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The Baltimore County Council convened for Legislative Work Session Day 19 to address a wide array of fiscal items, land transactions, major economic development agreements, and zoning legislation. Key highlights included a comprehensive package to retain the Baltimore Ravens, a transformative tax credit for maritime manufacturing linked to a historic $3.7 billion investment by Anduril Industries, and a contentious debate over council and executive compensation.
The administration presented several contracting and fiscal actions for council review:
Ravens Training Facility Agreement:
Bill 100-26 / Anduril Tax Credit:
Bills 104-26 & 106-26 (Zoning):
Compensation Bills (91/92/93-26):
Ravens Training Facility Package:
Bill 100-26: Maritime Manufacturing Tax Credit:
Bills 102, 104, 106, 108:
Compensation:
That's always good. Good afternoon, everyone. We're gonna get started here. So uh legislative day 19 will come to order. This is our work session. And um, we've got a jam-packed agenda, so we'll get right started. Uh first up, we have Mr. Seth Bloomin from Energy and Sustain our Energy and Sustainability Coordinator for uh depths on a contract for constellation new energy gas division LLC Natural Gas Supply Services. Mr. Bloomman, how are you, sir? Good. Good afternoon, council. Baltimore County is a member of the Baltimore Regional Cooperative Purchasing Committee, along with 20 other Central Maryland local governments. The committee has purchased natural gas since the mid-1990s. BRICPAC, or the consortium as it's called, has a natural gas purchasing strategy that classifies all of its natural gas accounts as one wholesale account, and forward price commitments are purchased over time to achieve price stability. Baltimore County acted as the lead entity on behalf of all member entities to select and award the natural gas supply contract. The contractor will provide uh the service of enrolling accounts as required by each participating participating city or county, manage storage and balancing requirements. The estimated compensation for supply services totals 8,344 for the initial one-year term and 83,440 for the entire 10-year term. The agreement will be effective March 1, 2027 and continues for one year or otherwise known as the initial term. The county reserves the right to renew the agreement for up to nine years in one year increments. And I can take any questions at this time. All right. Thank you, sir. Thanks. Appreciate it. Okay. Next up, we have Miss Deb Schindle, Chief of our Property Management Division on some amendments to contracts for on-call electrical services. How are you? I'm good. Good evening, Councilman Chair and members of the County Council. The administration is requesting an approval of a second amendment to the contracts for the elect Crown Electrical Company, key electrical contractors, and lighting maintenance inc for on call electrical services performed at a various locations in Baltimore County. The remaining balance of the three contracts as of September 3rd was $732,217. The future estimate for on call electrical services for remaining of these contracts is one million 1,175,21709. These contracts will expire on September 5th, 2027 and will be completely rebid. We are um removing requesting to remove paragraph 2.3. The contractor acknowledges that the county has entered into an agreement with multiple contractors for this service. The contractor's future acknowledge that it is not guaranteed any minimum work of under this contract for further acknowledgement that no shell event, the total compensation paid to all contractors, exceed the sum of 5,431,585 during the entire life of the contract, including the renewals. We're requesting to uh replace that with the contractor acknowledges that the county has entered an agreement with multiple contractors for the service. The contractor further acknowledges that it is not a guarantee of any minimum work amount of work, excuse me, under this agreement for further acknowledgement that in no event shall the compensation paid to the contractor exceed the sum of the county council approved appropriation during the entire term of this contract agreement, including renewals. All other terms, conditions, and provisions of this agreement shall remain in full force and effect.