ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY

Under the provisions of the Montgomery County Charter of 1948, both executive and legislative powers resided in the County Council, which appointed a County Manager to serve at the Council's discretion. However, by the 1960s the County Council-County Manager system was seen to be inadequate for the rapidly growing population of the County who were demanding more services and accountability from the local government. A revised charter passed in 1968 separated the executive and administrative functions from the legislative and gave them to an independent County Executive who was elected for a four year term.

The County Executive holds the same administrative and executive responsibilities and powers as a city mayor, including veto power over some Council actions, and is responsible for administering all Montgomery County Government departments, while day-to-day operations are supervised by a Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) appointed by the County Executive.

Currently, the County Executive is also supported by three Assistant CAOs, a citizen outreach/community relations program, planning and fiscal analysis staff, and an Interagency Coordination office. The County Executive's administrative staff provides budget development and analysis, fiscal and inventory control, personnel and payroll management, training and supervision, contract administration, and procurement. In addition, the staff receives visitors, logs and distributes incoming County Executive mail to appropriate County staff, and drafts responses for the County Executive's signature. Program staff manage the office automation system, and plan and coordinate projects for office technology applications.

Citizen Outreach program staff coordinate responses to correspondence, telephone calls, electronic mail, and walk-in inquiries concerning County programs and services. The staff provide outreach and liaison services to minority, multi-lingual, and multi-cultural communities. Annual programs are sponsored celebrating Black History month, Hispanic Heritage month, Asian and Pacific Islanders Heritage month, Native American Heritage month, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday. In addition, this program promotes volunteerism as a community ethic among government, business, religious, civic, and educational segments of the community. This program publishes the Quick Guide, the Directory of Community Resources, and the Directory of Licenses, Permits, and Inspections.

The planning and fiscal analysis staff provide analytical support to the Executive on a range of issues, including the Annual Growth Policy, the fiscal impact of master plans, investigation of infrastructure finance methods, input on issues relating to infrastructure costing and the implementation of the County planning process, and limited regulatory support.

PROCESSING PROCEDURES

General processing procedures consisted of discarding duplicates, unnecessary binders, and routine transmittals. Oversized documents and photographs were removed from the original location in their assigned series and placed in separate containers. Separation sheets were inserted in the original location within the folder to indicate the new location of any records placed elsewhere.

Preservation copying of newspaper clippings was performed whenever feasible. Records in folders were arranged, unless otherwise indicated, in forward chronological order, with undated records appearing at the end of the folder.

PROVENANCE

Not applicable.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The printed materials, comprising four cubic feet dating from 1971 to 1998, were produced by or at the request of the County Executive and his staff. The materials include several County Annual Reports, as well as other surveys of conditions within the County. The records also contain information relating to planning and growth, social services, solid waste management, water supply and sewer plans and services, resource conservation, County budgets, and personnel.

The materials are arranged in chronological order and then alphabetically within each year.

BOX INVENTORY

Box 1

Approved Operating Budget FY 1971 -1972, 1971

Recommended Operating Budget FY 1971 - 1972, 1971 (2 folders)

Six Year Public Services Program, Introduction, 1971

Six Year Public Services Program: Category I: Protection of Person, Rights and Property of the Individual, 1971

Six Year Public Services Program: Category II: Promotion of the Individual's Physical and Mental Well Being, 1971

Six Year Public Services Program: Category III, Intellectual Development, 1971

Six Year Public Services Program: Category IV, Economic Support, Devel Protection, 1971

Six Year Public Services Program: Category V, Community and Home Environment, 1971

Six Year Public Services Program: Category VI, Community Recreational and Cultural Opportunities, 1971

Box 2

Six Year Public Services Program: Category VII, Community Transportation System, 1971

Six Year Public Services Program: Category VIII, Management and Supporting Services, 1971

Annual Report for 1971, 1972

Plan for Progress: Public Services Program FYs 1973 - 1978 and Approved Annual Budget FY 1973, 1972 (2 folders)

Preliminary Site Selection, Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility, 1972

Economic Report of the County Executive, 1973

Annual Report for 1972, 1973

Manual for Preparation of the Annual Budget, Six Year Public Services and Capital Improvements Program, 1973

Plan for Progress: Public Services Program FYs 1974 - 1979 and Annual Budget FY 1974, 1973 (2 folders)

Box 3

Solid Waste Management Ten Year Plan: Volume 5, Alternatives Considered, 1973

Solid Waste Management Ten Year Plan: Volume 6, Analysis, Recommendations and Plan of Action, 1973

Solid Waste Management Ten Year Plan: Volume 7, Appendices, 1973

Window to the Future, 1973

Annual Report for 1973, 1974

Beyond the Mid-Million Mark: Life, Change and Government in Montgomery County, Maryland, 1974

Box 4

Comprehensive Ten Year Water and Sewerage Plan, FYs 1975 - 1984 (Recommended), 1974

Major Functions of Departments and Offices in FY 1975, 1974

Procedures for Allocating Sewer Service Against the Seneca Interim Sewage Treatment Plant, 1974

Report to the President, Cabinet Committee on Cable Television, 1974

Statistical Profile of Montgomery County, Maryland, February 1974

Annual Report for 1974, 1975

Executive Recommendation Damascus Sewer Service Policy, 1975

Box 5

Interim Sewerage Program, 1975

Synopsis of Legislation 1970-1974, ca 1975

Annual Report for 1975, 1976

Budget Background Data FY 1978, 1976

FY 1977 Budget in Review, 1976

Major Functions of Departments and Offices in FY 1977, 1976

Montgomery County Energy Conservation Plan, 1976

Program Impact and Cost Savings Resulting from 10% Reduction from FY 1977 Level, 1976

Recommended FYs 1977-1986 Comprehensive Water Supply and Sewerage System Plan, 1976 (2 folders)

Solid Waste Management Ten Year Plan FY 1978-1987, 1976

Box 6

Annual Report for 1976, 1977

Annual Update of Comprehensive Water Supply and Sewerage Systems Plan for FY's 1979 - 1988, 1977

Budget Background Data FY 1979, 1977

Major Functions of Departments and Offices, FY 1978, 1977

Program Options FY 1979, 1977

Public Land Management within the Montgomery County Government, 1977

Report of the Citizens Advisory Committee to Study Salaries of the County Executive, County Council, and the State's Attorney for the Term 1978 - 1982 to the Members of the Montgomery County Council, 1977

Report of the Citizens Advisory Task Force on Scattered Site Mobile Home Use, 1977

Statistical Profile of Montgomery County, Maryland Supplement, 1977

1978 Transition in the Office of the County Executive, 1978

Annual Report for 1977, 1978

Draft Environmental Impact Statement, 1978

Housing Policy Document "Framework for Decision," Preliminary Draft, 1978

Legal Powers, Authorities and Responsibilities of the Chief Administrative Officer, November 1978

Strategy and Recommended Action Program for the Revitalization of the Silver Spring Central Business District, 1978

Box 7

Study of the Proposed Consolidation of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1978

Three Potential Consolidation Sites for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 1978

Annual Report for 1978, 1979

Committee on Committees, 1979

Executive Amendments to Recommended Capital Improvements Program, FY 1980 - 1985, 1979

Heating Fuel Assistance Task Force, Report to the County Executive and Chief Administrative Officer, 1979

Reorganization Proposals for the Executive Branch (Second draft), 1979

Report of the Task Force on Condominium Conversion, 1979

Unsafe at Any Price? A Report on Rock Run, Proposed Sewage Treatment Plant in Montgomery County, Maryland, 1979

Annual Report for 1979, 1980

Comprehensive Water Supply and Sewerage Systems Plan, Annual Update 1981 [Part I], 1980 (2 folders)

Box 8

Comprehensive Water Supply and Sewerage Systems Plan, Annual Update 1981 [Part II], 1980 (2 folders)

Report of the Citizens Advisory Committee for the Rock Run AWT Project, 1980

Report of the Interagency Planning Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse and Summary, 1980

Report to the People, 1980

Rock Run Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility Citizens Advisory Committee Workbook, Quantitative Evaluation System Volume II: Manual of Procedures, for Administering the

System, 1980

Directory to Boards, Committees, and Commissions, Office of the County Executive, 1981

Report on the Wastewater Treatment Workshop for the Rock Run AWT Facilities Project, 1981

Rock Run Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility Citizens Advisory Committee Workbook, [1981] (2 of 3 folders)

Box 9

Rock Run Advanced Wastewater Treatment Facility Citizens Advisory Committee Workbook, [1981] (folder 3)

Annual Report for 1981, 1982

Consensus Conference of Montgomery County Corporate Executives: Montgomery County in the 1980s: Meeting the Challenge of Lower Population Growth and Changing Economic Environment, 1982

Employees Handbook, 1982

Oaks Landfill Questions and Answers, 1982

Report and Recommendations Concerning Executive Council, State's Attorney and Sheriff Salaries for 1982-1986 Term, 1982

Report of the Ad Hoc Task Force on Drinking and Driving, 1982

Rock Run AWT Facilities Project: Citizens Advisory Committee Report, 1982

Sexual Harassment Survey Report, 1982

Annual Report for 1982, 1983

Report to the County Executive: Recommendations for the Reuse of the Dickerson Interim Composting Facility, 1983

Comprehensive Energy Plan, 1984

Fair Housing Conference: "Understanding the True Meaning of Fair Housing", 1984

Information Resource Management Strategic Planning Team Final Report, 1984

Box 10

Initiatives: Montgomery County Government 1983 Annual Report, 1984

Maryland 350 Committee of Montgomery County Final Report, 1984

Recommended FY 1985 Operating Budget and Public Services Program, 1984

Register, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1984

Annual Report for 1984, 1985

Boards, Committees, and Commissions Report, 1985

Charter of Montgomery County, Maryland, ca 1985

Comprehensive Energy Plan, 1985

Directory to Boards, Committees, and Commissions, 1985

Final Report of the Montgomery County Blue Ribbon Committee on the Planning Process, 1985, Volume 1, Report, 1985

Final Report of the Montgomery County Blue Ribbon Committee on the Planning Process, 1985, Volume 2, Appendices, 1985

Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee Request for Information, 1985

Personnel Regulations, 1986, 1985

Policy on AIDS, 1985

Box 11

Policy on AIDS, Montgomery County Intergovernmental Task Force on AIDS, 1985

Register: Volume 2, Issue 8, 1985

Report of the Montgomery County Telecommunications Organization Task Force, 1985

Rights of Passage: Final Report of the Task Force on the Transition from School to Work for Montgomery County Students with Disabilities, 1985

Annual Report for 1985, 1986

Council Report: Volume 14, Number 33; Volume 15, Number 6, December 6, 1985, February 21 1986

Ethnic Heritage Festival, Final Report, 1986

1987 Montgomery County Ethnic Heritage Festival, Final Report, 1987

Amendment to the Annual Growth Policy, 1987

Annual Report for 1986, 1987

Executive Task Force on Conference Centers, 1987

In Touch: Community Activities, 1987

Placement of the Adequate Public Facilities Test in Montgomery County's Development Process, 1987

Red Ribbon Committee Report to Montgomery County Executive Sidney Kramer, 1987

Report to the County Executive - Emergency Management Group Progress Report for 1987, 1987

Report to the County Executive and Council for Montgomery County, Maryland on Radon, 1987

Annual Growth Policy FY 1989, 1988

Annual Report for 1987, 1988

Box 12

Fifth Annual Ethnic Heritage Festival, 1988 Final Report, 1988

Report of the Charter Review Commission, 1988

Report on the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, 1988

Report to the County Executive by the Commission on the Structure of Montgomery County Government: Analysis and Recommendations, 1988

Annual Report for 1988, 1989

Black Leadership Roundtable I Report for Action: Facing the Challenge of the 21st Century,

[1989]

Building a Drug-Free County, 1989

Chamber of Commerce, Annual Report, 1988 - 1989, 1989

County Executive Recommended 1989-1990 Montgomery County Comprehensive Energy Plan, 1989

County Executive's Recommended FY 90 Annual Growth Policy, 1989

Employees' Retirement System of Montgomery County, Maryland, Annual Report, 1989

Staff Report to the County Executive: Cable TV Montgomery Performance Evaluation Review (November 14, 1986 - July 30, 1989), 1989

Commission on Handicapped Individuals Report July 1989 - June 1990, 1990

Economic Advisory Council Report on the Subcommittee on Health Insurance for Small Employers, 1990

Emergency Management Group Progress Report to the County Executive for 1990, 1990

Emergency Shelter Services: An Analysis of Emergency Shelter Services for Homeless Persons in Montgomery County 1989-1990, 1990

Preliminary Report of the Working Group to Identify Barriers to Alternative Housing Options, 1990

Box 13

Seventh Annual Heritage Festival Final Report, 1990

Tree Report (1990) and Trees: Technical Manual (1992), 1990-1992

Annual Report for 1990, 1991

Making a Difference...Leading the Way: A Salute to Outstanding Black Women in Montgomery County, 1991

Montgomery County Government Agency Resource Conservation Plans FY 92 in Support of Energy Management CIPs and Utility Operating Budgets, 1991

Personnel Management Review, 1991

Talking Papers Presented by Montgomery County Executive Neal Potter to Maryland General Assembly Fiscal Chairman, 1991

Annual Report for 1991, 1992

Committee on Committees: Final Report, 1992

County Executive's Report on the Spending Reductions Achieved in the last Two Montgomery County Budgets, 1992

Directory of Licenses, Permits and Inspections, 1992

Energy Assistance Task Force Report, 1992

Personnel Management Reviews, 1992

Annual Report, 1993

Budget in Brief: County Executive's FY 1994 Recommended Operating Budget, 1993

County Executive's Recommendations of FY94 Annual Growth Policy, 1993

Personnel Management Review, 1993

Long Range Capital Facilities Plan, 1994

Personnel Management Review, 1994

Services to Residents with Limited English Proficiency: Report of the Interagency Quality Action Team, 1994

Box 14

Annual Report: Fiscal Year 1996, 1996

Emergency Management Progress Report, 1997

Silver Spring Redevelopment Steering Committee Ad Hoc Service Task Force Report on Fire and Rescue Service for Silver Spring/Takoma Park, 1997

General Development Agreement for the Redevelopment of Downtown Silver Spring, 1998

Local Governance and Community Organizations Working Group, Town Model Analysis, n.d.