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Montco Adds 94 New County Jobs — Montgomery County, yesterday, June 27, approved 94 new positions with the highest salary at $151,148.80 for an interim director of Health and Human Services.

Republican Thomas DiBello,, who is Montgomery County’s mandated minority commissioner, said it was the last time he will vote for expanding the payroll until the county starts finding ways to save money.

David Morgan of Ambler noted in public comments that taxes in the county have risen 34 percent in the last few years.

Vice Chairman Neil Makhija said the county is still understaffed.

Morgan would later describe abortion as not a “reproductive right” but a failure of reproduction, which inspired a snippy bit of anger from Chairwoman Jamila H. Winder who basically said a woman can do what she wants with her body.

The Marquis de Sade would agree.

And whatever was Montco’s vax policy a short time back?

Elder Abuse

Also in public comments, Jenny Reimenschneider, whose mother, Elsie, is one of the victims of Montco’s guardianship program, again brought up the elder abuse in which Montco is complicit. Elsie has been forced into captivity, Ms. Reimenschneider said.

She said that Elsie lives in isolation and is a broken woman.

The judge and attorney who put her there are still getting paid, she said.

Day Care Grant

Day care providers Zakiyyah Boone, Christina Lynch and Kim Follette (phonetic) thanked the county for a $500,000 to hire substitutes. They said, however, the money would have been better used for raises for hard-to-keep staff.

If taxes were lower, they’d have more money for raises and the staff wouldn’t need as much. Just sayin’

Foy Park

A slab of asphalt in Foy Park in Lower Frederick Township caused much discussion. The 7-acre tract had been deeded as open space but the township put in a playground and basketball court in 2005 along with an asphalt pad for a skate park. The county found out and stopped the skate park but let them keep the basketball court and playground.

The township then recently thought it would be good to put a “traffic garden” on the pad. This would be just adding paint. A traffic garden is an image of streets and buildings. It supposedly helps children learn traffic laws and safety.

The county was fine with it until it realized that the asphalt was in a floodway. They decided that Lower Frederick can paint the traffic garden on the basketball court but it has to remove the other asphalt.

Somewhere King Solomon is laughing his butt off.

Bump Stocks

Makhija praised “Pride Month” at the meeting’s start. He also condemned the Supreme Court ruling that said that bump stocks could not be banned by presidential decree but required a law.

Bump stocks are devices that let semi-automatic firearms fire rapidly.

The Trump Administration banned them after Stephen Paddock allegedly used them, Oct. 1, 2017, to kill 58 people and injure 500 at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas. He caused this carnage firing about a thousand 5.56 caliber rounds from 500 yards away.

Bump stocks are considered to be wasters of ammunition.

But we don’t want to put conspiracy theories in anyone’s head.

And when are we going to get a “Gluttony Month?”

It seems that would be more fun.

Follow it with “Sloth Month.”

Every month is Avarice Month, of course, in places where taxes are rising 34 percent.

Finally, it was announced that Please, Please, Please by Quakertown native Sabrina Carpenter has hit number 1.

The Board says it will play it at future meeting. One even suggested having her come in and sing it.

 

Montco Adds 94 New County Jobs