The Annapolis City Council held a regular meeting on Monday, May 11, 2026, at 6:04 PM in the Mayor John T. Chambers, Jr. City Council Chambers. The meeting included a closed session regarding City Dock litigation, ceremonial recognition of the Fire Department's response to a recent fire, committee reports, extensive public testimony on parking reform and public safety, a presentation from the Resilience Authority, continued public hearings on the FY 2027 budget, and legislative action on several ordinances and a charter amendment. The meeting adjourned at 9:43 PM.
...1126. Mr. City Attorney. The next item on the agenda is business and miscellaneous, beginning with ID one eleven twenty-six, a proposed closed session, pursued to the annotated code of Maryland. Thank you. Rotary group. I mean, everyone has just been outstanding in their help, but um, people have been ordering from us. We've been delivering and uh just you know trying to keep going until we can reopen. So we're hoping to reopen very soon. So thank you for sharing that. That's a beautiful sign that you have presented to the fire department. David or others, would you like to say anything? Just order more songs. I'm very proud to hand the microphone over to our fire chief Doug Romaly. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. With us today is uh battalion chief Frederick. He was the incident commander on the incident, and the three individuals next to him uh are from the first in engine crew at Forest Drive Station. They were the first engine to get there. Uh it's the Lieutenant Collins, Firefighter First Class Peabody, and Firefighter Brooks. Uh, they were the first ones to get a hang line into the business. We know you had a significant fire, was a significant fire that day. We couldn't have extinguished the fire without our partnerships with Anarona County and the United States Naval Academy. They were all there with us. There were probably about 75 firefighter personnel there at the time. Um we're glad that nobody got hurt. We're sorry for the loss of the business. We hope that we were able to uh save enough that you can continue to move forward. But this is fantastic. They will proudly place it in the Forest Drive Fire Station, which is the one that uh is the first due to that area. So we thank you, and we hope everything works out. Thank you very much. Mr. City, attorney, please present the next item on the agenda. Next item on the agenda is petitions, reports, and communications, beginning with update from the mayor. Thank you. I'm just gonna give everyone a moment to maintain order. Okay, this is another uh long one, so as for everyone's patience, we have a lot going on. I want to start with offering condolences to former ward for Alderwoman, Sheila Finnlayson. Over the weekend, her father has passed away. As many of you may recall, Alderwoman Finnlayson spent many of the last few years shuttling back and forth between Annapolis and Milwaukee to take care of her father. He lived to age 101. Dr. William Finlayson was born in Manatee, Florida, and had served in the Army. He matriculated to Morehouse College, where he was a class like classmate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He received his MD and completed his residency at the University of Minnesota in 1958. And for the next 40 years, he was an OBGYN, literally delivering tens of thousands of babies in Milwaukee. And he also did so much more. He was a generous champion against housing discrimination, a volunteer for preserving black history and promoting financial literacy.