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The Charles County Board of Commissioners met on October 20, 2026, in both an afternoon and evening session. The afternoon session included a consent agenda approval, a briefing on workforce development restructuring, and a work session on a proposed pretrial services program. The evening session featured public comments and commissioner responses.
Good afternoon, Commissioners. We're going to begin this afternoon session with the roll call. Commissioner Bowling. Present. Commissioner Coates. Commissioner Stewart. Commissioner Patterson. President. Commissioner Collins. Here. Thank you. Commissioners, the first item on your agenda is under additional approval items. It's approval of a contract between Marathon Health Agreement. Good afternoon, Commissioners. Jake Dyer, Director of Fiscal Administrative Services. Megan Donick, Deputy Director of Human Resources. Just a quick recap. Back in the middle of September, we did a presentation along with uh Bolton Health Partners as well as at Marathon Health about doing an advanced primary care center in Charles County to benefit our employees, retirees, and families who are on the county's health insurance plan. Since that presentation, we have worked through the legal process to get to review the contract and so forth. And now we're here to the commissioners to ask for a formal approval on the contract that uh to begin the actual uh the actual next step to start this health care center in Charles County for our employees. You have any questions or concerns? Not is there a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Moved and properly seconded. All in favor, aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Commissioners, the next item falls under your afternoon briefings, and it's a discussion on the Maryland Department of Labor Plans for Workforce and the future from Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland. Good afternoon, Commissioners. I'm Ruthie Davis with the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland. I'm the director of regional workforce and business development. And good afternoon. I can make this very brief. It is a briefing. So I want to talk to you about a recent initiative. Can you hear me okay? Recent initiative that has come out of the Maryland Department of Labor that can very much affect this region. I presented the same thing to them, and they were like they would really wanted me to get in front of the board of county commissioners in all three counties just for awareness. So that is why I'm here today. If you will go to the next slide, please. So if you don't mind, just a brief overview of what the Maryland Workforce Development Board is. It's under the Tri-County Council for Southern Maryland. It's a division. It includes the three counties of Charles Calvert and St.