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Arnold agreed to resign from the department and pay restitution to Grady Management, a Silver Spring real estate company, according to the terms of the plea, which he made before Circuit Court Judge Eric M. Johnson.
Assistant State's Attorney Bryan Roslund said Arnold was paid by two employers for the 981 hours, resulting in a loss to Grady Management of $24,286. Arnold also worked at Shepherd's Table, a community center in Silver Spring. Roslund said Arnold billed his three employers for some hours.
-- Ernesto Londo¿o
Plan Would Use Housing Fund To Help Homeless Find Shelter
Montgomery County Council President Mike Knapp (D-Upcounty) and council member George Leventhal (D-At Large) proposed a new approach yesterday to helping the county's homeless find permanent shelter.
Under their plan, $4 million from the county's Housing Initiative Fund, a pool of money that uses property tax revenue to preserve or pay for affordable housing, would be allocated to develop affordable housing or to provide rental subsidies for homeless people. The money could also pay for programs to ensure people don't fall back into homelessness.
The idea, Knapp said, is to place people in permanent shelter rather than continue to shuttle them from temporary home to temporary home.
Because funding for the program would come from an existing pool of money, no additional funds would have to be allocated in the fiscal 2009 budget, they said. At a time when the county faces a $400 million budget shortfall, that could be important to winning council support for the proposal.
In future years, Leventhal and Knapp propose that no less than 10 percent of the total Housing Initiative Fund be devoted to housing for the very lowest income residents of the county. The $4 million proposal they propose for 2009 is about 10 percent of the Housing Initiative Fund.
-- Lori Aratani
Bethesda Doctor Wins Grant To Study Migraine Headaches
A Bethesda doctor was awarded one of the first annual grants to study migraine headaches yesterday by a new private foundation.
The Migraine Research Foundation, which was recently launched as one of the nation's largest private funding groups for migraine research, awarded four annual grants yesterday totaling $200,000. Ann I. Scher, a professor at the Bethesda-based Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, received one of the grants and will study migraines that strike in middle age and late life.
-- Philip Rucker
