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The Rockville Mayor and Council met on September 2, 2026, to discuss consent agenda items, updates on the King Farm Farmstead plan and Community Development Block Grant, a work session on Chapter 18 (landlord-tenant issues), and a detailed six-month planning calendar for future meetings. Key commitments were made regarding early release of agenda materials for the January 5, 2027 meeting.
While waiting for that, uh Jeff, I just wanted to flag I sent you a heads up on some of the items I planned to raise. I don't think I'll have to raise all of them, but I just wanted to note. Great, thank you. I appreciate that. All right, there is tonight's agenda nice and large. I appreciate that. We have a number of items on the consent agenda. We have an extension of a grant agreement. We have uh another agreement for Cisco systems um IT hardware software and upgrades. We have another contract for athletic court maintenance. We have a grant agreement with the Federal Highway Administration for Safe Streets and Roads for All project, yay. And we have the minutes. Any questions about anything on consent? All right, we have the adoption of the King Farm Farmstead. I might be a little bit behind on emails, but so far I've received very, very few comments on that. Then we have approval of the uh, yeah, thanks, Barry. The uh community development block grant. We're gonna do a very brief presentation on that. Uh the goal on that is just to say, you know, what our community development block grants, how does the funding work? And then here are the here are the things that are being funded. It'll still be short. And then we have the item de jour, which is the chapter up team up 18 update, first of two work sessions, rental facilities, landlord tenant issues, um, transparency. Mayor Ashton. Thank you very much. First of all, thank you for uh pulling together the brief book uh and the items that have been long awaited. Um really appreciate them. Yep. Uh questions. One is for both of these. I'm assuming that uh an update went out on Engage Rockville, correct? It sure did. I believe I saw some, but I just wanted to just double check and confirm. Okay. It's sure it's sure. If you're talking about the farm site in particular, that went out actually a couple weeks ago, right after um we posted the uh the plan to the website. Yes, I'm thinking about both because both I believe were on engage Rockville. And so I just want to make sure we're in this habit of uh notifying the public when it's coming to us. Um so just wanted to check on that, and if you could check. I heard you say yes for King Farm Farmstead. I believe I saw that, but I wanted to see if we did the same for the landlord tenant. We we did. Okay, perfect. Excellent. Um, there's one item. Uh well, I'll say I really appreciate that you brought forward some of the things that we discussed in previous work sessions for landlord tenants, um, namely the algorithm issues and the transparency and fees and several other things to protect and do education. Um there was one thing that the majority had uh put forth that and raised uh at least two, maybe not three times, uh, which was the uh transparency on rental increases uh being required to be shared with the tenant, not just their own rental history, but the rental history prior.