Monday, January 13, 2020

Mayor & Council to consider $50K grant to retain Rockville accounting firm

Rockville's Mayor and Council will consider approving a $50,000 financial grant to an accounting firm, in order to keep their headquarters in Rockville Town Center. Aronson, LLC is currently headquartered at 111 Rockville Pike. The firm currently employs 206 people with an average salary of $87502.

If the firm can stay put, it is promising to add around 40 new full-time positions over the next five years. Aronson is also in the process of obtaining grants from the state of Maryland and Montgomery County.

City staff argue that retaining Aronson is important due to the expected relocation of several County government departments to a new County office building in Wheaton this summer. To that end, one of the conditions of the City grant will be that Aronson agree not to add an in-house cafeteria for at least five years, so that employees will continue to patronize Town Center-area restaurants at lunchtime.

The Mayor & Council already set aside $50,000 in incentives for Aronson in its FY-2020 budget. Tonight, at their 7:00 PM meeting at City Hall, they will consider giving final approval to city staff to execute the incentive agreement.

12 comments:

  1. Bob, Are you going to report on the firing of Niles Anderegg. City of Rockville, Deputy City Clerk? On January 3, 2020 at approximately 5 p.m., Niles Anderegg was fired without cause by City Clerk, Sara Taylor Farrell. Word is that Farrell intends to fill the newly created vacancy with former Rockville City councilmember and failed mayoral candidate, Virginia Onley. Oh what a tangled web we weave...

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    1. Tell him to get in touch if he wants to talk about it.

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    2. OMG, this is really bad. Niles was the only competent person in the city clerks office. How could Farrell possibly justify firing him? Did she confer with the mayor and counsel members before she showed him the door?

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  2. Word from inside city hall, that city clerk Sara Farrell, city attorney Debra Daniel and human resources director Karen Marshall met recently in a very private meeting to come up with bogus charges against Anderegg in order to retroactively justify his termination without cause. He will be blamed for any blunders and wrong doing committed by the city clerks office in the last ten months. Of course, none of it will be true. This seems to be a recurring pattern in the Rockville city clerks office. Is any of this legal?

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    1. If true, it does sound like a potential lawsuit in the making.

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  3. From my desk here at City Hall, I can tell you that it's 100% true.

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  4. So Robert speaking of law suits why haven’t you ever taken the County to court for voter fraud? You have been complaining for years on your blogs and nothing has changed. Nobody cares. If you have all this evidence get a lawyer.

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  5. Robert, Hearing about a new burger or crazy pizza topping is nice, but aren't you doing your readers are disservice by not even reporting that the Deputy City Clerk was fired? I guess you might have an excuse, if this were the first time, but this is the SECOND time that someone in the City Clerk's Office has been fired without cause within the past couple of years. Again, the very least you could do is post a brief note that this has happened. It's easy to confirm and besides, you would scoop everyone.

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    1. 11:52: You are commenting on a substantive article about Mayor & Council business, so the "pizza topping" attack fell spectacularly flat.

      I, in fact, did report on the first firing. I will attempt to report on the second, but City Hall is closed today. Stay tuned.

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  6. You reported on the first firing? Great when? Can you post a link so I can read it?

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    1. 7:20: It's right here:

      http://www.rockvillenights.com/2018/09/kathleen-conway-out-as-rockville-city.html

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