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This meeting of the Calvert County Board of Commissioners included a mix of routine consent items, work sessions on code revisions and the fiscal year 2028 budget, and several new business items—most notably a controversial vote to increase severance for department heads from three to six months. The board also approved appointments, recognized lifesaving efforts, received public comment, and conducted a bond sale.
Good morning. And welcome to the Tuesday, September 29th, 2026 meeting of the Calvert County Board of Commissioners. We're going to begin this morning with our invocation from Pastor Ron Curry with New Creation Bible Church in St. Leonard. Pastor Curry. Good morning. Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth, oh God. Father, we come this morning, oh God, just thanking you for this day. We thank you for your mercies, oh God, which are new each and every day. We thank you for your grace. Oh God. And as we come today, oh God, Father, we come asking you, oh God, for your continued guidance. We ask you for your wisdom, oh God. Father, we come praying, oh God, that your will will be done, oh God. I thank you for those, oh God, that you have elected, oh God, and um to this positions as commissioners, oh God, and I pray that you would use them, oh God, according to your will and your purpose, oh God, that you would be glorified. I thank you for each one here, oh God, and I pray, oh God, that as this uh agenda for today, oh God, that the words of each and every one of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts would be acceptable to you. I pray that you would be glorified. I thank you and I praise you for these and all things in the name of our your son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Thank you. I'm liberty. Pastor Curry, do you have any upcoming events at your church? You want to talk about your service times or location? Uh yes, sir. We are we are just finishing up uh community day down in uh St. Leonard uh for friends and family, and uh we had a nice turnout there. We're now getting ready for the um Operation Christmas Child, and uh we we get our community community down in St. Lennon involved in that where we send out the shoe boxes from Samaritan Purse. So we have that coming up right now, and uh we're getting ready to do another movie night for the community there in St. Leonard, uh free of charge, popcorn, hot dogs, candy, solas in the work. So that's what we uh we're working on right now for the community. So we're here to serve the community and everything that we do for the community. We do without uh asking any charge. Our services are 11 o'clock on uh Sunday mornings, and uh it's open to all. Okay, so we're right there in St. Lennon's 5055 St. Leonard Road. So you're if you don't have a church home, come and visit. Amen. And thank you for inviting us. Absolutely. Thank you for being here, sir. We appreciate it. Thank you. I have a great day. You too. Thank you. Takes us to the approval of the agenda.