The Baltimore County Council held a legislative session on May 29, 2026, to adopt the Fiscal Year 2027 operating and capital budgets and to vote on several bills. The meeting included remarks from the Council Chair, farewells to retiring officials, and a personal remembrance. All votes were unanimous except one (Bill 55-26).
The meeting adjourned after all business was completed.
It's red, it's muted. If it's red. I'm testing. Does that work? It's red, it's muted. No, yes. For many years we had little green uh things, so we knew we were live. Now we don't have it. Okay. Morning, everyone. Uh legislative day twelve uh will now come to order. Please rise for a moment of silent reflection. And um I wanted to um cover uh we had a uh all too often when we talk about when we when we have the silent meditation, it it tends to be public tragedies and yet we've y had had another uh in San Diego where um there was a shooting and three people died there. So uh let's keep all those uh victims and their families and and the people traumatized by it in our in our thoughts. Thank you. Okay. Uh thank you so much. Um I will now call upon uh councilman Crandall uh to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of allegiance is to the United States of America and to the Republic, which it stands one nation under God with liberty justice for all. Okay. All right. Is there a motion to approve the journal for the meeting of May fifth? So move twenty-six. So move. Okay, we have a motion. All in favor? I okay. The journal is approved. Uh next is enrollment of bills. Bills twenty-nine twenty-six, thirty twenty-six, thirty-one, twenty-six, thirty-three, twenty-six, and thirty-four, twenty-six, thirty-five, twenty-six, thirty-six, twenty-six, and thirty-seven twenty-six were passed by the council, signed by the executive, and hereby enrolled. Um, we are here for the budget this morning, and I also wanted to recognize um Madam County exec is in the audience today. So we're we don't often get to have her here. Um as chair of the county council, I would like to welcome everyone uh to our newly renovated council chamber. Um, we're we're only in here today, and then we'll be back, it sounds like in July. Um, but we were excited that we could be here this morning um in the newly refurbished uh chamber. So it's pretty exciting. Um for our um the council's adoption of the fiscal year twenty twenty-seven budget. So since the beginning of February, contractors and trades under the supervision of property manage have property management have worked hard to renovate our dais and the chamber in preparation for the nine new member council. We also added some handicapped spots of uh handicapped accessible spots in the chamber that we didn't have before in that first pew, and I think in the back as well. Um it is my honor to welcome all of you for this special occasion. Before discussing this year's budget, I'd like to welcome our elected leaders. Um, in particular, and I don't know, do we have any state delegates or senators here today? I don't I don't see any. Okay. Well, maybe they're here in spirit with us, as well as members of our federal delegation, and I don't know if we have any federal delegation people either. Also want to extend a uh welcome to all of our county employees and department heads here today and recognize your wonderful service to Baltimore County. I'd like to give special acknowledgement to our partners in education, uh Superintendent Dr. Miriam Rogers and members of the uh county school board in attendance for their excellent leadership of BCPS. I also want to thank Dr. Sandra Curtinitis for her steady hand as president of CCBC and the members of the Library Board of Trustees, including Yara Sheikh, the board president.