Welcome to another edition of ask Jim Smith. The first question today comes from susan in catonsville. Susan wants to know how her community can get involved in a stream clean up in the catonsville area. Susan I really appreciate your question. It's great. When the community responds with an understanding of how important they are to LOL quality of life. Quite frankly, a stream clean up to run through the Department of Environmental Protection and resource management in Baltimore County.

You can call Steve, Stewart Steve Stewart of watershed management at 410, 887, 5683 5683, and he can help you coordinate that and I look forward to the results of your screen clean up and really do appreciate your your interest and the commitment of your community. Our second question comes from for tisha in randallstown. Patricia wants to know why Baltimore County doesn't do bulk bulk trash pickup Patricia. We haven't done bulk trash pickup for a while.

It's just really not cost-effective, and in these tough economic times it would really be impossible to initiate that and really at this time. In fact, you may have noticed that even in Baltimore City as part of their cutbacks, they have cut out bulk trash pickup, but you can obviously get bulk trash pickup. You can go to your yellow pages and look under trash, pickup and and frankly, there's so many telephone directories. You might want to go to the web and just do a search on the web for for for trash for hauling for trash pickup.

Those kinds of headings I think you'll probably get better information more quickly, I'm. Sorry, we can't do that for you, but it is available to you and I really do. Thank you for your question.

Our final question this week comes from Lou in perry. Hall Lou is concerned about the the county's budget situation and the job security of his wife Lou.

These are tough economic times, but thanks to a lot of really hard work on the part of the county and a lot of responsible thinking and approach for from the labor leaders in Baltimore County, we really have made great strides and in really securing not only the job security, but also the pension and post-retirement benefits for county employees.

The budget that just is announced for next year provides for no layoffs and no furloughs for county employees and frankly, these are two year agreements, so it also provides for for that to continue not only in fiscal year 11, but also in fiscal year 12. Now this is the result of doing a lot of things over a long period of time, doing doing them well, managing with real fiscal responsibility and with a lot of cooperation of everybody involved in the process.

So we these are tough times, but we are going to get through them and we're going to get through them, at least for the next two years, with no layoffs or furloughs of county employees. Again, thank you for your question and this concludes another edition of ask Jim Smith.