2026-11-02 - Leadership Planning
Summary
Built from the recording captions (about 5 minutes); the agenda and minutes were not read. Captions may misspell names.
- Agenda-planning run-through for the Mayor and Council meeting held that evening at 5:30 p.m.: proclamations and recognitions, a Vision Zero progress update, and consent items including an inspection-fee reimbursement, a street project, a subordination agreement and the minutes. See 2026-11-02 - Mayor and Council and Vision Zero.
- Public hearings that evening on the election code and related charter amendments, and deployment of the Housing Opportunity Fund for Twinbrook Place, described as a chance to add many affordable units. See Chapter 8 Elections and Charter Amendments and Twinbrook Place Housing Opportunity Fund.
- Mayor Ashton asked whether anything more was coming on Twinbrook Place, such as a pilot; staff said no.
- November 9: stormwater facility improvements award on consent, a budget public hearing, a second hearing on the election code and charter amendments, and the rest of the agenda on the budget. See FY2028 Budget.
- November 16: a Shady Grove public hearing, the final zoning text amendment on green funeral practices, and adoption of the election code. Councilmember Van Grack asked about outreach on the funeral practices item; staff said communication was on track and the earlier delay was for more outreach. See Shady Grove Metro Annexation.
- December 7: economic development strategic plan work session (the Mayor asked about community and business survey results; staff would follow up with the consultants), road code comments from advisory bodies, the Rockville housing enterprises annual report presentation, and a minimum-priced dwelling unit code update work session.
- Mayor Ashton suggested reviewing and refreshing the Town Center master plan, noting its anniversary in January and the need to implement plans as well as write them.
Agenda
Agenda not read; see Sources.
Sources
- City Legistar calendar: https://rockvillemd.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx (meeting id 1443247)
- Video: https://rockvillemd.webex.com/recordingservice/sites/rockvillemd/recording/f4e20142bb784163a31ca90070e05399/playback (Webex recording)
- Meetings and videos page: https://www.rockvillemd.gov/services/meeting-agendas-minutes-and-videos/
Video
Transcript
These are auto-generated captions; names and numbers may be misheard.
Transcript
00:10Jeff Mihelich: Alright, there is the agenda for tonight's meeting, starts at 05:30, quite a few proclamations and recognitions. Confident we'll get through it. You guys do a great job with those. We have a nice detailed vision zero progress update. We did receive a fair.
00:30Jeff Mihelich: A number of questions from the body, so we'll try to get those answered in advance if we can. If not, at least staff will be prepared to answer them at the meeting. On the consent agenda, and I did see a couple of questions from members of the body on that. We'll get those answered today. We have the William Gas reimbursement for inspection fees. We have the Scott beers drive.
00:54Jeff Mihelich: 3rd use project path. We have the subordination agreement for Scarborough square. And we have approval of the minutes. Again, I know I have some questions to answer on those. Anything else anybody wants to share on consent? All right, let's go ahead and look at the public care. Oh mayor Ashton.
01:13Mayor Monique Ashton: Hey Jeff I know we have the half piece. Is there anything else coming to our agenda on this specific topic?
01:20Jeff Mihelich: On Twimberg place? Yeah. No. This is.
01:25Mayor Monique Ashton: I wasn't sure if there's like a pilot or something else coming, but I think just the context, if there is anything would be helpful. Yep, you got it. Thanks.
01:33Linda Moran: Thank you.
01:34Jeff Mihelich: Public hearing are related to the election code and the charter amendments related to election code.
01:41Jeff Mihelich: And then we have twin workplace housing opportunity Fund deployment. That's a great opportunity, you guys for us to get a whole bunch of affordable units. It's pretty exciting. And that's really tonight's meeting. It's kind of in between, not too long, not too short. Any other questions?
01:57Jeff Mihelich: Okay, thank you. Let's take a look at 9 November, please. There's the agenda, on the consent agenda, we have an award for sterm water facility improvements strugging at various locations. We have a public hearing on the budget.
02:17Jeff Mihelich: We have public hearings number two, election code and the charter amendments, and then the rest of the agenda is really getting into the budget. How about you guys? I enjoyed budget season. It's really talking about our values and, you know, how we can take our resources and and push those forward. Again medium meeting. I think we balanced things out pretty well.
02:37Jeff Mihelich: Any questions on 9 November? Okay, take a quick look at six month.
02:55Jeff Mihelich: There is six months 16 November. Shady Grove public hearing. The final green funeral practices. Oh, that's a new name. I like it. That's the final zoning text amendment coming up. And then we have adoption election code. Council member Vancrack, I see your hand.
03:15Councilmember Adam Van Grack: Just checking whether we've communicated I know there was an issue with communicating with the Green funeral folks and just making sure that that we think that's on track for 16 November.
03:27Jeff Mihelich: It is yep thank you for asking about that. Yep, we've had good communications with them. Mayor Ashton.
03:34Mayor Monique Ashton: Thank you. It's my understanding the only of late delay on that was so that the team could do more outreach. Is that correct or is there something else? Nope, that was it. Okay, thanks. Yep.
03:45Jeff Mihelich: 7 December, we have the economic development strategic plan work session, really excited about that. We have the road code, again, circling back on comments from the advisory bodies and the CTR. I'll just keep going through December. We have Rockwell Housing Enterprises and a report special presentation. Again special presentation. If you guys wanna open that up and make it a presentation, let me know. Mayor Ashton.
04:09Mayor Monique Ashton: Thank you. For the economic development strategic plan, will we be getting the survey results? And do we know if ready's budget survey results will be available? Because I know there were two. There was one that was a community focused economic plan and one that was a business focused one.
04:26Jeff Mihelich: Yep. Rock, can you answer either one of those questions?
04:32Barack Matite: I'll follow up with the consultants. We are prepping for the 7 December this week and next week, so I'll be able to prep. We should be able to have the community meeting survey. Not sure about the business survey, but I'll follow up with them. They've been working already.
04:49Jeff Mihelich: Thank you, Brooke. And then let's see again road code adoption of that will be great. Mayor is that a new hand?
04:59Mayor Monique Ashton: Nope.
05:00Jeff Mihelich: Okay, sorry. Again, I'm Rockville housing enterprises, annual reports professional presentation MPDU code update. That'll be a good work session to get some feedback from you guys, and then hopefully the green Funeral practices ETA final adoption. Oh NO that's public hearing, sorry. Any other questions? So busy through the holidays for sure. All right, Sarah.
05:28Mayor Monique Ashton: Jeff I have.
05:29Sara Ferrell: I just wanted to remind the Mayoron council about the meeting scheduled due on November six to me so that we can get those meetings on the calendar.
05:40Mayor Monique Ashton: Thank you Sarah. I appreciate it. Jeff, I was looking back at our approved Rockville town center master plan. We're gonna be coming up. I know we approved that some time ago, but just there maybe a need to look through and see where we are and refresh and update.
05:59Mayor Monique Ashton: Update on, you know, just looking at action items. So I just want to make sure that we not only do plans, but we implement them, which I love what we were doing with Rockville results, but I just wanted to say it's been January will be an important anniversary for that plan.
06:12Jeff Mihelich: Very good. Thank you. Anybody have anything else? Alright, wonderful. See you this afternoon. Take care. Cheers.