The Montgomery County Council is gearing up for a vote on a proposed youth curfew and its proposed alternative, an anti-loitering bill. The council’s Public Safety Committee is scheduled to vote on the curfew and possibly the loitering bill on Dec. 1, said the committee chairman, Councilman Phil Andrews, D-Gaithersburg/Rockville. The full council is scheduled to vote on the curfew Dec. 6, and the loitering bill may be added to that day’s agenda as well.

But first the council will hear from community members at a public hearing on the loitering bill Tuesday night — one week after County Executive Ike Leggett accused the council of using the loitering bill as a “stall tactic intended to confuse the debate on the curfew bill.”