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The Board of County Commissioners of Calvert County held its regular meeting on October 20, 2026. The agenda encompassed proclamations, a new county attorney introduction, public hearings on six zoning text amendments and agricultural preservation rules, a 23-item consent calendar, new business items, an ADA update, work sessions on fiscal year 2028 budget planning and a child care tax credit, and a public comment period. The Board adopted four text amendments, postponed two for further public input, approved the consent calendar, authorized a GIS contract and library agreement, and directed staff to evaluate property tax relief options and draft a child care property tax credit ordinance.
Advocacy center, uh, which is right out here on Main Street. Uh very, very well attended. Thank you for everyone who put that together, and it was uh great uh great showing for a great cause there. Uh we're gonna start with our invocation this morning, Reverend R. Matthew Home with St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Prince Frederick. Good morning, sir. Thank you. Let us pray. Gracious and merciful God, we turn to you with grateful hearts. We ask you to hear your people as we pause to pray. We thank you for this good land entrusted to us as stewards for future generations. We thank you for our freedoms, our security, and all that comes as the result of sound government. Help us, we pray never to forget our individual civic responsibilities, that the experiment of democracy may continue to be a light in the world. We pray also for those who hold the various positions in our county, whose work serves the lives and livelihoods of all in our community. We give thanks for our institutions of learning, faculty, staff, and administration. We pray for all students, give them a zeal for learning and knowledge that our community may benefit from all that they have attained. We ask for a just and merciful judicial system. We ask for strength and protection for law enforcement, fire and rescue, and all who are first responders. Watch over them and give your holy angels charge over them. Give to our leaders, especially our county commissioners the gift of your Holy Spirit that vested with the authority of their office, they may continually seek your wisdom for the good of all people. We thank you for all of these things and the grace to pray for them. And we lift all of these things and all of the things upon each of our hearts to you, for we trust that all things are best left to your care. Amen. Thank you, Reverend Home. Uh, now's your opportunity. If you have any announcements or anything you'd like to say, you have any upcoming events you want to talk about or um so uh we have our breakfast with Santa coming up on November 14th, and then our annual uh church holiday bazaar and dinner on uh November 21st. And I can't say much about the preacher at St. Paul's, but the people are really nice. So there's that. Thank you for the opportunity. All right, thank you for being here, sir. We appreciate it. Take the student approval of the agenda. Open agenda. Uh any amendments. Any amendments to the agenda? Hearing none. Mr. President, I move that we approve and adopt the agenda as submitted. Second. So I have a motion and a second to approve and adopt the agenda submitted. Is there any discussion on that?