Artificial Turf or Police? Voters' Choice!

$400,000.  That's how much money the County police need to continue working on cold cases.  From the Washington Post:

The two-person cold case unit closed at least three high-profile rape cases — all dating back to the early 1980s — in the past four months by reexamining DNA. But a pair of federal grants secured for such efforts in 2006 and 2008 expired last year and will not be renewed, cold case detective Joe Mudano said in a hearing before the County Council’s Public Safety Committee on July 23. The grants, which totaled $400,000, were used to pay for both the unit’s costly DNA tests and its officer salaries since the unit was formed in 2005, Mudano said.

Or, the County can buy 1/2 of an artificial turf field! Voters' choice!

Read the entire Post article here.

Tell the County Council what your choice is!  Write to them at county.council@montgomerycountymd.gov

And be sure to write your own councilmember too.  We hear that sometimes our emails don't make it to each council member. 

Here are the individual council member's email addresses:
councilmember.berliner@montgomerycountymd.gov
councilmember.leventhal@montgomerycountymd.gov
councilmember.navarro@montgomerycountymd.gov
councilmember.rice@montgomerycountymd.gov
councilmember.floreen@montgomerycountymd.gov
councilmember.ervin@montgomerycountymd.gov
councilmember.andrews@montgomerycountymd.gov
councilmember.riemer@montgomerycountymd.gov
councilmember.elrich@montgomerycountymd.gov

Choice A: Please spend $400,000 to continue the work of the police on critical cold cases
Choice B: Please spend $400,000 to purchase 1/2 of an artificial turf field.

Please let us know the response from the Council, which is responsible for the fiscal health of the County.