Text Box: STREET ASSESSMENT NOT YET COMPLETE By Tom Helf ATM, the company hired by the town to assess the streets and recommend a repair plan, has advised the town that it wishes to perform some additional tests before issuing its final report. According to Councilmember Robin Kogelnik, AMT has performed a total of four core samples on Vassar, Princeton, Cornell and University Aves., but wishes to conduct an additional eight core samples (at a total cost of $2,365.00) in other locations to test pavement thickness. These additional core samples were recommended because two of the original samples indicated that there was no asphalt or stone base under the surface pavement. Whether or not there is sufficient asphalt or stone base under the surface pavement will affect the repair options for the street (for example, you cannot perform milling and resurfacing unless there is sufficient depth below the surface pavement). Based on Ms. Kogelnik’s report, the town council unanimously approved a motion to expend the additional monies for the eight core samples. ATM estimated that once the samples are completed it could deliver its final report and recommendations within approximately three weeks. After receiving this information the town will solicit bids to perform the street repair work.

 

next town council meeting

 

Monday,  May 12—8:00 p.m.

Glen Echo Town Hall

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Text Box: MAYOR MCCUEN’S 1935 LETTER TO PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT [In the process of organizing the town archives, I came across this heartfelt 1935 letter from Mayor Henry T. McCuen. It asked the President to send the son of a woman living in a shack on the C&O Canal to Warm Springs, Ga., presumably for physical therapy for infantile paralysis, which President Roosevelt also suffered from. There were many shacks along the canal in the 1930s, occupied by what townspeople referred to as “squatters,” since the C&O Canal Company owned the land. The shacks were destroyed in the 1936 flood and their occupants asked the town for permission to rebuild. The Glen Echo Town Council rejected their petitions—even though it had no authority over the land—and in 1938 the land was purchased by the National Park Service. There is no reply from the President in the archives and no mention of the mayor’s request in the town minutes--Editor] January 26, 1935 My dear Mr. President: I am taking the liberty of writing you relative to a destitute mother and son, Mrs. Elsie Norck, and Charles Norck, who live on the C &O canal in a shack adjacent to Glen Echo, Md. I would like to have the son who is in his late teens placed at Warm Springs, Ga., where through the grace of God, he may be able to overcome his handicap, and be a useful citizen in health as well as in his daily vocation. We have appealed to the Social Service of Montgomery County Md., and due to the fact that this poor unfortunate Mother has three shacks in Washington, on which there is a mortgage of $3,000.00, and receives no income whatsoever from the properties, they will not assist her. They are of the same faith as you and I, Episcopalians, and are in need of all the assistance that can be given them. On the approach of your birthday balls given over the Country for the benefit of these unfortunates I thought possibly you could have this poor boy placed where he will be given treatment. My town is rendering whatever assistance we can with our limited resources. Awaiting your reply and trusting to Him, who never lets any one of his children suffer, I am Very respectfully, Henry T. McCuen,

 

GLEN ECHO PROPERTY SALES

 

6004 Bryn Mawr Ave.                                     $475,000

6109 Princeton Ave.                                        $750,000