UPDATE, 4 P.M.: Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett’s spokesman, Patrick Lacefield, tells The Washington Examiner that the county spent $10,000 on ambulance fee materials. He added it was impossible
to track the number of employees who handed out information while on the
clock.
Montgomery County Councilman Phil Andrews, D-Gaithersburg/Rockville, wants to know how much taxpayer money was spent campaigning for the suburb’s recently rejected ambulance fee.
In a memo Tuesday to Chief Administrative Officer Tim Firestine, Andrews asks for a “full accounting and breakout of the amount of taxpayer money spent by the county on behalf of Question A.”
Voters rejected the fee earlier this month, essentially creating a $12.5 million gap in the county’s budget.
Andrews, an outspoken critic of the fee, would like to know how much was spent on promotional material, cleanup of the materials from county buildings and the number of on-duty firefighters deployed to canvass for the fee — plus the total hours they worked.
