None of the council members running for county executive has endorsed Council President Natali Fani-González’s budget proposal, showing clear discomfort with her plan to lower negotiated raises for county employees and hesitancy to sign on to her progressive vision for income taxes.

The three leading candidates, County Council members Will Jawando, Evan Glass and Andrew Friedson, explained their positions during a forum Monday in Silver Spring hosted by Friends of White Oak, the Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce and The Banner.

Jawando was an early opponent of part of the council president’s plan, and Glass echoed some of those concerns Monday.

Friedson, meanwhile, was mostly noncommittal. He pointed out that council members just received the proposal on Friday and said that he’s been meeting with union leaders in the days since.

“We’re talking through what options there are,” he said, adding that he’s hoping to reach a solution “without harming the working families that we have that are supporting our community.”

Council members in March roundly rejected Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich’s budget proposal as an ill-advised solution to the county’s looming financial challenges.

After introducing her alternative proposal on Friday, Fani-González quickly faced opposition.

Flanked by union leaders and members, Jawando held a press conference on Friday to present his own spending plan. He took issue with Fani-González’s plan to adopt a 2% across-the-board raise for all county employees, forgoing the increases of between 2.5% and 3% that the county’s major public sector unions negotiated with the Elrich administration.

Fani-González’s plan would also apply to school system employees, who would receive a 2% bump rather than the 3.25% agreed to by public school unions.

“I stood with our union partners — our 40,000 teachers and peer educators and bus drivers and security guards — on Friday to say that we must honor the contracts,” Jawando said during Monday’s forum.

Glass seemed to take a step toward Jawando’s position, saying, “The right to collectively bargain is a cornerstone to good progressive values, and we have to honor those agreements. Full stop.”

If council members reject this part of Fani-González’s plan, according to the memo she distributed on Friday, they may have to find up to $45 million in other spending cuts.

The council president’s plan also restructures income taxes.

All county residents are currently subject to a 3.2% local income tax rate. Fani-González wants high earners to pay taxes on a larger share of their income than middle- and low-income filers.

Her proposal would lower the rate to 2.5% for households earning up to $50,000 and to 2.8% for those earning up to $150,000.

Filers making $150,001 to $300,000 would still pay 3.2%, and those earning more than $300,000 would pay 3.3%.

To offset revenue the county will lose from lowering rates for most residents, Fani-González wants to eliminate the county’s Income Tax Offset Credit and the Working Families Income Supplement, a tax break for those who qualify for the state Earned Income Tax Credit.

None of the candidates fully supported her plan during the forum.

Jawando, an outspoken proponent of progressive taxation, has some similarities with the council president in his approach. He has said he wants people making more than $500,000 to contribute a greater share of their income, and he has proposed raising the income tax rate for that bracket to 3.3%.

Glass and Friedson, meanwhile, said they needed more time with the proposal before weighing in.

Friedson was particularly concerned about eliminating the Income Tax Offset Credit and the Working Families Income Supplement.

Glass pointed out that the county has an $8 billion budget, and that “it takes time to go through it, to make sure that our workers are paid fairly, that our taxpayers are treated fairly.”