On October 1, 2025, the Annapolis City Council Finance Committee met to discuss several legislative items, including the renewal of the Market House lease, updated speed camera fines, and a Major Special Event designation for the Go Bowling Military Bowl. The meeting was called to order at 10:33 a.m. and adjourned at 11:20 a.m.
O-33-25 Lease of City Property – Market House: Acting City Manager Buckland reported that city staff had sent a red-lined version of the lease to the tenant incorporating requests from the committee and the Economic Matters Committee. The lease is in negotiation. Committee members discussed the history of the lease, the competitive bid process, and the need for consistency across city leases. Alderwoman Finlayson noted the loss of institutional knowledge. The committee postponed the item to the October 15, 2025 meeting with the expectation of a final decision.
R-33-25 Speed Monitoring System Fines: Captain Miguez explained that revised data from the vendor and police department led to a significant reduction in estimated revenue (from $1.4 million to $66,000) due to re-categorization of speed violations and elimination of duplication. The total number of citations has declined from 6,951 (2022) to 3,493 (2024), suggesting the cameras are effective. The committee moved to recommend the resolution favorably.
R-41-25 2025 Go Bowling Military Bowl Parade and Football Game: Acting City Manager Buckland confirmed that an amendment increases the waiver amount from $15,000 to $20,000 to cover actual city costs (based on last year's costs of about $20,000). The amendment explicitly separates the parade from the game. The committee voted to recommend the amendment favorably and then to recommend the amended resolution favorably.
R-37-25: Discussion was skipped because the bill had not yet been introduced before the City Council.
ID-130-25 Market Space Lease Discussion: No new updates. Acting City Manager Buckland noted that the flea market may continue through the end of November.
The finance standing committee called to order at 1033 a.m. on October 1st. Happy fall, y'all. Uh happy first of the month. Pay your whatever, Ren, credit card bill, whatever it is you pay on the first of the month. Uh thanks everybody for being here. We have a relatively light agenda, but some heavy items on it. So hopefully it will not go quite as long as our last finance committee meeting. All right. Uh with that, we will have. Oh, there we go. We do have auto woman fin license. We'll have a roll call. Um auto and finlayson. Uh present. Mr. Chair, the camera's not on for uh council chambers. Could we fix that, please? Yeah, let's make a second while we get that fixed. Madeline is working it out. I'm just gonna finish the roll call. Auto Roman O'Neil. Auto Anomaly's present. Um, but we'll wait to get it's it seems to be working now. Okay, excellent. And then moving on to approval of the agenda. Is there a motion to approve the agenda as written? Make a motion to approve the agenda as written. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Uh approval of the minutes from the September 17th finance committee meeting. Is there a motion for approval? Ah the woman Finlayson, could you could you offer a motion on that? Um of approval of the minutes from the September 17th meeting. I will second it. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Excellent motion carries. All right. We've really just got uh three pieces of legislation on our agenda today. Um let's start with market house. I'm sure this one will be nice and quick. So um I'd yeah, I was gonna turn it to Miss Buckland for an update since our last meeting. Yeah, so and actually maybe Auto Roman O'Neil, are you updated on what we requested after the last meeting? Okay, never mind. So just an update. Yeah.