Good morning.

Um welcome to the uh November twentieth um commissioners open session and as we always prefer we'll start with a pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence.

And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God with liberty and justice for all and Commissioner Garrin, it can do you mind starting again uh and we'll go this way and he wants to be last.

Okay, yeah, no, thank commissioner.

Thanks, Commissioner.

And uh I'll make it real easy this morning because I don't actually have anything for priority care.

So uh there's my there's my priority Carroll and I'll turn it over to Commissioner Gordon.

That was quite speedy, I appreciate that.

Uh so good morning, Carroll County.

Uh last Friday I had the uh pleasure of attending the Friends of Carroll County Public Library's annual meeting and Friendsgiving afternoon at Exploration Commons, myself and uh Commissioner Kyler were in attendance to that.

Uh wonderful event as always to get together with the community, uh interact, talk to the trustees and also those in our community.

Um just remind us how blessed we are to have a library system that we do that brings people together and continues to be a cornerstone of learning and innovation in Carroll County.

Uh wanna thank Park Books on Maine and Sykesville.

They provided books for purchase and signing for the uh guest speaker and also uh special shout out to uh Soul Man Sweets for his outstanding desserts that rounded out the afternoon.

Yesterday I had uh the incredible honor of serving uh kids and also mentors at the uh boys and girls club of Carroll County and Westminster's Thanksgiving event.

Uh served two hundred and twenty-six kids and thirty McDaniel mentors.

Uh it was just absolutely wonderful to uh get together and spend time and uh a lot of good conversation.

Uh got to watch the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special on repeat for several hours while we were there serving and uh special thanks to Johansson's who provided turkey engraving gravy and then also to the staff that were busy cooking at home doing a lot of the other uh foods for that event, just absolutely exceptional.

Um also wanted to mention December third at five PM here at the Carroll County office building will be having the holiday lighting ceremony.

Uh anyone that wants to come out and attend, that's always a good turnout and a great event to come out to and then also wanted to mention coming up very soon on November uh tw uh twenty eighth through the thirtieth will be the Festival of Trees event here in Westminster, which uh benefits Shepherd staff.

As you can tell, I'm on a holiday kick today to say the least.

Uh tickets to that will uh support a variety of uh various nonprofits in the community and if you go online to uh purchase your tickets you can pick the uh from the various nonprofits that you can support.

And uh I'm just gonna leave it with that, but I will say one thing.

I hope we all have a great holiday next Thursday.

And I think as any of us in Carroll County, we have a lot to be thankful for.

We have a lot that we're still all working together on, but uh I want to wish everybody a advanced happy Thanksgiving.

That's all for me.

Thank you.

Um Carroll Community College had a marketing class here, um met with staff and uh worked on some um education and I stopped down and said hi to them and and uh that was fun, um a fun group and uh I think they had a good day.

And then uh EMS pinning to is tonight um at Winters Mill High School, and uh you already mentioned the friends of Carroll County Public Library.

That was an awesome event.

And what I did to uh to piggyback that North Carroll Branch had uh the reopening after a bunch of remodeling, and uh I wore my friend's shirt that we got that day to that event.

So I got double duty out of it.

And uh great event, and uh um the library looks wonderful.

Um breakfast, uh Commissioner Vigliotti paid my ten dollars, so I got to go and uh got to meet Congressman Johnny O and his staff, talk to them a bunch, talk to a bunch bunch of Tony Town people.

It's always fun to go to that breakfast.

And uh um they they tried a couple of different places, but they're back at the Bowen Alley, which seems to be a good place for it.

That and the bacon.

Yeah, yeah, that's right.

They have bacon, and I'm sure Frankie got bacon afterwards.

Oh, he did, he did.

Um, on a somber note, um Sunday we went to uh Saturday, actually.

We went to a memorial service celebration of life for a 46-year-old uh um retired policeman from uh Philadelphia and uh has a seven-year-old daughter and a wife and a father, and um it was heartbreaking.

Um at Grace Bob at uh Grace Lutheran Church.

It was a great event uh but heartbreaking.

Um Carroll Hospital had their legislative briefing and that was great.

Uh did a nice tour of the emergency room that's being phased in.

Um we had our joint meeting with uh planning and zoning uh and that was a a great meeting.

Um Veterans Advisory and uh I apologized to them in an email.

We couldn't make it there because we were in another meeting.

Um and then last night I had uh Carroll County Board of Trustees uh meeting, and that's always good, and it's always uh uh a lot of learning there about the college.

They're working on a lot of things, introduce new staff, introduce promoted staff.

It was it was a great evening.

And uh while I was there, I missed 90 percent of it, but the our uh delegation had their annual legislative hearing here in this building, and uh good discussion, good questions.

Uh I checked and it was still ongoing, so I rushed back the speed limit, but I drove back and I sat down and the last public comment person spoke and they adjourned.

So uh I I wasn't much part of the meeting, but I'm glad I got there at least.

And then uh Commissioner Krabs uh because Commissioner Vigliati wants to be last.

Uh-oh.

Okay.

I'm not sure what y'all talked about, sorry.