project, and the State’s failure to work in good faith with the City or residents to address their concerns over the years. He then offered a resolution opposing building the courthouse as proposed on the library site, and authorizing a representative to go to Annapolis to testify against the project in an upcoming Senate hearing. Mayor Susan Hoffmann and Council members Anne Robbins and Phyllis Marcuccio voiced strong support. Finally, Councilman Piotr Gajewski recapped his struggle with the issue before reaching his conclusion that, “If the Governor calls [building the courthouse at the library site] malfeasance” then it must be really bad, so he would support the resolution, adding “Let’s go for it!” With that, the resolution passed unanimously.

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