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The Anne Arundel County Council held its final legislative session of the 2023-2026 term on Monday, October 19, 2026, beginning in the evening and crossing midnight. The council recognized outgoing members, heard extensive public comment, approved routine and personnel measures, adopted ethics and surveillance oversight resolutions, defeated the comprehensive Article 18 zoning rewrite, and adjourned to December 7, 2026.
Session of the Anne Randle County Council is called to order. Please ensure all phones and electronic devices are set silent based on section three three oh five B fifteen of the general provisions article of the annotated code of Maryland. Five in the affirmative two, and then I gave the motion to go into closed session has passed. The Anna Rundle County Council is now convened to hold the legislative portion of the October nineteenth, twenty twenty-six meeting. Please ensure all phones and electronic devices are set to silent. Grant us patience to listen, humility to consider different perspectives, and courage to make decisions rooted in fairness and integrity. Guide our words, our actions, and our decisions tonight. Shannon Ledbetter. Pete Smith. Lisa Rodvian and Alison Pickard to come get your gold library card. Just so you know, here's what it looks like mounted. You can also actually get one of these to use in the library if you want to replace your old library card and try to try to learn a new library card number. But here you go. We really appreciate all you've done in the time you've been on council, and here you go. Very nice. We got two libraries to build. That's right. Gold library card. I know. I want one. Janet Webber is my council person. Thank you. Very cool. All right. Very nice. Thank you, Skip. That's really neat. I want a gold library card. Very cool. All right. Um, Madam Secretary, please read the ethics statement. The ethics commission has asked that I advise you that under certain circumstances, members of the public may qualify as lobbyists when they testify before the county council. If so, the law requires that certain information be filed with the ethics commission. The chair of the ethics commission has asked that those who wish to testify in any form review the general information on lobbying sheet located on the ethics website under forms and publications. If there are any questions about lobbying requirements, please contact the Ethics Commission at 410-222-4412. Okay. Before we open our discussions and public hearings, I would like to remind everyone in attendance, whether a testifying or as a member of the audience, that we must maintain decorum at all times in these chambers. Please understand that individual conversations in the audience are very disruptive to the proceedings, and I would kindly ask you to step out of the chambers if a side discussion is necessary. As stated in the council rules procedure and posted outside the chamber doors, if anyone makes personal defamatory or profane remarks or willfully utters loud, threatening or abusive language that disturbs the orderly conduct of our meeting, you will be removed from the meeting. Please remember this is a business meeting. We don't do clapping here for that, but if you are in support of what someone's saying, you can jazz hands or stand up in support. And we will see all of that, we promise. So we will now open our invitation to the audience. This is an opportunity to speak briefly on any subject not included in the printed agenda. Madam Secretary, did we receive any testimony through the online testimony tool? Yes, madam chair. We received seven pieces which were shared with the council, added to the record, and posted to the website.