How You Can Help

County Council members need to hear from our community that their honoring the purchase agreement is important to YOU.

Here is what you can do, and get all your friends and neighbors to do:

1. Email, call or write a snail mail letter to your council member. Contact information can be found below.
2. Attend the hearing on Tuesday, November 23rd at 7:30pm. To reserve a space on a bus leaving from MJBHA at 6:45pm, click here to register.
   
3. Write a letter to the editor of any of the newspapers or comment on the online articles. See below for more info about how to best do that.
   
4. Stay informed about the process by visiting the website often.
   
5. Last but certainly not least, keep this process in your tefillah and pray that it is Hashem's will that the County Council votes yes!
   

Montgomery County Council members' contact information:

To find your council member please go to: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/apps/elections/enterstreet.cfm

Note: All written mail to any Council member can be addressed to the member and sent to:

Note: All written mail to any Council member can be addressed to the member and sent to:
100 Maryland Ave., Rockville, MD 20850

· Roger Berliner, District 1 (Potomac): (240) 777-7828 * councilmember.berliner@montgomerycountymd.gov

· Mike Knapp, District 2 (Germantown): (240) 777-7955 * councilmember.knapp@montgomerycountymd.gov

· Phil Andrews, District 3 (Gaithersburg, Rockville, North Potomac): (240) 777-7906 * councilmember.andrews@montgomerycountymd.gov

· Nancy Navarro, District 4 (Kemp Mill, Aspen Hill, White Oak): (240) 777-7968 * councilmember.navarro@montgomerycountymd.gov

· Valerie Ervin, District 5 (Woodside, Chevy Chase): (240) 777-7960 * councilmember.ervin@montgomerycountymd.gov

· Marc Elrich, At-Large (All of Montgomery County): (240) 777-7966 * councilmember.elrich@montgomerycountymd.gov

· Nancy Floreen, At-Large (ALL of Montgomery County) : (240) 777-7959 * councilmember.floreen@montgomerycountymd.gov

· George Leventhal, At-Large (ALL of Montgomery County): (240) 777-7811 * councilmember.leventhal@montgomerycountymd.gov

· Duchy Trachtenberg, At-Large (ALL of Montgomery County): (240) 777-7964 *

  councilmember.Trachtenberg@montgomerycountymd.gov

• County Executive Ike Leggett:
• · (240) 777-2500 * ocemail@montgomerycountymd.gov
   
• · Executive Office Building, 101 Monroe Street, 2nd Floor, Rockville, MD 20850
  
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• How To write a letter- to the editor or post a comment online:
  
• After you've written all your letters, made all your phone calls, and persuaded others to do the same, you can also opt to write a letter-to-the-editor or comment on a story already written.
  
  When writing a letter-to-the-editor of a newspaper, the same rules apply at almost every newspaper - make yours like all the others. Not in terms of content, but of length and format. If the paper is not very clear about its format on its website letters page, look at ten or twenty of its most recently published letters. You will quickly see a limit to length (often no more than 200 words), a style in addressing the editor (such as "Dear Editor"), if your letter relates to something published in the paper - how you reference that article, and so on.
  
  As with any communication, please take care to use the talking points but not to copy the talking points. This letter, as with all you write and say, must be in your own words, in your own voice. Otherwise, editors will see your letter as little more than a coordinated campaign that could have been achieved with pre-printed post cards.
  
  Almost all papers these days allow you to submit a letter online or by email. This does not mean the letter is only for consideration to be published online; it's just an easier way for both you and the paper to communicate. Here are several landing pages for writing letters to the Montgomery County Gazette, The Washington Post and the Washington Jewish Week. Don't be discouraged if your letter isn't published. The vast majority most papers receive aren't. But it's important editors see how important the issue is to you, just as it's important council members see the same.