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Thursday, October twenty-second, two thousand twenty-six open session for the Board of Carroll County Commissioners.

As we always do, we'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silent reflection.

The flag of the United States of America.

Thanks for the Republic, where we just stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Today, Commissioner Krebs is not with us today.

And just as a quick note before we get into the agenda, depending on the markets, the bond sale, which is, even though it shows up as one o'clock, potentially on the agenda for today, the sale uh may occur earlier than one o'clock.

So anybody who is watching or anticipating the bond sale, uh, please do be aware that it may not be one o'clock, it may be earlier.

Uh so as we kick things off, we'll move into priority Carol.

And Commissioner Guerrin, I believe you're up first today.

Um,

from me, thank you, though, for sure.

Commissioner Gordon?

Okay, good morning, Carol County.

I got a couple things real quick.

Um earlier this week, I had the pleasure of attending the Radcliffe Applied Technology Trades ribbon cutting.

Uh, myself and uh Commissioner Kylo are in attendance at that.

Just a wonderful opportunity coming to Carroll County, and it's great to see uh the community as a whole uh supporting this because obviously the trades are a very needed area when it comes not only to jobs but also uh creation of so many other things that this is going to put into our community.

Uh, we had a wide array of attendees, including uh Congressman Johnny Oshewski, um, representatives from City of Westminster.

But uh just a great thing coming to Carroll County, and can't wait to see that up and running in the near future.

Uh, Tuesday attended planning and zoning, also attended the Veterans Advisory Council uh meeting that afternoon.

Uh, this week is National School Bus Safety Week.

I know we should all do it, but please stop for the buses.

Uh, you know, obviously be aware of what's going on and pay attention to your surroundings, very important.

But uh, this national school bus safety week, so I want to mention that.

Also, we've got coming up, and I believe there was a um, actually, I know there was a county press release about this, the free residential scrap tire recycling event.

So if you have residential scrap tires, it's a great opportunity to get rid of these.

Um, definitely something environmentally we want to be aware of, so definitely take advantage of that if you could.

And then one other thing I want to bring up this morning, which occurred on Tuesday with planning and zoning, and I know it made the uh front page of the paper this morning was the discussion of the uh Board of Planning and Zoning regarding the self-storage facility.

Um, I was coming I did comment for that article, and uh, they did not choose to use my complete quote, so I wanted to make sure for the record that this is out there.

Um I mentioned because they had questioned why did I abstain from the vote and did not vote on that matter?

Well, legally, I'm bound not to vote because if I were to vote in planning and zoning, and then it became an issue up here before the board of county commissioners.

That's just completely inappropriate to be double voting for lack of a nice way of putting it.

So technically I can't do that, or any of us could do that.

That's sitting on that board for that matter.

But the other thing I wanted to mention, which they did not include in the uh comments in that article, is that project, while it was uh voted unfavorably in planning and zoning, they have the right to appeal to the board of county commissioners, which they did include, but they also have the option if they so choose to take that to uh uh Board of Zoning Appeals.

So it is not definitive as they stated in the article coming back to the Board of County Commissioners, it could go to Board of Zoning Appeals, and they also can take it to Circuit Court.

Correct.

They have absolutely can take it circuit court.

So I just wanted to clarify that for anybody, and that's all for me.

Thank you.

Thank you very much, Commissioner Gordon.

Commissioner Kyler.

Thank you.

And uh I paid my uh I finished my taxes last week, and I am a procrastinator, but it was other things holding it up, so uh, and I did it a day early, so um the uh our current state's attorney uh Haven Shoemaker, um, and uh as everybody knows he's he's done with this term and uh moving to North Carolina and I just want to say hi Haven and uh in the last week I've seen a meeting where he was honored, and then I've seen another meet meeting where he was kind of roasted.

So uh uh I think we need to keep piling on till he's in North Carolina.

Um Finksburg area has a lot of failing septic systems, and uh I'm sure Tawnytown, any place we don't have public water and sewer, I'm sure District 4, um, and and we all have it.

MOWPA did a uh about one hour forty-five minute maybe um thing on how they can help and uh some of it they can, some of it they can't, but it's a good group of people.

If anybody has a failing uh septic system, let us know, and uh we can direct you to this group.

There's also uh several companies that work on septic systems that will come out and meet you and tell you your options and do a lot of stuff for you.

So I I just I feel for uh

um

the failing systems and uh unfortunately door knocking, I saw a lot of them, and uh I had one that

I

don't know if I can say this out loud, it was probably in the eighties.

I probably replaced it illegally, but uh I replaced it without a permit, and it and that one's worked since since then.

Um but if if you have a failing septic system, please please let us know.