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Barn Fire Affects Local 4-H Pig Program Album Pictures on Page 2 April 17, 2015 A Biweekly Newspaper April 17, 2015 • Volume XII, Number 2 Eat your hearts out, Ginger Rogers By Rande Davis and Fred Astaire! See more Family Barn Fire Affects Local 4-H Pig Program Album pictures on page 2. Poolesville’s Julien Singh was traveling west on Route 28 after drop- ping off his daughter at a soccer team party around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 29 when he spotted a fire at the barns of Nothing Fancy Farm about a quarter mile east of Cattail Road. He immediately called 911, but de- spite a multi-alarm response from fire companies as far away as Cabin John, the barn was too far gone and was completely lost. Lisa Lasinger, Austrian exchange Due to a downed power line lying student, fits right in at PHS. See too close to the water pond on the farm, School News on page 9 to hear more the fire fighters were unable to use about her adventure. it to fight the fire. Having to respond by finding an alternative source, Para- medic Engine 709 from Hyattstown immediately dispatched to Lewis Or- chards and, through the cooperation of the owners, was able to secure a supply of water to fight the fire from its pond. The fire at the barn of Nothing Fancy Farm spread exceedingly fast. A water tanker truck from Cabin John Fire Station also came, and portable While no persons were hurt, pigs and twenty-one piglets, which water tanks were filled from that truck Shannon Sims, Megan Harney, and they have painstakingly raised since as a backup supply to the water from Amy Wokasien, all past and current Lewis Orchards. 4-H club participants, lost their two Continued on page 5. Seneca Schoolhouse Museum Receives Historic Kyle Wilkins, Coach Dorsey, and Brian Truppo after a hard day’s work Preservation Award at the state competition. See Youth By Maureen O’Connell Sports on page 12. On Friday, March 27, 2015, collected money Historic Medley District, Inc. (HMD)’s from neighbors to Seneca Schoolhouse on River Road, build the school, us- Seneca, was awarded the Montgomery ing sandstone from Preservation, Inc. 2014 Montgomery local quarries. The County Award for Historic Preserva- Smithsonian Castle tion in the category of “Renovation in Washington, D.C. and Restoration of a Historic Resource was built with the for Educational Use.” In 1980, HMD same sandstone. It entered into a lease agreement with operated as a the State of Maryland to renovate and school until 1910, maintain the old, abandoned Seneca when it was turned Mills Schoolhouse. With Maryland into a small private Matt Logan Executive Director, Montgomery County State funding, the schoolhouse was home. Over time, Historical Society, Maureen O’Connell of Historic completely renovated and began of- it deteriorated and Medley District, and Dan Seamans. fering field trips for local fourth grade was abandoned un- students. til HMD stepped in to save it in 1980. and the Kiplinger Foundation, major The schoolhouse was built in 1866 By 2012, the schoolhouse was again renovation work began: The rotting You’ve never seen a cow on a roof to educate the children of local farmers. in dire need of extensive repairs. With before? See Garden on page 15. Upton Darby, a local farmer and miller, funding from the State of Maryland Continued on page 11. Page 2 The Monocacy Monocle April 17, 2015 Family Album Thanks to Hesu Ha, these near- empty shelves would soon be stocked. Of course, there is always room for more. Canned and dry goods can be easily dropped off at Poolesville Baptist Church, Town Hall, or in the parking lot of Drs. Pike and Valega. Frank Austin, often found Our young people joined in doing volunteer work around helping WUMCO Help, Inc. town, is in this “can-did” photo move into its new digs at during WUMCO’s big move. Poolesville Baptist Church. Junior scouts from Troop 3032 visited UMCVFD where Captain Mike Slater and his team gave the tour and safety talk Easter egg hunt at Memorial United Methodist Church. which helped earn them their first aid patches. Denise Shores’s Polka Dots in a heartwarming performance. April 17, 2015 The Monocacy Monocle Page 3 town now publishes online a synopsis Town of the main points made in public Government meetings in lieu of verbatim minutes). One of the major expenses for Draft Budget for the town is the support of its water FY2016 Premiers at and sewer systems. Unlike most other jurisdictions in Montgomery County Commission Meeting (including large ones like Gaithers- burg), Poolesville manages both its By Link Hoewing own water and sewer systems; WSSC At their April 6 meeting, the provides sewer and/or water for other Poolesville Commissioners released towns in the county. the draft of their proposed 2016 bud- The challenges of managing the get. The fiscal year for Poolesville water and sewer system, Yost ex- begins on July 1, so this budget pro- plained, come in part from the fact posal will be considered, reviewed, that it is considered an “enterprise” and adopted over the next several program in which funding support weeks. is supposed to be derived from user Town Manager Wade Yost pre- fees. While the town has worked con- viewed the proposed budget for the sistently to meet this goal, again, this public and the commissioners who year, a grant from the general fund have already been reviewing it during of the town will be needed to fund the month of March, but this is the first eight percent of the operations of the draft proposal to be released to the water and sewer system. This equates public. to about $4.00 on the monthly water Yost began his presentation by bill of each citizen. providing a high-level overview of the Yost also went over the costs of draft proposal. The General Fund—the maintaining and expanding the wa- amount of money that will be available ter and sewer system (to meet the de- for expenditure—is set at $2.78 million mands of new developments), aging in the proposed budget. These funds infrastructure (some developments will support a set of programs and such as Westerly and Wesmond are budget accounts that are at levels simi- served by water and sewer facilities lar to last year’s budget. Most revenue first installed in the early 1970s), new streams to fund the budget remain support staff (two new staff were “constant” with the exception of rev- added last year to help maintain the enues from Nextel, a cellular provider systems which need monitoring and that merged with Sprint. To get the maintenance around the clock), and budget to balance (which is required “fixed costs” such as the costs of elec- by the town charter), the current tax tricity, chemicals for treating sew- rate would be rounded up from its age, and laboratory testing expenses. current level of $0.1672 cents per $100 In response to a question, Yost said of assessment to $0.17 cents. that while the town’s solar array has While he maintained that most helped reduce the costs of electricity accounts for the new budget have been by about $30,000, a lot of the sewer “maintained at current levels,” Yost plant’s power requirements are still pointed out that there are some addi- supplied by the electric company. tional expenditures proposed in the Beyond the sewer and water budget. For example, the new budget systems, the town’s general operat- will support one additional employee. ing budget supports everything from Expenses are increasing too because a maintaining parks to the repaving of number of new parks have been add- roads and streets. Sixty-nine percent ed to the town’s existing system, and of the town’s expenditures are for maintenance costs in the parks will “general operations,” while another also increase due to requirements for thirteen percent are used to support upgrades mandated by the Americans general capital projects, and ten per- with Disabilities Act. The town has cent go towards capital water proj- also added a new event, Octoberfest, ects. The remaining eight percent fund that will require funding support. debt service. In terms of categories of At the same time, Yost itemized expenditures, forty-one percent of the reductions in the proposed budget. budget go to salaries, twenty-one per- For example, the costs of the economic cent for the contract for trash pick up, development and marketing programs and smaller amounts for such things will decrease from $65,000 to $45,000. as maintaining parks, legal support for A grant to the seniors’ program of the town, and administrative costs. $29,000 will be eliminated (the mon- The revenues to support the ey to support the program will come town’s operations come largely from from a county grant), and the costs two sources: property taxes (44%) and of transcribing verbatim minutes of every meeting will be eliminated (the Continued on page 7. Page 4 The Monocacy Monocle April 17, 2015 a storm water remediation fee, is to emotions of Lent give way to a Commentary comply with the federal Clean Water Rande(m) glorious bursting of Alleluias. This Act and address rain runoff that Thoughts early springtime ritual is not so pollutes the bay. unique, of course, since everyone, and Dancing in the Rain One has to admit, that in the The Sanctuary I do mean everyone, from believers to annals of political “discourse,” a more non-believers, also experience a simi- By John Clayton effective name than rain tax was never By Rande Davis lar exhilaration at this moment of the The Maryland 2015 Legislative devised.
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