Jun 06, 2023 County Council

[a. Resolution 027-23 (Glenwood Avenue Petition Annual Assessment)]

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EVENING CHAIR CALLS ORDER PUBLIC HEARING FOR RESOLUTIONS HERE. 27-23 GLENWOOD AVENUE PETITION ANNUAL ASSESSMENT, MR STAINLESS, MR BURKE. MR PATIN, YOU THIS EVENING. GOOD. THANK YOU.

WHENEVER YOU GUYS ARE READY GOOD EVENING COUNCIL PRESIDENT VINCENTE IN COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS DAVE BURKE. I AM THE CHIEF OF PLANNING AND ADMINISTRATION AND DIVISION OF WATER AND SEWER. I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND A WELCOME TO THE RESIDENTS OF GLENWOOD AND THANK THEM FOR ATTENDING PRESENT A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE GLENWOOD DONNA GOAL AREA SUPER PETITION.

NOW ALSO PRESENT THE RESULTS OF THE HARPER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT EVALUATION OF THE SEPTIC SYSTEMS AND DIVISION AREA. MR JOHN WRESTLIN, THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH. HARVEY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS HERE TO ANSWER ANY RELATED QUESTIONS. PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN THE DEVELOPMENT ENVELOPE COMPETITION, HARFORD COUNTY FOR WATER AND SEWER SERVICE PETITIONS ARE COVERED BY COUNTY CODE TO 56-6 AND WATER AND SEWER RULES AND REGULATIONS . PART 24 PETITIONS ALLOW THE COUNTY TO APPROVE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT. PUBLIC WATER AND SEWER AS A CAPITAL PROJECT. FINAL COSTS ARE EQUALLY SHARED BY ALL PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE BENEFITED BY THE PETITION PROJECT. THE PROJECT IS PAID FOR BY ANNUAL BENEFIT ASSESSMENTS.

GLENWOOD DON GALERIAS PETITION INCLUDES PROPOSED RESOLUTION NUMBER 27-23 TO ESTABLISH THE PETITION ANNUAL ASSESSMENT AND PROPOSED RESOLUTION NUMBER 28-23. TO MOVE THE PETITION PROPERTIES INTO THE S THREE PLAN SEWER SERVICE CATEGORY IN THE WATER AND SEWER MASTER PLAN. OUR OFFICE RECEIVED A SEWER PETITION REQUEST FROM 10 OF THE 15 PROPERTY OWNERS, INCLUDING THE PETITIONER. WE MAILED THE BALLOT PACKAGE ON AUGUST 16TH 2022, WHICH INCLUDE THE PROJECT COSTS AND ACCEPTANCE SYSTEM EVALUATION REPORT PERFORMED BY THE HARFORD COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT. WE HAD A PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS ON SEPTEMBER 14TH 2022 AT THE MCFAUL CENTER IN BEL AIR. VALID RESULTED IN 93% 14 OUT OF 15 OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS VOTED YES, IN FAVOR OF THE PETITION. THEN RESOLUTION NUMBERS 27 23 28 23 WERE INTRODUCED TO COUNTY COUNCIL ON MAY 2ND 2023. CONCURRENT WITH COUNCIL APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION NUMBER 27-23 FOR THE PETITION. A MASTER PLAN UPDATE IS REQUIRED UNDER RESOLUTION NUMBER 28-23, WHICH IS A ROUTINE ACTIONS. APPROVAL OF THIS RESOLUTION MOVES THE PETITION PROPERTIES FROM SEWER SERVICE CATEGORY S FIVE INTO SERVICE CATEGORY ASKED THREE OR PLANNED SEWER SERVICE AND 0 TO 5 YEARS, THIS UPDATE IS REQUIRED TO PROCEED WITH THE DESIGN AND APPROVAL OF THE PETITION CONTRACT DRAWINGS. THIS MAP SHOWS THE GENERAL LOCATION OF THE PROPOSED TO OUR PROJECT. IT IS LOCATED IN THE 1500 BLOCK OF DONEGAL ROAD AND THE 102 100 BLOCKS OF DONE KANAN ROAD. IT INCLUDES 1200 FT OF EIGHT INCH GRAVITY SEWER EXTENSION. WITH 15 SEWER HOUSE CONNECTIONS BUILT TO THE PROPERTY LINE. ALL CONSTRUCTION IS WITHIN THE PUBLIC ROAD RIGHT AWAY.

THEREFORE, NO PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENTS ARE REQUIRED. INITIAL FUNDING FOR THE PROJECT IS FROM THE COUNTY WATER AND SEWER FUND. THE COUNTY WILL BE REIMBURSED BY THE PROPERTY OWNERS FROM ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS. WE EXPECT $67,500 GRANT FUNDING FROM THE STORMWATER MANAGEMENT SEPTIC SYSTEM DISCONNECTION PROGRAM, WHICH WILL BE USED TO OFFSET DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION COSTS.

THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION WILL BE MANAGED SIMILAR TO A COUNTY CAPITAL PROJECT. THIS SLIDE IS A COPY OF THE COST SUMMARY SHEET PROVIDED TO EACH PROPERTY OWNER IN THE BALLOT PACKAGE. THE IMPORTANT INFORMATION FROM THIS SLIDE IS THAT WE HAVE $67,500 IN GRANTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN APPLIED TO SUPPORT THIS PROJECT. THE BALANCE OF THE OF THE FUNDS WILL BE BY THE COUNTY WATER AND SEWER FUND FOR 30 YEARS AT AN INTEREST RATE OF 2. AS A RESULT , THE ANNUAL COST TO EACH PROPERTY OWNER IS $2073 PER YEAR. ONCE THE NEW PUBLIC SEWERS , OPERATIONAL PROPERTY OWNERS ARE RESPONSIBLE TO PAY FOR THE SEWER HOOKUP CHARGES WHICH ARE $11,839. THEY'RE ALSO

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PROPERTY OWNERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CONNECTING TO THE PUBLIC SEWER WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE SEWER OPERATIONAL. EACH PROPERTY AND IT WAS PROVIDED A COPY OF THE HARPER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT SEPTIC SYSTEM EVALUATION REPORT. FOR THE PETITION AREA AS PART OF THE BALLOT PACKAGE. THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT REPORTED THAT SEPTIC SYSTEMS TIP TYPICALLY LAST 25 TO 30 YEARS. 13 OUT OF THE 15 SEPTIC SYSTEMS OF THE IN GLENWOOD ARE ORIGINAL. THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 50 YEARS OLD. SEVEN OF THE LOTS ARE IMPACTED BY A STREAM AND LOCATED IN DO NOT TEST OR WHAT SEASON SOILS. AND ALL OF THE LOTS ARE LESS THAN ONE ACRE, WHICH LIMITS OPTIONS FOR REPLACEMENT OF THE SEPTIC SYSTEMS. HARPER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT CONCLUDED THAT THE AVAILABLE LAND AREAS LIMITED TO INSTALL REPLACEMENT SEPTIC SYSTEMS AND THE MAJORITY OF THE EXISTING SYSTEMS HAVE EXCEEDED THEIR TYPICAL USEFUL LIFE. THEREFORE PUBLIC SEWER IS THE BEST OPTION. IN SUMMARY. THERE'S VERY STRONG 93% SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY FOR THIS PETITION PROJECT. THE AVAILABLE GRAND FUNDING REDUCES THE PROJECT COST FOR THE COMMUNITY AND HARFORD COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS IN FULL SUPPORT. THIS CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION SUBJECT TO YOUR QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, MR BURKE. MR BETTIN ANYTHING NO, THANK YOU. JUST THANKS FOR THE TIME.

ALRIGHT, COUNSEL YOUR TIME FOR QUESTIONS ANYONE? MR GENTRY NOW , THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN. SO HOW COME THIS HAS TAKEN SO LONG TO IMPLEMENT THE SHUAR PROGRAMS SINCE THESE HOMES WERE BUILT BACK IN THE SIXTIES THAT DOES THIS EVER COME UP BEFORE IN THE CITIZENS DIDN'T VOTE FOR IT. NO.

THIS HAS EVER COME UP BEFORE THIS SEWER IS EXTENDED UP TO JUST THE INTERSECTION OF DONEGAL AND DONE CANNON. SO WE'RE JUST SYSTEMS NEED TO PETITION THE COUNTY FOR SERVICE. SO WHY WAS THE REST OF GLENWOOD DONE? THIS WASN'T I'M FAMILIAR WITH GLENWOOD. I GREW UP IN COLONIAL LAKERS. I KNOW THAT THAT DEVELOPMENT SO JUST TRYING TO FIND OUT WHY THAT WAS NEVER DONE IN THE WHOLE DEVELOPMENT, OR WERE THEY THE FIRST HOMES OR LAST HOMES OR THESE ARE TOWARDS UH, YOU KNOW, GLENWOOD ROAD, SO I WOULD SAY PROBABLY THE WAY THIS DEVELOPMENT WAS DEVELOPED.

THIS WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE YOU KNOW, EARLIER PORTIONS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND AT THAT TIME, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SEWER JUST WASN'T WASN'T PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPER. THE DEVELOPER CHOSE TO INSTALL SENTENCES. OKAY THANKS. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? MR BENNETT? DO YOU ALL HAVE A SENSE OF HOW MANY POCKETS OF OUR COMMUNITY AND THE DEVELOPMENT ENVELOPE OR LEFT? IN A SIMILAR SITUATION OF HAVING YOU KNOW, EITHER EXPIRED OR CLOSE TO EXPIRING SEPTIC SYSTEMS AND HAVING JOINED IN ON PUBLIC SEWER YET, OR I WOULDN'T HAVE AN ESTIMATE OF THAT. BUT YOU WOULD.

YOU WOULD MOST LIKELY BE THE AGAIN THE ORDER COMMUNITIES THAT WEREN'T WEREN'T BUILT.

ORIGINALLY WE COULD CERTAINLY RESEARCH THAT PROVIDES YOU THAT INFORMATION, BUT UM, I DON'T HAVE THAT. YEAH, I JUST WONDER HOW MANY LITTLE BOTCHES AND BLOCKS OF COMMUNITIES AREN'T EVEN AWARE OF THE PROCESS OR THAT IT'S AVAILABLE TO THEM TO SEEK OUT TO BE PART OF OUR SEWER SYSTEM PUBLICLY RATHER THAN CONTINUE TO HAVE SEPTIC, SO I WAS JUST CURIOUS. DO WE HAVE RECORD OF HOW OLD SEPTIC SYSTEMS ARE IN DIFFERENT AREAS? THE HARPER COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT DOES YES. UM, I WAS MAYBE THINKING ABOUT IN THE FUTURE, USING THAT INFORMATION TO DO OUTREACH TO ENCOURAGE COMMUNITIES TO CONSIDER MOVING FROM SEPTIC TO SEWER. MR RILEY.

THANK YOU, MR BENNETT. I LIKE TO TAKE THE TIME TO THANK YOU FOR THE 2.5 HOURS YOU SPENT WITH ME IN A WAR GOING OVER THERE SO I COULD UNDERSTAND AND IN DEPTH, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE HIS TIME. YOU'RE WELCOME. HMM. UM, HAVE A QUESTION FOR MR WRESTLIN. IF YOU DON'T MIND COMING FORWARD, PLEASE. JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY. HOW MUCH MONEY IS LEFT IN THAT BAY RESTORATION FUND CURRENTLY WELL, SO IT'S RENEWED EVERY FISCAL YEAR, SO I SUBMITTED I SUBMITTED A REQUEST TO M D. E. ABOUT A WEEK AGO ASKING FOR $1.4 MILLION FOR FY 24. UM HOW MUCH

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THE SINGLE HOUSE CONNECTION TO THE SEWER MAIN AND THEN THE TAP CHARGE. WHAT ABOUT COMMERCIAL PROPERTY COMMERCIAL? YEAH I FORGOT ABOUT THAT PART. SO, UM SO A SMALL MARYLAND SMALL BUSINESS IS ELIGIBLE FOR 75% FUNDING, A NONPROFIT. WHO I WAS THAT ONE'S TRICKY. I THINK A NONPROFIT IS ELIGIBLE FOR 100% OF THE ALLOWANCE. IF THEY ARE, YOU KNOW, BONIFIED NONPROFIT. A BUSINESS THAT WOULD BE OVER THE SMALL BUSINESS THRESHOLD, AND THAT'S DEFINED IN REGULATION. UM WOULD BE 50% MOST OF THE COMMERCIAL ONES I'VE FUNDED HAVE BEEN AT THE 75% LEVEL. WHAT'S THE WHAT'S THE THRESHOLD FOR THEM TO BE UNDER THAT? 75% IS THERE A INCOME LEVEL? SO THEY MAKE AN APPLICATION. TO BUT YOU ALWAYS ASK THESE TRICKY QUESTIONS. THEY MAKE AN APPLICATION TO A BRANCH OF THE STATE WHERE THE STATE OF EVALUATES THERE. THE NATURE OF

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WE HAVE TO THIS EVENING, JAMES NOT FOLLOWED BY SEAN CARBON. AWAY. YES, SIR. BUT YOU KNOW NINE DONALD RAILROAD THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBERS AS MR GERE, DANA POINTED OUT THE NEIGHBORHOODS OVER 50 YEARS OLD, IT IS BORDERED TO THE NORTH BY COLONIAL MAKERS AND TO THE SOUTH BY PATTERSON MILL. IT WAS NEVER HOOKED UP THE WATER AND SEWER. THERE ARE CERTAIN STREETS THAT HAVE WATER AND SEWER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SPECIFICALLY THE BACK OF GREENWAY, UH, PLACE AND SOME DOWN THE END OF DONE CANNON AND A NEWER SECTION THAT CONNECTS WITH PARSONS RIDGE, PARSONS RIDGE. YES THOSE ARE HOOKED UP IN THE GRAVITY GOES DOWN IN THE LINE RUNS BREAK INTO THE FINAL RUN INTERCEPTOR THERE. THAT LOW POINT DONE, CANNON AT THE END OF DONE, CANDIDATE INTERSECTIONAL. UM SO YES, COLONIAL ACRES DOES HAVE PUBLIC WATER AND SEWER. AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WATER AND SEWER MAP, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE, UM, BLANK AREAS THAT MR BENNETT WAS TALKING ABOUT THAT IT WAS JUST THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HASN'T HECK. EXCUSE ME HOOKED UP TO IT YET. UM, AND NOW IT'S PROBABLY THE TIME I DO RECALL MY NEIGHBOR, MR TAPLEY ON ATTEMPTING TO DO THIS ONE OTHER TIME, BUT I THINK THE STREET VOTE WAS 8 TO 7. SO UM, I BELIEVE THAT THE VOTE NOW IS, UM THANK YOU, 3% I'M SURE THERE WAS ONE ABSTENTION OR ONE NEW BOOK.

SO, UM ALL THE ALL THE OWNERS HAVE SUPPORTED AND WOULD WOULD MOVE IF YOU ASK. THANK YOU, SIR.

THERE ARE NO MORE SPEAKERS. MR PRESIDENT WITH NO OTHER SPEAKERS . THIS WILL CONCLUDE THIS PUBLIC HEARING ON RESOLUTION 0 27-23 HEARINGS CLOSED AND WE'LL TAKE IT UP AT ANOTHER MEETING. THANK

[b. Resolution 028-23 (Amendment-Master Water and Sewer Plan Spring Update 2023)]

[c. Resolution 029-23 (Amendment-Freys Road-Public Sewer Project-Annual Assessment)]

[d. Resolution 030-23 (Amendment-Magnolia Road-Public Sewer Project -Annual Assessment)]

[e. Resolution 031-23 (Amendment- Woodridge Manor-Public Sewer Project-Annual Assessment)]

COLLECTIVELY. ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? 29 30 23, 29 23, 30 23 AND 31 23, OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. ROBBIE SANDALS COUNTY TREASURER, BRINGING FORTH SOME AMENDMENTS TO SOME EXISTING SORE PETITIONS THAT WERE APPROVED BY THE PROCEEDING.

COUNCIL. UM THREE AREAS. AT UM RESOLUTION. 29 23 FOR FRIES. ROAD SORT PETITION RESOLUTION 30 23 FOR MAGNOLIA ROADS OR PETITION AND RESOLUTION 31 23 FOR WOODRIDGE MANNERS OR PETITION THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THESE AMENDMENTS IS THAT IT REMOVES THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE PETITION WOULD BE FINANCED BY A STATE LOW LOW INTEREST LOAN AND INSTEAD, AS WITH THE PREVIOUS ASSESSMENT, WE JUST TALKED ABOUT AH, THE COUNTY WATER AND SORE FUND WILL FINANCE FINANCES PROJECT WILL BE PAID FOR BY BY THOSE ASSESSMENTS, BUT INSTEAD OF GOING OUT FOR A LOAN, WE WILL MORE OR LESS SELF FINANCE THAT PROJECT AND WITH THAT THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE IN THOSE ANNUAL ASSESSMENTS THAT WERE APPROVED BY THE PRECEDING RESOLUTIONS. AND SO WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? A COUPLE OF REASONS, ONE OF THOSE COST SAVINGS TO THE PETITION COMMUNITIES FOR THE FINAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT, FINAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH WHEN YOU TAKE MONEY FROM STATE PROGRAMS OFTEN COMES WITH A LOT OF STRINGS ATTACHED, SUCH AS PREVAILING WAGES. OTHER UM OTHER LABOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS, WHICH MR BOUTIN CAN DISCUSS. SO THIS THIS DECISION HERE, UM BY NOT GOING FORWARD WITH THAT, UM WITH THOSE WITH THOSE LOW INTEREST LOANS AND SAID SHOES INTO SELF FINANCE, WE WON'T BE SUBJECT TO THOSE ALSO BE ABLE TO BRING ALL OF THESE INDIVIDUALS IN EARLIER SERVICE STATES FOR THE NEW STORE MEANS OF COURSE, THAT MEANS THAT THOSE RESIDENTS WILL BENEFIT BY BEING ABLE TO HOOK UP SOONER, BUT ALSO MEANS THAT THE SYSTEM WILL BENEFIT BY BEING ABLE TO COLLECT. ALL THE APPROPRIATE HOOK UP CHARGES AND SYSTEM BENEFIT CHARGES AND LIKE AND THEN START BEING ABLE TO RECEIVE QUARTERLY BUILDING FROM THEM AS WELL. AND THEN ANOTHER FINAL REASON IS THAT JUST PROVIDES AN INCREASED OPPORTUNITY FOR LOCAL CONTRACTORS TO BID AGAIN WITH A LOT OF TIMES WITH THOSE PREVAILING WAGE REQUIREMENTS. UM IT DOES LIMIT THE ABILITY OF SMALLER LOCAL FIRMS TO CONTRACT SO AGAIN. UM NO, NO CHANGE IN, UM IN WHAT THE INDIVIDUAL HOMEOWNERS WILL PAY. IT'S JUST A QUESTION OF HOW WE ARE GOING TO

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[f. Bill 23-016 (Charter Amendment - Term Limits)]

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ONLY ONE PERSON IN HARVARD COUNTY HISTORY EVER HELD 20 YEARS. THAT'S BOB WAGNER, WHO JUST WENT OUT IN THE IN THE LAST ELECTION. SO IT'S A IT'S ALMOST BUILT IN WHEN YOU WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT TO DO SOMETHING ELSE, AND THEY DECIDE SO, LIKE I SAID, I'M I'M STONE OFFENSE. UM I'M GOING TO LISTEN TO SOME PEOPLE SPEAK AND SEE WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT IT. I'M GETTING A LOT OF EMAILS THAT ARE AGAINST IT. AND EMAILS THAT ARE FOR IT. THAT'S USUALLY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE A CONTROVERSY PIECES OF LEGISLATION. AND YOU JUST HAVE TO DO WHAT'S IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE OF THE COUNTY. NOT YOUR BEST INTEREST, BUT THE COUNTY'S BACK WHAT IS THE COUNTY'S BEST INTEREST? UM WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THAT? THINK ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WORK IN HARFORD COUNTY GOVERNMENT WHO DON'T GET ELECTED ALL THE PEOPLE THAT I'M SITTING HERE THAT HAVE POSITIONS IN THE COUNTY. UM WHEN YOU HIRE THEM, DO YOU SAY, HEY, JOE, BLOW COME INTO YOUR GOING TO BE AN EMPLOYEE. BUT IN 12 YEARS YOU'RE FIRED. WELL HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO TAKE A JOB? YOU KNOW, WITH THAT WITH THAT ON THE LINE TELLING YOU THAT WELL, YOU CAN COME TO WORK HERE. BUT 12 YEARS YOU'RE GOING OR EIGHT YEARS OR WHATEVER THE TERM, MAYBE SO BECAUSE IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT IF YOU'RE GOING TO GET A GOOD EMPLOYEE, I MEAN, YOU WANT TO KEEP THEM. YOU ONLY GET RID OF THEM. UM SO IF YOU GET YOU GET A BAD COUNCIL MEMBER , SOMEBODY YOU DON'T LIKE YOU VOTE THEM OUT IN FOUR YEARS, SO I'M ON THE FENCE, UH, SPOKE TO SPEAKING A LOT MORE PEOPLE IN MY DISTRICT. SEE WHAT THEIR FEELINGS ARE? UM BUT RIGHT NOW RIGHT NOW. THE AS FAR AS MOST OF THE PEOPLE I SPOKE TO, AND I SPOKE TO ALARM IN MY DISTRICT.

UH THEY'RE OPPOSED TO IT. THE MAJORITY OF THEM ARE OPPOSING. THERE'S POINT. THERE'S A NUMBER OF FOUR, BUT I'M FINDING PEOPLE THAT ARE OPPOSED TO IT. SO WITH THAT. I GUESS I'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO SPEAK AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, MR GUTHRIE. MR RILEY. I ALSO HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF TALKING TOO MANY FOLKS IN MY DISTRICT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE CONSTANTLY DEAL WITH IN THIS COUNCIL WAS DEVELOPMENT. AND THIS IS THE DEVELOPERS DREAM COME TRUE WAS TALKING TO ONE OF MY CONSTITUENTS AND MADE SO MUCH SENSE. THAT ONCE YOU GET THREE TERMS ON THE COUNCIL, YOU REALLY ARE QUALIFIED BY THE VOTERS. YOU NO LONGER NEED THAT CONSTANT RESIDUAL CAMPAIGN FUNDS THAT NEED TO COME THROUGH THAT DEVELOPERS CONSTANTLY ARE TRYING TO LOOK FOR IN IN THE SEVEN FOLKS HERE ON THE DAIS, AND SO I REALLY WOULD LIKE THROUGH. EVERYBODY ON THE DAY IS TO THINK ABOUT THAT. UM AGAIN. WE ALL KNOW IT TAKES MONEY TO BE ABLE TO CAMPAIGN AND SO IF YOU KEEP HAVING THIS REDUNDANT OF FOLKS THAT COME THROUGH THE THIRD YEAR , YOU'RE OUT THE CAMP PUT. THE DEVELOPERS KNOW SOMEBODY ELSE IS COMING IN. AND OF COURSE, THEY'RE GOING TO FUND SOMEBODY WHO'S GOING TO BE IN FAVOR. SO AGAIN, IF YOU THINK DEVELOPMENTS TOUGH HERE IN HARTFORD COUNTY.

NOW, I THINK IF YOU, UH, YOU PASSED THIS BILL, IT'S GONNA GET WORSE. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT.

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IT'S BECAUSE IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR OUR PRESIDENT, AND IT HAS BEEN FOR DECADES, IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE GOVERNOR OF OUR STATE. IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR OUR COUNTY COUNCIL. I MEAN, OUR COUNTY EXECUTIVE. WHY IS IT NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR ALL THAT OFFICERS AND EVERYONE'S SITTING UP THERE? AND IT'S NOT TO SAY THAT YOU DON'T GO DO A GOOD JOB, BUT IT SHOULD BE A CALLING. AND NOT A CAREER. AND MR GUT, MR. GUNTHER, YOU BROUGHT UP THE FACT THAT WELL, IF YOU WERE LIMITED TO EIGHT OR 12 YEARS AND YOU WERE FIRED, NOBODY WOULD WANT TO RUN THAT FALLS FLAT ON ITS FACE.

BECAUSE THE LAST TIME I CHECKED RIGHT NOW, I THINK WE HAVE NINE OR 10. REPUBLICAN PRIMARY CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT , AND EVERY TIME WE OPEN UP FOR GOVERNOR, AND EVERY TIME WE OPEN UP FOR COUNTY EXECUTIVE, WE HAVE MULTIPLE CANDIDATES. AH, THAT RUN. AND A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY, WELL, WE HAVE INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND WE HAVE EXPERIENCE THAT WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE WELL THAT EXPERIENCE AND INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE SHOULD BE PASSED ON. TO THE NEXT PERSON IN TERM LIMITS ALLOWS THAT UM AND MR RILEY, YOU BROUGHT UP ABOUT A DEVELOPERS DREAM TO HAVE TERM LIMITS BECAUSE MOST CANDIDATES HAVE ENOUGH MONEY IN THEIR WAR CHEST. I SAY THAT ARGUMENT FALLS FLAT ON ITS FACE, TOO, BECAUSE DEVELOPERS AND A LOT OF THEM DONATE DONATE A LOT OF MONEY. I'M FAMILIAR WITH A LOT OF THEM. CAMPAIGNS IS THAT THEY DONATE REGULARLY TO ALL OF YOU AND A LOT OF OTHER POLITICIANS THAT ARE OUT THERE, SO THEY'RE GOING TO DONATE TO THE BEST CANDIDATE, EVEN IF IT'S A NEW CANADA. AND SOMEBODY THAT'S CONVICTED ABOUT DEVELOPMENT. ALEX DEVELOPED AN APPROACH WHICH A LOT OF YOU ARE UP THERE, THOSE DEVELOPERS ARE STILL GOING TO DONATE MONEY, SO I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE A DEVELOPER'S DREAM OF TERM LIMITS. TAKE PLACE THAT HASN'T HAPPENED ANYWHERE ACROSS THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY OR ANYWHERE ELSE. AND WE SIT THERE AND TALK ABOUT YOU'VE TALKED TO CONSTITUENTS IN YOUR DISTRICT, SO THAT'S FINE AND YOU SHOULD BRING THOSE ISSUES, BUT I THINK MORE IMPORTANTLY, BRING IT TO

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AND I THINK WITH POLLING THAT'S BEEN OUT THERE. HERE IN MARYLAND IS 70, PLUS PERCENT APPROVED IT.

BALTIMORE CITY. FOR GOD'S SAKE, QUESTION K. THEY PASSED IT CLOSE TO 80% OF THE PEOPLE WANTED TERM LIMITS. IT'S A TREND, MR BENNETT. YOU'RE RIGHT, AND IT'S THE RIGHT CHAN AND I THINK IT'S THE RIGHT THING FOR THIS COUNTY. I THINK ALL OF YOU DO A GREAT JOB AND YOU CAME IN WITH VERY LITTLE TO NO EXPERIENCE, BUT I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE WILLING TO COME IN IF TERM LIMITS WERE THERE AND NOT HAVE TO GO AGAINST SOMEBODY THAT HAD 50 OR $150,000. AND THEIR WARD SHOWS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME IS UP, BUT I GOTTA ASK YOU A QUESTION.

YOU DID NOT MENTION THE SHERIFF, DO YOU BELIEVE THE SHERIFF SHOULD HAVE TERM LIMITS? YES, SIR. ABSOLUTELY YOU KNOW, I HAVE ATTENTION TO RUN FOR SHERIFF IN THE FUTURE THAT'S GOING TO BE PART OF MY CANCER. I ASKED. IT'S A CONVICTION OF MINE. IT WILL BE PART OF MY CAME OUT, BUT IT'S BEEN A CONVICTION WAS A YOUNG MAN. TWO TERMS. TWO TERMS APPRECIATE. MR WHELAN BEFORE YOU START TO SPEAK, CHECK THAT MIKE AND MAKE SURE IT'S ON I JUST GOT A TEXT THAT IT WASN'T NOT PLAYING JOE. COOL AT NIGHT. I HAVE TROUBLES WITH SURGERY. BILL WHALEN 4 15 SEATER SPRINGS ROAD . LARA, MARYLAND. I SUPPORT TERM LIMITS FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS AND STILL DO NOT BELIEVE. IS THAT BETTER? YES. I SUPPORT HIM, AND I BELIEVE THAT COUNCIL MEMBERS. UH. SHOULD NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEPRIVE CITIZENS OF THEIR RIGHTS ABOUT EITHER FOR OR AGAINST ARM LIMITS, OR EVEN HOW LONG THAT MAY SERVE. LET'S GO BACK 12 BILL 21 28, BUT LAST MINISTRATIONS WAS THE LIMIT COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE FOR YOUR TURN, REJECTED AN INTRODUCTION BY THE COUNCIL. I BELIEVE THAT WAS WRONG. IN JANUARY THIS YEAR, COUNCIL MEMBERS PAYMENT AND MS SPOILS DISHONORED ALS ANNOUNCED THEY WOULD BE INTRODUCING A BILL FOR TWO FULL YOUR TERMS, THREE COUNCIL MEMBERS, PUBLIC STATED.

PRETTY VIOLENTLY THAT THEY WERE AGAINST TERM LIMITS. MR. BENNETT WAS NOT PART OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS. THEREFORE 23 0 23 WAS NOT INTRODUCED ON FEBRUARY 7TH. APPARENTLY IT WAS DETERMINED THERE WOULD NOT BE A MINIMUM OF FOUR VOTES TO GET IT PASSED. NOW WE HAVE BUILT 23 0 16 PROPOSES THAT FOR 34 YEAR TERMS, 12 YEARS AFTER THAT THE CANDIDATE COULD ALSO SERVE ANOTHER 12 YEARS AND ALSO PROPOSES. IT IS FATHER'S ME THAT NO TERM OR PART OF ANY TERMS, SIR PRIOR TO THE ELECTION WHEN NOVEMBER 3RD 2026 WOULD BE USED IN CALCULATING THE LIMITATION ON THE NUMBER OF TERMS ACCOUNTS, A MEMBER MAY SERVE. MR TONY G. I'LL JUST USUALLY EXAMPLE IF YOU WERE CONTINUALLY ELECTED AS AN INCUMBENT, YOU COULD SERVE 12 YEARS AS COUNCIL MEMBERS AFTER HAVING ALREADY SERVED EIGHT YEARS PRIOR TO 2026. YOU WOULD THEN BE OLDER. ALL THE SERVE 12 MORE YEARS AS COUNCIL PRESIDENT. THAT'S A POSSIBILITY OF 32 YEARS IF ELECTED. AH UNDER THIS THING , I ASSUME, MR SHREWS, MR. WOODS MR WAGNER, AND I HOPE BUNCH OF OTHER WINS UNDER THE BILL. FOR 12 YEARS CAN THEN COME BACK IN AND BE REELECTED. IS THERE A LIFETIME LIMIT? BASED UPON THE PROPOSED TERM LIMITS, NOT STARTING UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION IN NOVEMBER, 2026 IF APPROVED BY VOTERS, I RECOMMEND CHANGING THE 34 YEAR TERMS TO WHAT IT WAS 24 YEAR TERMS AND ANY NEW MEMBERS CURRENTLY SERVED. THE COUNCIL COULD STILL SERVE 12 YEARS BASED UPON HIS CHANGE. BUT NOT 16 YEARS AS PROPOSED BOTTOM LINE TO VOTERS DECIDE ON TERM LIMITS FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND FOR HOW LONG ONE CONSERVE VOTERS ARE STILL ABLE TO SELECT WHO THEY WANT TO SERVE IN THEIR DISTRICT. I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS. YOU WANT TO BE CREATIVE. THE BALLOT COULD INCLUDE CIRCLES AS THE TWO AND FOUR AGAINST FOUR TO TERM LIMITS FOR THREE TERM LIMITS OR AGAINST TERM LIMITS. TIME WILL NOT PERMIT ME TO PROVIDE RATIONALE FOR SUPPORT, BUT CERTAINLY MR AARON PERRIMAN IMPAIRMENT BROUGHT A LOT OF THOSE TWO LIGHT AS THE GENERAL MEN BEFORE ME. UH I WILL HAVE A COPY OF THIS AND I'M SOMETHING TO MY TIME, BUT JUST THREE ELECTIONS BECOME LESS MEANINGFUL WHEN A LONG TERM AND COVENANT RUNS, LONGEVITY AND OFFICE PROMOTES SELECTIVE VISION OF WHAT'S IMPORTANT LIMITING TERMS OF OFFICIALS IS NOT A NEW

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THANK YOU, SIR. BENJAMIN HEUSER, FOLLOWED BY KATIE LLOYD. GOOD EVENING, SIR. NAME AND ADDRESS.

EVENING BENJAMIN HEUSER. 3412 WIDOWS CARE FALLSTON, MARYLAND, 21047. UM, HERE TONIGHT TO DISCUSS TERM LIMITS. I DID HAVE A SPEECH. BUT AFTER LISTENING TO SOME OF THE QUESTIONS, I THINK WE SHOULD JUST ADDRESS SOME OF THEM. AH, MR GUTHRIE. UM I CAN CONFUSE A CROWD. BY HOW I ASK A QUESTION. IF YOU'RE FOR TERM LIMITS. IF YOU'RE NOT FOR TERM LIMITS, I CAN WORD IT A CERTAIN WAY TO CONFUSE PEOPLE PUT THEM ON ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER. YOU SAID THAT SOME PEOPLE WERE FOR SOME PEOPLE WERE AGAINST IT. WELL, THAT'S A PERFECT TIME TO THROW SOMETHING ON THE BALLOT, RIGHT WHEN YOU GO OUT TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS, AND THEY'RE KIND OF TORN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.

THAT'S WHEN YOU SAY YOU KNOW WHAT? HEY, LOOK, I REPRESENT YOU ALL. BUT I CAN'T RESENT, YOU KNOW, REPRESENT 50% OF OVER HERE AND 50% OF YOU OVER THERE. LET'S GO AHEAD AND THROW IT ON THE BALLOT. THIS IS THE PERFECT TIME TO DO SO. UM I FULLY SUPPORT ERIN PENGUINS WITH AMENDMENTS. I HAD A FEW RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE AMENDMENTS. BUT IF THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES FOR VOTES, AND THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES. NOW FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME. LET'S SAY I WANT TO RUN FOR COUNTY COUNCIL. AND THE INCUMBENT HAD 60 GRAND IN A WAR CHEST. WHY ON EARTH WOULD I WANT TO RUN? THAT WOULD? THAT WOULD JUST BE AN ABSOLUTE WASTE OF MY TIME? UM ANOTHER THING THAT WAS SAID, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GET HIRED, YOU KNOW, YOU SERVED 12 YEARS AND YOU'RE FIRED. WELL, THAT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT BECAUSE YOU'RE APPLYING FOR A JOB AND YOU'RE ONLY BEING HIRED BY ONE PERSON. NOT BY DISTRICT BY COUNTY. THAT'S ALSO SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. WHENEVER WE'RE TORN ABOUT A SITUATION LIKE THIS, WHENEVER WE BELIEVE THAT THE LINES ARE REALLY TOWARDS 50 50, OR MAYBE EVEN 40 60. WE SHOULD DEFINITELY GO AND JUST THROW IT ON. JUST THROW IT ON THE BALLOT. WE ALL MAY BE ABLE TO PROJECT WHAT IT MAY BE. HOWEVER THAT DOES ALLOW PACS AND SUPER PACS TO RUN ON CERTAIN ISSUES TO GO AHEAD AND CAMPAIGN ONE DIRECTION OR THE OTHER. HOWEVER I DO THINK HARFORD COUNTY REALLY DOES NEED TO GET WITH THE TIMES. AND ALLOW THE VOTERS WITH THE MOST RECENT GROWTH HAS TAKEN PLACE IN HARFORD COUNTY. TO ALL THE NEW CITIZENS TO DECIDE. SHOULD IT BE, OR SHOULD IT NOT BE? LET'S GO AHEAD AND PLACE IT ON THE BALLOT. LET'S LET THE VOTERS DECIDE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, SIR. GOOD EVENING, MA'AM. NAME AND ADDRESS, PLEASE . LLOYD 3, 12. THOMAS STREET. BELLAIRE, MARYLAND. THANK YOU TO THE COUNCIL FOR GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT. I DO, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT WE ARE IN NEED OF TERM LIMITS. IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE COUNCIL TO CONSTANTLY PROVIDE NEW IDEAS. ANY PERSON WHO QUALIFIES DESERVES A CHANCE TO TAKE OFFICE AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE. OUT WITH THE OLD AND IN WITH THE NEW PLEASE VOTE YES TO TERM LIMITS. THANK YOU, MA'AM. GREG LIQUEUR, FOLLOWED BY RUSS ENGLISH. GOOD EVENING, SIR. NAME AND ADDRESS, PLEASE. GOOD EVENING, GREG LIQUEUR, 18 20 PARK BEACH DRIVE.

UM I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS ALSO, AND IF I CAN DIRECT THEM TO THE COUNCIL WOULD BE, HOWEVER, COUNCIL. UH, DISTRICT BIG YOU SAY THAT THERE ARE TERM LIMITS. OKAY AND YOU HAVE YOUR WEIGHT. EIGHT YEARS. CAN YOU NOW RUN FOR SHERIFF. COUNTY EXECUTIVE. HE'S NOT GOING TO RESPOND TO YOU, SIR. OKAY I JUST WANT TO CAUSE YOU KNOW, YOU SAID THAT YOU KNOW, SHERIFFS ARE GOING TO BE LIMITED. I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF THERE'S GOING TO BE CROSSING OVER BECAUSE, AS YOU SAID, WITH THE DEVELOPERS THIS IS THERE LIKE YOU KNOW THEY'RE LOVING IT. OKAY BECAUSE IF YOU GET YOUR EIGHT YEARS YOU ARE RIGHT. YOU'RE GROOMING SOMEBODY TO COME IN BEHIND YOU AND EVERYBODY THAT IS GIVING INTO YOUR WAR CHEST IS NOW GIVEN TO THEIRS. ASSUMPTION WHICH A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE MADE HERE. OKAY? NOW. YOU WANT TO GO AND FOLLOW. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU SAID YOU CAN'T ANSWER BALTIMORE CITY. YOU WANT TO FOLLOW BALTIMORE CITY? BALTIMORE CITY JUST PASSED THIS AND THEY JUST MADE A SHAMBLES OUT OF IT. AND JUST AS YOU WERE SAYING, BECAUSE THERE'S JUST SO MANY THINGS THAT I WANTED TO SAY. BUT THEN MR BENNETT COMES UP AND HE ALSO SAYS ANYTHING PUT ON THE BALLOT. GETS PASSED. SO NOW YOU'VE GOT ALL YOUR PAC MONEY WITH ALL THESE DEVELOPERS, AND THEY CAN INHALE IT. I'M AGAINST IT, ESPECIALLY. I CAN KNOW IF THIS THE WAY IT'S BEING PRESENTED. AND I AM AGAINST THIS. THANK YOU, SIR. GOOD EVENING, SIR.

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B. JENNINGS AND THAT SAME PIECE OF PAPER HE HAD AARON UM LAURA AMERICAN ON THERE, KATHY CHALET GONE THERE, BUT NOT, UH, IMPALLARIA. HE PUT OUT EVERYTHING THAT WAS DONE DURING THAT SESSION. ALL THE DIFFERENT BILLS THAT CAME OUT EVERYTHING THAT CAME TO US. THEY WERE HOW THEY VOTED AND WHO VOTED FOR IT. MAKING IT VERY SIMPLE FOR THE PEOPLE TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON.

THIS MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE IF YOU CAN AMEND YOURS PUT IN THE REPORT CARD FROM YOU PEOPLE TO US SO WE CAN KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON. YOU DON'T SEE IT. YOU DON'T TAKE THE TIME TO GO OUT AND LOOK IT UP. WE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THE COUNCIL HAS DONE. OUR DELEGATES HAVE DONE OR ARE SENATORS HAVE DONE? BUT WHEN MR JENNINGS HAS PUT OUT WAS ABSOLUTELY GREAT. 100% IN FAVOR OF TERMINAL STATIONS, AND UNFORTUNATELY, AARON I'M FOR THREE YEARS OR THREE TERMS. THE REASON IS IF YOU MIMIC OUR COUNTY EXECUTIVE, WHICH IS TWO YEARS THEN YOU TURN AROUND. YOU HAVE THE POSSIBILITY OF CHANGING THE ENTIRE COUNCIL AUDIT. ONE TIME AN ACADEMIC TRUST THE GOVERNMENT. PUTTING A THREE YEAR PEACE IN THERE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE, AND IT ACTUALLY ALLOWS ONE OR TWO PEOPLE TO ROLL OVER AND KEEP THAT. BASICALLY CONTINUITY WITHIN OUR GOVERNMENT CONTINUING SO THAT'S THE REASON I LIKE THE 33 TERM LIMIT. SO UNFORTUNATELY TIME IS RUNNING UP AND I HAVE A LOT MORE TO GO ON. I'LL TALK TO YOU LATER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. THERE ARE NO MORE SPEAKERS , MR PRESIDENT WITH NO OTHER SPEAKERS. THIS WILL CONCLUDE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR BILL 23-0 16,

[g. Bill 23-017 (School Bus Stop Arm – Camera Fees)]

LITTLE LONGER THAN ME, BIG MAN. I DIDN'T SEE THAT I DID. GOOD EVENING, GENTLEMEN. GOOD EVENING , MR PRESIDENT. MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD. ERIC ROBI, DIRECTOR OF LEGISLATIVE AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS FOR THE HARPER COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE. TO MY RIGHT IS MAJOR ERIC GONZALEZ. HE'S THE CHIEF OF OUR PATROL SERVICES BUREAU. THE BILL YOU HAD BEFORE YOU TODAY, 23-017 IS A CLEAN UP BILL. ESSENTIALLY WHAT THIS DOES. WHEN THE MARYLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN 2011 GAVE THE AUTHORITY FOR LOCAL JURISDICTIONS TO ENACT A SCHOOL BUS STOP ARM CAMERA PROGRAM. THEY MADE IT VERY CLEAR IN THE LEGISLATION THAT IT WOULD BE THE DISTRICT COURT THAT ACTUALLY SETS THE CITATION, SO NOT ONLY DO THEY DO THEY DO? THEY COME UP WITH THE PARAMETERS ON WHAT IS ON THAT CITATION, BUT THEY ALSO SET THE FEE FOR THAT CITATION IN 2014. THE HARPER COUNTY COUNCIL ADOPTED 14-030 SET THE FEET $125 FOR A SCHOOL BUS STOP ARM DIGITAL VIOLATION HERE IN HARFORD COUNTY. UM THAT HAS A WITH THE WITH THE COUNTY, SETTING THE FEE AT THAT LEVEL.

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IT'S ACTUALLY 20% SORRY, MISSPOKEN. WELL UM, ABSOLUTELY. I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE HAD LEANING UP TO THIS WITH THE SHERIFF AS WELL. SO COUNCIL OPEN FOR QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ANYONE? MR BENNETT. HAVE YOU SINCE FEBRUARY, HAD ANYBODY WHO'S GOTTEN A SECOND TICKET LIKE YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE REPEATEDLY VIOLATING, UH, STOPPING BEHIND A SCHOOL BUS BECAUSE I WAS JUST WONDERING FUTURE. THIS DOESN'T HAVE TO DO DIRECTLY IF THIS BILL BUT OF HAVING A DETERRENT FOR REPEATED VIOLET VIOLATIONS, THERE'S SOME PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BE WILLING TO EAT $250 TO BE UNSAFE AND UNKIND OF CHILDREN. BUT YOU KNOW IF YOU DO IT A SECOND TIME A THIRD TIME THERE'S AN ACCELERATION OF CONSEQUENCES. SO COUNSELOR BENNETT. I THINK YOUR QUESTION IS ONE THAT I KNOW WAS BROUGHT UP THIS YEAR IN ANNAPOLIS DURING THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF BILLS DEALING WITH STOP ARMED CAMERAS. UNFORTUNATELY THE WAY THE STATE LAW IS WRITTEN, THERE IS NO PROVISION IN THERE THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO GO ABOVE THE PENALTY OF $250. THAT'S THE MAXIMUM FINE THAT A COUNTY OR JURISDICTION CAN SET. BUT IT'S CERTAINLY MIGHT BE A GOOD GOOD CONVERSATION POINT WITH THE DELEGATION. TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE. I DON'T BELIEVE WE'VE HAD ANY SECOND VIOLATIONS. UM CERTAINLY HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT OUT OF THE OUT OF THE NUMBERS WE'VE RECEIVED, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE ALL OF THEM ARE HAVE BEEN FIRST TIME. BUT BUT AGAIN, IT'S ONLY THE FIRST THREE MONTHS. THANK YOU, MR BENNETT. ANYONE ELSE? VERY SOON. NO ONE ELSE ANY . SIGNED UP. WE DO HAVE ONE SPEAKER MR PRESIDENT, BILL WAYLAND. GOOD EVENING, SIR SPRINGS ROAD, L R MARYLAND. I AM FOR BILL 23 17, BUT I CAME HERE MAINLY BECAUSE SOME QUESTIONS COME TO MIND AND HOPEFULLY THEY CAN BE ANSWERED. 100 OF THE COUNTY'S 500 PLUS IS OUTFITTED BY ANGEL TRACKS IN FEBRUARY, AND I UNDERSTAND THEY WERE PAID FOR BY ANGEL TRACKS AND NO COST TO THE COUNTY OR PUBLIC SCHOOLS ACCEPT 50. THE MONEY IS RETURNED TO THE VENDOR. ANY OTHER HALF GOES TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. AND RIGHT NOW, THE CAMERA RECORD VIOLATIONS OR 100 AND 25 WHEN I READ THE FISCAL REPORT, AND THAT'S WHAT BOTHERS ME. THE COUNTY CODE ALLOWS 225. AND IF ADOPTED, THE CURRENT RATE IS SET BY THE COURT TO 50. THIS FINE WAS SET IN 2014. BUT THE COUNTY DID NOT REALLY BEGIN ENFORCING THE CAMERA SYSTEM UNTIL MID FEBRUARY. 2023 IT SAYS APPROXIMATELY 600 CITATIONS BEEN ISSUED, BUT SOME FINES WERE NOT COLLECTIBLE BECAUSE 225 RATE IN THE CODE. IT'S NOT THE RATES SET BY THE DISTRICT COURT. ASSUMING THE CURRENT LEVEL OF CITATIONS AND THE DISTRICT COURT RATE THE COUNTY COULD APPROVED COLLECT APPROXIMATELY $600,000 PER YEAR IN SCHOOL BUS CAMERA, STOP OUR RELATIONS SUPER LEAGUE THAT WOULD GO DOWN AFTER PEOPLE LIKE LEARNED HER LESSON. UM WHY? WHY WAS IT NOT COLLECTED AT THE LOWER RATE THEY COULD HAVE COLLECTED 75,000 AND FIGHTS IF YOU WERE COLLECTED THAT JUST BECAUSE IT WAS HIGHER, UM, WHY? THAT'S ONE QUESTION IF YOU WON'T BE HOLD THAT I HAVE OTHER ONES THAT, UH, THE SAME TIME YOUR ANALYSIS STATES A CURRENT LEVEL LIKE AGAIN OF 2 50. 600,000 DIVIDED BY 2 50 IS 2400 VIOLATIONS AND THEN OF COURSE, THEY COULD GO DOWN. MY QUESTION HAS TO DO WHAT IS THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF EACH CAMERA, AND I'VE READ AS MUCH AS 2000, AND THEN IT'S THE VENDOR EVENTUALLY GOING TO PAY UP WHERE THERE IS NO ADDITIONAL. AH FI GOING BACK TO

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[h. Bill 23-018 (Pay Plan and Classification Plan)]

PUBLIC SAFETY ASSISTANT SHIFT MANAGER TO A PUBLIC SAFETY CAPTAIN. PUBLIC SAFETY BRANCH MANAGER TO A PUBLIC SAFETY DIVISION CHIEF. PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCHER, ONE TO A PUBLIC

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AND THEN YOUR PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCHER, PROBATIONARY TO PUBLIC SAFETY, EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST PROBATIONARY. PUBLIC SAFETY SHIFT MANAGER TO A PUBLIC SAFETY BATTALION CHIEF AND A PUBLIX DEFEAT SHIFT SUPERVISOR TO A PUBLIC SAFETY LIEUTENANT. UM I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE NAME NOMENCLATURE FOR THE PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCHER TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST ACTUALLY CAME AS A RECOMMENDATION FROM R. M. C E A UNION. AND THIS IS BASED ON LEGISLATION THAT WAS PASSED DOWN IN ANNAPOLIS. I BELIEVE IT WAS LAST YEAR, UM, AND HOW THEY MADE MENTION OF THE TITLES FOR DISPATCHERS, SO THEY HAD PUT IN THAT REQUEST TO MAKE THAT TITLE CHANGE. AND THEN THE TITLE CHANGES FOR YOUR PUBLIC SAFETY POSITIONS AGAIN THAT WAS BRINGING ON ALL THE PARAMEDICS AND EMTS THAT WE HAVE BEEN BROUGHT ON. TO GIVE THEM LEVELS. THAT IS IT FOR MY PRESENTATION. BUT I WILL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT ANYBODY HAS. NICOLE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD ANYTHING? NO, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD.

THANK YOU. UM, COUNCIL TIME FOR QUESTIONS. ANYONE. MR BENNETT. UM JUST IN UNDERSTANDING SOME OF THESE CLASS CLASSIFICATIONS LIKE I SEE A CUSTODIAL WORKER. ONE IS L B TWO. DO WE HAVE ANYBODY WHO'S CLASSIFIED AS LB? ONE CURRENTLY SO WE DO. UM I WANT TO SAY WE PROBABLY ONLY HAVE LESS THAN A HANDFUL. AND WHAT WOULD BE SOME OF THOSE POSITIONS. POSITION WE HAVE IS CALLED A LABORER, AND THAT'S MOSTLY IN OUR DPW DIVISION IN THE HIGHWAYS. AND CURRENTLY, IF YOU'RE A NEW HIRE, WITHOUT THIS LEGISLATION, AND ONE OF THOSE POSITIONS, YOUR STARTING SALARY AT MINIMUM WOULD BE 21,828 A YEAR. AS A FULL TIME LABOR AND DPW. YES WE ACTUALLY HAVE NOT HIRED ANY LABORERS SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE IN THE EIGHT YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN HERE. WE KIND OF HAVE KIND OF JUST KIND OF PUT THAT ONE ON THE BACK BURNER, BUT WE DO HAVE PEOPLE CURRENTLY IN THAT ROLE THEY ARE NOT MAKING $21,000 AND SAME THING FOR LB TWO. CURRENTLY IF YOU WERE A NEW HIRED CUSTODIAL STAFF, THE MINIMUM YOU WOULD BE PAID IS $23,052 A YEAR TO BE ACCORDING TO THIS PLAN, YES. SO THIS WOULD BRING THAT UP BY THE 9.5 $1000 SO CUSTODIAL WORKER. WOULD BE MAKING $32,000 A YEAR AS A NEW HIRE A REMINDER WE HAVE TO BRING THESE UP TO THE 31 TO ANYWAY.

JANUARY 1 SO BUT CURRENTLY, YES. THANK YOU, MR BENNETT. MR GUTHRIE. I'M CURIOUS OF THAT.

WHEN YOU SAY, SAY THE MINIMUM MAXIMUM. SOME OF THEM ARE MORE THAN DOUBLE. YOU KNOW WHO DETERMINES WHERE THE PERSON THAT'S HIRED AND ONCE THEY'RE HARD AT WHATEVER WAGE THEY'RE HARD AT HOW THEY WHO DETERMINES IF THEY CAN MAKE THE MAXIMUM WE DO AN HR. HR YEP, FROM WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS FROM BASED ON THEIR YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, AS WELL AS THEIR EDUCATION LEVEL.

AND I GUESS RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THEIR BOSS. IT ALSO DEPENDS ON THE BUDGET, TOO. SO YEAH, ONLY LETS US SPEND SO MUCH, BUT I WOULD EXPECT YOU NEED A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE SUPER OF SUPERVISORS AND BEFORE YOU GAVE HIM AN INCREASE WE DO AGAIN. IT THEY GIVE US WHAT THEY HAVE BUDGETED AND THEN WE USE THAT TO GAUGE WHERE WE CAN HIRE THE PERSON BASED ON THE MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM. OKAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR GUTHRIE. SEEING NO ONE ELSE, MISS DIXON, DO WE HAVE SIGNED UP? THERE IS NO ONE SIGNED UP, MR PRESIDENT. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. THIS WILL CONCLUDE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON BILL 23. 0 18. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK

[i. Bill 23-019 (Amend 2018 Land Preservation-Parks and Recreation Plan)]

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AND THERE'S A BY PERCENTAGE AS OPPOSED TO MOSTLY BY PERCENTAGE , AS OPPOSED TO ABSOLUTE NUMBERS. AND THEN THE RECREATION COUNCILS THAT ARE PROJECTED TO GROW OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS ARE ABERDEEN HAVING GRACE BELCAMP, EMERTON AND JOPPATOWNE? UH AS WITH THE 2018 PLAN, I'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH THE DEPARTMENT. UM THE LAST TWO SETS OF PLANS. SO I DID THE 2011 AS WELL AS THE 2018 PLAN. UM, WE ARE AS A COUNTY OVERALL, AND IT'S A SOCIETY OVERALL GETTING OLDER. UM AND ACTUALLY, THAT IS VERY REFLECTED IN THE INFORMATION DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION WITH REGARDS TO THE COUNTY BECAUSE THE LARGEST PERCENTAGE OF THE LARGEST AGE GROUP GROWTH IS IN THE 65 PLUS COMMUNITY. IN THE COUNTY. AGAIN IN THE CHAPTER TWO. WE TALK ABOUT OUR SUPPLY AND INVENTORY.

AGAIN WHAT WE HAVE NOW IN TERMS OF NOT ONLY COUNTY BUT ALSO STATE. WE DON'T HAVE ANY REALLY FEDERALLY OWNED LANDS, BUT ALSO MUNICIPAL LANDS. UM WE TALK ABOUT OUR RECREATION COUNCILS AND THEIR PROGRAMMING THAT THEY OFFER. UM AND THE PHENOMENAL JOB THAT THEY DO TO COMPLEMENT OUR GREAT PARTNERSHIP THAT WE HAVE WITH THEM. WE DISCUSSED WATER ACCESS AS WELL AS, UM TRAIL, MILES AND OTHER OTHER ITEMS AGAIN JUST TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW THINGS OVERALL FROM AN ACREAGE STANDPOINT IN THE COUNTY SYSTEM . SORRY COUNTY SYSTEM, WE HAVE ALMOST 4900 ACRES OF COUNTY PARKLAND. UM, AGAIN. WE HAVE 324 ACRES OF UNITS OF YOU MUNICIPAL PARKLAND. AND THEN THERE'S OVER 7000 ACRES OF STATE PARKLAND BETWEEN SUSQUEHANNA STATE PARK ROCK STATE PARK AND THE GUNPOWDER. UM WE DO AS A RESULT OF THE JOINT USE AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE WITH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.

WE ARE ALLOWED TO COUNT A PORTION OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION SITES TOWARDS OUR ACREAGE. UM AND SO, BASED ON THAT PERCENTAGE WE ARE ABLE TO INCLUDE 1800 ACRES BASICALLY, BOARD OF ED SITES AGAIN. WE HAVE EIGHT ACTIVITY RECREATION CENTERS IN THE COUNTY. WE HAVE TO NATURE CENTERS. THE BASEBALL DIAMONDS AND SOFTBALL DIAMONDS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY AGAIN AS A DEPARTMENT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING ALL OF THOSE BALL DIAMONDS, WHETHER THEY'RE AT COUNTY PARK SITES OR WHETHER THEY HAD PUBLIC SCHOOL SITES. UM WE HAVE BASKETBALL COURTS BOTH INDOOR AND OUTDOOR. I WOULD MAKE A NOTE AS AN EXAMPLE WITH THE INDOOR BASKETBALL COURTS AGAIN.

UM AS WITH THE 2018 PLAN, 90% OF OUR INDOOR BASKETBALL COURTS ARE WITH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. SO WHILE

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UM WE HAVE EIGHT VOLLEYBALL COURTS OVER 46 MILES OF TRAILS 17 SITES WITH WATER ACCESS. UM I SAID, I SEE TENNIS COURTS ON THIS ONE. TRUST ME WHEN WE DO THE NEXT VERSION OF THE 2027 PLAN THAT WILL INCLUDE INFORMATION ABOUT PICKLEBALL. UM AGAIN, AS PART OF OUR PLAN WERE REQUIRED TO INCLUDE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. UM, AS WE DID WITH THE 2011 PLAN AND THE 2018 PLAN. WE PUT OUT A PUBLIC SURVEY THIS THROUGH SURVEYMONKEY. WE HAD OVER 1600 RESPONSES. THIS IS ACTUALLY ALMOST 400 MORE RESPONSES COMPARED TO OUR 2018 PLAN AND OVER MORE THAN 600 RESPONSES COMPARED TO OUR 2011 PLAN. UM WE ASKED A SERIES OF QUESTIONS WITH REGARDS TO NATURE PROGRAMMING, SENIOR CITIZEN PROGRAMS. THERAPEUTIC RECREATION , GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT PARK VISITATION, SPORTS PROGRAMS. OVERALL PARTICIPATION. UM WHAT. SURVEY RESPONDENTS WANT TO SEE AS FACILITIES THAT, UM WE SHOULD CONSIDER IN THE FUTURE AS WELL AS FUTURE BUDGET PRIORITIES. IN ADDITION, THE DRAFT PLAN WAS PRESENTED TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY BOARD IN MARCH OF 2022 , THE PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD IN MARCH OF 2022 AND OUR RECREATION COUNCIL PRESIDENTS AT THEIR MARCH 2022 MEETING. THE FINAL DRAFT OF THE PLAN WAS THEN MADE AVAILABLE.

THROUGH THE COUNTY'S WEBSITE IN THE MONTH FROM FEBRUARY 17TH OF 2023 THROUGH MARCH 15TH OF THIS YEAR. AGAIN SOME OF THOSE TAKEAWAYS FROM THAT PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. YOU CAN SEE THAT 96% OF THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN AT A PARK WITHIN THE PAST 10 YEARS OR EXCUSE ME. FIVE YEARS 45% OF THE PEOPLE THAT PARTICIPATED IN NATURE OR SPORTS PROGRAMS, WHETHER THROUGH OUR DEPARTMENT OR WHETHER THROUGH ONE OF OUR RECREATION COUNCIL PARTNERS, UM , AND POPULAR POPULAR ACTIVITIES INCLUDE WALKING AND BIKING ON PAVED AND UNPAVED TRAILS, AS WELL AS ENJOYING NATURE AS AND PLAYGROUNDS. UM, TAKEAWAYS ALSO AGAIN. WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT BUDGET PRIORITIES, PEOPLE IDENTIFIED THE DESIRE FOR MORE PAVED AND UNPAVED TRAILS, RECREATION CENTERS, ACCESS TO FITNESS, CANOEING AND KAYAK LAUNCHES AS WELL AS PICKLEBALL. UM POP BUDGET PRIORITIES AGAIN, WE'RE AGAIN WALKING TRAILS, ACTIVITY CENTERS, UM, LAND ACQUISITIONS, PLAYGROUNDS AND OTHER PARK AMENITIES. OVERALL THERE IS A HIGH LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH OUR FACILITIES AND OUR PROGRAMMING BASED ON SURVEY RESULTS. UM THE STATE AGAIN. BACK IN 2020 18. THE STATE IMPLEMENTED A PROXIMITY AND EQUITY ANALYSIS. UM SO WHAT THAT REQUIRES FOR US TO DO AS PART OF OUR OVERALL SYSTEM IS TO BASICALLY TAKE ALL OF OUR PARK SITES AND ALL OF OUR PUBLIC RECREATION SITES AGAIN. PARTNERED WITH OUR FRIENDS AT PLANNING AND ZONING. UM, USING G . I S MAPPING THAT ALLOWS US TO THEN LOOK AT PROXIMITY ANALYSIS . SO WITHIN THE DEVELOPMENT ENVELOPE, WE USE A HALF. MILE AREA AROUND EACH OF THOSE SITES OUTSIDE THE DEVELOPMENT ENVELOPE . WE USE A FIVE MILE RADIUS AROUND THOSE, UH, SITES AGAIN. THAT'S EQUATES TO ROUGHLY A 15 MINUTE, UH, TRAVEL TIME DRIVING TIME. UM ARE MAPS WERE ALSO CREATED FOR THE FOLLOWING FACILITY TYPES AS REQUIRED BY THE STATE. INCLUDING SPORTS FIELDS AND COURTS, RECREATION CENTERS IN GYMS, TRAILS, FISHING AND WATER ACCESS PLAYGROUNDS AND PICNIC AREAS. THE STATE ALSO, THEN WANTS US TO TAKE THAT INFORMATION AND USED AND DO WHAT THEY DO AN EQUITY ANALYSIS. SO THE EVERY CENSUS TRACK IN HARFORD COUNTY WAS RATED BY THE STATE BASED ON THESE FACTORS YOU SEE HERE, INCLUDING PROXIMITY TO PUBLIC PARK SPACE CONCENTRATION OF CHILDREN UNDER 17, AS WELL AS ADULTS OVER 65 CONCENTRATION OF LOW INCOME POPULATION. OVERALL POPULATION DENSITY CONCENTRATION OF NON WHITE POPULATION WHEN COMPARED TO THE STATE AVERAGE, THE CONCENTRATION OF LINGUISTICALLY ISOLATED POPULATIONS AND THE WALK ABILITY OR LIMITED ACCESS TO TRANSIT.

AND EACH AGAIN, EACH OF THOSE CENSUS TRACTS WAS PROVIDED A SCORE AND THE HIGHER THE SCORE THE HIGHER THE PRIORITY IN THAT EQUITY ANALYSIS THAT THAT INDIVIDUAL CENSUS TRACK IS CONSIDERED. UM AS PART OF THE OVERALL NEEDS ANALYSIS AGAIN, HARFORD NEXT IDENTIFIED UH, 30 ACRES PER, UH, EVERY 1000 COUNTY RESIDENTS AS AN OVERALL GOAL. AS PART OF THE MASTER PLAN PROCESS . AND THIS L P. P. R P S YOU CAN SEE, BASED ON THE ACREAGE THAT IS AVAILABLE IN THE POPULATION.

UM WE DO MEET THAT GOAL OF 30.1 ACRES, UM, FOR PURPOSES OF JUST FUTURE CONSIDERATION FOR ACQUISITIONS. UM, IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN, UM, OUR ACQUISITIONS. OF THE 30 ACRES PER 1000 RESIDENTS. IT GIVES YOU AN IDEA OVER THE NEXT 10 TO 15 YEARS OF HOW MUCH LAND AGAIN AS A

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WE'RE ACTUALLY HOPING THAT WE GOT WORD EARLIER THIS WEEK FROM STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION WITH REGARDS TO SEGMENT THREE. SO WE'RE MOVING INTO THE NEXT STEP WITH REGARD TO THAT PROJECT AND LOOK TO HAVE IT OUT TO BID LATER. THIS YEAR WE DEVELOPED EMILY BAYLESS GRAND PARK, A PASSIVE PARK SITE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DEVELOPMENT ENVELOPE. THAT INCLUDES ONE POINT 9,000,001 0.9 MILES OF WALKING TRAILS, A SENSORY TRAIL AS WELL AS RELATED PARKING. WE WORKED WITH PARTNERS WITH A MIRACLE LEAGUE TO CREATE AMERICAN LEAGUE BASEBALL DIAMOND OVER AT CHUCK'S WORD PARK, AS WELL AS WE INSTALLED A CENTURY TRAIL THERE AS WELL. WE'VE DONE THEMED PLAYGROUNDS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY INCLUDED ALFRED B. HILTON PARK. UH FOX MEADOWS AND, UH, THE CHURCHVILLE GLENVILLE PROPERTY. WE COMPLETED A FEASIBILITY STUDY AS WELL AS

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SPECIFICALLY WITH, UH, STRENGTHENING OUR COMMITMENT TO PRESERVING NATURAL RESOURCES, AND CERTAINLY THINGS LIKE THE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN THAT WE DID. PREVIOUSLY THOSE TYPES OF THINGS WILL HELP TO INFLUENCE THE DECISION MAKING IN PARKS AND RECREATION AS WELL AS PLANNING AND ZONING AND CERTAINLY WITH OUR COMMITMENT TO PRESERVING SENSITIVE RESOURCES. AND ALSO IMPROVING THOSE RESOURCES GOES HAND TO HAND WITH OUR PROGRAM TO USE DEVELOPER FUNDS TO PLANT PROPERTIES, AND WE WORKED WITH PARKS AND RECREATION ON THINGS LIKE THAT, AND CERTAINLY IF YOU RECALL THIS YEAR WE WERE AT SHUCKS RED REGIONAL PARK BY THE MIRACLE LEAGUE FIELD PLANTING THERE, SO WE WORK HAND IN HAND WITH THEM TO DO THOSE TYPES OF THINGS TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE UPON THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND ALSO WORKED TO CHECK OFF THOSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES IN HARTFORD NEXT AS WELL AS IN THE LP, PRP AND SECONDARY TO THAT ALSO HAS A CHAPTER ON LAND PRESERVATION AND OBVIOUSLY, LAND PRESERVATION IS VERY IMPORTANT IN HARFORD COUNTY , AND I'M PLEASED TO SAY THAT THROUGH THE EFFORTS, UH PREVIOUS COUNTY ADMINISTRATIONS, THIS ADMINISTRATION AS WELL AS OUR AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION COORDINATOR AND STAFF. WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PRESERVE 62,500 ACRES OF FARMLAND IN THIS COUNTY THROUGH VARIOUS PROGRAMS, AND WE ARE CONTINUING THOSE EFFORTS IN THE COMING MONTHS. YOU WILL SEE SPECIFICALLY AS YOU MOVE INTO THE FALL SESSION, YOU WILL SEE MORE FARMS COME IN FRONT OF YOU FOR APPROVAL SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO INCREASE THOSE NUMBERS TO MEET THE GOAL OF 75,000 ACRES THAT WAS PUT IN HARTFORD NEXT AS AN ULTIMATE GOAL FOR US TO GET TO. SO WE'RE CLOSING IN ON THAT. AND EACH YEAR I THINK IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, WE'RE PRESERVING APPROXIMATELY ON AVERAGE OF THE LAST FEW YEARS ABOUT 2000 ACRES A YEAR, SO WE WILL DEFINITELY MEET THAT GOAL IN THE COMING YEARS. AND OF COURSE, WE APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT OF PARKS AND RECREATION IN OUR EFFORTS WITH LAND PRESERVATION AND

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SO WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT, UM MENTIONED PICKLEBALL. A COUPLE OF TIMES, UM, WENT THROUGH MY TWO CENTS IN YOU KNOW , WE HAD, UH YOU KNOW, OUR SENIORS IS THAT ALL FOR ON OUR SENIORS IN EDGEWOOD ARE STILL COMPLAINING. SO ON DID LAST NIGHT AT A COMMUNITY MEETING TO ME ONE ON ONE AFTER THE MEETING ABOUT THE PICKLE BALL THAT WE HAD AN EDGEWOOD AND NOW WE DON'T HAVE IT NOW, BECAUSE I THINK WE LOST THE TRAINER. WE LOST THE PERSON WHO WAS UH, PUTTING IT PUTTING IT ON WHATEVER I JUST WONDERED, DO WE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING ABOUT TRYING TO GET THE PICKLEBALL RESTORED? IN EDGEWOOD. WELL IT'S NOT THAT IT'S NOT THERE. IT'S WE CHANGED , BUT WE DON'T HAVE CHANGED THE WAY THAT WE THAT WE RUN THE PROGRAM, WHEREAS PREVIOUSLY WE WERE BASICALLY RUNNING THE PROGRAM MONEY. WHEN YOU REGISTERED FOR IT, IT WAS FOR FOUR DAYS AND SOME PEOPLE SHOWED UP SOME DAYS AND SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T SHOW UP OTHER DAYS, BUT WE CHANGED ABOUT THE PROGRAMMING IS WE LOOKED AND SAID WE'RE GOING TO REGISTER. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A MONDAY. YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA HAVE ONE EACH DAY. UM AND WHAT WE FOUND FROM THAT IS ACTUALLY WE'VE HAD A GREATER LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION OVERALL IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS BECAUSE YOU'RE GETTING PEOPLE WHO WOULDN'T NECESSARILY YOU KNOW WHO WOULD LOOK AND SAY, WELL, I CAN'T MAKE TWO OF THE DAY, SO I'M NOT GOING TO REGISTER NOW THEY'RE SAYING OH, OKAY. I CAN PICK THE TWO DAYS THAT I THAT I'M GOING TO BE THERE. SO WE DO OFFER IT. UM IT IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN THAN WHAT OFFICE ON AGING OFFERED IT WHEN THEY HAD THAT PROGRAM IN OUR WORKING IN OUR YOU KNOW, THROUGH OUR AT OUR LOCATION IN EDGEWOOD, BUT I CAN ALSO TELL YOU IN GENERAL, UM, THAT THE PICKLEBALL CROWD IN HARFORD COUNTY LIKES TO TRAVEL BECAUSE WE HAVE FOLKS WHO PLAY AT ONE LOCATION ON MONDAY AND A DIFFERENT LOCATION ON TUESDAY AND A THIRD LOCATION ON WEDNESDAY. I MEAN, THEY WILL GO WHERE PICKLEBALL IS AVAILABLE.

TRAVELERS. THERE YOU GO. OKAY ALL RIGHT. I'M GOING OVER THERE A COUPLE OF DAYS AND CHECK THEM OUT AND MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTAND. UM CAN YOU GIVE ME AN UPDATE ON THE ON THE LONG BAR HARBOR EQUIPMENT THAT THE EQUIPMENT DOWN THERE JUST FOR EVERYBODY'S NOTIFICATION DOWN AT THE LONG BAR HARBOR WHERE WE HAVE THE KIDS, UM, ENTERTAINMENT AND UM, SWINGS ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. WE HAD THIS CRAZY THING GOING ON WHERE THE BOLTS KEPT BREAKING IN THE EQUIPMENT. AND NOBODY KNEW WHY WE KEPT LOOKING FOR SPACESHIPS THAT ARE COMING DOWN OR WHATEVER WAS CAUSING IT , BUT THEY SENT OVER THERE AND REPAIRED ALL THE EQUIPMENT. PUT ALL NEW BOLTS ON IT, AND THEY ALL BROKE AGAIN. CORRECT A NUMBER OF THEM DID NUMBER OF NUMBER OF LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY THERE. UM WE REPLACED THAT WE'VE THAT PLAYGROUND WE PUT IN PLACE ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO. UM OTHER THAN ROUTINE MAINTENANCE DID NOT EXPERIENCE ANY ISSUES UNTIL THIS , UH, THIS JANUARY WHEN OUR MAINTENANCE STAFF WENT OUT TO DO THEIR ANNUAL ASSESSMENT OF THE PLAYGROUND BEFORE WE GET INTO THE SPRING SEASON, AND THEY FOUND THAT A NUMBER OF THE BOLTS HAD ACTUALLY BROKEN. UM AND WE WEREN'T WE WERE NOT SURE WHY. SO WE WORKED WITH THE PLAYGROUND MANUFACTURER AND INSTALLER.

INITIALLY THEY THOUGHT IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A BAD BATCH OF BOLTS. UM, SO THEY CAME IN AND REPLACED THE BOLTS. UM THEY STILL WE STILL EXPERIENCED SOME OF THE BOLTS BREAKING AGAIN. SO WHAT WE ARE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH IS ACTUALLY WE HAVE ONE OF OUR ON CALL ENGINEERS. THEY WERE ACTUALLY OUT THERE TODAY AND WE'LL BE BACK OUT AGAIN. I BELIEVE ON FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK, DOING SOME SURVEY WORK. TO SEE IF THERE MIGHT BE A SHIFTING. THAT'S SOME UNEVEN, UNEVEN

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YOU JUST TOLD ME SO THAT WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE WHAT WE THINK THE ROOT CAUSES BEFORE. WE KNOW WHAT OUR NEXT STEPS WILL BE, BUT WE ARE ANXIOUS TO GET IT OPEN AND SAFELY OPEN AS SOON AS WE CAN. OKAY. ONE LAST ONE FOR TODAY. SURE UM, THE L E D LIGHTS BECAUSE THEY TOOK TERRY UP TO COPE. AVERY PARKER. I TALKED TO THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE OF THERE. ALSO IN THE HALF THE LIGHTS ARE OUT OF THE FLOODLIGHTS ON THE FIELD, AND THEY CAN'T REPLACE THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE OLD AND SO KIND OF EXECUTIVE SAID IN TERRY ALSO, BUT WE'RE GONNA UPGRADE ALL THE LIGHTS TO LED S. DO WE KNOW WHERE THAT'S AT? WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THAT AND SEE. I DON'T KNOW SPECIFICALLY WHERE THAT IS AT THE MOMENT, BUT WE ARE ALREADY LOOKING AT THAT. OKAY GENERAL AGAIN AT ALL OF OUR FACILITIES BECAUSE ONE OF THE OTHER ADVANTAGES PARTICULARLY FROM A FIELD LIGHT STANDPOINT WITH LED BETWEEN THE LED LIGHTS AND THE WAY THAT WHAT THE NIGHT SKIES INITIATIVE. UM AND IF ANY OF YOU COUNCIL MEMBERS WANT TO DRIVE BY CEDAR LANE PARK AS AN EXAMPLE, THAT IS A SITE NOW THAT HAS THE LED LIGHTS. THEY'RE THEY ARE NIGHT SKY INITIATIVE. AND BASICALLY IF YOU ARE ABOUT 15 FT OFF OF THE FIELD, YOU'RE IN THE DARK. THE WAY THOSE LIGHTS ARE DIRECTION. THE WAY THE DIRECTIONAL UH, EFFECT OF THOSE LIGHTS ARE WE APPRECIATE IT GETTING DOWN SOON AS WE CAN GET READY FOR THE FALL STUFF. VERY GOOD. OH, IT THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR GUTHRIE. MR GINGER DANNON. THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. UM PROBABLY NOT A QUESTION THAT PERTAINS TO THIS, BUT IS THERE GOING TO BE ANY, UM PERMANENT. FACILITIES AT CEDAR LANE PARK FOR BATHROOM. THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE DISCUSSING WITH THEM IN TERMS OF A LONG TERM. DISCUSSING WITH WHO? CEDAR LANE SPORTS FOUNDATION BECAUSE WE WORK WITH THEM. WE WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH THEM IN TERMS OF CAPITAL PROJECTS. OKAY, SO. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, MR JAN. DRAWDOWN ANYONE ELSE? MISS DIXON, DO WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP? THERE IS NO ONE SIGNED UP, MR PRESIDENT. UM BUT I WANT TO ECHO A LOT OF THE COMMENTS THAT YOU HEARD HERE THIS EVENING. UM THE CITIZENS ABSOLUTELY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT YOU HAVE THE SERVICE THAT YOU PROVIDE. IT ADDS GREATLY TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE HERE IN THE COUNTY.

APPRECIATE ALL YOU GUYS DO. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOUR STAFF YOUR WHOLE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT.

THANK YOU. THIS WILL CONCLUDE THIS PUBLIC HEARING AND WILL BE TAKEN UP AT A FUTURE MEETING.

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UH, WE WANT TO HONOR THIS D DAY. THIS IS THE ANNIVERSARY ALL THE WAY BACK IN THE FORTIES. HAD A GRANDFATHER UNLESS SHE'S MY STEPFATHER, WHO WAS IN THAT WAR AND LATER THAN ANZIO, AND, UM, YOU KNOW A LOT OF GOOD STORIES FROM HERE OVER THE YEARS, BUT ANYWAY, I LIKE TO HAPPEN. GIVE THIS BEAR OUT TO ALL OUR SERVICE PEOPLE. LORD, WE ASK YOUR BLESSING. FOR OUR SOLDIERS OVERSEAS. AND PROUDLY SERVE OUR NATION WHO PROUDLY SERVE OUR NATION. WE THANK YOU FOR THIS PERIOD OF SERVICE, WHICH THEY GAVE AS THIS COULD BE THE BEST YEARS OF THEIR LIVES. WE EXTEND THANKS FOR THE FRIENDS THAT HAVE GAINED DURING THIS LIFETIME, AND THEY ASK FOR THE STRENGTH TO TEMPORARY. MORNING MORNINGS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED ON WHILE CELEBRATING THEIR LIVES, WHICH MIGHT TOUCHING OURS. HAVE ENRICHED BUT AS FAR MORE THAN MATERIAL WEALTH WE WILL RECALL PLEASANT MEMORIES OF THOSE SERVING KNOWING OR SERVING THE MILITARY FORCES. SERVED TO NONE.

SECOND TO NONE. LORD. HOW BLESSED WE ARE FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR U. S. MILITARY

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[6. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS]

NUMBER SIX. CHAIRMAN CAN MOVE ON. THANK YOU SO MUCH. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE. IT'S VERY EXCITING. IT'S BEAUTIFUL CHAMBERS. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING ME COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO JUMP THE LINE A LITTLE BIT. I APPRECIATE IT. UM AS YOU SAID, I'M BROOKE LIERMAN. I'M THE 30/4 , CONTROLLER OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND, ELECTED IN NOVEMBER. SWORN IN ON JANUARY 16TH. I'VE BEEN A WONDERFUL DAY IN BEL AIR, TOURING BUSINESSES MEETING WITH YOUR COUNTY EXECUTIVE MEETING WITH OTHER COMMUNITY LEADERS, UM AND CERTAINLY THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN SPENT A GREAT AMOUNT OF TIME IN HARTFORD COUNTY. UM I LIVE IN BALTIMORE CITY WITH MY HUSBAND AND TWO SMALL CHILDREN BY TRAINING. I'M A DISABILITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY. I WAS A LEGISLATOR REPRESENTING PART OF BALTIMORE CITY, SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST BALTIMORE FOR EIGHT YEARS. SERVING ON THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, CHAIRING THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON PENSIONS AND FOUNDER OF THE TRANSIT CAUCUS TO HELP PROMOTE ADDITIONAL TRANSIT OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE, INCLUDING UP, OF COURSE THROUGH HARFORD COUNTY. UM SO I'M HERE TONIGHT. UM, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. JUST TALK WITH YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER. UM WE ARE VERY FOCUSED IN MY ADMINISTRATION ON BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS WITH OUR LOCAL LEADERS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS ACROSS THE STATE OF MARYLAND. UM FOR THAT REASON WE HAVE CREATED A NEW POSITION OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS DIRECTOR IN OUR AGENCY, AND I'M SO DELIGHTED TO HAVE EACH SHUMAN WITH ME WHO IS OUR FIRST THE AGENCY'S FIRST EVER I G DIRECTOR SO SHE CAN BE A POINT OF CONTACT. OF COURSE YOU CAN ALWAYS REACH OUT TO ME, BUT YOU'RE ALSO WELCOME TO ALWAYS REACH OUT TO EAT WITH ANY QUESTIONS WHETHER IT'S ABOUT REVENUE ESTIMATES OR CONSTITUENT SERVICES OR TAX REFUNDS, NOT COMING FAST ENOUGH. UM AUDIT ISSUES. YOU CAN REACH OUT TO EVE AND SHE CAN HELP. MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET TO THE RIGHT PERSON AND ARE 1100 PERSON AGENCY, THE RIGHT PERSON WHO CAN HELP YOU AND HELP YOUR CONSTITUENTS. UM SO THE OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER IN MARYLAND IS A VERY UNIQUE OFFICE IN AMERICA, ACTUALLY, UM , WE I AM THE ONLY STATEWIDE FINANCIAL OFFICER WHO HAS THE DUTIES THAT I HAVE, UM NO OTHER STATE COMPTROLLER. STATE TREASURE. UM ALSO HAS THE OTHER PERSON'S DUTIES AND ALSO DOES REVENUE ADMINISTRATION SO IT'S REALLY INTERESTING. UM IT'S A REALLY INTERESTING POSITION. I'M THRILLED TO BE IN IT. UM SO THREE THINGS JUST TO KEEP YOU IN MIND ABOUT THE FUNCTION OF THE AGENCY, SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, THE COMPTROLLER OF MARYLAND IS THE ELECTED CFO OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION SAYS THAT THE COMPTROLLER OF MARYLAND HAS OVERSEES THE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT OF THE FISCAL AFFAIRS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND . THAT'S A FAIRLY BROAD MANDATE . UM AND MEANS, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST THINKING ABOUT HOW THE DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE TODAY AFFECT US, BUT HOW IS THE FISCAL DECISIONS THAT WE'RE MAKING TODAY AFFECT OUR KIDS? UM, AND AFFECT OUR GRANDKIDS AND REALLY SETTING OUR STATE UP FOR SUCCESS , NOT JUST FOR THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, BUT FOR THE NEXT 40 YEARS TO COME. SO THAT'S FIRST AND FOREMOST ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I AM FOCUSED ON, UM EVERY DOLLAR IN AND EVERY DOLLAR OUT OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND GOES THROUGH OUR OFFICE THROUGH THE GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT.

SECOND, OF COURSE, WITH CONTROLLER AND THE MEMBER OF A NUMBER OF BOARDS. UM IF YOU CAN , UM, YOU KNOW YOU'VE HEARD OF ALPHABET SOUP EVERY SO MANY DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS OF LETTERS, SO MANY DIFFERENT BOARDS AND GOVERNMENT STATE GOVERNMENTS. THE TWO. OF COURSE , THAT YOU'RE PROBABLY MOST FAMILIAR WITH ARE THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. THE GOVERNOR OF THE TREASURER, AND I SIT ON THAT BOARD EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 10 A.M. YOU CAN WATCH US TOMORROW ON YOUTUBE. APPROVING OR DENYING, UM, UH, MONEY FOR OUR PROGRAM, OPEN SPACE DOLLARS, WHICH, OF COURSE , HELPED FUND THE PARKS THAT YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT, WHICH ARE SO IMPORTANT, UM, TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS STATE HIGHWAY PROJECTS. MARK AND M TO SERVICES THAT I BELIEVE YOU HAVE TO MARK STATIONS HERE IN THE COUNTY AND SO A HUGE ARRAY OF, UM OF CONTRACTS, AND THEN THERE'S THE STATE RETIREMENT AND PENSION SYSTEM BOARD. I'M THE

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UM THAT MEANS THAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON BUILDING A GREAT TEAM. WE'VE REORGANIZED. THE LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE IN THE OFFICE BROUGHT A NEW LEADERS THROUGHOUT THE AGENCY, INCLUDING NOT ONLY OUR FIRST DIRECTOR, BUT ARE THE AGENCY'S FIRST EVER CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER. C. I O AND PART OF THE REASON WE DESPERATELY NEEDED A C I O IS BECAUSE IN ADDITION TO BUILDING THE TEAM, WE'VE GOT TO BUILD THE TOOLS, UM THE TECHNOLOGY AND OUR AGENCY IS HOPELESSLY OUTDATED.

UM WE HAVE THE OLDEST STATE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM IN THE NATION RIGHT NOW IN MARYLAND. WE HAVE A TAX PROCESSING SYSTEM THAT RUNS ON KOBOL, UM AND OUR EMPLOYEES SIT BEHIND GREEN SCREEN COMPUTERS. UM SO THERE IS A HUGE AMOUNT OF WORK TO DO. OUR WEBSITE IS ALSO A STATIC WEBSITE . YOU KNOW, WE'LL NEVER BUILD TO KEEP UP WITH THE 800 YOU KNOW, PHONE CALLS AND 252,500 PHONE CALLS AND 800 EMAILS AND SO WE HAVE TO BUILD A BETTER WEBSITE SO THAT PEOPLE CAN HELP THEMSELVES. UM SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE REALLY FOCUSED ON, IS MODERNIZING THE AGENCY SO IT CAN WORK BETTER FOR MARYLANDERS. SECOND WE ARE FOCUSED ON ENSURING THAT THE RESOURCES AND EXPERTISE OF THE OFFICE CREATE OPPORTUNITY FOR AND OPPORTUNITY FOR AND MAKE A POSITIVE IMPACT ON MARYLAND FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES AND BUSINESSES, SO THAT MEANS USING TECHNOLOGY TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCY AND ON STATE SPENDING AND THE STATE PROCUREMENT PROCESS. GOOD PAYMENTS TO STATE VENDORS AND CONTRACTORS, ENSURING THAT THE OFFICE IS USING DATA TO DRIVE DECISION MAKING AND THEN USING THAT DATA TO CREATE REPORTS THAT INFORMED POLICY DECISIONS AND HOPEFULLY THAT WILL BE HELPFUL TO YOU AS WELL. UM, SO ONE OF THE FIRST REPORTS WILL BE CREATING AS A STATE OF THE ECONOMY REPORT THAT WILL GET TO YOU IN THIS DURING THE FALL SO THAT YOU CAN SEE SORT OF HOW HARFORD COUNTY STACKS UP TO THE STATE AND NOW THE STATE IS STACKING UP VERSUS OUR OUR NEIGHBORS WERE ALSO FOCUSED ON ENGAGING IN ROBUST PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT. TO CONNECT FAMILIES , COMMUNITIES, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND BUSINESSES ACROSS MARYLAND WITH SERVICES LIKE FILING TAXES, ACCESSING STATE TAX CREDITS OBTAINING LEGAL GUIDANCE. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MARYLAND HAS NEVER DONE THAT OTHER TAX AGENCIES DO AROUND THE STATE. PROVIDE FREE BUSINESS LEGAL ADVICE. SO FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU'RE A BUSINESS OWNER, AND MAYBE YOU HAVE A TAX LAWYER, MAYBE YOU CAN'T AFFORD ONE. BUT YOU ARE WONDERING HOW THIS YOU HAVE THIS UNIQUE SITUATION FACT SITUATION AND YOU DON'T KNOW HOW , UM THE TAX LAW AFFECTS YOUR FACTS SITUATION AFTER WE HAVE LOT FULLY LAUNCHED OUR LEGAL DIVISION, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO WRITE TO THE OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER AND GET A BINDING LEGAL DECISION CALLED A PRIVATE LETTER RULING. ON THAT FACT SCENARIO THAT YOU CAN THEN RELY ON THAT'S SO IMPORTANT AS A BUSINESS TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT THAT TAX ADVICE THAT YOU CAN RELY ON SO THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE PAYING WHAT'S OWED. AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING AUDITED. EVER. UM, DOWN THE LINE? UM AND THEN, FINALLY

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WITHHOLDING MONEY BECAUSE WE GIVE IT TO A QUARTERLY. WE HOLD BACK A SMALL PIECE OF IT BECAUSE WE'RE NOT SURE WHERE EVERYBODY LIVES YET OR WHERE TO ALLOCATE IT. WE WON'T KNOW THAT UNTIL THEY FILE THEIR TAX RETURNS. RIGHT AND THEN WE KNOW. OH SARAH SMITH LIVES IN HARTFORD COUNTY.

LIKE WE'RE ALL SET. WE SENT THAT OUT, OR WE HELD BACK A LITTLE BIT. NOW IT CAN GO TO HARFORD COUNTY NEXT YEAR, IT TURNS OUT SARAH SMITH. HAS MOVED TO BALTIMORE COUNTY. WELL WE SENT THAT MONEY TO YOU OR IF WE DIDN'T WITHHOLD A LITTLE BIT, AND WE SENT TOO MUCH TO YOU.

WE'D HAVE TO TAKE SOME BACK AND THEN SEND IT TO BALTIMORE COUNTY , RIGHT, RATHER THAN HAVING TO TAKE MONEY BACK AT THE END OF THE YEAR WHEN WE'RE DOING THE RECONCILING, WE WITHHOLD A LITTLE BIT UPFRONT. AND THEN AT THE END, WHEN WE DO A RECONCILIATION, WE MAKE SURE IT ALL GETS OUT. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IT MAKES A WHOLE LOT MORE SENSE THAN THAN I HAD A HANDLE ON IT BEFORE. UM BUT SO AT THE END OF THE YEAR THAT MONEY GETS DISPERSED IF THEY LIVE IN THE COUNTY, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE JUST GOING OVER THE CYCLE EACH YEAR. IT'S BEEN GROWING IN THAT FUN, AND I THINK THERE WAS 100 AND 47 MILLION IN THAT FUND. AS OF THIS LAST FISCAL YEAR, SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT 147 MILLION WHILE IT KEEPS GROWING, IT'S GOING TO BE DISPERSED BACK INTO THE COUNTY INCOME TAX WILL GET ALL THE MONEY THAT'S ATTRIBUTED TO YOUR TAXPAYERS. WE DON'T HOLD ANY OF IT BACK. THAT'S THE I MEAN, THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE IS WE DON'T HAVE AND WE DON'T HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO WRITE. WE COULDN'T HOLD IT BACK EVEN IF WE WANTED TO, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO. SO YOU ALWAYS GET EVERYTHING THAT IS OWED TO YOU. AND I'M GUESSING THAT YOU GOT THAT DOLLAR FIGURE FROM THE ACT FOR, UM, UM WHICH IS JUST THAT SORT OF REQUIRED POINT IN TIME, LIKE SNAPSHOT.

THAT'S TAKEN OF THE RESERVE ACCOUNT, AND IT'S THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THAT WE HAVE COLLECTED THAT WE THINK WE WILL, EVENTUALLY OH TO A COUNTY AT THAT EXACT MOMENT IN TIME. UM AND SO THE NEXT DAY, THAT NUMBER COULD HAVE CHANGED BECAUSE WE HAD FIGURED OUT WHERE IT COULD GO BECAUSE MORE TAX RETURNS HAVE COME IN. I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S ANOTHER THING TO KEEP IN MIND, TOO. IS THAT NOT EVERYBODY FILES A TAX RETURN BY APRIL 15TH RIGHT PEOPLE ARE FILING TAX RETURNS ALL YEAR. AND SO WE'RE LEARNING WE MIGHT NOT HAVE LEARNED ON APRIL 15TH. THAT'S SARAH SMITH MOVED TO BUY. BALTIMORE COUNTY. WE SHE MIGHT HAVE FILED FOR AN EXTENSION SO WE DON'T LEARN UNTIL JULY. RIGHT BUT THEN WE SEE IN JULY. OH SHE MOVED TO BALTIMORE COUNTY. SO THAT GOES TO BALTIMORE. YOU KNOW, THAT PIECE GOES TO BALTIMORE COUNTY. UM AND SO THAT'S WHY ARE YOU KNOW IF WE WERE TO WAIT TO SEND YOU MONEY LIKE YOU WOULDN'T HAVE THE CASH FLOW THAT YOU NEED SO BECAUSE WE DO THESE QUARTERLY DISBURSEMENTS. WE HAVE TO HOLD A LITTLE BIT BACK AND THEN WE RECONCILE IT. I JUST I DON'T MEAN TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT OF JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BETTER. SO IF THAT'S THE CASE, THAT'S FANTASTIC. BUT IT SEEMS LIKE IT KEEPS GROWING. SO IS IT SO THAT A PORTION OF THIS 1 47,000,147 MILLION SO WE'RE GOING TO GET A LARGE PORTION OF THAT BACK THIS NEXT YEAR? GROWING BECAUSE EVERY YEAR WE TAKE IN MORE MONEY AS A STATE? SO WE HAVE TO HOLD A LITTLE. WE HOLD A LITTLE BIT MORE BACK BECAUSE I MEAN THE PERCENTAGE IS STILL RELATIVELY THE SAME THAT WE'RE HOLDING BACK. BUT OUR ECONOMY IS GROWING AND PEOPLE ARE PAYING MORE IN TAXES EVERY YEAR, SO THE DOLLAR FIGURE IS GROWING TOO. OKAY I MAY HAVE SOME MORE QUESTIONS. HOPEFULLY AMERICAN REACH OUT TO EVE. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR PENMAN. MR GUTHRIE, STEP A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. UM I JUST SAW REGIONAL INDUSTRY THIS REPORT AT MY COMMUNITY COUNCIL MEETING LAST NIGHT. ASSAULT FROM THIS RECENT BUDGET. UH YOU WENT THROUGH IN THIS THIS EARLIER THIS YEAR, THEY'RE JUST CLOSED. THAT HARFORD COUNTY GOT ABOUT $33,500,000. AND THEN IT WAS A LIST OF ABOUT 10. DIFFERENT PLACES. THAT 33 MILLION. DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THEY ARE, BUT WHAT THEY WENT TO HAVE. IS IT DETERMINED LIKE THESE 10 ITEMS THERE THAT THERE'S $33 MILLION WAS PAID OUT TO WHO MAKES THAT DETERMINATION. ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? UM. THE STATE BUDGET OR YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, OKAY. IS THAT WHAT YOU MEAN? BUDGET CAPITAL BUDGET, SO THE OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER DOESN'T WRITE THE BUDGET THE GOVERNOR DOES AND THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. SO, UM WE COLLECT ALL THE MONEY. UM AND WE DO THE STATE REVENUE ESTIMATES, RIGHT? ROBBIE AND HIS TEAM ARE MR SANDERS AND HIS TEAM. THEY DO THE COUNTY REVENUE ESTIMATE. WE DO THE STATE REVENUE ESTIMATES, SO WE TELL THE STATE WHAT WE THINK THEY HAVE TO SPEND. WE

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I WANT TO SAY TENS OF MILLIONS. UM BUT WE WERE SUED. SO COMCAST SUED, SAYING THAT THIS WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. UM BUT RATHER THAN FILING TAX COURT, WHICH IS WHERE USUALLY TAX QUESTIONS GO.

THEY FILED IN THE NORMAL COURT, SO DISTRICT COURT CIRCUIT CIRCUIT COURT, UM, APPELLATE COURT. UM FOUND IN FAVOR OF COMCAST. AND IT WENT UP TO THE SUPREME COURT. UM THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER BEEN THE DEFENDANT IN A CASE WAS REALLY EXCITING. NEVER BEEN THE DEFENDANT BEFORE . BECAUSE SINCE I'M THE TAX COLLECTOR, ANY TAX CASES THE CONTROLLER IS THE DEFENDANT, SO WE WERE IN THE MARYLAND SUPREME COURT A FEW WEEKS AGO, MAYBE A MONTH OR SO AGO. UM AND THE SUPREME COURT ACTUALLY AGREED WITH THE OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER IN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, UM, AND THREW THE CASE OUT ON PROCEDURAL GROUNDS AND SAID, NO COMCAST LIKE YOU DON'T GET TO BYPASS TAX COURT. YOU HAVE TO GO TO TAX COURT. SO NOW WHAT HAPPENS BECAUSE THE CIRCUIT COURT, UM APPELLATE COURT HAD SAID THAT IT WAS ON UNCONSTITUTIONAL. WE WEREN'T ACTIVELY COLLECTING LIKE YOU COULD VOLUNTARILY. IF YOU ARE A COMPANY THAT OWED IT, YOU COULD VOLUNTARILY PAY. BUT WE WEREN'T GOING OUT AND EATING COMPANIES AND SAYING, HEY, YOU OWE US THIS MONEY, RIGHT? UM AND SO SOME, AND WE EVEN SAID IF YOU WANT TO REFUND, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE ALREADY PAID WILL ISSUE YOU A REFUND, AND SO SOME COMPANIES CAME AND GOT REFUNDS AS WELL. UM SO RIGHT WHEN THE SUPREME COURT THEN MADE THEIR DECISION, THEN IT BECAME LEGAL FOR US TO COLLECT AND TO TELL THOSE COMPANIES THIS IS HOW MUCH YOU OWE. UM SO I HAVEN'T HAD A REPORT SINCE THE SUPREME COURT CASE ON HOW MUCH MONEY HAS COME IN, BUT WE CAN GET THAT REPORT AND SEND IT TO YOU. AND

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UM, SO THEY AMENDED THE LAW, AND THEN WE AMENDED IT AGAIN TO MAKE SURE THAT GUINNESS COULD BE HERE, FRANKLY, UM, AND TO SUPPORT BREWERIES AND WINERIES AND DISTILLERIES, UM AND THEN THERE WAS A LOT DURING THE PANDEMIC, RIGHT THAT YOU COULD DO CARRY OUT AT LIKE RESTAURANTS YOU COULD DRINK. SO THAT BECAME THAT BECAME A PERMANENT LAW. BUT IT'S UP TO THE COUNTIES, BASICALLY, SO THE STATE HAS ALLOWED IT, BUT COUNTIES HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT THEY WANT THEIR THE DECISION IN THEIR LOCALITIES TO BE, UM. YOU KNOW, WE NO LONGER RUN THE ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO COMMISSION, WHICH IS THE ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THAT'S NO DIFFERENT AGENTS. IT'S ITS OWN INDEPENDENT AGENCY, AND IT'S ACTUALLY NOW THE ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND CANNABIS COMMISSION BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO ENFORCE CANNABIS. UM BUT WE'RE STILL THE TAXING AUTHORITY. SO WE WORK REALLY CLOSELY WITH OUR BREWERIES OR DISTILLERIES ARE WINERIES AND SOON OUR CANNABIS COMPANIES TO MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTAND THAT TAX FORMS THAT THEY HAVE TO FILL OUT. UM THEY'RE PRETTY COMPLICATED. SO RECENTLY, WE'VE BEEN PARTNERING WITH SOME OF OUR BREWS AND WINERIES AND DISTILLERIES, AND WE'VE CREATED HOW TO VIDEOS. UM AND WE'RE DOING WEBINARS AS WELL WITH ALL OF THEM SO THAT THEY CAN JOIN AND WE CAN GO OVER ALL THE ISSUES AND WE'RE ALSO TRYING , SO THOSE ARE SORT OF SHORT TERM FIXES, BUT WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH THEM TO IDENTIFY THE WAYS THAT THE THAT OUR REGULATIONS AND OUR STATE STATUTES, YOU KNOW WHY THEY MAKE IT SO COMPLICATED TO FILE. UM WE'RE JUST TOTALLY DIFFERENT THAN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. AND THE BEDS. IT'S SO MUCH SIMPLER, AND SO WE WANT TO REALLY SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO SIMPLIFY THE TAX FORMS TO WHICH IS ANOTHER WAY TO SAY, HEY, BREWERIES. WE WANT YOU TO STAY.

WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT SIMPLER TO DEAL WITH THE GOVERNMENT HERE. GREAT AND LAST QUESTION, UM, TAX RATE ON CANNABIS, SAME AS ALCOHOL. 9% MUCH LOWER. WELL NO ALCOHOL IS 9% WHEN YOU GO INTO WHEN YOU GO INTO A RESTAURANT, BUT THEY HAVE AN EXCISE TAX TO AND CANNABIS WON'T YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, THANK YOU. YEP. 9% THANK YOU, MR GINGER. DANNO. UM ANYONE ELSE? MR PYM, JUST, UH. MY CITIZEN BUDGET VISOR HERE. CAN I GET YOUR INFORMATION FOR HIM JUST TO FOLLOW UP LATER ON. THANK YOU CARDS SO WE CAN LEAVE SOME OF HER CARDS PERFECT. WELL, AND YOU CAN GRAB THE MINOR WAY OUT. THANK YOU. THAT WOULD BE PERFECT. YES THANK YOU. YEAH, JUST GIVE THEM TO MR CARNEY. THAT WOULD BE FINE. YEAH GREAT. THANK YOU. WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH. OH, SORRY. GOOD. MR BENNETT. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU, AND IT'S FUN TO FIND OUT WE HAD SIMILAR SPRINGS. FELLOW DEFENDANT BUDDIES. UM BUT IN THE SAME BUILDING JUST A FEW WEEKS APART. HOPEFULLY WE'RE BOTH ONE AND I'M BUT I JUST THOUGHT I'D SHARE THAT LITTLE COINCIDENCE. THAT'S RIGHT. YEAH LORD WAS FUNNY. YEAH I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR TAKING TIME TO STOP BY AND SEE US AND VISIT WITH US. LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN THE FUTURE, AND I KNOW YOU HAVE A BUSY SCHEDULE. YOU NEED TO RUN. REALLY APPRECIATE IT. I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE A VERY BUSY NIGHT. SO JUST THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALLOWING ME A FEW MINUTES AND I REALLY DO MEAN IT.

I HOPE THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE CONVERSATION AND NOT THE END AND ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO BE HELPFUL. I LOOK FORWARD TO RETURNING TO HARFORD COUNTY. UM OFTEN, SO I WILL SAY IN THE PAST THE PRIOR CONTROLLER WOULD VISIT BUSINESSES FROM TIME TO TIME ACROSS THE COUNTY WOULD LET THE DISTRICT REP KNOW THAT THEY WERE IN TOWN AND MAYBE BE ABLE TO VISIT WITH THEM. SO WE WOULD APPRECIATE THAT. ABSOLUTELY IF YOU DO COME BACK OR WHEN YOU COME BACK. ABSOLUTELY AN EVIL.

MAKE SURE TO LET YOU KNOW. UM YOU KNOW WHERE I AM AND WHO I'M VISITING WITH AND JUST KEEP IN TOUCH. WE HAVE SOME BIG FESTIVALS COMING UP IN HARTFORD COUNTY. I AM A BIG FAN I USED TO LAST YEAR LAST SUMMER, I WAS ABLE TO MAKE IT TO A FEW OF THE FRIDAY NIGHT'S FIRST FRIDAYS AND HAVE TO GRACE AND YEAH. YOU HAVE A LOT OF FUN. I CAME TO THE FAIR, SO WE TRY TO MAKE IT OUT.

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[5. CONSIDERATION OF PETITIONS, APPLICATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND NOMINATIONS]

THEY MAY HAVE A 2ND 2ND. AND THE SECOND TO APPROVE THE NOMINATION BY THE CULTURE ARTS BOARD FOR ROBERT HARRINGTON. HARFORD LIVING TREASURE. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? SEEING THEM, MISS DIXON. MR PRESIDENT. THREE PENMAN, MR RILEY OR MR JAN GIORDANO, I MR RILEY. I. MRS BALL SADDLE, MR BENNETT I SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE ZERO AND NEGATIVE DENOMINATION IS HEREBY APPROVED. HARFORD TV ADVISORY POURED MISS SADDLES. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF LOUISIANA ER SEUIN FOR HARTFORD TV ADVISORY BOARD. THANK YOU MAY HAVE A SECOND. THANK YOU, MR RILEY. IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED TO APPROVE THE NEW APPOINTMENT TO THE HARFORD TV ADVISORY BORDERS OR ANY DISCUSSION. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. MR GENDER DOWN, JUST WANNA CLARIFIED, SAID VERIZON REPRESENTATIVE I DON'T KNOW IF THAT MATTERS OR NOT. IT DOES. THANK YOU. UM ANYONE ANYONE ELSE? MS DICKSON, MR PRESIDENT.

MR GUTHRIE MANAGER DEANNA HI, MR RILEY. MR BENNETT. SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, ZERO AND NEGATIVE TO HEAR THEIR APPOINTMENT IS HEREBY APPROVED. EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENTS. HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, BORDER TRUSTEES MISSILES. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE NEW APPOINTMENT OF JAMES MICHAEL WOODS AND THE REAPPOINTMENT OF DR WILLIAM B. ALLEN TERRENCE FLANNERY AND THE STUDENT APPOINTMENT OF EVA HOLLOWAY FOR THE HARTFORD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES. THANK YOU MAY HAVE A SECOND THANK YOU, MR RILEY. MOVED A SECOND TO APPROVE THE NEW APPOINTMENTS AND REAPPOINTMENTS AND THE STUDENT APPOINTMENT TO THE BORDER TRUSTEES TRAINED DISCUSSION. MS DICKSON, PRESIDENT. MR GUTHRIE PENMAN, DEANO RILEY SADDLES MR BENNETT HIGH BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, ZERO AND NEGATIVE. THE APPOINTMENTS ARE HEREBY APPROVAL OR ANY OF THE INDIVIDUALS IN THE CHAMBERS THIS EVENING. ALL RIGHT. AH HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION MAY HAVE EMOTION COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND MOVED TO APPROVE STUDENT MEMBER LAURA SHOE HALL. SECOND. THANK YOU, MR GUTHRIE. MOVING A SECOND TO APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION IS READY DISCUSSION IN DIXON. MR. PRESIDENT MR GUTHRIE PENMAN, MR . JAN GIARDINA, MR RILEY SADDLE.

MR BENNETT. I BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, ZERO AND NEGATIVE. THE APPOINTMENT IS HEREBY APPROVED. AH HMM. OKAY THANK YOU. CONGRATULATIONS. GEN ITEM NUMBER SEVEN APPROVAL OF

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[8. INTRODUCTION AND CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS]

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AND SO ME AND STAFF IN MY OFFICE GOES THROUGH AND FIGURE OUT WHAT ARE ALL THE COUNTIES BUSINESS PROCESSES, UM, TO FIGURE OUT HOW LIKELY IS IT THAT SOMETHING WILL GO WRONG IN ONE OF THOSE PROCESSES AND ALSO, UM, HOW BIG OF A DEAL WOULD IT BE? SO ONCE WE QUANTIFIED THE LIKELIHOOD AND SIGNIFICANCE OF A PROBLEM IN ANY GIVEN BUSINESS PROCESS? BASICALLY GO DOWN THE LIST AND SAY, WELL, WHICH OF THESE PROJECTS DO WE NEED TO LOOK AT THIS YEAR? HOW RECENTLY HAVE WE LOOKED AT THIS? UH, PROCESS. UH AND ALSO, WHAT ARE THE CONCERNS OF OUR CONSTITUENTS? SO IN THAT CASE, OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE YOU ALL AS COUNCIL MEMBERS. WE ALSO MEET WITH THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO FIND OUT WHAT HIS PRIORITIES ARE TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE HAVE BEEN FACTORED INTO OUR OVERALL RISK ASSESSMENT. SO ONCE WE DO THAT ACTUALLY COME UP WITH THIS PLAN? UM LOOKING AT IT. A LOT OF THESE ARE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE DONE IN PRIOR YEARS AND PROJECTS THAT WE DO EVERY YEAR. UM SO YOU'LL SEE IN THEIR AUDIT OF PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CONTROL ACCOUNTS PAYABLE. PARTS AND RECREATION INVENTORY CONTROL FACILITY. ACCESS HOLE CABLE FRANCHISE FEES. UH HARVARD TRANSITS, CASH RECEIPTS, EMPLOYEE SEPARATION. BUILDING PERMIT BUILDING INSPECTIONS AND PERMITS BUILDING COLLECTION RELATED TO THOSE WE ALSO WANT TO LOOK AT E. M S FILLING IN THE NEXT YEAR. UM SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE DO EVERY YEAR OR THINGS LIKE MAKING SURE THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT AUDIT GETS DONE. UH WE LOOK AT PETTY CASH EVERY YEAR. WE FOLLOW UP ON OUR PRIOR FINDINGS, UH, TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED. UM WE DO BUDGET ANALYSIS AND FISCAL NOTES FOR YOU ALL THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, SO OUR AUDIT PLAN INCLUDES TIME FOR ALL OF THOSE THINGS, ALONG WITH ALSO THINGS LIKE TIME OFF. ALSO TRAINING FOR OUR STAFF. WE ALSO SAVE SOME TIME FOR UNANTICIPATED PROJECTS BECAUSE SOMETIMES THINGS COME UP. UM, THAT ARE REALLY HIGH PRIORITY SO WE DO HAVE TIME IN OUR BUDGET FOR THOSE THINGS. THERE'S A FISCAL IMPACT NOTE THAT GOES ALONG WITH THIS, UH, RESOLUTION. YOU'LL PROBABLY SEE THAT NEXT WEEK, BUT ESSENTIALLY, THERE'S NO FISCAL IMPACT RESOLUTION. UM HERE IT IN THE BUDGET FOR OUR OFFICE. THAT'S WHAT OUR AUDIT PLAN LOOKS LIKE. AND I CAN CERTAINLY ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALL HAVE ABOUT IT. COUNCIL ANYONE WITH ANY QUESTIONS, MR GINGER DONNA.

CRYSTAL GOOD EVENING. I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK, DEDICATION SUPPORT GREATLY APPRECIATED. THANK YOU FOR SAVING ME A COUPLE OF TIMES. IT DEFINITELY WAS SO ALL THESE AUDITS THAT YOU DO I KNOW IT COMES IN HANDY WHEN WE NEED WHEN WE NEED THAT. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, MR GENTRY. DINNER, MR PENMAN. CRYSTAL. I JUST WANT TO ECHO. UM WHAT TONY HAD SAID, UM, I'M A FREQUENT FLYER AT YOUR OFFICE. I APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK AND YOUR STAFF DOES AND HOW RESPONSIVE YOU YOU ARE. SO IT HELPS ME. JUST TRY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR HARD WORK. ANYONE ELSE? AND I WOULD GO THE SAME SEDIMENTS, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S SO FUNNY BECAUSE SOMETIMES WHEN HE DOES GET OUT OF EVERY SKIS A LITTLE BIT, HIS PHONE BEEPS AND YOU'RE RIGHT THERE. EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE NOT IN THE CHAMBERS, YOU'RE LISTENING TO EVERY MEETING EVERY WORD AND WE APPRECIATE THE SERVICE THAT YOU PROVIDE TO US. BUT THE CITIZENS OF THE COUNTY THANK YOU AND COUNCIL. WE'RE GOING TO HOLD THIS UNTIL NEXT MEETING AS WELL AND VOTE ON THE PLAN AS WELL. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

AGENDA ITEM NUMBER NINE INTRODUCTION OF BILLS WE HAVE NONE. INTRODUCTION AND

[10. INTRODUCTION AND CONSIDERATION OF AMENDMENTS]

AMENDMENTS TO BUILD 23-011 APARTMENTS. B THREE GENERAL BUSINESS DISTRICT AMENDMENTS INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL MEMBER PENMAN AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE ON PAGE TWO STRIKE, BEGINNING WITH THE IN LINE TO DOWN THROUGH DISTRICTS IN LINE THREE AND SUBSTITUTE THE R FOUR ZONING DISTRICT IN THE B THREE ZONING DISTRICT, RESTRICTED SOLELY TO BEING LOCATED IN A MIXED USE CENTER SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT PURSUANT TO. TO 67-76. AND THEN WENT NUMBER TWO ON PAGE TWO.

AFTER LINE 19 INSERT SEE, UH, PARENTHESES. QUOTATION SEE, NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISIONS OF THIS CODE TO THE CONTRARY GARDEN AND MADE RISE APARTMENT SHALL BE PRINCIPALLY PERMITTED IN THE B THREE ZONING DISTRICT PROVIDED THAT THE APARTMENTS ARE PART OF A MIXED USE CENTER

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EXCEPTIONS, EXCEPTIONS. THANK YOU, MR JAN GIORDANO. UM AND AGAIN, THESE AMENDMENTS WILL BE CONSIDERED AT A FUTURE MEETING. UM AMENDMENTS ONE THROUGH 16 TO BUILD 23-0 13 HAVE BEEN SET ASIDE THIS EVENING. TODAY WE NOTICED SOME THINGS THAT NEED TO BE LOOKED AT, SO WE'RE HOLDING THEIR BACK. I'D LIKE TO MOVE TO AMENDMENTS TO BUILD 23-0 14 ANNUAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE.

MISS SPENCE, MR SANDERS. COUNCIL. MAY I HAVE GENERAL CONSENT TO MOVE FORWARD AND VOTE ? UH ON THESE AMENDMENTS IN BLOCKS LIKE YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU ACCEPT. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL PRESIDENT, COUNCIL MEMBERS, UM I'LL GO RIGHT INTO VOTING BLOCK ONE. AMENDMENTS NUMBER ONE AND TWO. THIS IS TO REALLOCATE FUNDS FROM HUMAN RESOURCES, PERSONNEL MATTERS AND THE AMOUNT OF $750,000 AND PROVIDE TO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU MAY HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK ONE. COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND MOVED TO APPROVE VOTING BLOC ONE CONTAINING AMENDMENTS ONE AND TWO. YOU, MR GUTHRIE. IT'S MOVING A SECOND TO APPROVE VOTING BLOC. ONE ISRAELI DISCUSSION. MS DICKSON. MR. PRESIDENT MR. GUTHRIE. MR PENMAN . MR. JAN GIORDANO, MR RILEY SADDLES MR BENNETT I SEVEN VOTING ZERO NEGATIVE VOTING BLOCK. ONE IS HEREBY APPROVED. SPENCER VOTING BLOC TO OUR AMENDMENTS THREE THROUGH SEVEN, AND THIS IS TO REALLOCATE FUNDS FROM THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE IN THE AMOUNT OF 43,005 38 AND THE DIRECTOR OF MINISTRATIONS, THE IN THE AMOUNT OF 43,005 37. THIS IS TO INCREASE FUNDING TO HARTFORD CENTER AND THE AMOUNT OF $7470 AND THE ARK NORTHERN CHESAPEAKE REGION AND THE AMOUNT OF $7630 AND TO HOUSING AND COMMUNITY

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THANK YOU, MR BENNETT. THE SECOND TO APPROVE VIRGIN BLOCK TWO. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSIONS? MS DICKSON. MR. PRESIDENT MR. GUTHRIE MR. PENMAN SUDANO RILEY SADDLES. MR BENNETT. I. BEING SEVEN VOTING AFFIRMATIVE ZERO AND NEGATIVE VOTING BLOCK TWO IS HEREBY APPROVED BLACK NUMBER THREE OR AMENDMENTS EIGHT THROUGH 10. THIS IS TO REALLOCATE FROM FUNDS FROM A VACANT POSITION WITHIN COMMUNITY SERVICE IS THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY SERVICES IN THE AMOUNT OF $101,859 AND FROM A VACANT POSITION WITHIN PLANNING AND ZONING, THE DIRECTOR PLANNING AND ZONING AND THE AMOUNT OF $89,443 TO PROVIDE FOR OUR MARKETING STAFF WITHIN OFFICE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. THANK YOU MAY HAVE EMOTION. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I MOVED TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK THREE CONTAINING AMENDMENTS EIGHT THROUGH 12TH. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU, MR GUTHRIE. THE SECRETARY PROVED. VOTING BLOCK THREE DISCUSSION. MS DICKSON. MR. PRESIDENT MR. GUTHRIE MR. PITTMAN MR. JAN GIORDANO, MR RILEY MODELS, MR BENNETT. BEING SEVEN VOTES IN AFFIRMATIVE ZERO AND NEGATIVE VOTING BLOCK THREE IS HEREBY APPROVED. PUTTING BLOCK NUMBER FOUR AMENDMENTS 11 AND 12. THIS IS TO INCREASE THE FUND BALANCE APPROPRIATED IN THE AMOUNT OF $10 MILLION TO INCREASE BOARD OF EDUCATION, INSTRUCTIONAL SALARIES TO SUPPORT TEACHERS, SALARIES AND CLASSROOMS, HAVE EMOTION COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND MOVED TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK FORWARD CONTAINING AMENDMENTS. 11 AND 12. THANK YOU, MR GUTHRIE. THE SECOND TO APPROVE.

BUILDING BLOCK FOUR. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? MS DICKSON. MR. PRESIDENT MR. GUTHRIE MR. PENMAN MR. JAN GIORDANO, MR RILEY SADDLES, MR BENNETT. BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND ZERO AND NEGATIVE VOTING BLOCK FOUR IS HEREBY APPROVED. VOTING BLOCK NUMBER FIVE OR AMENDMENTS 13 AND 14. THIS IS THE INCREASE FUND BALANCE APPROPRIATED IN THE AMOUNT OF $150,000 TO INCREASE THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE SALARY FUNDS FOR TWO VICTIM WITNESS ADVOCATES. THEY HAVE EMOTION. COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND MOVED TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK FIVE CONTAINING AMENDMENTS 13 AND 14. HAVE A SECOND VERY GOOD. THANK YOU, MR GUTHRIE SECONDED TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK FIVE. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? MS DICKSON. MR. PRESIDENT MR. GUTHRIE MR. PENMAN MR. JAN GIORDANO, MR RILEY SADDLES, MR BENNETT. I BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE ZERO IN THE NEGATIVE VOTING BLOCK FIVE IS HEREBY APPROVED. VOTING BLOCK SIX AMENDMENTS 15 AND 16. THIS IS TO INCREASE FUND BALANCE APPROPRIATED IN THE AMOUNT OF $410,000 TO INCREASE THE OFFICE OF THE STATE'S ATTORNEY TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL SALARY FUNDS HAVE EMOTION COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND MOVED TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK SIX CONTINUE AMENDMENTS 15 AND 16 2ND. SECOND MS SOBS. BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK SIX ISRAELI DISCUSSION. MS DICKSON. MR. PRESIDENT MR GUTHRIE PENMAN. MR JAN GIORDANO, MR. RILEY DOES MR BENNETT I BEING SEVEN, VIRGINIA AFFIRMATIVE ZERO AND NEGATIVE VOTING BLOCK SIX IS HEREBY APPROVED. VOTING BLOCK NUMBER SEVEN. THIS IS FOR THE CAPITAL BUDGET. THIS IS TO INCREASE FEDERAL FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF 2,250,000 TO PROVIDE FOR A MATCH FOR THE STATE BROADBAND GRANTS ON THE BROADBAND INFRASTRUCTURE CAPITAL PROJECT, AND THAT IS AMENDMENT 17 AND 18. MAY HAVE A MOTION, PLEASE PRESIDENT AND MOVED TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCS, SEVEN CONTAINING AMENDMENTS 17 AND 18 2ND 2ND. MR PAEMEN. IT'S MOVING SECOND TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK SEVEN IS READY DISCUSSION.

MS DICKSON. MR PRESIDENT, MR GUTHRIE PENMAN, MR JAN GIORDANO. MR RILEY ALZADO. MR. BENNETT. I BEING SEVEN VOTES IN INFORMATIVE ZERO IN THE NEGATIVE VOTING BLOCK SEVEN IS HEREBY APPROVED

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COUNCIL PRESIDENT I MOVED TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK NINE CONTAINING AMENDMENTS 21 AND 22 2ND, MR GUTHRIE. SECOND TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK NINE IS RAIN DISCUSSION. MS DICKSON. MR PRESIDENT, MR. GUTHRIE MR. PENMAN GIORDANO, MR. RILEY MR BENNETT? I BEING SEVEN VOTING AFFIRMATIVE ZERO IN THE NEGATIVE VOTING BLOCK NINE IS APPROVED. PUTTING BLACK 10 AMENDMENTS 23 AND 24. THIS IS TO INCREASE OTHER FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $3 MILLION TO PROVIDE APPROPRIATION AUTHORITY TO EXCEPT FOR MY CONTRIBUTOR OR BENEFACTOR, TO CREATE A NEW PARKS AND REC CAPITAL PROJECTS, CEDAR LANE PARK IMPROVEMENTS MAY HAVE EMOTION COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND MOVED TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK 10 CONTAINING AMENDMENTS 23 AND 24 2ND. SECOND THANK YOU. MR PENMAN MOVEMENT SECOND TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK 10. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? MR GINGER, DAMMIT! I JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT'S A TREMENDOUS GIFT FROM SOMEBODY CEDAR LANE PARK. I KNOW THAT'S A JEWEL AND OUR RECREATION. WE REALLY NEEDED THAT SHOW. I LOOK FORWARD TO SEE, UH SOME MORE IMPROVEMENTS AS HE TODAY PARK AND I CERTAINLY DO APPRECIATE WHOEVER GAVE THAT DONATION AND JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THEY KNEW WE WERE THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT ANYONE ELSE? MS DICKSON, MR PRESIDENT. MR GUTHRIE. MR PENMAN. MR. JAN GIORDANO, MR RILEY SADDLES. MR BENNETT. I BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE ZERO IN THE NEGATIVE VOTING BLOCK, 10 IS HEREBY APPROVED BLACK 11 AMENDMENTS 25 THROUGH 36. THIS IS TWO CORRECT VARIOUS WATER AND SEWER CAPITAL PROJECTS, REMOVING THE FUNNY SOURCE OF PRIOR BONDS AND REPLACING IT WITH INVESTMENT INCOME. THIS IS NECESSARY TO CORRECT THE AMOUNT OF APPROPRIATED PRIOR BRONZE. TO WHAT IS ACTUALLY AVAILABLE, SO THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT INCOME THAT WE'RE REPLACING IT.

THE PRIOR BONDS WITH IS $402,854 . HAVE EMOTION COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND MOVED TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK 11 CONTAINING AMENDMENTS 25 THROUGH 36 OF A 2ND 2ND. THANK YOU, MR RILEY. IT'S MOVING A SECOND TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK 11. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION, MS DICKSON? MR PRESIDENT, MR. GUTHRIE MR. PENMAN MR. JAN GIORDANO, MR. RILEY, MRS. BALL SADDLES, MR BENNETT. BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE ZERO AND NEGATIVE VOTING BLOCK. 11 IS HEREBY APPROVED. HURTING BLACK 12 AMENDMENTS 37 THROUGH 58 AT THE REQUEST OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION AND AS APPROVED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION DAY 23 16. THESE AMENDMENTS ARE TO REALLOCATE HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FUND BALANCE TO VARIOUS BOARD OF EDUCATION CAPITAL PROJECTS FOR TOTAL AMOUNT OF 20,000,006 81 6 42. HAVE EMOTION. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I MOVE TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK 12 CONTINUE AMENDMENTS 37 3 58 A 2ND 2ND. THANK YOU, MR CLEMENS.

IT'S MOVING A SECOND AND TO APPROVE VOTING BLOCK 12. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION, MISS DIXON? MR PRESIDENT, MR. GUTHRIE I PENMAN MR JAN GIORDANO HIGH. MR RILEY SADDLES. MR BENNETT. I BEING 7 13 AFFIRMATIVE ZERO AND NEGATIVE VIRGIN BARK 12 IS HEREBY APPROVED. UM. COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION. TONIGHT WE HAVE FIVE MEMORANDUMS CHANGE TO RESOLUTION 0 25-23 CALVIN

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MR BENNETT. I. THEY'RE BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE ZERO AND NEGATIVE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGED NUMBER ONE IS HEREBY APPROVED. REMEMBER RANDOM OF CHANGE NUMBER 2 MAY HAVE EMOTION . COUNCIL PRESIDENT I MOVE TO APPROVE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGED NUMBER TWO SECOND SECOND THANK YOU, MR PENMAN. SECOND TO APPROVE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGE NUMBER TWO. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? MR CHANGER, DANA DO WE NEED TO READ IN WHAT THE PROJECT IS IN THE MEMORANDUM OR NOT, YOU CAN, IF YOU LIKE. UM UM OKAY PROJECT IS ATHLETIC AND RECREATION, REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS. THE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGE WILL APPROPRIATE 337,000 AND PAYGO FUNDING IN FISCAL YEAR 2025 FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF THE OUTDOOR TRACK AT HARVARD GRACE HIGH SCHOOL, THE FISCAL 20 YEAR 24 FUNDS OF 337 WILL BE TO REPLACE THE TRACK AT ABERDEEN HIGH SCHOOL. IS THERE ANY OTHER 7000? MISS DIXON. MR PRESIDENT, MR. GUTHRIE PENMAN. MR. JAN GIORDANO, MR RILEY SADDLES MR BENNETT HIGH. BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. ZERO AND NEGATIVE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGED, TOO, IS HEREBY APPROVED. MEMORANDUM OF CHANGED THREE. YOU WANT TO READ IT IN? YES, SIR.

RESOLUTION 25-23 CAPITAL PROGRAM FISCAL YEARS 2024 THROUGH 2029 PARKS AND REC CEDAR LANE PARK IMPROVEMENTS. THIS MEMORANDUM OF CHANGE WILL ADD THE CEDAR LANE PARK IMPROVEMENTS CAPITAL PROJECT TO THE FISCAL YEAR 24 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN AND APPROPRIATE 1,500,000 AND OTHER PRIVATE DONATIONS. IN FISCAL YEAR 2025. MAY I HAVE A MOTION? PROVE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGE NUMBER THREE SECOND SECOND THANK YOU, MR PLYMOUTH. THE SECOND TO APPROVE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGED NUMBER THREE. MR JANITOR, DENNIS. SO AGAIN, I JUST LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT I RECOGNIZE THE PRIVATE DONATION OF 1,500,000 TO CEDAR SATURDAY. PARK LANE PARK. UM I THINK THAT'S NOW. 4.5 MILLION AND DONATIONS. UM SO I KNOW EVERYBODY'S VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THAT. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S RECORDED OUT THERE, AND WE CERTAINLY DO. THE CITIZENS OF HARTFORD COUNTY.

CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THAT. SO THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT ANYONE ELSE? MISS DIXON. MR PRESIDENT, MR. GUTHRIE, PENMAN. GIORDANO HI, MR RILEY. SADDLES, MR BENNETT. THEY'RE BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. ZERO AND NEGATIVE MEMORANDUM CHANGED THREE IS HEREBY APPROVED.

MEMORANDUM OF CHANGE FOR MR DANCER DOWN. I'D ALSO LIKE TO READ THIS IN RESOLUTION 20 0 25 23 CAPITAL PROGRAM FISCAL YEARS 2024 TO 2029 PARKS AND REC JOPPATOWNE JABBA COMMUNITY CENTER. THIS MEMORANDUM OF CHANGE RENAMES THE JAPANESE CHOPPER TOWN YOUTH CENTER TO THE JAPANESE JOPPATOWNE COMMUNITY CENTER, AND WE'LL MOVE FISCAL YEAR 2026 FUTURE BOND FUNDING ANY MAN OF 2 MILLION AND THE FISCAL YEAR 2029 FUTURE BUTTON BOND FUNDING THE AMOUNT OF 7 MILLION TO FISCAL YEAR 2025 FOR THE JAPANESE JOPPATOWNE COMMUNITY CENTER CAPITAL PROJECT. MAY HAVE EMOTION, PLEASE COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I MOVED TO APPROVE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGE FOR SECOND THANK YOU, MR GUTHRIE. THE SECOND TO APPROVE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGE FOR IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION, MR GUTHRIE ? YES, IT'S JUST THAT DOES BUT A LONG TIME COMING. I APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD WORK'S BEEN DONE NOT ONLY BY THIS COUNCIL BUT CAN'T EXECUTIVE TO GET THIS TO WHERE IT IS. IT'S MOVING IT UP FIVE YEARS CLOSER TO US FROM FROM FISCAL 2029 AND THEN IT'S YOU KNOW HOW THOSE OUT YEARS WORK? IT DOESN'T REALLY MEAN IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE OUT YEARS. AS YOU GET CLOSER TO THEM THE OUT YEARS GO FURTHER OUT, SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS MOVING US UP INTO THE 23 24 PERIOD. 25 THANK YOU ANYONE ELSE? MR PENN. I JUST WANT TO COMMEND, UH,

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REMEMBER? RANDOM HAS CHANGED. FOUR IS HEREBY APPROVED. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMORANDUM OF CHANGE FIVE. CANCEL PRESIDENT AND MOVED TO APPROVE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGE FIVE MAY HAVE A 2ND 2ND. MR MODELS. THANK YOU. SECOND TO APPROVE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGE FIVE. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? MS DICKSON MY HANDS. I'M SORRY TO SEE MR JAN JORDANA. I JUST WANT TO THANK MARY HASLER , THE HEAD OF HARFORD COUNTY. UH PUBLIC LIBRARIES FOR USING SOME OF HER FUNDS TO GET THIS PROJECT CHANGE THAT BELLER LIBRARY SO AGAIN. I JUST WANT TO THANK HER FOR THAT. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE? MISS DIXON. PRESIDENT FREE PENMAN. MR JAN GIORDANO, MR. RILEY MR BENNETT. I. FOR BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE. ZERO AND NEGATIVE MEMORANDUM OF CHANGED FIVE IS HEREBY APPROVED . I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A MINUTE TO THANK BOTH OF YOU THUS FAR FOR YOUR EFFORTS ON THIS BUDGET.

I WANT YOU TO DELIVER A MESSAGE BACK TO THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND TELL HIM THAT WE APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS THAT HE'S PUT FORTH TO LOOK AT THE CONCERNS THAT THIS COUNCILS HAD AND LISTEN AND FIND THE WHEREWITHAL TO TAKE CARE OF THEM. WE STILL HAVE ONE OR TWO THINGS THAT WERE QUESTIONING AND WE HOPE THAT HE CONTINUES TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD, BUT THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR EFFORTS. THE AGENDA NUMBER 11 OBVIOUSLY WILL BE HELD THE BILL 23-0 13 UNTIL NEXT WEEK. UM NUMBER 12. ENROLLMENT OF BILLS. WE HAVE NONE 13 UNFINISHED BUSINESS. WE HAVE NONE. 14 NEW

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SPECIAL EDUCATION. WE'RE PROJECTING THAT TO BE VERY, VERY CLOSE RIGHT ABOUT $83,000 TO THE GOOD RIGHT NOW IT'S ABOUT A 6 $52 MILLION CATEGORIES THAT WE'RE REQUESTING $500,000 TO BE TRANSFERRED INTO SPECIAL EDUCATION, STATE CATEGORY. 106 HEALTH SERVICES AGAIN. THAT ONE IS VERY, VERY CLOSE. WE'RE RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF BEING EITHER RIGHT AT ZERO. OR MAYBE A COUPLE OF, UH 1000 OVER. WE'RE REQUESTING 200,000 PEOPLE PUT INTO STATE CATEGORY 108 HEALTH SERVICES. UM, TRANSPORTATION. WE'RE PROJECTING RIGHT NOW TO BE OVER JUST OVER $500,000. WE ARE ASKING FOR A TRANSFER OF $1 MILLION TO BE PUT INTO STATE CATEGORY. 109 TRANSPORTATION. UM THE NEXT THREE ON YOUR SHEET ARE REALLY UTILITIES. CAT STATE CATEGORY. 1 10. WE'RE ASKING FOR A MILLION DOLLARS TO BE ADDED TO OUR ELECTRICITY ACCOUNT 1.5 MILLION TO NATURAL GAS AND 500,000 TO OIL. WE'RE PROJECTING TO BE OVER JUST OVER $2 MILLION IN UTILITIES. AS YOU PROBABLY KNOW, FROM UH, YOUR HOME AND THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE BUSINESSES WE'VE SEEN INCREASE IN OUR UTILITIES COSTS OVER THE YEAR. THE NEXT CATEGORY IS 1 15 CAPITAL OUTLAY. WE REFUNDED OUR ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING. UM LAST YEAR, AND DURING THAT PROCESS, UM I DIDN'T MOVE FUNDS FROM INTEREST TO PRINCIPAL. SO WHEN WE FUNDED WE DROPPED THE INTEREST RATE FROM 2.4 TO 1.7 SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SO WE'RE PAYING MORE PRINCIPAL AND LESS INTEREST WITH THAT WHOLE THING HAPPENING IN THE SPRING, I NEGLECTED TO MOVE THE MONEY FROM INTEREST AND PRINCIPAL. SO WE'RE ASKING FOR THAT $80,000 TO BE MOVED AT THIS POINT, AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS STATE CATEGORY.

104 INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPLIES AND MATERIALS. UM WE ARE ASKING FOR $900,000 TO BE ADDED TO OUR TEXTBOOK LINE THAT IS FOR A PILOT PROGRAM THAT THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVED IN. MAY 22ND SPORT OF EDUCATION MEETING THE TWO ACCOUNTS THAT WILL THE WILL IN ONE STATE CATEGORIES USUALLY IS FIXED CHARGES. STATE CATEGORY 1 12 OUR HEALTH INSURANCE WERE ASKING FOR 808,600,000 TO BE.

SPREAD OUT BETWEEN THOSE CATEGORIES THAT I JUST MENTIONED ABOVE AND THEN, UH, DEBT SERVICE INTEREST A REDUCTION OF 80,000, WHICH WOULD BE MOVED INTO PRINCIPLE. SO WITH THAT WE WOULD CERTAINLY ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE. THANK YOU, MR CLARK. AND I WANT TO THANK YOU AND MISS JUDD FOR THE TIME THAT YOU CAME OVER AND VISITED WITH MYSELF, AND I'M SURE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS TO BRING US UP TO SPEED WITH THE TRANSFERS. AND I DO, YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S DONE ON A REGULAR BASIS. SO COUNCILMAN ANY QUESTIONS? DONE A GOOD JOB MAY HAVE EMOTION. WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER THIS TONIGHT. SO MAY I HAVE A MOTION PLEASE. COUNCIL PRESIDENT. I MOVE TO APPROVE THE INTER CATEGORY TRANSFERS. THANK YOU MAY HAVE A 2ND 2ND. THANK YOU. MR PENMAN IS SECOND TO APPROVE THE INTER CATEGORY TRANSFERS THIS EVENING. ISRAELI DISCUSSION. MISS DIXON. SHE LEFT . OH, MR CARNEY. MR PRESIDENT. I GOT THREE. GIORDANO I RILEY DOES I. THEY'RE BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE ZERO AND NEGATIVE. THE REQUEST FOR INNER CATEGORIES. TRANSFERS ARE HEREBY APPROVED. YOUR DUCT. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. THE COUGH THROUGH THAT WILL CALL CROW CALLS OUT. UM. IF I MAY, I'D LIKE TO MOVE

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CHAPTER THREE WHEN THE CODE CANNOT BE IGNORED. DENY IT ON 18 JANUARY 2017. I REQUESTED A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE HARPER COUNTY AIRPORT LICENSE RENEWAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE FROM THE MARYLAND OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS WAS ASSIGNED TO THE CASE AMONG UNDISPUTED FACTS SUBMITTED IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES PROPOSED DECISION ON OCTOBER 11 2013 HARFORD COUNTY AIRPORT OWNERS GROUP AT ALL FILED AN APPLICATION. SEEKING A SPECIAL EXCEPTION. OPERATED JOURNAL AVIATION AIRPORT. APRIL 16TH 2014 ZONING HEARING EXAMINER RECOMMENDED THAT THE REQUEST FOR SPECIAL EXCEPTION BE GRANTED. 16 SEPTEMBER 2014. THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS RENDERED A FINAL DECISION RATIFYING AND ADOPTING ITS OWN THEY ZONING HEARING EXAMINERS. FINAL DECISION ON 14 APRIL 2015. THE CIRCUIT COURT OF HARFORD COUNTY ISSUED A WRITTEN OPINION AND ORDER WHICH AFFIRMED THE FINAL DECISION OF THE HARPER COUNTY COUNCIL BOARD OF APPEALS.

MARCH 1ST 2017, THE HARPER COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND ZONING CONDUCTED A REVIEW OF THE ZONING STATUS OF THE HARPER COUNTY AIRPORT AND SENT A LETTER WITH THEIR FINDINGS TO KEVIN HESS, AIRPORT MANAGER FOR THE AIRPORT, HARFORD COUNTY AIRPORT . IN THAT CORRESPONDENCE DATED 1 MARCH, 2017, MR MILTON DE DAVENPORT'S STATED THE HARTFORD AIRPORT IS RECOGNIZED AS AN EXISTING NON CONFORMING USED THAT HAS BEEN IN CONTINUOUS OPERATION AS A GENERAL AVIATION AIRPORTS SINCE 1941. AS OF THE DATE OF THIS LETTER, THERE ARE NO KNOWN ZONING VIOLATIONS OR CITATIONS ON THIS PROPERTY AND AMONG THE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW. JUDGE'S FINDINGS SLASH ANALYSIS . BRADLEY AT KELLY IN THE DIRECTOR OF HARFORD COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND ZONING EXERCISES AUTHORITY WHEN HE DETERMINED THAT THE HARPER COUNTY AIRPORT HAS BEEN GRANTED ALL LAND USE APPROVALS REQUIRED TO PERMIT THE RENEWAL OF ITS LICENSE. AND JURISDICTION OF THE M A. UNDER SECTION FIVE. THAT'S 204 OF THE TRANSPORTATION ARTICLE OF THE MARYLAND ANNOTATED CODE DOES NOT INCLUDE THE INDEPENDENT DETERMINATION BY THE M A OF LOCAL ZONING ISSUES.

IT IS THE LOCAL GOVERNING BODY THAT ISSUES AIRPORT LAND UP, YOU USE APPROVABLE AND ON 23 MAY 2016 AND M. A REPRESENTATIVE PERSONALLY CONTACTED THE DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND ZONING, MR ANTHONY MCLUHAN TO CONFIRM THAT LAND USE APPROVAL FOR THE HARFORD COUNTY AIRPORT REMAINED VALID. NOW I WONDER WHO GAVE MR DAVENPORT'S AUTHORITY AND DISCRETION TO REVERSE THE DECISION OF THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS WRITTEN OPINION AND ORDER OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF HARFORD COUNTY. GENTLEMEN MA'AM , THAT IS NOT A RHETORICAL QUESTION THAT'S SERIOUS. IT'S TIME WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, AND YOU SAY THIS IS AN F BOMB FRAUD. WHETHER SEAWARD CORRUPT. IF ANY OF YOU NEED ANY DOCUMENTATION TO SUBSTANTIATE MY COMMENTS, PLEASE DO CONTACT ME. IF ANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT MY STATEMENTS ARE NOT TRUE. CONTACT ME WITH FACTS. GOODNIGHT. THE NEXT SPEAKER.

BILL WHELAN, FOLLOWED BY JANINE LOOK OR. GOOD EVENING, SIR. NAME AND ADDRESS GAME, PLEASE. BILL WHALEN, 4 15 CEDAR SPRINGS ROAD. BUILDER, MARYLAND 1 MAY 20/7. I SENT EACH COUNCIL MEMBER AND EMAIL RECOMMENDING LEGISLATIVE AMENDMENTS ZONING CODE. IT'S TO CLARIFY AND DEFINE THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE BORDER FUELS, WHICH IS THE COUNTY COUNCIL AND THE ADMINISTRATION, MAINLY DIRECTOR OF PLANNING. PRESENTLY, THE LANGUAGE AND THE CODE, THE SUBJECT THE ONES INTERPRETATION AS TO ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY, WHICH HAS CAUSED PAST LEGAL PROBLEMS. I WISH TO THANK MR RALEIGH, MISS. BOILED THE SADDLES FOR THE COURTESY OF RESPONDING TO MY EMAIL AND TO LOOK FURTHER INTO THE MATTER. I DON'T THINK I DO NOT INTEND TO GO INTO THE DETAILS BY EMAIL BECAUSE THE TIME LIMIT BUT I WANT TO MAKE SEVERAL WOULD POINTS THAT I DISCUSSED. IT'S NOT A NEW TOPIC TO THE ADMINISTRATION OR COUNCIL. THE LAW DEPARTMENT HAS INTERPRETED THE ZONING CODE THAT THE BOARD OF APPEALS DOES NOT HAVE. ANY ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY. THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IS NOT OBLIGATED TO ENFORCE FINAL DECISIONS OF THE BOARD APPEALS AND PURSUIT OF ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS OR POLICY LIFTED THE DISCRETION OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH. THIS IS NOT DEFINED ANYWHERE IN HARFORD COUNTY COACH CHARTER OR ZONING CODE. I BELIEVED THE BOARD OF APPEALS HAS ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY. THERE HAVE BEEN SOME ZONING CASES WHERE THE DIRECTOR OF PLANNING DOES NOTHING TO ENFORCE THE DECISION. WHAT HAS BEEN PROVEN BY FINDING OF FACTS AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW THAT THE DIRECTOR OF PLANNING MADE AN

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18% OF THE PYRAMID. FAMILIES LIVE IN POVERTY AND THE, UH PEOPLE OF COLOR COLOR IN THE COMMUNITY IS MORE THAN DOUBLE THAT HARFORD COUNTY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MA'AM. RIGHT CLICK OR FOLLOWED BY RON SUSHINSKY. GOOD EVENING, SIR. NAME AND ADDRESS BLOCK OR 18 20 PARK BEACH DRIVE . WANT TO TAKE A DIFFERENT ANGLE ON THIS? UH MR MAHAMA JUST LEFT. HE DOESN'T DESERVE ANY ANY REPLY FROM YOU ALL. LATER ON. YOU ALL HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG. YOU ALL STAND UP FOR OUR SERVICEMEN. E.

M S EVERYBODY THE RESPECT THAT YOU SHOW TO THE UNITED STATES WITH THE SAYING OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. EACH AND EVERY TIME WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MAN IS DOING AND PLEASE ON A LIGHTER SIDE. HE IS NOT PART OF THREE PICK WE DO NOT CONDONE IT. NOW I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO ITS SOMETHING THAT NOW THAT THE BUDGET IS SALE, I WANTED TO BRING UP WELCOME ONE JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT IT IS ON YOUR MIND. I DID ASK YOU TO WALK INTO SOME BUSSES JUST TO HELP THESE PEOPLE. I WAS OVER THERE AGAIN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. THEY STILL HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM TO GET OUT. AROUND 7 A.M. THEY HAVE NO NO WHERE TO GO. AND NO PLACE. NO AND NO ONE'S HELPING THEM. SO IF WE COULD LOOK INTO THIS YOU KNOW, AND I'M NOT JUST SAYING JOB MORE FOR ANY CORNER, BRINGING TO WHERE WE CAN HELP THESE PEOPLE WHETHER YOU KNOW, IT'S DECLINED CRISIS CENTER, IS IT? YOU KNOW, GETTING UP TO SOCIAL CARE? IT IS UNEMPLOYMENT . WHERE IS IT? THAT'S A STONE.

YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING WITH THAT? SO PLEASE, JUST ON THAT, ED. I KNOW YOU DID A LOT OF WORK ON THE BUDGET. BUT PLEASE DON'T FORGET ABOUT THESE PEOPLE. THEY NEED YOUR HELP. I'LL CALL YOU TOMORROW. I'M RON IS NOT HERE. ANYONE ELSE? THERE'S NO ONE ELSE SIGNED UP, MR. PRESIDENT. THANK

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IT'S AN EXCELLENT DAY. ALSO WANT TO LET THE FOLKS KNOW AND DISTRICT D THAT THEY'RE GOING TO REPLACE IN THE BRIDGE OVER MARYLAND, 1 61 OVER DEER CREEK, SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THEM.

CLOSING THAT BRIDGE DOWN. THANK YOU, MR PRESIDENT. THANK YOU, MR RILEY. MASSAD ALS. THANK YOU. UM WHILE I'M PLEASED TO SEE NEGOTIATION AND COMPROMISE IN THE OPERATING BUDGET, UM I WOULD LIKE TO REITERATE MY DISPLEASURE THAT THE HARTFORD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE CENTRAL PRECINCT AND TRAINING CENTER HAS BEEN CUT. UM DESPITE PAST PROMISES, IT WOULD BE BUILT AND THIS COUNTY HAS ALREADY COMMITTED FUNDS AND PUT OUT BONDS FOR THE PROJECT. IT'S VITAL TO THE CITIZENS IN MY DISTRICT, BUT THE COUNTY AS A WHOLE, AND I RAN MY CAMPAIGN ON PUBLIC SAFETY, AND I'LL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR THIS TRAINING CENTER. AND WITH THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MISSILES, MR BENNETT. HELLO UM, IS VERY BUSY WEEK GOT TO GO TO THE GRAND OPENING OF TECH SEX TECHNOLOGIES. I WAS THERE WITH COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND SENT HIS WIFE AND WITH COUNCILMAN TONY G. AND THAT WAS A LOT OF FUN. AND IT WAS A GREAT EVENT. UM, I ALSO GOT TO GO TO THE WELCOME RECEPTION FOR THE PRIDE OF BALTIMORE TO WHICH CAME TO HAVE ANY GREASE AND IT WAS A LOT OF FUN TO MEET THE CREW AND HEAR THEIR STORIES AND ALSO GET TO GO SEE THE BOAT AND ALRIGHT. I THINK I'M SUPPOSED TO CALL THE SHIP. I DON'T WANT TO BE RUDE TO THE SHIP BY CALLING IT A BOAT. UM BUT IT WAS THAT WAS ALSO A LOT OF FUN. HAVING THE GRACE HIGH SCHOOL HAS GRADUATION, WHICH WAS A WONDERFUL CEREMONY. UM I GOT TO SEE SO MANY BIG SIBLINGS OF FORMER STUDENTS. NEIGHBORS UM, AND THAT WAS A LOT OF FUN. THAT WE HAD FIRST FRIDAYS, WHICH WAS ALSO ENJOYABLE. YOU KNOW, LAST MONTH WE HAD A MOTORCYCLE AT FIRST FRIDAYS THIS MONTH. WE HAD THE PRIDE OF BALTIMORE. SO I DID ASK THE MAYOR. WHAT IS IT GOING TO BE AN AIRPLANE IN JULY? YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO BE THE MODE OF TRANSPORTATION THAT SHOWS UP.

WAITING TO FIND THAT OUT. THEN SATURDAY WAS VERY BUSY WENT TO THE MOMS DEMAND ACTION COMMUNITY CLEANUP, WHERE AN ORANGE WITH COUNCILMAN GUTHRIE, UM AND CELEBRATE THEIR EFFORTS IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST WONDERFUL HOW MANY VOLUNTEERS COME OUT AND SUPPORT THEIR WORK? I ALSO WENT TO THE ASKED ME 60 SEVEN'S MEETING ON SATURDAY MORNING ASKED ME 67 REPRESENTS OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS EMPLOYEES. WHO ARE NOT INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF. THAT WOULD BE OUR CAFETERIA WORKERS ARE, UM CUSTODIAL STAFF ARE MAINTENANCE WORKERS ARE BUS DRIVERS, UM, AND JUST TO SPEAK WITH THEM AND KNOW THEIR NEED AND NO. UM YOU KNOW THEIR STRUGGLES, IT WAS IMPORTANT AND TOUGH CONVERSATION. AND THEN RAN OFF THIS SATURDAY. I HAD THREE OUTFIT CHANGES, UM, TO THE WEIGHT IN FESTIVAL AT THE ESTUARY CENTER, WHERE WE LITERALLY WAITED IN ABBY AND I STOOD IN THE WATER GOT TO SPEAK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING OUT AND FEELING YOUR YOU KNOW YOUR ENVIRONMENT KNOWING YOUR ENVIRONMENT OUTSIDE OF A TEXTBOOK, BUT IN YOUR HANDS IN BETWEEN YOUR TOES TO MAKE IT PERSONAL SET. IT'S NO DIFFERENT THAN TAKING CARE OF YOURSELF. WHEN YOU TAKE CARE OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT IS THAT WAS A GREAT EVENT AND THEN FINISHED THE DAY. UM, AND THIS IS WHERE ONE OF HIS OUTFIT CHANGES CAME IN BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE THE EAGLE SCOUT CEREMONY SOGGY WITH MY WAITING CLOSE. AH WE GOT TO GO TO JUSTIN'S EAGLE SCOUT CEREMONY OF TRUTH. 3 13, YOU KNOW IT'S OUTSIDE MY DISTRICT BUT AS AN EAGLE SCOUT MYSELF, 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR OF THAT, UM, I JUST ALWAYS THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO CELEBRATE JUST THE AMOUNT OF WORK IT TAKES TO GET THERE. UM AND YOU KNOW, IT'S

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UM ONE OF MY STUDENTS IS IN THE COMPETITION, WHICH IS REALLY NEAT, BUT IT SHOULD BE A FUN OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL FAMILIES TO PARTAKE IN AND ENJOY SOMETHING ON A SATURDAY. THAT'S EVERYTHING

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