A Montgomery County Council panel voted in favor of keeping former council member Michael Subin in a job worth more than $190,000 a year, in a blatant rebuke of recommendations from the county’s independent government watchdog to ax the position. Council President Valerie Ervin, D-Silver Spring, and Councilwoman Nancy Navarro, D-eastern county, voted to keep Subin in his role as director of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Commission during a meeting of the three-member Government Operations Committee. Supporters said the Organizational Reform Commission was not thorough in its research and report, according to people present at the meeting.
The third member of the committee, Hans Riemer, was the lone dissenter who sided with a recommendation from the Organizational Reform Commission — a county resident-staffed watchdog — that would eliminate the position. The council will now take up the issue.
