Montgomery County employees may be laid off or told to take unpaid leave this year to help ease the county’s budget woes, County Executive Ike Leggett said Monday.

Less than a month into the county’s current fiscal year, Leggett told the County Council in a letter that the county needs mid-year savings that could include job losses because of looming state cuts to the county’s budget and a projected $370 million budget gap in fiscal 2011.

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