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From YouTube: Inaugural Address
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Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz delivers his Inaugural Address.
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But,
ladies
and
gentlemen,
friends
and
family
honor
judges,
our
new
council
other
dedicated
county
officials
and
distinguished
guests
today,
I
am
proud
to
begin.
My
service
as
the
12th
Baltimore
County.
Executive.
I
feel
extremely
grateful
to
be
here
today,
but
I
also
feel
as
if
I
have
come.
Full
circle
as
a
teenager
in
1974
I
volunteered
won't
edvena
tool
as
his
campaign
for
County
Executive.
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Also
want
to
extend
my
gratitude
to
two
of
my
predecessors
in
particular.
Ted
Bennett
olas
is
just
as
committed
to
the
people
of
this
county
as
when
he
was
first
elected
36
years
ago.
Ted,
you
did
a
great
job
guiding
my
transition
into
office
and
I
am
deeply
grateful
for
your
wisdom
and
hard
work,
not
only
the
past
month,
but
over
the
many
years
of
our
friendship,
Thank,
You,
Ted.
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Well,
folks,
today
I
am
a
lucky
man.
I
have
spent
nearly
my
entire
life
in
Baltimore
County
from
the
streets
of
Lough
Erne
to
the
store
front
of
overly
to
the
courtrooms
of
Towson
to
the
neighborhoods
of
owings
mills.
I
grew
up,
built
a
career
met
and
married,
my
beautiful
wife,
Jill,
and
now
yes,
you
better
give
a
clapper.
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And
thank
you
jill
for
putting
up
with
me
and
I
now
raise
my
own
family
in
our
wonderful
hometown.
I'm
grateful
for
the
life
that
I've
been
able
to
create
here
and
I'm
committed
to
making
sure
that
my
own
boys
and
all
of
the
children
growing
up
in
Baltimore
County
today
have
the
same
opportunities
to
prosper
that
my
generation
did
100
years
ago.
Baltimore
County
was
a
very
different
place
from
the
one
that
we
call
home
today.
Communities
like
owings
mills
and
white
marsh
were
largely
farmland.
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A
Unsightly
electricity
towers
represented
the
exciting
and
frightening
cutting
edge
of
science
and
technology.
Perhaps
eerily
echoed
by
today's
cell
tower
controversy
and,
however,
in
one
way,
1910
was
a
lot
like
2010.
It
was
a
time
when
people
were
not
only
sure
whether
changes
were
on
that
were
on
the
horizon
would
improve
or
hamper
their
quality
of
life.
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Folks
change
is
inevitable,
but
progress
is
optional.
Throughout
its
history,
the
people
of
Baltimore
County
have
consistently
chosen
the
path
of
progress
in
a
single
century.
We
have
come
farther
than
anyone
could
have
imagined
thanks
to
a
simple
truth.
Progress
is
built
by
creative
people
with
new
ideas
growing
up
in
this
second
half
of
these
100
years,
I
tended
to
think
of
our
county
as
the
I
Diaz
County
of
the
region.
It
was
our
county
that
installed
solar
panels
on
the
roof
of
the
detention
center.
Long
before
green
energy
was
a
cutting-edge
industry.
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We
created
the
urban-rural
demarcation
line
to
protect
our
rural
heritage
and
avoid
suburban
sprawl
defining
smart
growth
decades
before
that
term
was
ever
coined.
We
were
ahead
of
the
curve
when
we
first
implemented
countywide
recycling
in
the
early
90s.
This
kind
of
innovation
to
find
our
county
once
and
it
can
do
so
again,
steve
jobs,
the
CEO
of
Apple,
said
innovation
distinguishes
between
a
leader
and
a
follower
as
we
enter
the
second
decade
of
this
new
century.
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I
know
that
Baltimore
County
can
reclaim
its
role
as
Maryland's
leader
in
innovation
and
creativity,
whether
a
child
graduates
from
a
school
in
randallstown
or
essex
or
towson.
He
or
she
will
be
entering
a
global
economy
competing
with
not
just
workers
in
Wilmington
and
New
York,
but
with
workers
in
Munich
and
Beijing.
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We
must
ensure
that
the
jobs
that
drive
this
new
economy
are
not
located
in
some
far-off
land,
but
here
in
the
communities
where
our
sons
and
daughters
will
grow
up
every
school
in
Baltimore
County
must
be
prepared
to
meet
the
needs
of
a
21st
century
education
for
each
and
every
child.
I've
said
it
often,
the
quality
of
a
child's
education
cannot
be
determined
by
his
or
her
zip
code.
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Green
jobs
like
those
at
GM's
transmission
plant
in
white
marsh,
where
workers
manufacture,
hybrid
transmissions
and
electric
motors,
represent
an
increasingly
important
sector
of
our
economy.
We
must
support
this
growth
with
innovative
ideas,
infrastructure
and
a
skilled
workforce
right
here
in
Baltimore,
County,
okay,
that's
UAW
as
well.
Thank
you
and
all
of
our
great
union
leaders
and
workers
as
I.
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Look
out
on
this
crowd
today,
I
see
people
with
the
determination
to
seize
the
promise
and
the
opportunity
of
Baltimore
County's
future
I
see
a
county
that
draws
its
strength
from
its
diversity
and
its
character
and
I
see
our
children,
whose
limitless
potential
has
yet
to
be
realized.
As
we
move
forward
to
tomorrow.
Our
shared
future
depends
upon
our
ability
to
inspire
confidence.
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Confidence
in
a
government
where
public
servants
make
the
right
decisions
for
the
right
reasons:
confidence
in
a
government
where
we
ensure
that
our
streets
will
remain
safe
and
our
schools
will
shine
as
beacons
of
excellence
and
confidence
that
in
this
changing
century,
we
will
be
leaders
and
not
followers,
guided
by
the
words
of
George
Bernard
Shaw
that
were
so
often
repeated
by
the
late
Senator
Robert
Kennedy.
There
are
those
who
look
at
things
the
way
they
are
and
ask
why
I
dream
of
things
that
never
were
and
ask.
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Why
not,
today,
I
believe
that
there
is
no
dream
that
is
beyond
the
reach
of
the
people
of
Baltimore
County
I,
believe
that
together
we
can
build
a
future
that
is
worthy
of
our
children
and
all
the
general
patients
who
will
follow.
Most
importantly,
I
look
forward
to
joining
you
on
that
journey.
Thank
you.