The Calvert County Board of Commissioners held a regular meeting on March 11, 2025, beginning at 10:00 a.m. The meeting included approvals of consent items, a presentation on FEMA grant holds, a public hearing on a budget amendment for the Armory Site Development project, a presentation from the Tri-County Council, a work session on personnel code amendments, and commissioner reports. The meeting recessed into executive session at approximately 12:00 p.m. and was scheduled to resume for a public hearing on the Fiscal Year 2026 budget at 7:00 p.m.
Welcome you to the March 11th, 2025 meeting of the Coward County Board of Commissioners. At this time, I'd like to ask Rev Reverend Hum if he would come forward and give us an invitation, please. Good morning. Thank you for this opportunity. Appreciate it. Thank you. Let us pray. Most gracious God. We thank you for this new day. The signs of hope and spring. We thank you for this beautiful place in which we live. We pray that you would give to your people grace, the understanding of our responsibility to one another. We pray for our leaders that you would give them wisdom and conscience. We pray that you would also bless them with a tough utter skin, but never a hardened heart. We pray that you would lead us with patience and mercy in all that we do. And we pray this in your name. Amen. Amen. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. So Reverend Hunt comes to us from St. Paul's Church right here in Prince Triderick. Thank you for coming in and uh congratulations. His son achieved the rank of Eagle Scout a couple weeks ago and uh has enlisted to go in the army, correct? Yes, good. Congratulations. Sorry. The next item on the agenda is to approve the agenda as submitted. Are there any additions or corrections to the agenda? I make a motion. We approve the agenda submitted. Second. I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda as submitted. Is there any discussion on that motion hearing none? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Service announcements. I do have a couple. We didn't meet last week, but just prior to that, we we have to send our uh condolences to Greg Bowen's family. We lost Greg uh about a week and a half ago. Uh most of you knew or at least heard of Greg County Native was very active in preservation right out of school. He got active and was part of planning and zoning. He actually set up the TDR program that we have in Calvert County as a preservation tool. It was nationally recognized as the best preservation tool in this country at that time. People move here, they talk about why they moved here is because of the way it looks and the feel, and a lot of that you can tribute to Greg and his hard work. Headed up ACLT, uh American Chestnut Land Trust, who has preserved almost 5,000 acres without, I don't think there's one penny of county money in that preservation. Preserve Parker's Creek watershed through that project. Just uh really sad to lose Greg.