The Board of County Commissioners held its regular meeting on December 16, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. The meeting included the election of new board officers, multiple appointments, a distinguished budget award presentation, two public hearings, consent agenda approvals, new business items, a fiscal year 2025 audit presentation, public comment, and commissioner reports.
Thank you. Thank you for inviting me. Almighty God, we turn to you in the this season as we as we're celebrating your love for us. That was so great that you that you came into the the world to make yourself known to us and to take all of our our burdens, our our cares, our troubles on yourself, so that we could be brought to a new hope, a new a new light, a new joy. We ask that as you help these commissioners and all of those who who work with them serving the people of Calvert County, and that all of us in our own lives in our own vocations, that we all may have an ever deeper compassion for those around us, and ever greater love and ability to serve and to to be for others and to find joy in being for others. We ask all of this in your name who are great and who live and reign forever and ever. Amen. Amen. So Father John is at St. John Vienny Church, wherever my wife and I attend, and uh Father John had a big event a couple weeks ago. You want to talk about that, Father John? Sure. I just uh I just received uh installation as pastor from from the Archbishop. So I was uh my first year was uh as administrator was sort of a pro temp um and now they installed me as pastor for a six-year term. Um which hopefully will be longer than six years, but it's uh a six-year appointment for now. Thank you very much. I'm very glad to be here. We had a great celebration that day, and then we also that was also the first day of safe nights. This year we got to do the first week of safe nights. Um so we we kicked it off that uh Sunday evening, and we had it this past uh week. And and it was beautiful, it went very well. We had 12 guests uh staying with us, and I think we counted all total about a hundred volunteers that were involved between the bringing the food and the the monitors and the cleanup afterwards, um and like everybody wanted to volunteer, right? There was so much uh generosity that every time there was a need, some of the guests didn't have good winter coats when they arrived, so people brought them coats and then they decided to give them all boots and all people just kept coming up with ways that they wanted to contribute to give. So it was really uh a beautiful outpouring of of love that the that the parishioners were happy to be a part of, and we're very grateful to uh to Dave Walton and to everybody that helps coordinating Safe Nights for Calvert. Uh there they do an awesome job, and we're glad to be able to be a part of that. So if you can't tell, Father John is very young, and he's fresh out of the seminary, so this is his first church, which makes it even special. And uh what I learned that day was actually he's been on probation for a year, and we could have really uh voted him out. But nobody told us that. And uh that day they said he had enough likes that he gets to stay. So uh, but he's doing a great job, and it's a great parish and a great county. I think you should have learned that by now. That it's a special place. And uh I told you that when you came, and I hope you've learned that since you've been here that Calvert County is a very special place, and we look out for one another. So uh we want to wish you all the success, and we hope you're there for a very long time. Thank you so much. I do too. Thank you. So the next item on the agenda is to approve the agenda. I'll move that we approve and adopt the agenda submitted. Second. I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda as presented. Any discussion on that motion hearing none. All those in favor say aye. Aye opposed. Motion carries. I do have a couple of uh public service announcements today. First of all, we want to send our condolences out to the Rosanich family. Um, oh, oh we have a guest. Merry Christmas. Oh, so very gifts for the commissioners.