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The Anne Arundel County Council held its final work session of the session on October 13, 2026, discussing a transfer bill, cottage homes residency requirements, the Board of Education's capital plan, a stormwater financial assurance plan, and a complex contract amendment for a brownfield redevelopment in Glen Burnie. Following the work session, the council convened as the Board of Health to hear an extensive update from the Department of Health.
The October thirteenth, twenty twenty-six work session of the Anne Randall Cabin Council is called to order. This is our last work session of this session. Please ensure all electronic devices are in silent mode. Do any of my colleagues have any questions before we begin? Okay. I'm Chris Trumbauer, budget officer. I'm joined by Brian Sheng from Finance and Lori Blair from Office of Law. This is a transfer bill. It does three things. So it didn't affect where the funding went and it didn't really affect the budget, but this is correcting it so that it's a um a correct uh record of what actually happened. Um so those changes are incorporated in this bill, and then there are two actual money transfers. Um one is backfilling money for the state grant that went to the city of Annapolis for the 250 celebration. The county is just a pass through entity for that. Um, but we had to do the accounting, and that's what this uh bill does. And then the second one backfills funding that we did for the Empire Towers uh small business grants, and that comes from the CAO fund. Uh so this is, I think, pretty uh simply explained in the fiscal note for your reference, but we're happy to entertain any questions. Okay. Are there any questions? I think pretty straightforward. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next up, Bill 7626. This is um cottage homes county residency requirement. And Ms. Rodvian, this is your bill. Thank you. So this is um a topic that we talked about. Oh, I guess I can wait for the I'm like, we got to keep it moving today. All right, so this is a topic that we talked about when we passed the cottage homes bill back in I don't even remember, sometime this spring. And um we got to the point where we didn't have any days left where we could amend the bill, but this came up as a topic of discussion. And so I decided as um one last piece of legislation for this council, I would bring forward this really amendment to the previous bill to make sure that um cottage homes like uh like MPDUs also are given preference to Anarondal County residents, and that they stay within that um they they that continues for um 20 years for the first 20 years. Ms. Picker. Thank you. The 20 year aspect is for making sure the home is occupied by a county resident, or that it has to in homeownership, it has to stay. They can't they can't sell the market rate for 20 years. That I believe is already in the bill, but this requires well, actually, I don't know. This this is simply addressing the residency. So that for the 20 year period, it would also have to be sold to a county resident. So I don't remember where we landed in the original bill with that. This is just addressing the residency. I think we I think the market rate is also in as applicable for 20 years.