Carroll County, MD Board of County Commissioners Open Sessions, 9 Jun 2022

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From YouTube: Board of Carroll County Commissioners Open Session, Thursday, June 9, 2022

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Good morning, I'm commissioner ed rothstein, it's uh thursday june 9th. I feel like it's.

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Been a long time, I guess we didn't have open session last week got a handful of things to.

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Do as you can see up on the dies, we have three of us, so we do have a quorum. Commissioner, lance.

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And commissioner boucher are out this morning, but that is not going to slow us down from getting a.

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Handful of things done, we have, uh I won't say, a lot of priority carol, but a significant amount and.

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To share with the community regarding priority carol and what I'd like to do is first.

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Well, first, I apologize. Let's start with the pledge of allegiance and moment of silence. Go with that.

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One nation, under god.

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Okay, I apologize about that and actually what got me thinking about it is I'm still.

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Thinking about yuvaldi and the atrocities.

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So, let's start with priority carol before we go into the formal portions of the proclamations.

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uh Let's see what's on our minds, uh commissioner: fraser okay, so not this.

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First, this not that first, all right, a couple of things been a while. So there's a little bit here.

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I went to a eagle scout court of honor in the past two weeks.

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And what made this unusual is that there were three eagle scouts. At the same time,.

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Three eagle scouts- this is still is this working.

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Come on now, are we okay matt? Are we good? What's going on.

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I'm okay to go; okay, three eagle scouts from the same troop. At the same time,.

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So it was eagle scout nick henderson, uh zach, barnes and aiden echols. Congratulations to all.

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Three of them- I I've been doing this, obviously for quite a while as a commissioner and before that, as.

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A city councilman going to eagle scout ceremonies. This might be the first time I've ever gone to.

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Three from the same troop: at the same time, I can't exactly remember to be honest with you. I know I've.

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Gone at least I've gone to two before, but it could possibly be the first one. Congratulate.

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Those young men for a tremendous job and each one of them have someone else in their family. That.

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Has already been an eagle scout and the one- and I don't remember which one started to write it down.

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It's like the third generation of eagle scout. His father was an eagle scout and his grandfather's.

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Eagle scout so that that's just tremendous sorry, I don't remember which one it was that's what it is.

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Had a board of health meeting on board of health board of education meeting last.

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Night two big things that were decided is the health curriculum for the high schools.

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Were put out there and the way it works, the health curriculum that came down from the state.

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Of maryland is the health curriculum that will be used in health, 1 and health 2 and high schools.

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If the students or parents decide to opt out of the state curriculum, there is a alternate.

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Curriculum that was put together by the family life committee from carroll county. So you can.

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Opt out from the state curriculum and but you have to take something. So it's a family life curriculum.

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That you'll be taking the one that was made from from carroll county. So I think that's a win-win.

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For everyone, so you could do either one that you wanted to do so. That was a that was a good thing.

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Second thing that was decided last night what's been quite controversial, is the flag policy, the.

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Flag policy was passed, which means basically, but there are some exceptions, the only flags that are.

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Allowed in carroll county public schools will be american flag, carroll county flag and a maryland.

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Flag, there are some exceptions: if you're teaching a unit about spain, you could have a spanish flag.

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And that kind of stuff, but other than that- that's that's! Basically it I went to the ribbon cutting.

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For the musical called niagara, the musical it was held in front of the library at westminster,.

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Branch and the reason it was is because three westminster high school students wrote the musical.

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So they had a ribbon cutting there. They sang some songs and it's going to be performed down in dc.

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And I don't have to date, sorry anyway, it's going to be before.

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Dc, but if you go online niagara not aggregate like niagara falls agrithemusical.com you can.

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Find out the dates and where it's going to be, and that kind of thing- and it is kind of I guess.

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Interesting neat great: how we're going to say to that students from westminster, high school.

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Past students wrote this and it was pretty good. I was impressed.

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Also, when I thought I don't think we've been here since memorial day, have we, how do you.

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Know I don't think I went to the westminster. I was marching into westminster memorial day, parade very.

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Very well attended, it was, it was, it was great parade and then he had a ceremony afterwards.

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At the cemetery I think went really really well great job. I also was in the union bridge.

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150Th anniversary parade- I can't remember what it was, but like a week ago or something of that sort.

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And that's all I have thanks ray, I don't think we have either.

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Okay. Sorry, no! That's all good! Oh my god! Here we go typical. I forget to shut it off. So, commissioner,.

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Weaver, okay, first of all we're going back uh uh a couple weeks. We had the uh war memorial.

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um Speeches, I guess for memorial day in hampstead, and that was a really uh a lot of people turned.

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Out for that event, really a huge event, and as always prior to the parade in westminster, that was.

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Very well attended a couple graduations here between time we've had man val, which I have to say.

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That was a very efficient graduation, an hour and a half for 326 students to go across the stage.

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From start to finish- and they were, it was very efficient this year, so I don't know what they.

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Did differently but it was great gristell academy, graduation commissioner fraser and I both attended.

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That it was a great graduation as always, and this is farmer's market season- I cut the ribbon or part.

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Of the ribbon-cutting at hampstead uh farmers market, but across the county, they're everywhere.

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So get out and buy fresh home-grown uh produce. If you can one of the major events, though I really.

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I'll tell you a humbling event. Was the hogs and heroes kick off at reece volunteer fire.

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Department, they did a ride out through pretty boy uh in honor of bobby jones to raise funds for.

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uh His um memor uh scholarship, the memorial scholarship and uh I don't know how many thousands.

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Of dollars they raised, but it was really to see that many bikes in there and just 150 people.

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Show up to uh go through that ride, it was unbelievable and the sheriff's department.

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uh Really uh did a great job blocking the roads for him, so they could all go through intersections.

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From here to pretty boy- and you know, some of those roads are paved cow paths, so.

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Those guys on bikes really had to be careful and be safe. uh So anyway, I wanted to thank.

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Katie townes townsley and reese fire department for putting that together and here coming up.

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Carroll county farm museum presents food truck uh june 12th this sunday fun day noon to five at the.

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Carroll, county farm museum, uh food truck contest, live entertainment, free children's activities.

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We have a member back here for children's activities, uh vendor marketplace and more free.

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Admission so uh june 12th food truck uh sunday uh sunday fun day at the carroll county farm museum.

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Thank you. Okay, thanks and uh a few things. One is we're going to be listening. uh Having a discussion.

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With our economic development team on workforce uh development and the innovation workforce,.

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Innovation act uh for carroll county. Just let you know that carroll county continues uh to remain.

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I guess the best of the best of the rest in maryland, with a 2.4.

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Unemployment rate, so we should all be very proud of the work that's being done for unemployment.

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A couple other things I attended, the veterans va claims clinic that was held down in south carol.

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At the senior center, I don't know if uh chris, if you have a.

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Picture or two but um deputy secretary finn uh also attended along with.

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The secretary of labor's um team, it was amazing, I think and gina you know, you'll get the opportunity.

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To share uh some of the details about, 125 came through give or take, uh and what was so.

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Awesome about it and not that picture, except for those two deputy secretary finn, who is just.

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Amazing, and always looking at carroll, county and janiece in the middle is a gold star woman.

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I worked a lot with her supporting her um her son uh who's. The captain was killed in action in 2006.

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And I've done a lot of work with her on fort meade. So I've known her for quite some time and she was.

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A part of the welcoming committee always with a smile and an incredible amount of strength,.

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But the va clinic what was amazing about it is how, if you notice from some of those pictures.

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There's nobody in the middle sitting and waiting everything was by appointment, so they were able.

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To walk in the door and get checked in and go right to an appointment. And when you have 15.

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Tables give or take of going through appointments. I mean talk about success and uh I just I was so.

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Impressed and then going through the health care and all the benefits having the ability to check.

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In and go through, the different benefits that are available for our veterans and the families.

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Once again, carroll county shows what success looks like in taking care of our veterans.

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And that's a large part to celine and the entire team. You know from gina.

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On down and bobby and everyone, I just really impressed and secretary owings.

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Recognizes it and sent out as well his appreciation for all we do. um Let's see.

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Was there something? Oh since uh we did mention uh it's been a while uh memorial day, I was.

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Honored and humbled to uh be invited to the tawny town memorial day and from mayor wants.

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And uh council member or pro tim, whatever, we call those guys mayor pro tem uh joe vigliotti.

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And very again, honored humble to share a few uh thoughts and words uh to that group. Graduations.

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I think all of us participated intended and are always you know, honored to uh to attend those and.

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See these young generation that just do so well, that's the uh memorial day event! So, okay, it's nice.

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Yeah it was beautiful, it was hot, but it was nice okay. So now, let's get into a few of the formal.

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Priority carols uh events I'm going to hold off on one until about 10 o'clock and they're.

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Going to come, but why don't we start with world elder abuse awareness day? Who has that one who.

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Does have? Oh you have that one weaver. I think this is elder abuse. We do have a proclamation.

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Today, for world elder abuse awareness day and I'll read that before we have anybody, say anything more.

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Whereas june 15 2022 marks world elder abuse awareness day and its annual recognition.

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Promotes a better understanding of abuse and neglect of older adults. And whereas more than.

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46 000 adults over the age of 60 called and call carroll county their home in 2020. This number is.

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Expected to exceed 55 000 by 2025 right here too, the kell county government and network of.

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Partners are committed to creating an age-friendly community where people of all ages are able to.

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Thrive and achieve optimal living and whereas the carroll county board of commissioners recognizes.

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The importance of taking action to ensure that social structures exist, allowing older adults to.

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Retain community and social connections whereby reducing the likelihood of abuse, neglect and.

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Whereas carroll county bureau of aging and disabilities is committed to ensuring that.

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The county's older adults are supported, so they may continue to live as independently as possible.

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And contribute to the life and vibrancy of the communities and whereas older adults serve as.

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Leaders, mentors volunteers and vital participating members of the carroll county community.

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And deserve to be treated with dignity, respect and to be protected from abuse, neglect.

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uh And now, therefore, we, the board of carol county commissioners, do hereby proclaim june 15, 2022.

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As world elder abuse awareness day in carroll county and urge all uh communities to recognize.

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And celebrate older uh adults and their ongoing contributions to the success and vitality of the.

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County uh adopted this second day of no in june 2022 and signed by five commissioners very well.

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At my age, what do you expect? Okay? So uh I think we have a handful of folks that, uh like to share some.

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Of their thoughts miss gina good morning, thank you very much and joining me is gail gannon who's. The.

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Program manager of our long-term care ombudsman program we'd also like to recognize dean, brewer.

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The chief investigator with the carroll county state's attorney's office and michelle jacobs,.

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The adult services supervisor, with carroll county department of social services,.

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The purpose of we, which commissioner weaver mentioned, is recognized on june 15th every year.

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Is to provide an opportunity for communities around the world to promote a better understanding.

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Of abuse and neglect of older adults by raising awareness of the cultural, social.

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Economic and demographic processes affecting older excuse me elder abuse and neglect.

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Unfortunately, most of our older most vulnerable, older adults are typically the targets of.

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Either physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional and verbal abuse or financial exploitation.

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In order to protect our older dog population, we must continue to bring attention to this.

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Very important issue and educate our communities this year, the long-term care ombudsman program.

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In partnership with dss and the state's attorney's office and the register of wills.

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Is focusing on educating individuals on financial exploitation of older adults and gail's going to.

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Share some additional information about the events that have been planned and that are taking place.

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Okay, thank you, gina and thank you, commissioners. Thank you for the opportunity to come before.

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You today to once again recognize world elder abuse awareness day this year marks the 16th.

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Anniversary of world elder abuse awareness day each year we add gains momentum around the world.

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As communities come together to raise awareness about abuse and neglect of older adults,.

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This year, in carroll county, we are hosting five. We add events, one at each of our five local senior.

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And community centers on tuesday we celebrated at the westminster senior center today, we'll be at.

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The south carol, senior and community center and next week will be at north carol senior center.

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On tuesday mount airy senior center on wednesday and the tawny town senior center on thursday in.

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Addition to free document shredding and a catered lunch. Our events this year include a screening of.

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A short version of the documentary film last will and embezzlement featuring film star andy rooney.

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He and others share stories about how they fell victim to crimes of financial exploitation.

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But we are so fortunate this year to have dean, brewer chief of the investigations unit in the.

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Carroll county state's attorney's office and michelle jacobs, adult services supervisor with.

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The carroll county department of social services join us at each of these five events to talk to.

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Community members about how criminals attempt to take advantage of older adults and what we can do.

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To stop it we'll discuss factors that can increase one's vulnerability to financial exploitation and.

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The steps that each one of us can take to protect ourselves, I'm so glad that dean and.

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Michelle are able to join us here today, because I really feel that they should be recognized not.

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Only for what they're doing this week to help us celebrate world elder abuse awareness day.

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But for what they do, each and every day to protect older adults in our community dean and michelle's.

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Teams have been faithful and tireless partners in helping older adults live safely in the community.

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Oh, thank you. um You know it it's about being positive, but also priority and I'd like to.

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uh If appropriate, uh take the time and the priority to anyone else who wants to share.

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Some of their thoughts- because I know we have a handful of folks out here-.

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And if you do just come up to the microphone behind you or in front of you, I'm sorry good.

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Morning, commissioners, um I appreciate the fact that I'm being recognized along with this, but it's.

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So important to me, the past, 15 years, I've been involved in the investigations not only through.

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The maryland attorney general's office, but through the local carroll county state's attorney's office,.

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Involved in investigation and given presentations on abuse and neglect of vulnerable adults.

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What we have found over the years is obviously these numbers increase.

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And, and my biggest concern is that the older population continues to grow and all we're looking.

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For and anything that we do is the dignity of life and the last years that an elderly person have.

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In their lifetime, and especially here in carroll county, I grew up here, and I know that how things.

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Have grown the assisted, livings pop up and nursing homes and all, and so it's real important that we.

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You know know that what's kind of going on in these facilities- and we stay on top of it.

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And- and we also have the resources which we do currently have for the vulnerable population.

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We need to get the vulnerable population, though sometimes the resources out to them, because you.

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Know it's easy for us to say that just go to this particular website and you can find information.

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There are a lot of vulnerable people out there that do not have access to a website or a computer.

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At all, so we need to understand that these vulnerable people are again just that and we need.

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To really be looking out for them, but I want to thank you for all this and the proclamation today.

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Absolutely thank you. Anyone else yeah, please good morning. I just want to say um thanks for having.

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Us I have a couple of my team here: investigators we are out in the community. We are investigating.

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Abuse neglect, exploitation of vulnerable adults and we just really appreciate the support from.

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The bureau of aging and the state's attorney's office and working with us in all of these.

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Investigations, and just thank you, we really appreciate it. Do you want to introduce who's on.

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Your team, um this is ann gilbert and susan beard. Thank you. Thank you from uh I apologize just for.

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The county department of social services, now that I know but from social services.

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Do you have the resources necessary to do what is needed here in carroll county? We have.

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Great partnerships funding is always an issue for us, but that's a federal issue, so I'm not sure but.

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Yes, we we have great resources with our partners and we're able to to serve the.

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Seniors as best as we can, okay sounds like an interesting answer, but it sounds like you.

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Mitigate some of the funding through the partnerships- okay- um and this is tough- because.

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Not putting you on the spot, but all of us we don't have enough money to do all the things we want to.

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Do so in little of that? How do we maximize the partnerships and the value of those partnerships.

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And I think I apologize keeping you up there, but gina you've done a great job in doing that.

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Any further thoughts on that just I I just like to point out, um and I sound like a broken record.

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Because um in any place that I'm at that, I have the opportunity to speak, but we're so.

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Fortunate in this county with our partnerships, there's a lot of collaboration and communication.

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And we know who to reach out to we know we can reach out to them.

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If we have a concern, if we need to report suspected abuse um of any type and and that.

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Goes from department of social services, you know the state's attorney's office as well, and so we're.

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Very fortunate in this community, which only in the end of the day at the end of the day, benefits.

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um The people that we're trying to protect- I agree any other. I just want to also mention.

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That not only is ann gilbert, a investigator she's, also a city council person for city of westminster.

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And is always engaged in a lot of the things we do so really appreciate, especially with the veterans.

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Programs as well, so thank you, yeah, anything else. No, this is a great thing. I think we're doing and.

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Investigators appreciate what you do is a lot of people get caught in scams and things out here so.

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I think it's time for a photo op. The team approach so with the investigative team come on, everybody.

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He lives forever.

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He's a future elder.

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Yeah gina, you don't get to go anywhere I'll stay. So again we had such a.

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Great inaugural celebratory event for our veterans. um Unfortunately, as you and a few others may know,.

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I was not attending but heard nothing but great things and uh again deputy secretary finn. I was.

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With the other day said just what a fantastic event um put together and some of the.

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Opportunities for people to uh to gain from it just uh from knowledge and some beer and some food.

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There was also some gift cards, so I think uh mr fraser okay on may 15th carroll, county government.

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Hosted its inaugural veterans celebration at the farm museum honoring all who have.

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Served and their families during the celebration veterans were invited to enter a raffle to 100.

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Gift card from a local restaurant happens to be johansens. We are excited to welcome one of our.

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Carroll, county veterans, retired navy, commander, gregory and diffio. I know I messed that up.

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Adanafi aidan offi elena, was so close. Who was winner, who is the winner of the gift card, raffle.

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The board of county commissioners would like to thank you for your service, which we understand.

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You proudly report was 28 years nine months and nine days in the u.s navy, both active and reserve.

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So oh great come up and give us a good card. Yeah uh did you want to say something about.

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uh Be attending the event and what are your thoughts sure uh I wanted to thank.

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First of all good morning, commissioners, and um thank you for the event, it was very impressive.

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Very casual a lot of information was was provided to veterans as a side note on the.

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Director of the state, uh united states, selective service, so okay, um I've talked to some of the.

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Folks there and I'd like to get a table there next year to just provide awareness of the existence of.

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uh The selective service and what it does for the for the state and for the united states so.

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I appreciate the um again I appreciate the event and I appreciate the gift card.

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So yeah gives cars always nice, so when we get a photo and go from there, they.

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Didn't tell you you have to take the commissioners out that I did not know.

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I know it was very well attended. I was very impressed.

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Event um committee you put this together, you were part of that and the veterans advisory council.

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uh All the uh american legions vfw's they just did a tremendous job. The whole community came.

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Together to make that event, so I just want to thank everybody. Thank you. Thank you, and.

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Hear what we were saying and thank you for your service. Thank you, but that's, okay. I did it again.

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Okay and we are still on priority carol and let's uh let the small gentleman from the right corner.

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With a small trophy come on up, and that's mr chris hein, who is our director of department,.

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Of land resource management to talk about the mdqi award for langdon stormwater facility- yes,.

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Good morning, commissioners, thank you. So much do you have like a chihuahua in that thing,.

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Is that no you got really big dog right? Yes, no! He would not fit in that. No, but is that, like his.

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Food bowl. Yes, yes, go ahead, yes good morning, so, um as you know, the bureau of resource management is.

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Responsible for constructing stormwater management facilities to improve water quality in the county.

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In the state and and the chesapeake bay, and so one of those projects that we completed.

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Recently was the langdon stormwater management facility here in westminster, and I've been before.

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You and talked about that in the past. It's it had a number of unique challenges, one of which.

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Most notably, was the transportation of a large amount of material that had to leave the site and.

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We used uh we, we hired maryland midland railroad to hire to haul that material to new windsor.

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So last year the count well, the county is a member of the county engineer, association of.

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Maryland to seem it's a professional organization of county engineers, and last year I submitted an.

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Application for the the project for an award- and so I was before you about six.

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Months ago, happy to announce that siem awarded us project of the year for it for the project.

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So siem is a member of a much larger organization called mdqi. The maryland quality initiative, which.

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Is made up of about 14 different professional organizations, including all of the maryland's dot?.

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Transportation models so maryland: state highway, administration, port authority, toll authority, etc.

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It also includes federal highway administration seem, as I mentioned, a number of professional.

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Private organizations and consulting engineers, etc, and so all of those organizations that are.

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Members of mdqi, they all submit projects and and as part of the conference which was last month.

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They they're all evaluated and I'm pleased to announce that our project was the grand winner of.

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All of the projects submitted for projects under 5 million, so they awarded us this fantastic trophy.

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We unfortunately do not get to keep it. It has on the base, all of the previous winners and our name.

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Has been added to it, and so we get to hold on to it for a year and and showcase it. And then we have.

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To return it for the for next year's award, but it's really nice to be recognized by our peers.

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From around the state and at both the state and and local level, of the the innovative project that.

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We had here in carroll county, which really was a carroll county project. All of the the players are.

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All native to carroll county, so obviously we had to work with the city of westminster in the.

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Town of new windsor, the design engineer, was carol land services who's here, local.

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The contractor who built the facility is highland, turf, hti and obviously maryland midland is here.

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Local, they run out of union bridge and then the contractor that received the material and.

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And took care of it in new windsor is stambos incorporated another local firm, so very much.

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A local carroll county project and it's really exciting to to be recognized by all of our peers.

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And just a final note, we were approached yesterday by a national publication. That's interested in.

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Running a national news article, a five-page spread about the project, so we're currently.

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Talking about that with them, and so we may get national recognition for um for the project so.

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You get a little trophy too. Yes, we also get a little trophy um that we get to keep right. Yes,.

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You get that little baby, yes, so happy to answer any questions, uh but otherwise I'd.

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Love a photograph uh to commemorate sure you didn't bring the little one here. No, I didn't.

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I'd be happy to run downstairs and get it no need to run. Okay wow I'm used to holding large surfaces.

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It looks heavy too.

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Yeah sure, if you like this [ __ ], we did not drink.

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Congratulations.

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Okay, let's keep moving. That is a great trophy. That is amazing,.

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Did you ever win a trophy that big you got your medals, not that heavy but taller. Okay,.

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Governor summer youth program grant award fy 22 23, workforce innovation, opportunity act, denise.

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Heather come on down good morning, commissioner, mr berta morning, how you all doing this morning.

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So yes, we're here today um to talk to you about the carroll county, workforce development.

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Grants for some year-round grants, as well as some summer grants and heather's going to go.

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Over the details of those, but before we got into that, I wanted to just give you a quick.

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Update um for our ongoing uh recruitment events that we do so for the month of june.

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um We're doing a premier virtual online platform, which gives the opportunity for businesses as.

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Well, as citizens to log on to the platform, the businesses can showcase their business and provide.

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Opportunities that they have for job openings as well as then, the citizens can sign on and in.

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The platform there's an opportunity for them to chat and for the citizens to be able to upload.

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Their resumes, the businesses can look at those they can have chat sessions within the platform.

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And then set up either initial interviews in the platform and also then you know, offer.

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Job opportunities, so we've been doing that once a month, but for june we're doing a 24.

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7 access where the businesses can sign up and they can get into the platform. You know.

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Throughout the month and then there's a specific event um on the 21st of june to have a live event.

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Where they all can can talk, so it's a great opportunity for people to continue to recruit.

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We all know there's a lot of job openings out there, and this gives businesses an opportunity to.

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Interface with the job seekers and get the information out there about their jobs and about.

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Their company so just wanted to give you a quick, quick update on that, and I don't know if there's.

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Any questions about that, but it's it's something that's been very successful over the last several.

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Months, obviously, with you know the difficulty of doing in-person events, you know this gives.

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An ongoing activity and opportunity, so, okay, so heather's, going to talk about some of the grants.

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That we have upcoming for the workforce, innovation and opportunity act and the summer youth grants.

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Good morning, commissioners, so we are seeking approval for our grants for the upcoming year. That.

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Includes our workforce, innovation and opportunity act, our summer youth connection grant award.

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Our arpa american rescue plan act funds and also um a three-year memo.

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With the division of rehab services, so a little background, our summer youth program.

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A long-standing program that we're funded through the state of maryland, it provides six.

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Weeks of employment for 15 local youth ages, 15 to 18, who have potential barriers to employment.

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Participants are placed with local employers and during that six week period they will also learn.

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Essential work and life skills participate in group and team building activities.

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One of the activities we're doing this summer, we're pretty excited about.

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We're going to work with carroll, county public schools and we're going to do a hand tools session.

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A lot of times, youth are don't have mentors in their homes to teach how to use basic hand, tools.

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And so this is a cooperative agreement. We're doing we're really excited about it. Now that sounds. I.

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Like that, a lot potential barriers describe, you know the potential barriers can be low income.

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It can be disability, it can be parenting as a youth being in the foster care system.

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Going through juvenile services sounds like a very diverse community. Yes, it is.

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It's a diverse population so um just giving everybody an opportunity to.

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Get into the workforce to have that first experience with an employer.

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Okay, um next, I'm going to jump down to our workforce, innovation and opportunity act. This is a.

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Long-Standing grant that we have. This is through the u.s department of labor that comes through.

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Maryland department of labor, it's prescribed to our local workforce area based on a formulary.

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It the funding, serves low-income adults with identified barriers to employment.

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Dislocated workers and disconnected youth that are up to age 24. again some of the perceived barriers.

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Can be low income, lack of education, disability, lack of transportation.

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So there are a lot of opportunities, um displaced, homemakers who have been at home traditionally.

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And not been the bread winner and then their situation, changes and.

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They need to return to the workforce, so it serves a wide variety of people as well.

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Our american rescue act funds. We will receive the second disbursement of that.

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This year, it's a little different. The department of labor is actually going to monitor.

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That, before it came, the first disbursement came directly into the workforce into the.

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County and now maryland, labor is going to be overseeing the second disbursement for.

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All the local workforce areas again, it's a formulary, that's prescribed to our area.

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These funds have to be obligated by december 2024 and expended by june 30 2026.

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um Our focus with the second and um disbursement of funding is going to be occupational training.

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For in-demand industry you've seen examples of that with the welding and the cdl.

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Trainings that we've done but we're working with the community college to look at other.

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Ways to leverage our partnership, it's also we're looking at supporting local businesses.

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To for worker retention and upskilling very important with all the vacancies, people are.

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Experiencing we want to keep people in the workforce and help businesses to support that.

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And our third initiative is going to be the development of apprenticeship.

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And on-the-job training opportunities with a focus on youth entering the workforce. We.

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Have the lowest unemployment rate in the state right now, as you addressed, commissioner rostein,.

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So we are challenged to have people enter the workforce, so I think it makes a lot of sense.

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Focusing on youth, who aren't targeted or aren't anticipating going to college or into the military.

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We want to give them opportunities through apprenticeship or work and learn to experience.

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Different occupations to see where their interest lies, and hopefully apprenticeship will follow.

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And finally, our mou with the department of rehab services, we have a long-standing relationship with.

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And the division of rehab services is also one of our core partners in our workforce. Innovation and.

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Opportunity act grants we have traditionally provided a six-week summer, employment program.

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For up to 50 youth through their agency carroll, county government acts as the employer of record.

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In this grant and we provide the administrative support to make that happen for the payroll.

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Division of rehab services is state, is maryland, or is it yes.

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So, overall, our numbers that we're looking at this summer through our workforce summer, youth program.

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We have twenty eight thousand three hundred and forty two dollars.

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Our american rescue plan is one million one hundred thousand nine hundred and seventy nine.

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Dollars our wioa total is nine hundred and fifteen thousand four dollars.

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And the potential with the doors summer, youth um would maximize at a hundred and fifty thousand.

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Do you dollars any questions? That was a lot of information. Sorry.

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I had a chance to work with denise years ago and many of these programs and referring students to.

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This some of these programs- and these are game changers for a lot of kids, and I thank you for.

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What you do for a lot of them? It's really makes a difference in some of these kids lives and for.

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The businesses, too, I mean we've, had very good feedback with the students we've had students.

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That have been hired so obviously yeah, like you, said it's a game. Changer for them gives them a.

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New opportunity and potential career paths and the businesses in carroll county are very supportive.

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Yes, yes very much, so we go after um testimonials and you know feedback that we can then share with.

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Those that are kind of on the edge of do I participate in this or not, and then you'll.

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Realize, oh no! This is a game changer! um Absolutely that's! One of the things that we're trying to do.

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Through our social media as well yeah, it's all marketing, okay, wow. Okay, with that, I moved the.

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Board of commissioners to accept the uh 22 governor's summer, youth program grant award.

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The py 2223 uh aer pro grant award and the 2223 workforce innovation and opportunity act.

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Formula grant awards and the doors mou 22 24. I'll. Second, let's see who's going. Second,.

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Any further discussion on this all in favor aye more acronyms in this, and all that I know.

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Okay, thank you very much.

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Okay: let's talk about westminster, annotation uh 404, malcolm drive. Ladies.

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Good morning, commissioners, we are here before you today with two back-to-back annexations um in the.

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City of westminster, the first is westminster: annexation number 73 for a for malcolm drive,.

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And here today, from the city of westminster's, andrea gerhart, as well as the property owner.

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Brian eberle, from obrecht properties, as well as his representation clark shaffer.

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The second annexation that we're going to do back to back with this today is.

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Westminster annexation number 74, and that is the state's attorney's office.

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um And john bowers is here today for any additional questions regarding the annexation.

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For the new state's attorney's building, so with that, I have hannah weber, um a planner and.

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Conference of planning that will present to you on the information regarding these two annexations.

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Okay, so if there's no questions, I'm going to go ahead and get started.

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We have westminster annexation, number 73, 404 malcolm drive. Here we have the platte that.

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Was submitted with the annexation packet, the annexation area is owned by main street 3 llc.

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And they are the petitioners of this annexation. The annexation area is approximately 3.8 acres and.

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Locating ourselves, we are sandwiched in between maryland's routes, 97 and then 140 village, road.

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On the left-hand map, you can orient yourself where we are in the corporate limits of westminster.

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The gold and black outline represents the growth area boundary for the city.

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So you can see that the annexation area is inside the growth area for the city of westminster.

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On the right hand, map we have the annexation area, approximately 3.8 acres in the blue outline.

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The corporate limits in the red outline you can see the annexation area is adjacent to.

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The corporate limits, so we will not be creating an enclave with this annexation.

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Here we have an aerial map of the annexation area. The area is currently improved with.

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Commercial buildings- and it is where the old army reserve currently resides.

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This property is currently under the site plan process with the county.

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The development plan is proposing a medical center on the property all.

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Applicable county and city agencies will have the opportunity to comment on the development plan.

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Looking at the zoning, we are currently zoned at c2 under the county, commercial medium. The city has.

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Deemed it a b business zoning district in the city, because the intensity of the commercial.

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Medium and business zoning districts are similar. There is no zoning waiver required. So there's no.

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Zoning waiver that was requested, the designated land use of the annexation area is commercial.

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This is taken from the 2007 westminster environs community comprehensive plan.

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The requested zoning of business is consistent with the commercial designation.

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Moving on to water and sewer, we are in the existing water and sewer service categories.

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Taken from the carroll county, water and sewer master plan.

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This means that the city is currently serving the property with their water and sewer infrastructure.

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Agency comments, the department of planning is recommending the city.

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Of westminster, give public notice by posting the property prior to their public hearing.

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And notifying all adjoining property owners, the maryland department of planning sent in.

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Comments- and they have no outstanding comments that need to be addressed.

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This pr, this annexation was presented to the planning commission at their june 1st meeting and.

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They have a favorable recommendation forwarded to you all. The department of planning is also.

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Recommending support of this annexation for today, we are here for a briefing or decision if you're.

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Ready, we also have time reserved next thursday june 16th for the approval of the comment letter.

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And that will bring us to the westminster public hearing on june 27th. Okay, thanks you're you're.

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Learning for its information and or decisions because of whatever you want, it's not hold things.

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Up but um any comments thoughts I mean you have most I I would. I would like to make a decision.

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Today, if yes, we're in agreement with that, okay and I'll make the motion that we, the board, approves.

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Signing forward the comment letter to the city of westminster regarding the westminster annexation.

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Number 73-404 malcolm drive. Second, okay. I got a motion in a second. I have no comments.

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All in favor all right: okay, let's move on yeah excellent, all right! Okay, sounds good. Moving on.

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I'm sure you don't want to hear from me no pretty sure if I was able to save them, 50 cents, I'm happy.

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Moving on, we have westminster annexation, 74 the state attorney's office.

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We have the annexation plat that was submitted with the annexation packet to the county.

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As you know, this is owned by the county commissioners of carroll county and they are.

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Also, the petitioners of this annexation locating ourselves, we are on the corner of greenwood avenue.

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And ralph street just up the road. The annexation area is approximately 0.21 acres and it's kind.

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Of splits, the parcel in half the annexation area is shown in the boulder black outline.

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On the left hand, map you can see where we are in the corporate limits of westminster, the gold and.

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Black outline is the growth area boundary. So again we are located in the city's growth area, boundary.

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Going on to the right-hand map, the annexation area again is approximately 0.21 acres.

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Shown in blue and the corporate limits in red here, you're able to see how.

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The remaining part of the parcel is already incorporated into the city, so this annexation.

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Would just bring in the other area, that's not already incorporated into the city.

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Here we have an aerial map. The entire parcel is improved with commercial buildings. The.

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Annexation area is predominantly used for parking.

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This property is also going through a site plan process with the county.

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The proposed development plan is for the new state attorney's office and all applicable county.

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And city agencies will have the opportunity to comment on the site plan at the appropriate time.

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Zoning we have. The annexation area is currently zoned, c2 commercial, medium with the county. It.

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Is being requested in the city to be put into b business again because the commercial medium.

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And business zoning districts are similar in intensity. There's no zoning waiver required so.

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There is no zoning waiver requested designated lane. Use for the annexation area is commercial.

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This was taken from the 2007 westminster environs community comprehensive plan.

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And the requested zoning of business is consistent with the land use, water and sewer. Again, we are in.

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The existing water and sewer service categories, so the city is that means the city is serving this.

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Annexation area with their water and sewer agency comments, we have the same comment from.

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The department of planning of giving public notice by posting the annexation area prior to the public.

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Hearing and notifying all adjoining property owners, the maryland department of planning.

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We receive their comments and there's again no outstanding comments from them.

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This annexation was also presented to the planning commission on their june 1st meeting and they.

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Forward a favorable recommendation to you all the department of planning is recommending support of.

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This annexation and again they westminster, has their public hearing on the 27th. Okay.

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Any questions comments on this: is there any? What's the downside of sounding this to the into the city.

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The downside of zoning yeah or anaxing this into the city, I don't think, there's any downside to.

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Annexing it into the city and what's the benefit, then I don't know if andrea wants to speak to.

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Speak to the water and sewer, I think it's a water allocation, they have it. Okay, that's right.

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Yeah it's so it's definitely a water and sewer issue as far as what the city would give for.

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uh The allocation within the city versus being outside the city right right. We also.

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Have an agreement with the city that will, as we develop, will annex this property into the city. I.

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Mean I mean it's only an upside, it gives them the authority and responsibility of the property. Then.

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Okay, unless this is information, does somebody want to make a decision on this.

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I'll make a motion aboard approve, signing forward comment letter to the city of westminster.

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Regarding the westminster annexation, number 74 state's attorney's office, shocking, okay, I got.

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A motion I got a second, I have no comments on this all in favor aye. Okay, thank you. Thank you.

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So much thank you. Thank you. Okay, we're going to, I believe, take a pause bill. Do we have everybody.

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Here, that's going to be here, you believe from 29th. Is everybody I'm asking bill? Is there? Is everybody.

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Here, that's going to be here, you think: do we have everybody, I think so? Okay, okay,.

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um Okay, so uh yeah, gentlemen, whoever wants to come up and speak. um What I'd like to do is.

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Take this opportunity you come up to the chair or to the seat. This person would be first sergeant.

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Bill rosier, okay and then colonel graf here, okay and one you, gentlemen, come on up to the table.

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um So colonel, where are you at yep? I want you to just come on up to the table. So what I'd.

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Like to do is we'll um take this opportunity for priority carol um to recognize the 78th.

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Anniversary of the d-day landing where we've given what we think the greatest generation to serve now.

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Understanding that one to two percent of those men and women in our country have the honor of putting.

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On the uniform and the 29th, the blue and gray, the yin yang, provided that synergy provided that.

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You know, regardless of what I hear in other places, that unity that I believe is so true.

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And I will always say that that the 29th, especially that patch, shows the unity in our.

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Country, not the division, um but it's opportunity to recognize the 29th uh infantry division for all.

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They have done uh prior to world war ii, world war- one- and you know, from its from its uh inception.

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To where it stands today and continues to serve our state in our country, because, as I've been.

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Into uh both iraq and afghanistan, I've sat or stood side by side with men and women of.

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The blue and gray division, but what I'd like to do before we get into discussion and get your.

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Insight is read the proclamation which is just a handful of words but, more importantly, getting your.

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Input is going to be much more valuable. The 29th infantry division.

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Was founded in 1917, with regiments from maryland virginia for service in world war? One.

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And fought bravely in alsace and muse, oregon campaigns in france and the 29th.

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Infantry division was again called into federal service on february 3rd 1941 for world war ii.

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And world war ii, the 29th infantry division played a decisive role when it became part of the first.

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And second, waves of the u.s assault forces on omaha beach, normandy, france in june 6, 1944.

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Known as d-day, the d-day landings turned the tide of world war ii.

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And marked the beginning of the end of nazi germany and the 29th infantry division fought.

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In campaigns through uh throughout northern france, rhineland and central europe until.

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The final victory on may 11, 1945 and as america marks the 78th anniversary of the d-day landing.

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Into world war ii, many of the veterans and their families will visit normandy, american cemetery.

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The final resting place for over 9 300, united states, servicemen and commemorative services and.

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Hundreds of veterans of the 29th infantry division reside in carroll county as well as many more.

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Who form the present day, 29th division association who served in the global war on terrorism.

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We honor those who served and those who are still serving communities in carroll county.

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Maryland and their nation at home and overseas now, therefore, we, the board of county commissioners.

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Do hereby proclaim its back date june 6 2022, to be 29th infantry division day.

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In recognition of the 78th anniversary of the 29th infantry d-day landing in carroll county and urged.

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All citizens to honor the service and sacrifice of these veterans adopted this second day of june.

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2022 signed by all of our commissioners um colonel first sergeant. What are your uh you know, opening.

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Comments and then we can, I think we have more than a squad, almost a platoon here and see who wants to.

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uh Provide their input so, first of all we want to thank the commissioners for recognizing d-day and.

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The 29ers that served not only during d-day but otherwise, as you've stated, there are a lot of.

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29Ers from carroll county many gave their lives my uncle served in the 29th and was killed in france.

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Charles singer from the hampstead area- and I think too often people don't remember the.

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Greatest generation and what they, what they did for us in helping to win the war in europe and.

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So once again, thank you all for recognizing that and recognizing the men and women who still serve.

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In the 29th, not only from carroll county but state of maryland, yes, sir, thank you first off. Thank you.

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For and commissioners, for your kind words um just a little bit about the 29th, as you said, they were.

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Formed in 1917, but if we just want to talk about since it's the anniversary or a few days past,.

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The anniversary of d-day um 29 suffered over 3 700 casualties killed um in world war ii, 15 50.

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Over 15 000 battle casualties, nearly a thousand missing in action and um taking prisoner of war.

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So the 29th alone, on d-day alone suffered nearly 2000 casualties on omaha beach itself, so it truly.

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Was the greatest generation there's not many left if there's any left at all.

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We just can't forget the the 29th and- and I think, as you kind of uh lean to.

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Our history is, and- and it's probably off topic a little bit, but our history is in.

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Trouble they want to, they want to do away with the 29th infantry divisions.

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History, because of the the blue and grey patch, which is just a travesty, um you know history.

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History erased is history, forgotten and you're and you're doomed to repeat it. So again, I'm going to.

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Thank the commissioners thank the 29ers. um For me, it's been an honor and a privilege to serve.

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um The 29th for all the years I did um and and I'm just grateful so again thanks. Thank you for.

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The commissioners and top there's no leaning too. I am very specific and very direct that this patch.

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Should stay, and there is a reason for the yin yang and the blue and the gray and has to do with unity.

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Not divisiveness or division, so there is no. There is no question about my comment on that.

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It happens that way is out of our control, but uh we should all voice our opinion on the importance.

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Of lineage and the importance of uh heritage that we hold so true because.

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Yes, the 29th has gone through a lot for all the right reasons to make us who we.

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Are today absolutely sir yeah? Thank you. The portraits you've provided over the years.

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Are displayed right outside our offices over here and we see it every day, yep so sure yeah.

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Frank rauschenberg come here the post 48th here. Once again, I don't mean to be repetitious.

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But I want to thank you for your fine introduction of the 29th division and the dj.

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Landing 75th anniversary here, uh if you like to just introduce some of our veterans.

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If he went bill marshall, I'm sorry bill, nash, junior fisher. Many of you know: junior fishermen.

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Marshall and richard stem and charlotte foreman and doc doctrine there. So that's all I have to.

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Say I will give you copies of the save the patch here with mrs winham, if you would absolutely other.

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Than that, thank you again for the proclamation. Yes, sir, does anyone else have anything to say.

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If not, why don't we get a picture and we can go from there? Okay, one down, gentlemen:.

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Charlie, it might help charlie. Thank you.

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This is for you to try to aid. You be more, I'm here to support you friend good morning.

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I know frank: you look better with your glasses on.

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Thank you. Thank you.

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I've been to normandy a handful of times, and every time is the new time. It's very moving.

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Every american should go, there's also a lot of other american cemeteries over there. I've been to.

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um And every time it seems like a new time, I think it's also fascinating. There's a german.

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Cemetery, that's just down the road, so different. The american cemetery is so light with all the.

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White, you know crosses and stars of david and different things, and the german cemetery is.

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All dark stone it's under under tree cover, it's just a very different feel. It's very.

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On fort meade we have uh a post cemetery, it's nobody's been interred anymore.

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We have germans buried there, along with italians, because there were.

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Wars but fort meade stood up in 1917. same time. They did and we had five.

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Three or five divisions contone there and then went out into pershing so anyway,.

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um Let's talk about something much more exciting than what we just talked about.

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Carroll county strategic traffic safety plan.

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Good morning, commissioners good morning and we have our own equals.

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When I appear before you guys follow somebody much more important than me.

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Commissioner, lance was here, you tell you that doesn't take very much, but.

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It's a nice proclamation. You guys did for a very important group of folks yep.

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How are you doing I'm doing well doing? Well, yes, it's a good morning.

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Good morning, we're here today to present the carroll county, strategic traffic safety plan.

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This is a long time in coming. This started out with a request from.

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At the time, secretary pete ron to the board of county commissioners for the county to.

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Develop a strategic traffic safety plan. At the time we had a meeting and commitment from.

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The board of commissioners and the sheriff to proceed with the development of a plan.

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In order to develop a plan, we felt we needed a steering committee. We pulled together an executive.

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Steering committee which sits today, the members are listed above there with the four e's in mind.

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Whenever we talk about traffic safety, we talk about engineering, education enforcement and ems.

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One thing: uh when the ems folks came to the table, they said: why do we need to be here.

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And I said well, our goal is to put you out of the crash business. We don't if we do what we.

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Need to do, you won't have to respond any more serious crashes, um so they were. They said: okay,.

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We know why we need to be here. That's what I say about lawyers put them out of business.

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Okay, sorry yeah. I know when we met with the highway safety office when we first.

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Talked they were asking us to do this. We said we're very busy. You know, we've got a lot of.

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Things on our plate, you know, aren't there some people to help us and they came back and says yes.

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um They have a position. You see senior cindy burch there with baltimore metropolitan council, her.

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Position is funded by the maryland highway safety office and her her role was to assist us and do.

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The the heavy lifting the writing all the stuff that we didn't have time to do to develop the plan.

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Pull the data do all the data analysis, so she was a very big help in the development of this plant.

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This was the group also that developed the emphasis areas that we'll talk about in a.

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Little bit maryland has a strategic highway safety plan. However, we have very few miles of.

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Interstate when people talk about highways, they're like well, this doesn't apply to carroll county.

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So we needed a plan that that met our needs. So one of the first things we did was we changed the.

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Name, so it is a carroll county traffic safety plan. It applies to all roadways within carroll, county.

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We looked at many plans. We looked at the state plan.

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We looked at other county plans, we looked at other jurisdictions.

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And we didn't want to go and find replace change name to meet carroll county. We wanted a plan that.

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Met the county needs and it was based on data and we'll talk a little bit about the data we did have.

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A concern our plan does not follow exactly how the state plan does about state funding. However, we've.

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Been assured and we're continuing to receive the state funding as long as we have an adopted plan.

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So when we first started out commissioners, we the goal was towards zero deaths, so we started.

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Looking at our fatals throughout the county over a specific time period from 2016 until current.

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And what we saw was that, although we had a number of fatal crashes that weren't acceptable in the.

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County, we didn't we weren't able to identify roadways that we needed to specifically focus on.

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So, for example, we saw roadway 31 that had a large number of fatal crashes on it. However, if we looked.

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At the data we we saw that one specific fatal crash was four occupants, so that really made that.

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Roadway look like it was a very unsafe roadway and we needed to focus a lot of attention there, but.

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Through our own knowledge and and experience in working with different roadways in the county, we.

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Said well, there are other roadways. We really need to focus on not just one specific railway based on.

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A number of fatalities that have occurred on that roadway, so we actually expanded our.

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um Or we broadened our data to include fatals and serious injury crashes and that really gave.

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Us a broad overview of where we needed to focus our attention. um So if you, if you look at the.

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The chart we have up here, we- we looked at fatal crashes, injury crashes, property damage, crashes,.

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And then the total number of crashes and and we kind of mapped them out and it gave us an.

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Idea of where we needed to focus our attention, rather than just simply focusing on fatal crashes,.

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So um we we got together with a with a planning group and we said well, let's.

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Look at our crashes and let's look at where specifically carroll county needs to focus.

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Our emphasis areas, the state plan, their emphasis areas, were distracted, driving, impaired driving.

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The infrastructure, occupant protection so seat belt safety, child safety, seat, usage, pedestrian and.

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Bicyclist and speed and aggressive driving. So when we were looking at the state plan, we thought well.

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Some of those emphasis areas don't really meet the needs of carroll county, so you know.

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For example, we don't have a lot of pedestrian and bicycle fatalities or serious injuries in.

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Here not that it doesn't happen, not that we don't have a few a year, but certainly not as.

T

Many as baltimore city might have, or other urban areas, where there's a lot of pedestrian traffic.

T

Or bicycle traffic, so we looked at that and we said well that really doesn't apply to us. So.

T

As chris said, you know we didn't want to just copy a state plan and change the name.

T

From maryland to carroll county, because there were things that just weren't applicable to us, so um we.

T

Got together and looked at the state emphasis areas, and we said well some of these just don't.

T

Align with carroll county, so we actually came up with our own emphasis areas that were applicable.

T

To carroll county those being distracted, driving, roadway infrastructure, impaired driving.

T

Age, so we want to focus on older and younger drivers. You know we have a very diverse popu.

T

Population of of drivers in the county and then speed, so we felt that those were the.

T

Areas that were important to focus on in our plan, they meet the needs of the county. They they.

T

They are are easily identifiable based on our data.

T

um And, though those those emphasis areas will allow us to focus on the state's enforcement.

T

Calendar so, in other words were, were we already receiving grant money to enforce speed we're.

T

Already receiving grant money to enforce impaired, driving, we're already receiving grant money to.

T

Enforce distracted driving so it allows us to remain on state and national funding calendars.

T

In order to enforce those, without asking the board for additional funding.

U

Some of those areas that are in the state plan there are sub areas of in our emphasis areas.

U

So once we had our emphasis areas, we needed to develop our strategies and action steps.

U

In order to do that, we decided to have a summit, something a lot of jurisdictions had not done.

U

Before um something that uh is catching on, we've dave and I have gone and spoke in a couple.

U

Different jurisdictions about how we developed the summit, you can see this uh very long list of.

U

Folks that attended the summit, the list was even longer who were invited, and these are the folks.

U

That came together to develop their next steps and we'll talk about that here in a minute.

U

Just you know some people say why are some of these folks here bureau of aging, because we.

U

Talked about our age emphasis area, liquor board, um because we talk about you know, driving under.

U

The influence um state's attorney for the the enforcement of the adjudication.

U

You know you can write the ticket, but you know whether you get the appropriate judication.

U

State agencies and also towns and municipalities were also included in this one thing to note: we.

U

Just received guidance on the new federal grant for highway safety. This type of.

U

Input of the community and our stakeholders is a requirement in order to apply for.

U

Those grants- so I don't know how we came up with this, but we're meeting those requirements.

U

That just came out uh last week, I guess so. As you see you know, we had. We had our.

U

Agenda we had some keynote speakers that came the sheriff. Commissioner, we had the mva administrator.

U

Give a speech, and also the highway safety office director came and also spoke to the group and then.

U

They broke out into emphasis area groups. Each of these memphis area groups were multi-disciplined.

U

We just didn't have law enforcement in the in the speeding. We had the engineering and we had.

U

The ems and we had the um education also in all the emphasis areas they each were facilitated.

U

And in the morning, they developed the strategies based on the emphasis areas, what what strategies.

U

Does carroll county need in order to to work in these emphasis areas to get that number to zero.

U

So we came back after lunch, we did provide lunch. It was a very good lunch.

T

You have to provide lunch at these, or people won't come.

I

When, when people were volunteered to attend, they walked in it's like. Why are we here.

U

We'll have a good good lunch. Okay, we're good to go! You know! So, during lunch, every all the.

U

Emphasis areas got to see the strategies that were developed in the morning from all the other groups.

U

And so their afternoon activity was develop action steps for each one of those strategies.

U

What you know, how are we going to implement these things? How are we going to get that number to zero.

T

So what we looked at is each emphasis area. So, for example, we would look at infrastructure.

T

And one of the.

T

One of the strategies was to identify high crash corridors and figure out countermeasures to.

T

Reduce collisions or serious fatal injuries at that, and then they would develop an action step so.

T

For example, we would annually analyze data to determine crash causes of those locations.

T

So we looked at those we looked at those goals, those emphasis areas and strategies.

T

And we developed targets to uh over a course of 20 years to reduce crashes at those locations and.

T

Set target goals and trend lines which you can see here up here on the screen to eventually by 2040.

T

Reach zero deaths, which is the goal of the plan. Overall, some may say: that's an unattainable goal.

T

We think that, with some hard work and outside the box, thinking.

T

We are able to reach that goal of zero deaths on county roadways.

U

The state is a zero tor, zero deaths state. So all the legislation is based on that all the.

U

Requirements of the plan plans required to be two to zero. So what are our next steps.

U

This is a five-year plan. It's a living document. The executive committee will continue to meet.

U

To implement these action steps and strategies, we talked about the the safe streets, roads, federal.

U

Grant that just came out, unfortunately, there's a minimum of a three million dollar project. That's.

U

The minimum size of a project so we're we're looking at that, but we do believe that our plan.

U

Does meet with your commitment and approval today.

U

The requirements of the federal grants there are state projects and state funding sources.

U

And they require us to have a plan also so having an approved plan will open up other.

U

Additional opportunities and I suspect in the future, even some of the funding sources. We have.

U

That are coming today. The plan will be required in order to continue those funding sources.

C

Just a question: uh last couple years the numbers did come down, does kovett enter into that. You.

C

Think for his lack of people on the road so sure you know, and we saw that even with crime trends.

T

Commissioner, that you know the less people that are out, obviously the less crash you're going to.

T

Have less crime you're going to have um so factor that in do you think so? Actually um we didn't.

T

Because a lot of our data, the data lags so most of our data ends the current data that we have.

T

Ends at 2020., so in other words we haven't gotten data that has gone through the pandemic period, yet.

T

um That will come in and and I assume that it will show that that things have gone down. You.

T

Know but when we look at the plan, you know again it's a living document. So as we look at the plan.

T

We certainly will factor that into consideration that traffic was less, so we would assume that we.

T

Would see less crashes during the pandemic and the shutdowns? Unfortunately, the state in some.

U

Of their areas, especially that I think it was the 495 corridor, because there wasn't as much traffic.

U

People were traveling at higher speeds, so therefore their crashes were more serious.

U

They were seeing some more serious crashes at times they they typically would not have.

U

Because there was previously congestion, were you also looking seasonal? Seasonal is a factor.

U

Weather there are many many many factors that that go into this.

U

We had even looked at a corridor approach to a plan um to see if that was most appropriate.

U

We decided not to go that way based but to go on more emphasis areas, so it was cover all roadways.

U

But our projects will some will be identified as corridors.

A

One more time and I apologize going back- the participants of this group.

U

These are the participants who who attended the summit. There were a lot more that were invited.

U

I'm sorry go ahead community. How did you reach out to the community? um There are.

A

Advocacy groups some more uh animated than others. You know, as we know,.

A

um Some larger than others that have gotten themselves established through their own.

A

Bylaws, like finksburg and freedom district, you know they have. You know large groups.

A

Don't know if westminster has a larger advocacy group. Imagineer, you know is something, but how do.

A

You reach out to the communities for their input into this. I mean a lot of these agencies. Work with.

U

Those community community partners- already um you know the chesapeake regional safety council.

U

Was also there, um you know all the all our partner agencies work with those community groups and are.

U

Aware of you know, we all meet with them in regards to different issues, and things like that. um We are.

U

Working you know with department planning with their their transportation plan. This will be.

U

A part of that um so definitely not excluding the county, the community at all with this, so so.

T

In addition to that, commissioner rossini, I assume that you know you talk about the freedom district.

T

So you know part of part of this plan and the development of this plan and who we have.

T

um On the board to on the planning commission, the planning board um is law enforcement, different.

T

County representatives, you know, um because you see us there, that we attend your town hall meetings.

T

You know all the commission's town hall meetings, so we get the input back from the citizens on what.

T

They're seeing in their in their communities and and we will take that back to the planning.

T

Committee as we need to redevelop this plan, so um you know we receive a lot of input through the.

T

Through the community, not only direct that they have with you know, for example, my office, but.

T

Through the town hall meetings that you that you all have and the concerns that we hear that they.

T

Bring up so um a lot of that is input that we just get back and forth from those different venues.

A

The um and I agree- and I appreciate that the challenge is that they feel they, the community.

A

Has the right to be at the table and has the confidence that that information is being.

A

Shared through the summit that they're in input and because, as opposed to saying well.

A

I wasn't there, but they should have the confidence that their information is being.

A

Shared and is being you know, added to the the summit I think is um is important because.

A

You know out of sight out of mind if people don't see, you know somebody there they're like well.

A

He's not working or she's, not working. No, they are you just don't see them type of thing. So, okay, I.

U

Think, with at the group that we have and cindy um from bmc mentions this, a lot that you know.

U

She works with other jurisdictions and she comes to us and she's always amazed at the relationships.

U

That we have and the the information sharing and- and you know you know, the sheriff's office- has a.

U

Complaint log: we get that monthly and you know those are citizen complaints. So we're aware of.

U

Where those complaints are that information is not shared, I was actually at a national conference. Two.

U

Or three years ago and spoke with somebody in oregon and he was talking about a safety plan.

U

And he wanted to get the sheriff's input in oregon. I want to say oregon now and that sheriff was not.

U

Did not want anything to do with it didn't want anything to do with traffic safety. They didn't.

U

Care and I'm like what do you mean? You know it was foreign to me. You know and it's completely.

U

Opposite of what we have here, yeah, I like the plan, the safety plan. I do agree, you know the next.

C

Summit, you might want to include a few hoa people or something in this just to get some input. People.

C

Involved but the plan has to come together and I commend you guys what you've done you're looking.

C

At the safety you're looking at everything's going on and with that, I move the board of commissioners.

C

Except the carroll county, strategic traffic safety plan for review and approval and adoption.

C

As the official traffic safety plan for carroll county second, okay, I got a motion. I got a second.

A

um With this I agree all in favor all right. I do have a question.

A

Outside of this, when you talk about infrastructure.

A

There are parts of down again I'm most familiar with the southern part of the county. There are.

A

Parts of where 32 and 26 are that they're, either blind spots or.

A

The congestion and it's not the road, it's the property, and um you know it's uh where I believe.

A

It's not personal price. I still believe it may be state property how to level it out like the.

A

Johnsville 26 intersection, you know, is a great example. It's a blind spot. You know at the light.

A

How do we get state, and that may be something to talk to to more with state highway, about um 26.

A

No 32 going up to 26 by the exxon station making that right, there's that house right there again.

A

It causes congestion right before that exon station, which causes a lot of anxiety.

A

um So, where I'm going to where I'm going to is um when we talk about infrastructure, it's not.

A

Just the road it's the road and the surrounding area and the easements of that road that may be.

A

Looked at being modified to take care of that. You know that area so and I think that's a good.

T

Point, commissioner, when you bring up to include uh you know: freedom, district folks, yeah they're,.

T

The ones that can tell us yeah exactly what you just did you know we don't always drive that that.

T

Area, so what what better resource to tell us that information and the folks that drive it every day.

A

And marriageville too, you cannot do anything about marriageville to accept the road itself.

A

Because there is no sides to it, and that is a major concern with the property development.

A

Down there we're just thinking of putting about big road closed signs down there. We think.

T

That'll alleviate them, we'll put a uh you know: a drawbridge on 26 at the liberty reservoir, no.

T

Okay. Thank you, commissioner. Thank you. If we go back to gravel roads all throughout the.

C

County this is solved right. You said that when commissioner lance is not here today,.

U

I hear him yelling now.

C

Hey by the way, uh very impressive graduate you had so congratulations. Thank you very much. We're very.

T

Proud applied, mathematics is where his mathematics and chemistry where's you going university of.

U

Delaware, honors college luhan: fighting blue ends. Yes, sir president of the honor society, I know.

C

You can't spell on her. I know I can't spell it. I cannot spell ap, so don't worry about it. Fantastic.

A

Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Let's talk about the chapter. 155 development subdivision of land.

A

Proposed code modifications; no, no charles carroll, community center project change orders. I apologize.

A

huh The last page basically and what you just flipped over, oh yes, thank you um what he said.

A

Charles carroll, community center project change orders.

A

A

I was just all excited to get to chapter 155. Sorry about that. I know it's going to be exciting.

B

We'll try to be brief good morning, commissioners, good morning. Thank you for your time this morning,.

V

uh Joining me this morning is eric burdine deputy director public works, kurt ingle project manager.

V

For charles carroll community center we're here before you today to request your approval for a.

V

Series of change orders in excess of the hundred thousand dollar agency's approval authority.

V

The change orders are for items of unanticipated and unforeseen site conditions within the.

V

Footprint of the community center building and needed to be reconciled to provide adequate.

V

Soil bearing capacity to support the structure, other change orders are owner.

V

Related change orders with respect to primarily the building. What does that mean.

V

There's some change orders that were specific to say the gymnasium.

V

Basketball hoop extenders was was one that would make the basketball hoops on the cross courts.

V

Be able to lower and raise those uh there was a water system also for the gymnasium.

V

But the project's moving forward, we're on budget we're on schedule.

V

And no additional funds are needed to pay the contractor.

V

For these change orders and we're here to answer any questions that that you may have.

V

And again, thank you for your time. How are you on budget if you're requesting a hundred more.

A

Thousand dollars in change, orders they're not asking for it go ahead. You explain we're we're.

V

We're we have exceeded our threshold for what we can approve by the bureau. Building construction.

V

However, the money that we are getting or praying asking for approval is within our budget, so.

V

When we came before the commissioners back in the fall of last year, requesting additional funding.

V

To pay for the project, these kind of costs were anticipated in the overall project budget. Okay,.

H

It's just part of that delegation of authority. um You know the document that the commissioners have.

H

That currently limits um project change orders to a hundred thousand dollars. Anything above that has.

H

To come back to the board for review and approval, and it can't be extending the scope of the project.

H

So if the product you know, if the building in this case were 2 000 square feet, it can't make.

H

It 3 000 square feet so without board approval, so these change orders don't have anything to do with.

H

Scope change it's merely most of it is um site work. um There was, there was stuff found under the.

H

Under the soil that we didn't know was going to be there like the old building. Are you anticipating.

C

Other uh increases due to cost in inflation. Things happening before you get finished.

C

Yes, quite a few yeah, there will be further change orders that come about that we are anticipating.

A

Notice that lack of hesitation in that response, I think it's happening everywhere- yeah you're.

W

Just seeing it well, I mean yeah, there's just there's no reason to hesitate on that. I mean.

W

It's just everywhere: it's it's hitting us uh in all facets as as a hairy homeowner that may be.

W

Going out to lowe's or home depot and getting stuffed for projects they want to do, um but.

W

um Just to piggyback a little bit on what roberta had said, 80 percent of this threshold of 100 was.

W

Allocated to just unforeseen stuff, that was underneath that soil from when the demo.

W

Happened back in 2016., so just you know. Obviously there has to be proper fill.

W

To put back and when they're digging and they're finding parts of a burnt school building from 1928.

W

Which is when it burned down, um you know: old cistern was in place, an old grease trap.

W

uh And that was all underneath pavement that was there and nobody.

W

In all, honesty would have known that it was there, so obviously those things need to be removed.

W

So that we have suitable fill so that when we put this structure on there,.

W

Everything is compacted and properly done. So it's not something that I welcomed by any means, but.

W

Unfortunately, it was every other day. I was getting a call saying: hey. We found this. We found that.

W

So anything of value that could be sold for a hundred thousand dollars.

V

Unfortunately, no okay, besides grease traps, wants, went over to see if, if.

H

Charles carroll was actually buried there and we were hoping that maybe.

H

Kind of scary, yes, okay, but I don't know if, if anyone's had a chance to stop up to the site, I.

W

Think, commissioner, lance who I know has a vested interest, has been up there a couple times, but.

W

Things are moving along very well. um The staff is down currently for the.

W

Pad so they're expecting to pour the pad next week and the building's coming in on the 20th.

W

To be delivered, so we are moving along the building's prefab. Yes, sir, I'm coming in on.

B

The 20th of this month- yes, we opened by labor day right of what year I didn't say, we're here.

A

So when the pet is uh I mean, how long is it going to take to cure and to settle and.

A

I mean before you put the building on top of it. Well, there's compaction testing that.

W

We have to do through third party and so forth. um You know core samples of the concrete right.

W

You know those usually take. You know between three days, seven days they do it at different intervals.

W

Yeah so um there'll be a little bit of a time frame there, but um it's not it's not going to.

W

Be long before they start erecting wow, I'm just curious more than anything, that's why okay yeah.

A

Board of commissioners approved charles carroll community center project, construction change.

A

Orders in the amount of 108 279 dollars and 80 cents. Second, I got a motion in two seconds. All.

A

In favor all right, okay, thank you, commissioners appreciate your time. Thank you, sir. Absolutely.

A

Okay, now, let's move to chapter 155 development and subdivision of land proposed code, modifications.

K

Hello good morning again, good morning, hello, hi laura. So I am here with laura mathias, who is.

K

The bureau chief of development review her bureau as they uh work through the process of assisting.

K

Developers in in site, development and subdivision in the county are guided by chapter 155 of the.

K

Carroll county code, chapter 155, is specific to subdivision and and site development. So, as you.

K

Can imagine, as through the years as the her staff have been working with citizens and developers.

K

They make note of things that are unclear or people are confused about and and so on and.

K

Some things have become outdated, and so for the past year, laura and her staff been working on.

K

Documenting draft changes to the code chapter 155 is within the purview of the planning and.

K

Zoning commission, the county code, requires that any proposed modification to the code.

K

Needs to be formally sent to the planning and zoning commission by yourselves, and so that's why.

K

We're here today is laura, is going to give a brief uh presentation as to the substance of of the.

K

Types of changes that we're looking to make and we're asking for your guidance to our permission.

K

To then engage the planning and zoning commission we'll work with them through. However, many work.

K

Sessions and so on, so they fully understand all the changes that we're proposing and then once we.

K

Have agreement with them on the changes we'll come back to you all for for as many discussions as you.

K

Would like to have regarding the the changes and then uh public hearing and then hopefully adoption.

K

So if you have any questions on process and why we're here happy to answer that, but otherwise I'll.

K

Turn it over to laura to talk for a couple minutes about what we're looking to change.

X

All right I'll take it from there. Thank you, chris.

X

I kind of think you should have bought the trophy back as a prop. Maybe it's kind of it's spectacular.

K

Bringing the small trophy, but you should bring it to every future lrm presentation.

K

Just to remind the commissioners, look we're wonderful and hang it from my neck.

X

So, thank you. That was a great introduction and exactly what my bureau staff we've been working.

X

Very hard, as chris said, to identify things in our code that we just think could be a lot more clear.

X

Okay, so I'm just going to go through there's a few slides here and hopefully.

X

It's just a good overview for you, we're really going to get into the depths of.

X

It with the planning commission and then when we come back before you.

X

So these are the the three objectives that we have. um We do have a development review.

X

Manual which looks like this that's the spec, and that is part of our code. The code chapter 155, does.

X

Reference, the manual so we want to take whatever content is necessitated to put into the code and.

X

We're going to absorb that into the code and onto the website for full accessibility to.

X

The contents of this reconfiguring chapter 155 so that it just reads very clearly to anybody. That's.

X

Opening that code, especially for the first time and revise for clarity and predictability as well.

X

So the manual itself that I just spoke of um you can tell from the pictures even on the cover it's.

X

It's been around for a while, it was established in 2004 and it has not been updated and in really.

X

Taking a good hard look at this manual, there are over a hundred pages in it. You'll see it's.

X

Actually thicker than these three code sections, but there's only about six pages of unique content.

X

In the manual in today's day and age, where everybody's going to the internet.

X

For their answers, we have the rest of this is mostly on the internet, for people to access.

X

Codes checklists forms you'll see that so um and because it's codified, if we.

X

Want to change the manual we would have to go through a process to then do that code. Change.

X

So with this update, we're going to retire, the manual.

X

And select contents, as I said they will be pulled into chapter 155. They will be.

X

Web-Based content, which a lot of it already is, and we're going to establish a technical memorandum.

X

On our website that can be accessed, so, if you can imagine, this is very similar to.

X

Design specs that an engineer would be able to go to and pull off of the website and utilize.

X

So what we are taking and bringing into chapter 155 there is a simplified site.

X

Plan process, which you're all probably familiar with the term, it's only in the manual right now.

X

We're bringing that into the code we're proposing that there are some definitions.

X

As well and driveway requirements- and here we're talking about using common driveways.

C

We have to have them, yes, sure, I'm sorry, they're painful. I will say that the most discussion.

X

Occurred around use in common driveways, absolutely I'm sure your name was mentioned as well. In elijah.

X

The technical memorandum, as I said, here's a good example. We call these plates.

X

They also appear in dpw's manual, so plates were related to driveways and aprons.

X

We are updating those renumbering, those we're going to bring those.

X

Online in the technical memorandum, and then that can be updated as necessitated.

X

Again, web-based information forms that are in this manual that are already online.

X

A lot of our standard questionnaires, checklists applications.

X

I'm not going to go through this in detail, but this shows our reorganization.

X

For clarity purposes, so on the left you'll see the existing code on the right is the proposed.

X

We did add a couple of sub-sections, so development of land is overall. Ever we shuffled things around.

X

Okay, we didn't remove things and add things willy-nilly. We moved things to make sense, so.

X

Development of land then covers everything. Then we go into subdivision. If you want to subdivide.

X

Here is everything that falls into that here's what you can do and how you can do it site plans.

X

As well, we created a new section for site plans. It was kind of scattered throughout.

X

The code previously, we said if you want to do a site plan, here's where you're looking.

X

And we changed particular areas, which is also kind of tricky to say particular to.

X

Match in the zoning code it does call those specific areas, so we changed the language there.

X

So next steps, as chris mentioned, are to go in front of the planning commission to give this.

X

Overview and then to really look into exactly what is proposed within the code that could take right.

X

Now we have scheduled two different sessions. We were on two different agendas with them in the.

X

Month of june they're, both in june june 21st and june 29th, we'll extend that into july. If need be,.

X

And once they have their recommendations, we will come back before you to go into the same process.

A

So I'm not sure what decision we need to make it's informational going to the planning and zoning.

A

And then, after that, it's coming back to us, I mean you, don't need permission to staff. Yes, you do.

H

Actually, we do so the code, interestingly enough in chapter 158. Yes, it's a it's a referral to planning.

X

Commission, so the county commissioners shall refer. These proposed code, changes to the planning.

X

Commission for review and comment: okay, I apologize it's just. We were a little surprised by it too, but.

H

Any any um any state law um in um the um anything that has um planning related.

H

The board of commissioners has to agree that you want to move forward with this, even at.

H

A high level at this point I mean you're not agreeing to all the changes right you're, but.

H

Are you interested? The question is, basically, are you interested in.

H

In opening up chapter 155 and allow the planning and zoning commission to take a look at it and.

A

Make their recommendations to come back to us? Yes to say? Okay, I was, I was surprised by the code as.

K

Well, but I think that the scenario that it's trying to protect is to keep you all from just.

K

Changing the code without actually having referred to the planning commission for review, so it's that.

K

Particular, actually, I think it's well, it could be that way, but I actually think it's the other way.

H

Personally, because to make sure that the board of county commissioners um is well aware of what.

H

You know the changes that staff are recommending right and want to make sure that they want to go.

A

With that, in my simple mind, it's just staffing. I have the same simple mindset.

A

But okay, no problem a step in the process. Yep I'll make the motion of board of county commissioners.

B

Direct staff to coordinate discussions with the planning zoning commission regarding.

B

The modifications to chapter 155 of the county code. Second, I got a motion. I got a second. I got.

A

No more comment on this one. Thank you so much. Thank you were you in favor I was okay, really.

A

Okay: let's talk about proposed optical fiber enhancements at various emergency communication.

A

Towers, gentlemen, good morning good morning, commissioners, good morning, I know we don't.

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Have any gorgeous awards to to share share with you this morning hard to believe, but that was nice.

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Commissioners, uh as the brief indicates we're here today,.

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uh With proposed security enhancements for- and I specifically worded it four of the.

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Towers of that make up our 11 tower network and, ultimately, the measure we're proposing today.

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Are a necessary step for us to reach new security levels that eventually will be present at all the.

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Towers that our network operates from the the improvements would be 100 percent funded by.

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A combination of ffy20, uasi and ffy20 shsp or state homeland security program grant funds.

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That are were specifically proposed as a project and have been approved. Should you approve for us.

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To use them for this purpose, so we know we can do this if you authorize, if you give us permission, we.

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Know we can use the funds to do this, as I note in in the brief, there are four sites, three of which.

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Have the same costs, one is is more expensive because that particular site doesn't have some.

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Of the existing infrastructure that the other three do, that's the why the price is different.

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So, specifically, we're asking to be able to utilize a total of fifty six thousand three hundred forty.

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Dollars of existing grant funds, no monies from the county are necessary to proceed in order to.

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Make what we are saying are enhanced optic fiber related improvements enhancements at four of our.

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Towers and I respectfully uh ask that we not get into the specific sites for that very reason. This.

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Is something we're going to do and I don't think anyone would benefit from us talking about what.

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Our capabilities, our security measures are at or not at different sites existing towers. Yes, sir.

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These are, we have 11 towers in our network, and this would uh would make the improvements that.

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Are necessary for an ultimate upgraded security measure that we're pursuing for all the towers.

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And the only reason it's four is because that's how much money we have to spend if we had more.

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Funding we would be proposing more, but we're pursuing this as grant funds become available. Can.

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I ask if this is physical security to the tower, so people don't climb up and cut things or is this.

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Like technical monitoring capability, I think, would cover to be able to monitoring capability, would.

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I think is a safe way to put it: we, we have a certain level of ability at all, our towers.

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And this is gonna. This is necessary in order to significantly enhance that.

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um We receive grant money fy20. Do we have fy 21 grant money, we received grant it's a great comm.

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Question, commissioner, we see the allocations annually, but they have multi-year performance.

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Periods, that's why this is a situation to where the spending plan for the two grants that I.

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Mentioned that's where it identified that what was proposed in those grants was achieved, and these.

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Monies remain are available, cool I'll, make the motion of the board of county commissions to prove.

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To fifty six thousand three hundred and forty dollars of optical fiber enhancements is proposed.

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And authorized the director of public safety to approve the bill. The payment of the bill.

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Second, I got a motion got a second. I got no comment all in favor, all right, all right. Okay,.

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Thank you, commissioners and commissioner I'd be remiss. If I didn't mention uh miss hawkins was.

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Listed as being here today, I had put her on here. I was not aware that she had a prior commitment.

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She offered to change that and I told her by no means I knew you would understand.

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Her not being here since she manages those funds, so he brought me instead.

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Thank you, you did well without her okay, let's talk about annual renewal of maintenance and support.

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For the mitchell humphrey financial management system.

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Good morning, commissioners, good morning, we are here to request your approval for the renewal.

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Of maintenance and support for the mitchell humphrey financial system in the amount of.

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59 350 for the one year and alternative charlie. If you have any questions good morning, commissioners.

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Charlie beckhardt, with technology services, this is the routine renewal of the annual maintenance.

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Agreement for the financial management software, which includes support, fixes software upgrades.

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As you're well aware, this is used by the entire organization.

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And covers general ledger: accounts payable accounts, receivable purchasing.

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Fixed assets and the like, and the related reporting and everything's in order on this.

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You have to do it annually, you can't do it two years, three years, five years. um Let me let me draw.

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A distinction between software maintenance agreements, where we're talking about a.

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A product that is proprietary versus buying a commodity where we may have choices in who we can.

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Do business with if we're buying you know reams of paper, or even certain software support like say.

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Microsoft, a very you know, widespread pervasive product where there are multiple opportunities.

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To get support, in this case, our financial management system is manufactured designed.

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By mitchell, humphrey they're, the only ones who do that they're, the only ones who support it.

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So so, one of the things that we have done in order to to mitigate price increases is in this case.

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Way back when, when we instituted this maintenance agreement, we we throttle the increase.

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In lockstep with the cpi, so that their increases are justifiable according to to the cost increases.

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That they're actually experiencing, so um that's that's done very well for us over time. Okay, now.

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That's good. I appreciate the uh the recognition of doing that and figuring out. Okay. What is.

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What is best for the county and using our resource our dollars in this? So thank you. The board of.

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Commissioners approved the annual maintenance support for the mitchell home free financial.

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Management system, in the amount of fifty nine thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Second,.

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I got a motion guys, second, all in favor aye aye. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Commissioners.

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Okay, let's talk about purchasing three life pack; 15 cardiac, monitor and defibrillators.

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Marine you're one for one.

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I'm gonna try or go what is it two for two? Okay, we are here to request your approval to award the.

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Purchase of three life pack, 15 cardiac, monitor and defibrillators from striker medical in the.

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Amount of a hundred and ten thousand two hundred twenty eight dollars and one cents.

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This purchase is being made through a maryland state contract that was competitively bid. It.

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Is in the adopted budget and no additional funds should be necessary and I will turn it.

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Over to michael, if you have any questions and as previously approved by the commissioners, I.

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Will be adding the shift commander and the two chase cars? These will be. The cardiac monitor.

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Defibrillators that will be assigned to to those vehicles, and we want to order those as quickly.

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As possible because of the supply chain issues- and this will coincide with our hiring process.

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Okay, well, you have a minute how about introducing your two partners and I've also brought with me.

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My two new officers that I'd like to introduce to the commissioners uh first is michael stoner,.

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Michael comes to us from howard county, where he retired, as a battalion chief and uh mike.

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Is responsible for our ems uh operational program and he's hit the ground running and.

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Already overwhelmed but uh he's enjoying it, it's okay, it's a good thing and kevin fox kevin comes.

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From us from the frederick county uh fire service, where he retired, as a deputy chief about a year,.

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Ago and then he worked at mount st mary's as their director of preparedness. Both of these gentlemen.

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Are extremely qualified and experienced and they're already assets to our program and.

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You'll be seeing more of them in the future fantastic welcome and thank you for your service.

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That you've done and your continued service to the county, so okay I'll make the most of the.

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Board of commissioners award the purchase of three life pack, 15 cardiac, monitor and defibrillation.

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From sky a striker medical in the amount of 110 228 dollars in one cents,.

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Second, I got a motion. I have a second. I got no comments on this one, all in favor, all right.

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Thank you. Thank you. Commissioners. Try to negotiate the one cent off. Would you.

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Okay, do we have any public comments out there.

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It's really faint okay. He said nothing right here or anything. Yet, okay, I don't have it. Okay,.

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Any uh administrative comments, gentlemen, no, okay: let's go right into uh agendas.

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Good morning, good morning, good morning, again.

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Okay, monday june 13th, there is nothing scheduled on june 14th at 11 o'clock. Commissioner fraser.

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Will be attending the therapeutic rec and flag day at the farm museum.

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uh There will be also a flag day or I'm just saying: army birthday but flag day ceremony.

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At the farm museum we're going to be attending one of those I'm just not sure which one I.

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Agreed to yet I'll have to go back and check your and commissioner lance and I will be attending.

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And then there's an ag center board meeting that morning or that evening as well at seven.

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I feel like there's something else. That's okay! On uh june 15th.

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Wednesday board of county commissioners and emergency services, advisory council meeting.

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Where we all will be attending at 7pm joint meeting on thursday june 16th.

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We go into open session at nine. We will talk about renewal of a memorandum.

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Mou between county commissioners and the maryland classified employees, association incorporated.

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Is that a union it looks like a union to me. I believe it is it's it's it's we they're about.

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Three members um and um and it's been in effect for years and years and years.

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Right, I've never done this in the past. uh We no longer will be talking about the annexations of.

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State's attorney or malcolm dr we've completed that we'll go into uh part of the civil war.

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Heritage area boundary adjustment- ms eisenberg, will talk to us about that challenging civil war.

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A lot of things are changing approval to order roof supplies uh from our fy23 budget.

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For uh planned, replacement for skytech roof purchase of replacement, uv light.

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Channel or south carol wastewater treatment plant a lot of things happening, replacement of.

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Bridge a shepherd's mill road over little pipe creek execution of supplemental bond.

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Resolutions uh miss hobbs will talk to us to talk us through that. A program open space allocation.

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To municipalities, mr degetts will walk us through that.

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Annual maintenance and support renewal for the carroll county public network.

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Looking forward to hearing from mr ripper court smart support services again, mr ripper will be.

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Talking to us through that, I will be attending the fort meade alliance.

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Annual meeting uh that evening at 5 pm on friday, commissioner frazier will be.

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Attending the local management board meeting at 8 30 in the morning saturday have nothing.

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Sunday, the maryland state fireman's association convention, commissioner, lance will be attending.

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Where is that held? Is that in ocean city or something I think so? I believe it is.

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um And then, commissioner, wants to be doing the podcast that morning I will be. I think, I'm.

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Scheduled now on this upcoming monday to be with mr daggett's to talk about um tiny run, tiny run.

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The unemployment situation over there with I don't know what station wbal.

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Franciotti, I don't know which one she's on so they asked about. I said okay, so.

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The following week, on monday june, 20th.

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I guess goes through. The 23rd commissioner wants will continue to participate in maryland, state.

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Fireman's association convention, the on the 20th, the county, will be.

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Closed in observance of the juneteenth commemoration on tuesday.

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Right now, there's a scheduled chamber of commerce breakfast that I will be.

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Participating in um I thought that was cancelled, I'm not sure, but if we can find out removed.

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Planning, commission it has commercial wants attending. Obviously he will not be attending.

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Because he'll be the other event, so we need to um fill in one of us. um We can.

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Think, through that walk in the park over woodbine, commissioner boucher and fraser will be.

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Participating at 2pm and then commissioner.

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Weaver and I will be attending the veterans advisory meeting on tuesday june 21st.

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I always thought they're on thursdays, but on wednesday carroll county board of education.

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At 5 p.m find out that's a regular monthly meeting, because if it's not I'm not going.

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To be there because we already had a meeting this month. Okay, so I'm not sure what that is.

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Thursday june 23rd we go into open session. There's a few things we have scheduled.

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Transferring funds for the annual housing bond allocation for citizen services.

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Approval of meadow branch, road construction prior to faa, grant application.

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A fiscal recovery fund update from mr ripper and then water and sewer master plan.

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Spring amendment uh that yeah that, but that's not just mr ripper, that that's the.

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Committee that the career yeah, we'll change that okay as a whole um on saturday 50th anniversary.

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Of hurricane agnes commemoration at the flood zone- interesting topic, union bridge- I I don't remember.

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You and green, and going to that one. Let's check that out. I don't think that should be on my.

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Calendar, okay, so, commissioner, wants we'll be going to the hurricane agnes boy. Do I remember that.

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um Up in jersey at least, and then commissioner fraser, you have the podcast on the 26th.

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I don't remember agreeing to that. I still have to do mine late, um okay,.

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Is there anything else for open admin or agendas? Wanda? No, I need a motion. My recess.

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Go into closed make a motion to go into close for lan acquisition. I think it is yes, okay check.

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All in favor all right all right make a motion to adjourn after the closed session in favor.

B