The Montgomery County Board of Commissioners met on June 11, 2026, at 10 a.m. in the boardroom. Chairperson Winder led the meeting, which included announcements, public comments, approval of minutes, an ordinance vote, appointments, personnel actions, and contract awards. A salary board meeting immediately followed the regular meeting.
Immediately following the regular meeting, the salary board convened. Marty Moss presented a five-page salary board list dated June 10, 2026. The board approved the list unanimously. The salary board meeting was then adjourned.
So good morning. Since we last met, we the county has made a couple of exciting announcements. First, at the end of May, we launched our brand new website. If you visited our website in the last two weeks, you would have seen some big changes. And if you haven't visited yet, take some time to go look. Our new website is designed with residents in mind. It's mobile friendly. It prioritizes helping people get to the to what they need quickly, whether that's county services, maps of our parks, trails, and historic sites, or anything in between. It was built with public feedback and works across all kinds of devices because that's how people access information today. And it's accessible via assistive technology and translation to more than 50 different languages. This website redesign project required coordination across a dozen county departments, the migration of over 1,200 pages and 12,500 files, and improvements to tons of thousands of documents. And so I'm so proud of the team. So if you were on that website team, do you want to stand up just to be acknowledged? That's you, Megan. Megan? Okay, that's all right. All right. So everyone go check out our new site. We're really proud of it. Next, we also launched our first ever housing blueprint on May 28th. This blueprint is a roadmap to building connected, affordable communities across the county. It solidifies some of our existing priorities like fixing and preserving homes instead of letting them decay, making rental properties accessible to more budgets, making homeownership more attainable, making community spaces more livable and attractive, and reducing homelessness through short-term housing programs. The blueprint is an actionable plan that we can bring to life in partnership with municipalities, nonprofits, and developers. Ultimately, it's about making sure people can stay, belong, and build a future right here in our great county. The blueprint was launched at Valley Forge Presbyterian Church in Upper Marion. The church is converting a large vacant, uh long vacant school building into an apartment complex with 20 affordable rental units. It's a great example of how we can be creative in using existing infrastructure to make communities more accessible. So I want to commend the team that worked hard to put this blueprint together, our CENA senior leadership team led by Mira. Poor Mirror always has to chase chase us down to give feedback. We're grateful to you and your leadership and Tiffany, your team. You all are on the front lines and helping us do this work. The policy team, the planning commission, uh Kaylee Silver out of our uh Office of Housing and Community Development and her team, Commerce, led by Steve Forrester, and communications. This was a true team effort, and I was proud to be there. Was it last week? It wasn't last week. Two weeks ago. Okay. Next up, as many of you know, June is among many other things. Pride month, and last week we held our annual Pride flag raising outside of the courthouse. We had a big crowd of people there to celebrate. And this year we were uh thrilled to be joined by Philly Pride 365, a local advocacy group who brought a giant pride flag, which you can see there, out on the courthouse steps. It's a good thing we had such a big turnout because we needed a lot of hands on deck to help us with that flag. I want to thank you, uh thank our team who organized Pride Month and for our community for standing up for our LGBTQ plus friends and neighbors. Um our DEI team under Dr. Vitra Jackson, we're grateful for her, our comms team and events team, and of course, our new summer interns. Um Pride Month gives us a moment to just reflect on what Pride Month really means and how we need to show up for our friends and neighbors who may love differently than us. And I'm glad that in Monco uh we are standing up for our LGBTQ friends and neighbors, not just in celebrating Pride Month, but in the policies and actions that we take as a board. Next week we will be hosting our annual Juneteenth flag raising on Tuesday, June 16th, right here in the outside of the courthouse. Mira has told me that the weather is not going to be good on June 16th. Well, so it can change.