The Occupy movement came to the 12th most affluent county in the country Saturday, with about 40 people surrounding a dry-erase board in a Silver Spring park.

Six months after “We are the 99 percent” emerged as the slogan for protests opposed to economic inequality and corporate influence on government, Andrew Batcher of Silver Spring made Occupy Montgomery County official by calling to order its first “people’s assembly” in Woodside Park.

There are no plans for Occupy Montgomery protesters to pitch tents and live there. Organizers, who began planning about six weeks ago at a community meeting room, said they aren’t seeking the notoriety of the encampments in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park or even the District’s McPherson Square, where marches with thousands of protesters and subsequent police crackdowns drew national attention.

Instead, they hope existing county activist organizations — partnered with Occupy veterans who want to bring the movement home — will lead to concrete changes on a smaller scale.

“In this county, you inherently have that sort of wealth discrepancy,” organizer Kit Bonson said. “We think it’s time for Montgomery County to focus on others.”

Saturday began with a mike check in the middle of downtown Silver Spring. Shoppers and restaurant patrons paused and stared as Ben Zucker — a key figure in the Occupy D.C. protests who graduated from Albert Einstein High School — stood on a staircase and urged anybody within shouting distance to follow a procession of six protesters to Woodside Park.

“We’re starting small,” said organizer Martine Zee, a Silver Spring resident and member of the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition.

She tied a banner about the event onto trees near Georgia Avenue. Batcher began with a summary how their meetings work. As speakers described “action campaigns,” people trickled into the park.

In 2010, the median household income of Montgomery County’s 1 million residents was $89,155, according to that year’s census. The census reported that 6 percent of residents live below the poverty level, compared with 8.6 percent for the state of Maryland as a whole.

Nancy Sorden of Kensington said the media’s focus on police arrests at earlier Occupy protests gave the movement an unfair reputation.

“This is a different model,” Batcher said. “It’s a space for people who really care about social justice.”

There was no notable police presence at Saturday’s event. A few county employees who help jump dead car batteries and clean up litter, watched for a few minutes as the occupiers planned an agenda.

Zee introduced the Move Your Money campaign, a nationwide initiative encouraging people to divest from large banks and put their money in local banks and credit unions. She said she hopes to put together a protest outside of a Bank of America branch within weeks.

The group plans to meet every Saturday at the park to track the group’s work and propose additional activities.

“Because people recognize Occupy, they have this sense of solidarity,” Bonson said. “To see it, people outside gathered in a park, there’s enthusiasm.”