Call to order the city council regular public meeting for August 7, 2025.

Let us stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Under God.

We have approval of minutes for June last 17, 2025 regular public meeting.

Is there a motion?

Move for approval.

Second.

Move for a minute move for the approval of minutes July 17th, 2025.

Move for approval.

Second.

It's been motioned by Councilmember Kazemchak, seconded by Councilmember Russell.

All those in favor?

Motion carries.

Council member comments.

Councilmember Russell.

Thank you.

I just uh had to leave early, but was at the Shiro Awards, which is a Chamber of Commerce event.

They have a week-long uh series of seminars for women in business, and they have awards tonight.

And so it was very honored to be in a room full of uh women entrepreneurs.

There was a lot of energy in the room, and so I just wanted to say congratulations to all of those women who have been um successful and put their uh energy into making positive change.

Thank you.

Councilmember Kazimchak.

I would like to make a request to add to the agenda this evening.

Um I hear that you really can't hear.

It may be it may be the acoustics.

Yeah.

Okay.

Let me move my microphone closer and see if that helps.

Okay.

Um I would like to move to add to the agenda tonight a resolution calling for the end of U.S.

complicity in ongoing violence across the world.

Um I'm not quite sure.

I'm not quite sure how to do this.

Um just make the motion and then if there is a second, have discussion or okay then.

Yeah, I'd say under your rules if a majority of those present voting um agree to add this to the agenda tonight.

You can go ahead and do that.

Okay.

So um that is a motion.

So it's been motioned by council members to add a resolution item to the agenda.

Is there a second?

Is there a second motion fails?

So then as please, please, please.

Uh uh, please uh affecting the meeting does not help anybody.

Thank you.

Um for um for my comments themselves.

So I I will be trying again the next time.

Um I am happy to share this resolution with anyone who would like to see it.

I am absolutely open for changes to it.

I want people to understand that don't believe everything you read.

Please make sure that you read the resolution itself.

Because this resolution is not specifically about one area, it's about many areas, and it is literally um U.S.

complicity in violence.

Um, I do not believe the United States should be providing military arms to countries that are attacking other countries.

So that's what it's about.

Please send me a note if you would like a copy of it.

I'm happy to send that to you.

Um, I thank my my colleagues for allowing me to explain that.

Um and and again, please, if disrupting the hearings really does not help any side of this.

So while I appreciate it, um I would appreciate us to be respectful.

Thank you.

Thank you.

No comments from the Vice President's chair.

Now move on to our public comments, and before we begin our public comments, we would like to read this.

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Also, if you have written materials to accompany your remarks tonight, we encourage you to email those as well, or you can do those with our city clerk, Miss Phyllis Hain.

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Thank you for taking the time to engage with us, so let us begin.

First, we have Tina Meadows O'Rear, Grady O'Rear, and Khalil Aschalzi.

Good evening, Council members.

My name is Tina Meadows O'Rear, and I live on Chookstown Road in Frederick.

I'm the facilitator of Frederick Justice for Palestine.

As facilitator, I introduced a resolution to you in May of 2024.

And for a year, over a year, members of FJP have advocated for passage of this FJP resolution for US ceasefire, humanitarian aid, and long-term justice for Palestinians.

Our pleas, demands, and entreaties have been answered by one champion among you, Donna Kazemchek.

Donna worked together with FJP members and developed, in my opinion, an even better peace and justice resolution, which she submitted to you in May of this year.

Now it's up to you to summon your courage and integrity.

Stop stalling.

Stop putting your creativity into building administrative walls.

This is your moment to stand for justice.

Stand for the Islamic community of Frederick.

Stand for the Jews of Frederick who are mortified by the atrocities occurring with U.S.

support in Palestine.

Stand for the human rights for safety, dignity, and the sacredness of human life.

All colors, all ages, all over the world.

Please consider the resolution that Council Member Kazemchak put before you.

Thank you.

I live in Frederick City.

Councilmember Kazemchek, I want to begin by thanking you sincerely for your moral clarity and your courage in bringing forward the draft resolution before this body.

In doing so, you have taken a step that many elected officials are afraid to take.

You've given voice to the deep concern shared by so many in our community who are heartbroken and horrified by the atrocities unfolding in Gaza.

FJP urges the council to process its resolution with the urgency it deserves.

The people of Gaza are enduring catastrophic conditions, hour by hour, day by day.

This is no time for delay.

It is a time for moral leadership.

These conditions are being fueled and enabled by ongoing U.S.

military, economic, and political support, support that stands in flagrant violation of both international and domestic law.

We understand that the city of Frederick has not traditionally taken positions on international matters, but these are not ordinary times, and we are not passive bystanders.

This moment calls for us to think and act beyond the confines of tradition.

In fiscal year 2025, the U.S.

Department of Defense is slated to receive over one trillion dollars.

Based on Frederick City's population, taxpayers are contributing an estimated 265 million annually to the DOD.

This funding continues despite the fact that the Department of Defense has repeatedly failed to pass a full financial audit.

Meanwhile, funding for schools, health care, food security, housing, clean energy, and public transit is shrinking.

This diversion of resources from care to conflict is unsustainable and immoral.

Here at home, the consequences are real.

Many Arab Muslim and Palestinian residents are afraid to speak out.

Jewish residents who oppose the violence feel isolated.

And understandably, some members of our community, though here legally or even as naturalized citizens, fear attending public meetings because of their race, national origin, or political views.

That fear is real and it should concern us all.

What message will we send?

Councilmember Kosemchek, thank you again.

May your resolution mark a turning point for peace, for conscience, for compassion, and for the city and world we aspire to create.

Thank you.

Good evening, Council members.

Uh, my name is Khalil Shazli, I'll live in the city of Frederick.

I'm also the president of the Islamic State of Frederick.

I'm gonna play a clip of Retard Greenberry, Lieutenant Colonel Tony Aguilar, who was in Gaza.

He was briefing Senator Chris Van Halen about what he saw in Gaza.

Please listen carefully to what he said.

I was told very explicitly directly to my face that our client is the IDF.

Your client is the IDF.

Our client is the IDF.

And this came out of discussion once where I was in the control room.

I was on uh operation, I was on control room duty that day.

We had shifted responsibilities on a rotation race.

So I was in there that day with the radio observing site number two distribution.

A Palestinian man had picked up some children to let them step on his shoulders to get onto a berm because they were being crushed in the crowd.

Site two is very small, smallest of all four sites.

And these children are being crushed, and you pick them up there and put them up on the on the berm.

And the Israeli Defense Forces liaison officer in the main control center with us comes up to the screen that I'm watching and he says, tell your men to get them down.

I was like, we got this under control.

I was like, I know they they know what they're doing.

Oh, yeah, you know, they're children.

Let's calm down.

Get them down now, or I will.

Well, there's no IDF on the site.

So I didn't take it as much of like much more than just being, you know, bombastic and like, okay, like, hey, we got this.

He leaves and goes to his desk in the operation center, and he gets on the radio and he speaks something on the radio.

It was in Hebrew.

I don't speak Hebrew.

One of the contractors that was there was American that did speak Hebrew, and he notifies me.

He said, Hey, he just told the snipers at the IDF position, because the site number two is co-located with an Israeli base.

He said, He just told the snipers to take these kids out.

I was like, on the radio?

He's like, Yeah.

This Lieutenant Colonel then comes back up and he says, get them down.

And I look at him and I say, Did you just call on the radio and tell your men to shoot them?

He said, I'm gonna take care of this if you don't.

I said, You are not going to shoot.

You are not going to shoot children.

You're also not going to shoot because if your men miss, you're gonna hit others.

You're not gonna shoot.

Thank God we didn't come to the conclusion of figuring out whether he would or not because the children jumped down and ran off of the site.

They didn't want to be there.

They were unarmed, they didn't have shoes, one wasn't even wearing a shirt, they were starving.

The chief operations officer for S Safe Reach Solutions, our higher headquarters, so to speak, in the contract, beckoned me outside with him, and he looked at me in the face and he said, never say no to the client.

And I asked him, I was like, I didn't know the client was in there.

Who's who's here?

Did Johnny Moore come to visit?

Right.

And he said, No, the IDF.

I was like, the IDF are our client?

He said, Yes, we work for them.

A light bulb went off in my head.

Let that sink in.

Our military with our tax dollars working for the IDF.

Our military with our tax dollars working for the IDF who are shooting children trying to get some food.

Let that sink in if you are patriotic.

Thank you very much.

Our next three speakers will be Ian Thompson, Levi Trumble, and Derek Harvey.

Good evening.

Uh, my name is Ian Thompson.

I'm a resident of uh uh of Frederick, proud resident of Frederick.

I I have to say I'm very disappointed that Council President Nash is not here this evening because I wanted to focus my comments in response to what she told the Frederick News Post yesterday as to why she had concerns with the resolution from Councilmember Kuzemchek.

Her first point was that this was beyond the kind of purview of the Frederick City Council.

And I would like to say that while it may be a comfort to some to feel like we are far removed from a genocide being done in our names and with our tax dollars, the hard facts tell a different story.

Here in Frederick, we spend every year at least $5,281,214 on weapons to Israel.

What could this money be using used for instead?

Right here at home, 3,311 households with one month's free rent, 11,112 families with one month's free groceries, 1,837 children with free or low-cost health care for one year, 57 elementary school teachers' salaries for one year, 15,035 households with solar electricity produced for one year, 139 students with their loan debt cancelled.

That's what could be done with money that instead is being used to carry out a genocide, a campaign of annihilation, and starving children to death.

10 Palestinian children in Gaza lose one or both legs to Israeli attacks every single day.

According to UNICEF, there are more child amputees in Gaza than anywhere else in the world.

Support among Democrats for Israel's conduct in Gaza stood at 8%.

Eight, not 18, 8.

There's a good number of you who are up for re-election in one month.

The actions that you take here or you don't take here will be remembered.

If this council, if this council, if this council will not lead with morality and integrity, we will elect a council that will.

However, as some of us have come to learn, uh City Attorney Mike Fry has certainly been problematic recently.

Here's a quick story.

I filed a Maryland public information request in February for a simple four-page document.

I did not hear back as it related to that Maryland public information request for many months.

I think it was about four months.

In any event, I contacted the office again, the city attorney's office, and Mike Fry sent me a what I would describe as a nasty letter talking about he was going to destroy public records.

Now, I thought, and I'm pretty sure, no lawyer here, but I always thought that destroying public records in the state of Maryland was actually considered a misdemeanor and actionable.

Um that's what I always thought.

But Mike Fry, I guess doesn't seem to think so.

In response to that being told, I should say, that those records might be destroyed.

I immediately told him to preserve those records, and other individuals as well hopped into that same request to make sure that those records would in fact be preserved.

So finally, many months go by, and after a long back and forth between myself, other individuals, and the city of Frederick, specifically Mike Fry, eventually my understanding is that somebody got in his ear and said, Hey, you're withholding public records and you need to disclose those and you need to do it right now, or else you're opening up a massive can of worms that we're not going to be able to close.

Because he finally released that four simple, simplest records request you've ever seen in your life.

One four-page document.

I'm sure KazumCheck's uh resolution tonight is probably more pages.

Very simple.

Uh, but I finally got that document back.

So, in response, I thought it's over finally.

I said, Thank God, close the request, nothing else to do here other than to close it and have a good day.

Mike Fry turns around and files a mediation request with the attorney general's office.

They hit me up and they're like, Well, Mr.

Trumbull, we're here to mediate.

And I'm like, Well, there's been a full disclosure, so there's nothing to mediate.

And they're like, Well, Mike Frye, there's been a full disclosure.

There's nothing to mediate here, sir.

Have a good day.

Thought it would be over.

Not yet.

He then turned around and filed a complaint against myself and other individuals.

Imagine this, a public official filing a complaint against a private citizen saying that the MPIA request was in bad faith.

It certainly was not.

We're pending resolution on that.

But the bottom line is that he has been a problem, and I hope that you guys, I'm closing out here right now, but I hope that the city of Frederick looks into this guy and addresses him properly because his behavior has not been great.

And this is a wonderful city, wonderful people live here, and wonderful people deserve a wonderful government representing them.

Not this nonsense that we're getting with Mike Frye.

Thank you.

Have a good evening.

Hello, my name is Derek Harvey.

I'm a commissioner from Washington County.

The reason I'm here is uh we ended public comment in Washington County because too many people were calling for us commissioners to be voted out of office or to resign from office or to be investigated for alleged child molestations like President John Barr's uh recent uh allegations against him in the circuit court.

Anyhow, um I have been trying to get voters to vote for me, so I'm coming down here to Frederick, hoping you have relatives in Washington County.

I'm actually from Smithsburg, Maryland.

Um I've done a lot of things to try to pander to voters to try to get uh some momentum for the uh primary we have coming up in just 11 short months.

It hasn't worked.

I came out as gay and then super gay, and then I came out as trans species.

I don't even know what that is, but I thought maybe I get some extra votes.

That hasn't worked, so um I'm coming out as tri-sexual.

I will try anything sexual as long as people will just vote for me this election cycle.

I know a lot of people are mad at me because I got county attorney Zach Kiefer to meet with the special prosecutor via a statement uh making it so that my charges against me for second degree assault for assaulting Justin Holder at a public meeting would get null prossed.

So what I did is I managed to get Zach Kiefer to tell the special prosecutor from Allegheny County, who's actually from Washington County, which is a conflict in and of itself, to uh to believe that the commissioners had the power to physically remove citizens from the public meeting hall just like this one here.

So I'm gonna get away scot-free Tuesday at 8:30 in the morning.

If you'd like to come to Washington County District Court, 36 West Washington, or West Antietham Street, Hagerstown, Maryland, you can watch me get away with uh assault second degree because I'm a protected class.

I'm a politician in Washington County.

We're corrupt up there.

Anyhow, um, the next thing I'd like to talk about is I did just set a Guinness Book of World Records.

I am, as you all know, a farmer.

I live on a farm in Smithsburg, and I raise uh poultry, specifically hens and roosters.

Um, I just actually was recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records.

I raised a rooster this big, and I now hold the title of having the world's smallest cock.

So, anyhow, besides that, I am also quite upset with you know the way the records are not being produced.

According to the Maryland Public Information Act, if I ask you for a public record, it's your job as a government official to make sure it gets to the proper department.

It could be orally, it could be written on a knock, and it could be an email, you gotta do it.

Uh, I'm not making any records requests tonight, but they're trying to make all the citizens use a complicated fancy portal to make records requests, and they're trying no longer to honor records requests made by email.

I actually filed a complaint with a Maryland Ombudsman about this.

Um I can send an email if I want to.

I don't like how you're treating the people.

I I believe you guys are acting like communists.

I'd like to show off my patriotism by showing you my American ass.

So here it is.

This is my opinion of you communist bastards.

God bless the USA and vote for Derek Harvey, this election cycle.

Our next three speakers will be Derek.

Derek Woolinski, David Willinski, Natasha Ahmed, and Patty Clements.

A hard act to follow.

Don't worry about that.

I uh agree with Donna about civility.

My name is David Wolinski, I live in Frederick, and um I represent no organization, and I presume to speak for the dead.

And uh I want to apologize to Donna Kuzimchak because I had given up, and you're gonna find out exactly how on all y'all.

And it's too bad that Miss Nash is not here because she's part of my sermon.

My sermon has two texts.

The subject of the sermon is what is practical.

Okay.

One text is from the Hebrew Bible, which is supposed to be mine because I'm Jewish and lost people in the Holocaust and all that stuff, right?

And that is a simple one, but it's very famous and it's being quoted out of context.

It's where there is no vision, the people perish.

So I don't know if we're all gonna be around long enough to see the continued decline of the American Empire, which is now helping Israel solve all the world's problems by killing and starving people.

But okay, so the other text y'all can read because it was yesterday's news post.

It's the report on this resolution that you all just were brave enough to not second, blah, blah, blah.

Okay, but that text, I'm a good reader.

So that's why I decided to talk about what's practical.

Okay.

And I'm gonna skip a lot of other people.

You can just stick Jesus and Muhammad and a lot of other people in there.

Forgive me, Muslims if I said something I shouldn't have.

Malcolm and Morton weren't practical.

Even John Lewis wasn't all that practical.

So, what is the relationship between practical and moral?

And how is it that finally, for God's sake, after all these months of death, and those dead people, they speak to me.

Yeah, I'm crazy, crazier than him, right?

After all these months, somebody finally says, Oh, we can have a nice resolution saying we're against violence everywhere in the world.

And by the way, American violence, state-sponsored American violence starts before there was an America.

It starts with Native Americans, it continues with blacks, what what my friend Willie calls slow genocide, and it's going on.

There are 750 American military bases and installations around the world.

That's your money, that's your tax dollars, too.

So the question of what is practical may take a little longer, and we're not Jesus or Muhammad or or even Martin and Malcolm, but those people got listened to by a whole lot of other people.

And when that actually gets down into the Frederick bubble, damned if I know Natasha Ahmed.

Are you phone and listened that was on the table?

I was number 10.

I was 789 now, sorry.

Hello, my name is Natasha.

I live off of um East 16th Street in Frederick.

I'm gonna speak quickly.

Try to.

Hey you, I don't know your name, but I bleed, eat, drink, laugh, and cry just like you do.

Hi, neighbor.

As I complain about the hot weather and the rain, I realize that I couldn't possibly understand your pain.

This human-made crisis that restricts aid as a method of warfare illegally is an actual written agreed upon crime against humanity.

Hello, bud.

I know my government helps fund your destruction.

I feel helpless, just like some of the leaders that I live under.

But as I write and speak out for you, not fully knowing what my words will accomplish, I know these same leaders will write and speak out too.

They couldn't possibly stand and watch you get demolished.

They have to have a conscience.

My fellow human, I know that there are politics and social interests, special interests, and votes in parks and taxes, in land development, and permits here at home to tend to.

But I also know those reasons are not enough to completely ignore you.

Oh babies, I've learned that your glycogen, fat, and muscle have broken down.

You're way past using ketones, protein, and fat for energy.

Your muscles are wasting, your brain is damaged, you're dying.

I see you wasting away.

Who's not crying?

Oh, poor mamas.

You're fighting for a war that you never signed up for.

Your babies are knocking at death's door.

All you want is a meal and a roof.

I realize that's not too much to ask for.

For you, strong papas, I stand.

You're just trying to be a man, fighting for a can, a cup, a package, anything you can salvage.

Your hidden cries, silent, somber struggles, and perceived failures are not in vain.

You think no one hears but we can.

I am confident, oh pal, that the time will be now.

Though my local council doesn't directly make foreign policy, they'll realize the strength of their advocacy.

They can help to shape global perceptions despite those that flood us with deceptions.

They will influence national policies.

Sorry, buddy, you may not get any apologies.

But my elected representatives will at least contribute to addressing global challenges, despite the overwhelming and unacceptable silences.

Dear comrade, we are in this battle together, no matter how they try to divide and conquer us.

They cannot sever our human tether.

We're literally bound companions.

Separate paths we walk, but that doesn't mean we simply abandon our morals and values.

Good day, brother.

Good day, sister.

I speak of the good because I trust in it.

Regardless of social, political, financial, racial, religious, or any other divisions they assign us.

Living in this democracy here in America is a plus.

We can speak out against injustice.

Regards, friend.

I don't know when, but the men and women that have been hearing our pleas again and again won't respond like back then.

They'll be the best men.

They will use their pins.

They'll be genuine.

They are not all the king's men.

They will follow over 100 cities and be one of the first men to do what they can to raise their hands.

They'll preserve their own legacies at least and show their children what support, love, compassion, and kindness in being a human being really means.

I mean, please use your voice and your power to speak out on my behalf against the humanitarian crisis in Palestine.

Thank you.

Still.

Others can speak on the financial impact of our local taxes.

Tax dollars go into fund a war, but another local impact has to do with moral character.

Look around the room.

Typically, you don't see this kind of a crowd or the young people here.

These are voters.

You need to pay attention to that.

On a daily basis, we watch people being murdered.

Children shot point blank, little hint in the car surrounded by her murdered family, killed with 355 bullets.

The 15 ambulances with the execution style murdered EMTs, buried by Israeli IDF.

They buried the ambulances so no one could find them.

I could go on, but I hope you get the horrific picture.

If not, come find me.

I can give you many resources.

This is happening so far away, but it's actually in the palm of our hands on a daily basis.

Our tax dollars are paying for this.

The US name is branded on these bombs.

In our name, since May, there have been almost 1,400 Palestinians murdered, trying to get food provided by the US aid organization GBH.

Khalil shared the interview with Anthony Aguilar.

He's the whistleblower who was working for GBH, talking about what's really happening.

These days we live in a reality show based on chaos.

We have little control for positive change and to bring back some semblance of normalcy.

We take to the streets in protest against Trump and Musk.

The younger generation of voters protest against genocide and ice raids.

We ask our local government to also take a stand and sign a ceasefire resolution.

Many of you decided no.

Why?

Are you for or against genocide?

With your answer, the citizens will know the moral character of our representatives.

Do they support the words of a ceasefire resolution?

Or there will they be a gatekeeper and not step out of line of their political calculus?

Years from now will you be known as a resister or a supporter to ethnic cleansing?

As we have learned from history, one day everyone will always have been against this.

But there is a record of your choice and your statements trying to justify your resident reticence.

Are you for or against a genocide?

Are you willing to make a statement or will you protect your political standing and follow the safer path?

It seems preposterous that saying you want a ceasefire in Gaza is controversial, and here we are.

What statements would you have made during the 60s or the 70s for or against civil rights, for or against the Vietnam War?

Free Palestine.

Our next three speakers are Fred Profiter.

Excuse me for this pronunciation.

I'm having a difficult time reading.

Lipscomb.

Sandra Lipscomb.

Linda Lipscomb and Fatima Kareem.

Good evening, my name is Fred Profiter from Frederick, Maryland.

I find it curious, actually quite disturbing, that councilwoman uh Kazemchuk chose to write a ceasefire declaration in support of Gaza after.

Excuse me, after the world witnessed unspeakable atrocities October 7th, 2023.

After Hamas terrorists brutally murdered over 1,200 innocent people in Israel.

After we saw a video footage of Ebiatar David, this man right here.

You want to show it.

Being forced to dig his own grave, only to be executed like an animal.

That's when Miss Kuzemchek decided to speak up.

Not in commendation condemnation of evil, but in solidarity with Gaza.

Let me be clear.

This is not about politics.

It's about moral clarity.

Every public servant, every decent human being, should have been able to say loudly and without hesitation that what Hamas did was terrorism.

It was barbarism, and it deserves to be deserves total and public rejection.

Instead, we got a statement that tried to both sides a massacre.

That is moral confusion at best and complicity at worst.

And the irony is this.

The same alderman, councilwoman, whatever, who had no issue removing the bust of justice, Roger Taney, from the front of this building.

Because history offended her.

Now suddenly finds herself unable to unable to offend those who justify the murder of Jews.

She wants to erase the past here in Frederick, while excusing brutality happening in the present across the world.

What message does this send to our Jewish neighbors?

To the veterans who fought terrorism abroad, to citizens who still believe there's a line between good and evil.

Ms.

Kazimczek's actions show a disturbing pattern, prioritizing virtue signaling over principle, political correctness over courage, and selective outreach over universal truth.

If you can't speak out against terrorists who kidnap torture, rape, and murder civilians, what do you stand for?

I urge the council and the citizens of Frederick to remember what leadership actually looks like.

It looks like clarity.

It looks like courage, and it looks like nothing we've seen from Ms.

Kazimczek.

And there was a ceasefire prior to October 7th.

Gaza and Hamas broke that.

Thank you.

Good night.

Hi, uh, my name is Linda Lipscomb.

I live at 120 East South Street.

It's a Shepherd Crack building.

Um I want to thank uh Councilwoman Kazimchak for um advocating for uh ceasefire in Gaza and for uh ceasefire in many places across the world.

I'd like to read a poem.

What mattered scattered after the winners, weak, wacky, and willy witless in selection election, fraught brought voting schemas take all.

Life is pain, is in aim, is slipping as far as fires, is burning tires, is wasp dire.

Nearly near approaching moi is tornado as an El Dorado SOB.

Yet hence away USA's use of Palla Palestinians by single huge climate change function and ritual unction bombings made.

Never mind, hypocrite lecture, mon samble, mon frère, the separated outside and rubble under, the body parts scattered, mattered, dear too close, dear too many, non-nefarious, now furious people, and in days to decade decades, only bones and then porvore, poor Favor, great spirit, earth-friendly dust, if there is an earth lasting spinning, or is it lasting laughing net you, peeing his pants with tongue out, baffled at the buffoon he has become?

What new a land grab, oy veh, for all above, I, she, her, do pray.

Good evening, dear council county officials.

My name is Fots McKareim, and I am a resident of Frederick County.

I would like to share with you a piece that I wrote regarding the atrocities, starvation, devastation, ethnic cleansing of the dire situation happening in Gaza, Palestine.

My piece is titled, If not now, then when.

Just imagine waking up every morning to the sounds of gunfire and bombs, and soldiers standing next to you with rifles and weapons, ready to take your life for no reason.

Then as you try to make sense of this horrific and terrifying scene by placing being played out right before your eyes, your life is sadly taken by the soldiers who say that your life is worthless and theirs is meaningful.

Did this horrific and unlawful act of violence toward your family?

What would you do?

Would you be okay with that?

Or would you act and try to prevent this from happening again to anyone else who didn't deserve this simply because of what of who they are, what they stand for, and the land that they occupy?

Well, we as Americans living in the United States of America are doing just that.

As you, as you sit in your elected chairs tonight, another child, mother, father, sister, brother, aunt, uncle is dying of starvation in Gaza Palestine, simply because your US dollars are funding a war that Israel believes they should and are justified in doing so simply because they're backed by United States and the laws that they violate so flagrantly and ignore international law while doing so.

So I ask each and every one of you, Congress members tonight, will you stand up for justice and humanity for all, not just Americans, or just the constituents of Frederick County?

When will you say, not another nickel, not another dime, no more money for Israel's crimes?

Well, I hope that the vote that the votes of uh the voters of Frederick County will remember their elected officials sitting here tonight as humans whose hearts beat red and not the color of red blood that has taken over Palestine every day for the last 75 years and more violently since October 7, 2023.

If you truly have taken your oath in office with sincerity of heart and sound mind, then stand up and let every constituent of Frederick County know that you have chosen not to remain complicit in this war on Gaza and that you stand up for humanity and human life, regardless of the color of their skin, place of birth, or religious background.

After all, doesn't our American flag stand for justice for all?

It says in the Pledge of Allegiance that I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

It doesn't say with liberty and justice for Frederick County, it doesn't say for all.

Thank you.

I'm sorry, correction.

I live in Frederick City.

Frederick City, not the Frederick County.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next speakers would be Zakaria, Yusuf, and Tess.

Hello, my name is Zachariah, and I recently came back from Palestine.

I'm from Palestine and part of the Frederick community.

I will I will like to read you a poem.

They call it complicated, but I know its name.

It's genocide.

It's death without shame.

Israel says it's for defense.

It's for defense.

But starving families and kids to death makes no sense.

The weapons used are from the USA.

The evil colonizers think they can have their way.

Whole families gone in just one night.

No time to run, no safety in sight.

Families and friends beneath the rebels, starving souls in this endless struggles.

They say my life is just a cost.

Another child, another souls lost.

But I had a dream, a voice, a name, a heartbeat, a soul to claim.

You watch the bombs fall, then turn away.

Your silence kills, it digs our graves.

So speak the truth and take a stand for justice here in my homeland and write this down and make it clear.

They tried to wipe us.

I'm still here.

Free Gaza, free Palestine.

Hi, my name is Yusuf.

This summer I returned from Palestine, my homeland, and what I saw and experienced was heartbreaking and horrifying and unforgettable.

It is beyond painful, painful to witness for suffering of innocent people while the world watches in silence.

What's even more painful is that desp despite all the protests, speeches, and pleas, you still have not passed a ceasefire resolution for Palestine.

We have marched in the streets.

We have raised our voices in rallies.

We have written letters, made phone calls, and stood in front of the government buildings demanding action, and still nothing.

Let me make this clear.

Every single day, every moment, every year, we will keep on coming back.

We will continue to protest.

We will continue to speak.

It is a genocide.

Since October 7th, 2023 until August 2025, more than 61,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed.

That's not just a number.

That's tens of thousands of lives.

Children with dreams, mothers with families, fathers trying to protect their homes.

Over half of them are women and children, according to the Gaza administration.

Thousands more injured or permanently disabled.

Entire families have been wiped out in a single airstrike.

Homes, schools, mosques, hospitals, flattened, neighborhoods turned into rumble.

People are digging their loved ones out from under the debris with their bare hands because there's no equipment, no resources, and no safety.

Basic necessities clean water, electricity, medicine, food are being deliberately denied.

And the world keeps calling itself self-defense.

What kind of self-defense targets targets journalists, doctors, and aid workers?

What kind of self-defense drops bombs on refugee camps and UN shelters?

This isn't self-defense.

This is an aparfied system using military forces to displace, destroy, and dehumanize an entire population.

If our rules were reserved, reversed, the world would not wait this long.

If it were your people, your children, your homes being destroyed, there would be an immediate outrage and action.

But when it's Palestinians, we're told to stay silent.

We're told it's complicated.

It's not.

You say you're for peace, then prove it.

You say you stand for human rights, then act like it.

Every day you delight you delay, it's another day of slaughter, starvation, and silence.

Every day you delay more children, die.

You don't need more reports.

You need more data.

You need more courage and you need to act now.

I urge you to make a ceasefire.

Free Palestine, free Gaza.

Hello, I lost my voice, so I'm gonna try my best.

But you want to look away.

Palestine is a land where empires come to conquer and ultimately fail.

From crusaders to colonizers, every invader has faced the same fate.

And I'm sure this invader will too.

Because this land does not forget, and its people won't break.

Palestine and Gaza are not defeated.

They will resist and they will rise.

I'm here with you today, although I've left my heart in Palestine.

And every time I stand before you, I feel compelled to explain and convince you why you should care, why you should listen, why you should be a human being with decency and morality.

I search for the most powerful words to try and stir your conscience and humanity, but all my words have been exhausted.

Even the most accurate, urgent descriptions of what is happening in Gaza have been stripped of their meaning.

Human rights organizations have issued dire warnings filled with chilling words.

But words don't move policy, clearly.

And they no longer move people, clearly.

And frankly, they mean nothing when over 671 days we've all watched in real time in the palm of our hands with full US funding and support, Israel committing war crimes against Palestinian Gaza way before October 7th.

Let's just put that out there.

So I will not appeal to your emotions with tragic stories, and I will not recite death tolls or cite human rights reports because you're very well aware of all of that.

And I will not explain what you already know because you've seen it, you've watched it in 4D.

This genocide has not been hidden, and you are a witness, and you cannot say you didn't know.

There are two types of people in this world.

Those who are complicit and complacent with oppression and injustice, and those who actively resist it.

And now I know more than ever why the Holocaust, why slavery, why the starvation in Ireland and other atrocities all across our globe throughout history were allowed to happen.

Because some people are shackled by privileged, silenced by their comfort, and genocide needs silence.

And some of your privilege gladly is providing it.

We're asking for the bare minimum.

They're human beings, just like you, just like your children, just like your loved ones.

The bare minimum is asking for an end to violence.

It's not asking for much.

Thank you.

Our next speakers are Paige, Willie Mahone, and Zoe Dale.

Excuse me, I'm a board of theater, former theater performer.

Good evening.

My name is Paige Corey, and I'm a community member from the southern part of the county.

Thank you for your time today.

My hope is to speak more candidly, but I feel most capable to communicate with you today with some written thoughts.

So please bear with me as I look down at my notes.

And for our council member who brought it forth.

Thank you for working with our community.

I did not come here to shame you, but I think it's a real shame that you can't even just have a discussion about a resolution.

And I didn't come here to beg you to state your belief on human rights.

If you care about human rights of your constituents, your actions and your discussion of a resolution and vote for a resolution would show the community who you are and what you're willing to normalize.

I wanted to challenge you as a city council to think about things a little bit differently than you've been approaching them.

I want you to imagine someone in my family here in Frederick in my household commits an act that is currently deemed by law as illegal.

Let's remember escaping slavery was also deemed illegal.

Then I want to imagine that in response to that act that my family member committed, the government punishes my entire family, my entire neighborhood, local community schools, and healthcare facilities.

They take away our access to clean water, food, life-sustaining medicine, all because of our proximity to a person who committed that action.

Our homes, schools, and hospitals are bombed, bombed, bombed.

The government justifies this as a necessary step for safety.

Bombing for safety.

What I just described is the framework of collective punishment, which, in case you all aren't aware, is illegal under international law.

And as a city council member, you and everyone in our state and everyone in this room is responsible for upholding international law.

I'm not asking you to become foreign policy experts.

I'm asking if you believe collective punishment is reasonable and justified.

Your vote or your lack of like even consideration to have it on the agenda today will put your belief on collective punishment in the public record.

It will show if you care more.

It will show if you care more about taxpayer money supporting a goddamn genocide, or if you actually care about the well-being of your constituents here in Frederick County.

You literally don't even have to walk a mile to see the number of houseless community members that our community has collectively pushed aside to ignore.

When your legacy is reviewed, when the minutes of this meeting are available, it will show whether you thought it was acceptable for communities to have their human rights stripped away from them in the name of collective punishment.

Abstaining or voting against a resolution and not even considering it for discussion will show your community exactly how much you care about collective human rights.

Do you normalize this?

Are you committed to human rights to be brave enough to say it publicly?

Those were your choices today, and I think you failed.

I pray you never have to experience collective punishment.

My conscience is clear, knowing I did not normalize this.

Today, you are being publicly asked to make the same choice.

Do you support collective punishment?

Will you normalize collective punishment as an acceptable response from our government?

Thank you for your time.

I wish for you what you wish for the Palestinian people.

Because what happens abroad with our taxpayer money is gonna happen right here at home.

Thank you.

And I'm ashamed Katie Nash isn't here.

She wrote a letter to my friend who is currently in prison in support of them, and it's a shame that she can't just support human rights for other people.

My name is William Hall of Frederick, Maryland.

Also, I am the president of local NAACP.

I want to thank you all for this opportunity to come and speak.

The um and thanks for the last speaker in terms of talking about collective punishment.

Um hitting upon some of the things I want to talk about.

I want to talk about Palestine, but I also want to talk about the Voters' Rights Act of 1965.

They may seem separate and distinct, but they are.

They are connected.

Uh from an African American perspective, I have an appreciation of genocide.

What we've been through would be termed low intensity genocide, but genocide nonetheless.

So we know what genocide looks like.

We know uh we have seen being auctioned on slave blocks.

We have seen the systematic uh rape of our women.

We have seen being subject to lynchings.

We have been seen, we have seen being summarily executed on the street without due process.

We have seen uh uh as was uh referenced before segregation.

Uh we have uh seen complicity, and I oftentimes when I come before you are a reference Dr.

Martin Luther King who said the silence is the equivalent to uh complicity.

I don't quite understand what happened here today, and uh, and I'm fairly astute on some of these things.

I know other people don't either.

Uh it wasn't clear what happened with Donna's suggestion.

But what I seen, what seemed to have happened is that she was suggesting that there be some discussion on an issue.

That's what I gather from this.

And what I see is a sh it's a lockdown.

We aren't going to discuss that.

I mean, that's my interpretation as a lay person.

If you're gonna lock down discussion of an issue, you can't sit, stand, sit or whatever, and say that you will support a First Amendment right.

If you're gonna lock down discussion of the issue, you can't say that it's an open government whatsoever.

I don't understand how we could not get either Kelly or Derek to say, yes, let's have some discussion on this issue.

That's totally beyond myself.

And the people have said time and time again that it should be considered when you're while you all are standing for election.

Let me get to the other issue.

Um this week marks the 60th anniversary of the 1965 voters' rights act, uh, which basically removed barriers and expanded the opportunity for for participation of excluded African Americans and other marginalized population in the political process.

Those opportunities have been under constant attack by regressive forces, including the United States white supremacy court.

One of the latest uh iterations of that attack on political empowerment of people of color has been redistricting, a form of voter voter annihilation.

We are witnessing the real time, we are witnessing in real time the attempt to constrict, contort and restrict the political participation by people of color in Texas.

There, the Democratic state representatives have stood up and pushed back on those attempts.

However, when presented with a similar opportunity to expand the voting empowerment of Frederick City people of color, our local city council Democrats, and our I emphasize Democrats, opted to not adopt a map that would have created two majority minority districts.

Instead, they adopted a map with only one such majority minority district.

That dastily act, and I repeat that dastily act should not stand and should be immediately reversed through a charter amendment or otherwise.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next are Sumner Crenshaw, Diane Sallas, and Barbara Cohen King.

Good evening, Council.

My name is Zoe, and I live on Third Street here in downtown Frederick.

The last time I was here, I quoted numbers of the devastating tolls this recent escalation of violence by Israel has had on the people of Palestine.

At that time, I could not have imagined the pain and suffering that has happened since, as we've heard from the many speakers before me, so I won't belabor that point.

The whole world is watching, and that includes our community here in Frederick, Maryland.

As a Jewish resident, I want to say emphatically that criticism of Israel is not synonymous with being anti-Semitic.

It is an insidious narrative that continues to negate and suppress productive conversation in our communities while people on while attacks on Jewish people increase anti-Semitic attacks continues to increase.

The fact that we couldn't even have a dialogue or discussion today is evident of that, I think as well.

The actions of Israel have not made it safer for Jews.

In fact, it is the opposite.

Sorry, it is Israel soldiers who are perpetuating acts of the act after act of violence upon the Palestinian civilian population, which are being live streamed to our phones, incensing the public.

Just two days ago, a family with a son who served in the Israeli offensive forces experienced a violent attack in St.

Louis.

This trend is only increasing, and it's easy to see why when we have children starving and mothers and fathers killed for attempting to get what meager aid is available.

I ask who will bear the burden of this?

Us, the US, but in particular the Jewish population.

And I'm here to say, not in our name.

That is why I'm here to ask you to help give a voice to those who feel voiceless in our community.

Passing a ceasefire resolution shows the city's dedication to supporting its constituents who come in month after month asking for those who are actively still grieving to see support from their local government.

Imagine losing a whole building of family members.

The despair is unimaginable, and these are people in our community paying taxes to paying taxes to a system to system that is sending billions of dollars abroad to fund these daily attacks.

I know no better definition of insanity.

So I'm here asking, please pass a local ceasefire.

As UN Chief Guterres states, this is a test of our shared humanity, a test we cannot afford to fail.

Please, I urge you to support the ceasefire resolution put forth by the Kazunch.

Thank you, and free Palestine.

And I am speaking today in support of the draft ceasefire resolution.

My support for this resolution boils down to the idea of humanity and who we deem to be worthy of it.

At the last city council meeting I attended, the city enthusiastically adopted a proclamation asserting the humanity and dignity of members of Frederick's LGBTQIA plus community.

Yet this resolution, recognizing the humanity and right to life of people affected by U.S.

aided violence, has languished in administrative purgatory for over two months.

In that time, another 7,000 Palestinians have died, bringing the official death toll of the Gaza genocide to well over 60,000.

If we as a city choose to symbolically recognize the humanity of our queer community members, shouldn't we recognize that with millions of civilians being affected by U.S.

backed violence?

If we recognize the humanity of the hostages, both the Israeli hostages held in captivity for nearly two years and the over 3,600 Palestinians detained in Israel without trial or charge.

Shouldn't we also recognize the humanity of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are currently starving due to a manufactured famine?

What these people are being subjected to is collective punishment and genocide, both of which are amoral and illegal under international law.

By adopting this resolution, the city will not only show that it stands up for all humans, from Frederick to Khan Yunus to Darfur.

It will also show that as a community, we refuse to accept the propaganda manufactured over the last 77 years to justify occupation, displacement, and apartheid.

Only by uplifting marginalized voices and standing in solidarity with them will we end this genocide in our country's complicity in it.

It is the duty of those of us with a platform to stand up to create momentum, pressure, and legitimacy.

By supporting this resolution, we are not attacking Israel or denying the right of its people to safety.

Rather, we are recognizing the humanity of Palestine and the right of its people to safety, health, and autonomy.

In addition, this resolution reflects the desires of Frederick's residents.

In my shop right now, we are hosting a fundraiser for Gaza.

And every day I hear stories from customers about their relatives in Palestine who are missing, displaced, or worse.

I also hear from shoppers with connections to Israel who hate the actions the Israeli government is taken in their name.

In short, this is clearly an issue that affects our community.

Furthermore, considering the significant presence of the defense industry, particularly Lockheed Martin, in Frederick and in Maryland as a whole, this is not just an abstract issue.

We as Marylanders are active participants and our tax dollars fund violence.

In conclusion, while the adoption of this resolution is symbolic, it represents the feelings of a community and shows the world that we will not remain silent in the face of violence aided by our own government.

I ask the council to adopt this resolution and demonstrate that Frederick will always stand on the side of humanity.

Thank you.

But I'm not here as a Jew.

I'm not here as any political party.

I'm here as a human being.

And I think it is important for this community to do what's right.

Um it doesn't matter if it doesn't change the world or we don't have a you know clout.

It just means in our hearts that we are supporting human beings that are starving and suffering.

Just because others have starved and suffered and doesn't mean we can't, you know, we aren't seeing what's happening and that we should support just as much as we would support anyone else.

Um that's really all I wanted to say is that as you know, I think that Frederick is a wonderful place to live, and I would be proud if our city would take up this resolution.

All right.

Next speaker who is signed up is Eric Musa, and that's that's all the speakers who have registered who have signed up to speak.

By show of hands, does anyone else want to make public comments by so we can just get okay.

Um, if you if you can, I don't miss the net.

You um, if you can, if you can line up in the rear of the room that way um we can have um a number in terms of your order.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

My name is Eric Musa.

I live in Frederick City off of 7th Street.

For over a year now, I and the group I'm here with, Frederick for Justice in Palestine have consistently attended these city council meetings and probed the sitting members on their humanity to see if any of you would support a ceasefire resolution for the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza and Israel.

I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude towards Councilwoman Donica Zemchak for co-drafting a resolution.

Calling out the atrocities in Gaza by name, among other places affected by US imperialism and militarism, including making solid demands of our federal government to stop sending weapons overseas, to start abiding by domestic and international law, and to generally call for peace in all conflicts we are we have a hand in today, of which there, besides Gaza, there are many, but Gaza deserves our primary attention at this moment.

FJP and our supporters here today all appreciate you, Donna, for taking action on an issue that nobody else has yet.

There is so much that is unfair about this war and the others that we are culpable for.

It is unfair that the status quo is the killing of civilians, children, and the annihilation of an entire people, and that it takes doing nothing at all to give all that murder your blessing.

It is unfair that once we get traction or attention, people with no compassion crawl out of the woodwork to spread vitriol and hatred for us trying to pass a ceasefire and stand up for what is right.

Those people deserve it.

Why don't you just free the hostages?

This is a waste of time.

It's unfair that the people who say that can't wait around to listen and hear that from reports from the Gaza Ministry of Health, hundreds of pages of missing or dead persons have been published, and the first 13 pages, 1,273 entries are all individuals who've been killed under the age of one.

It is unfair that those armchair bigots are the ones you are displaying your support for when you do nothing, and not this crowd of people asking you to show some heart and use your position to call for a stop to want and violence.

In the Frederick News Post, I saw that Katie Nash said that on this issue there's no need to rush.

That may have been true nearly one year ago, last August, when we first met with Council President Nash to discuss passing a ceasefire resolution.

Today, if nothing changes, everyone in Gaza will be dead, displaced, starved, murdered before the end of the year.

I understand the intransigence on this particular issue.

This has nothing to do with zoning or planning new bike paths in the city, but the people of Frederick are asking you to do this, and I truly believe that the symbolism of a ceasefire resolution is so much more powerful than you can imagine.

There are eyes and ears everywhere, watching and listening for what to think on this issue.

Imagine for a second that you, the council, told them that all people around the world deserve compassion and freedom.

Please pass a ceasefire resolution.

Thank you for your time.

Good evening, Alpha Peterson.

Member Kuzimchek, congratulations for your courage and bravery.

Sometimes one woman is braver than many a man.

The truth has come.

The truth has come and falsehood has vanished.

The truth has come and falsehood has vanished.

What else is there to say?

I don't know.

It should be silent.

The sound of death.

So I'm going to address uh council member Nash's comments in the paper.

And uh to do that, I am taking a similar attack, as I think her name is Miss Crenshaw, who uh mentioned that you had passed a recent resolution uh regarding human rights.

I have for your inspection, and I luckily have three copies, a resolution passed by the council three years ago.

Uh this regarded the national back from the brink campaign.

I have spoken before you about this.

And this the back from the brink concerns an issue uh which I uh uh speculate council member Nash would also be opposed to.

Uh it was nuclear nuclear weapons um, not uh related uh directly to the citizens of Frederick.

However, some of the same arguments in this resolution, which I'll give you in just a second, uh are being voiced uh regarding the ceasefire resolution, specifically the tax and our uh standing up for what is morally right.

And by the way, um I'll encourage you to send that resolution if it does go before you, which uh as uh Willie said, I don't understand the hang-up that happened tonight, apparently before I got here.

I encourage you to definitely give it full consideration.

Well, let me give you this resolution from 2022.

It's resolution 2214, passed unanimously by you three, by the way, and council member Nash was not here, and uh McShane was not here.

However, you three passed it unanimously, and this was sent to our uh representatives in the House and uh in the Senate, and also to President Biden.

So this was in support of this national resolution uh calling for um sensible controls on the US's nuclear weapons program.

So this is a direct precedent.

Um this matter is urgent, and uh certainly the Gaza matter is urgent.

So I see this as really a good example, a good precedent for why you should both consider Councilmember Kazan Czech's um proposal and uh really consider passing that resolution.

So here it's Annette Brigling.

I'm Annette Breeling, um, and I'm a passionate fan of Martin Luther King, who sought beloved community by speaking out against injustice, but always nonviolently with the uh peace and love as part of his mission, and the kind of success that came from his leadership is pretty pretty inspiring, and I like to believe that I'm doing what I can to promote justice and caring in our community.

I'm also part of a regional gathering of Quakers called Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends.

This region covers much of Maryland, uh Virginia, West Virginia, DC, and even part of Pennsylvania.

And this region gathered here in Frederick for the last week at Hood College for their yearly gathering.

And I'm co-clerk, co-chair of a committee from this group, uh peace and social concerns.

And under this group was a working group that became very active called um, they call themselves Pip J, and that stands for peace in Israel Palestine with justice.

And um during this week, I saw that there was this resolution that had been put before the city, and I thought, yay, yay, that's what we need to speak.

We we're we can value being in a democracy where we can speak up, but there's limitations being put on that.

It's important that we the people speak up, and I'm so impressed with all the people that have come out to give our voices so um I had another thought and it went out of my mind.

But um I also saw another thought was that when I read about it in the paper, I saw that there was also a concern for local issues and housing.

I share that concern.

I appreciate all the attention that the city council has given to housing.

That is a valid concern to address the needs of we that people.

But we also have local people who were connected and a losing uh family.

There was a child who spoke at one of the rallies who said that, and she was from she was connected with Gaza, where she had lost one hundred relatives.

So the horrors going on, the starvation.

How can we be silent and complicit?

And if we look historically, when people spoke out against slavery, when people spoke out against injustice, and when we started learning what we did to Native Americans, we have to belatedly speak out there.

And so we are citizens not just of Frederick, but we are citizens of the country and of the world.

And I urge you to do what you can to support a voice to seek to oppose what's going on in Palestine.

I know it's been a long night, but I really truly do appreciate you listening.

I wanted to thank Donna Kazumchek for bringing forth uh with her effort.

Um something, and I I actually did appreciate the broader scope of it.

Um I feel like what brought me to the ceasefire now group uh over a year ago was just the overall um uh initiative to to bring more peace to the world.

And I think that um right now, of course, uh Israel and Gaza is um paramount because of how much weapons we give to them.

But the United States gives uh weapons to many other places in the world.

Um there's 9,000 civilians in Saudi Arabia that have died because of U.S.

weapons.

We have weapons going to places like the Congo, and with our weapons, women are raped repeatedly as a as a weapon of war because and that is part of us being complicit as well.

Um Iraq, it's a great example because of the you know, we lost 3,000 people in an attack, and then we went and routinely as part of uh um an effort with several other countries.

We we had 16,000 civilians killed every six months for nine years in Iraq and another two thousand civilians killed repeatedly for 20 years in the war of in Afghanistan.

And the law the laws under um the Geneva Conventions and the laws that have been passed, like the Leahy law, um, are meant to try to bring to make it possible for there to be bounds upon war and defense.

Um I want to read to you something um that you may not be aware of.

It's a 2008 law.

It's called uh it was attached to a naval uh peace equipment less legislation has to do with something called the qualitative military edge.

The United States of America doesn't want to see the Jewish people destroyed.

I don't think anybody wants to see an entire people destroyed, and so we pass that into public law.

And um that means that we will help them to uh counter and defeat military threats.

The caveat of that law is if civilians are routinely killed, we're not supposed to continue to do it.

And I think that um the fact that uh local and state and federal officials are routinely being um spoken to is because the situation is out of hand.

The United States is powerful, we like to uh be able to protect and defend, but the people of our country have to rein in that.

I do believe that it is a collective punishment in Israel, and I also believe um that just one second, um one of the members here stated that uh this effort, the wording of the resolution was inflexible, and I'm glad that Kazunchek saw a way to wordsmith it.

I'm I hope that council vice president Shacklfroud will find a way to bring issues of uh global significance to to find a way a process locally because as I teach students in the school system, part of global citizenship is taking our concerns to our local representatives, and I hope you'll rise up and find a way to make the conversation happen.

Thank you.

Uh good evening, my name is Heather Goddard.

I'm uh resident of the City of Frederick.

I'm here tonight um because I read in the newspaper that there was uh going to be a ceasefire resolution read, and I just want to express my gratitude and my support for a ceasefire resolution.

Uh can't really say anything more than these people have been saying for many, many months now.

I have been uh in attendance um at City Hall meetings for other reasons, and I haven't spoken up because I'm a coward and I'm selfish, and I was scared that speaking up might jeopardize some of the things that I and initiatives I want to put forward through the city because I am um the head of a nonprofit organization, but it's time to speak up.

It's past time.

But um thank you for all the community who hasn't um hasn't failed um to speak up and scooch over make room for all the selfish cowards who are gonna join you uh because we are in the extreme minority in the world.

Um we're the one of the few countries um and we've repeatedly stand in the way of global condemnation of the actions that are occurring in in Gaza.

So um let's let's come together and and and please uh please at least consider it and have the discussion.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Is that all for anyone else who would like to who is not scheduled to register?

Oh, it's good, what's scheduled?

Who's not signed up to speak who would like to if there's any other we will I'll proceed with our agenda for tonight?

Thank you.

Thank you, everyone, for your comments and for your time and for your expressions.

Um let me say this.

They are taken very seriously.

There was there was other things.

My colleague made a motion tonight.

And it was not second at all.

I'll I'll leave it at that.

There's there's other um information that's been shared, so I'll just move forward with our agenda for tonight.

Vice President, might I be permitted to make another motion?

Different motions.

It is your choice.

I I can do it at the end of the meeting instead, if if you're more comfortable with it.

Yes, that would be okay.

I can do that.

Thank you.

Now moving forward to our agenda of our consent agenda.

All items included on their consent agenda are considered to be routined by the council.

They would be approved by one motion without separate discussion of each item.

Unless any person present request an item or we uh we present request an item or items to be removed from the consent agenda.

Any item removed from the consent agenda will be considered separately at the end of the consent agenda.

If you would like any of the items below considered separately, please say so when we announce each category.

Release of surety.

Move for approval.

Second.

It has been motioned by councilmember Kazimczak, seconded by councilmember Russell.

All those in favor.

Motion carries three zero alcohol and city parks.

Move for approval.

Second.

It's been motion by councilmember Kazimchak, seconded by council member russell.

All those in favor.

Motion carries three zero.

Next is our public hearing.

Next on our agenda is RFP 25-C C 7th Street Fountain Park revitalization and renovation CIP number 41029.

Approval of a contract with Hassan Global.

LLC for professional services associated with design and construction of the 7th Street Fountain Park and renovation phase one fountain restoration renovation in the amount of 5935 and one cents.

This item will be presented by Nicole Harshman, manager of DPEW Projects and Inspections.

Uh good evening, Council in the City of Frederick.

I'm Nicole Harshman, manager of Projects and Inspections, and I am seeking approval of a contract with Hazen Global for professor professional services associated with design and construction of the 7th Street Fountain Park Revitalization Projects in the amount of 593,501 dollars.

I'm also seeking approval for the issuance of the corresponding purchase order in the amount of 653,501 dollars, which includes a contingency amount of 60,000.

The 7th Street Fountain Park Revitalization and Renovation Project will be completed in two phases.

This contract is for phase one only, which includes fountain restoration and renovation.

The phase two park space improvements will be at advertised for bid during the construction of phase one.

Phase one will be completed using the design bill delivery method.

The new design will include eliminating the existing basal jets and grades at pedestrian grade.

The fountain will no longer overflow as part of the operation.

A new underground mechanical vault featuring modern equipment with will be installed, which will facilitate more efficient operation and maintenance.

The existing cast iron fountain elements will be removed and restored by the qualified restoration specialist, Robinson Iron, at their facility.

Based on the current condition and historic photographs, we have determined that some of the decorative cast iron elements are missing.

As part of the restoration, we'll be we will be casting a replicate uh gargoyle gargoyle feature head and an additional fourth tier.

Has and Global and their subcontractors have an extensive and impressive resume for designing, constructing, and renovating fountain projects for government agencies.

Some of those projects include the city of Reston, Syracuse, the National Air and Space Museum Museum at the Smithsonian, and also the White House.

So we're excited for the Seven Street Fountain Project to join that showcase.

Following approval of the contract, we anticipate starting the design portion of the project in September.

We're estimating the overall period of performance to be approximately seven months.

Staff recommends for approval, and I'd be happy to take any questions.

Any questions for Ms.

Harshman?

Mine's not actually a question.

I got questions answered earlier.

Thank you for that.

Um this is just the phase one.

Other stuff will come ahead.

I happened to be at the fountain a couple of weeks ago, and there were um holes in in the ground where the the water would come up through.

And um I spoke with Guyan and I spoke with a couple of of guys over there from DPW.

That was taken care of so fast.

It was it was a safety issue, and it was taken care of so fast, and I just want to say thank you to to DPW and the people who did that.

That was very quick, and I really do appreciate it.

Yeah, that's all DPW operations.

That's what we're here for.

They do they do a great job at that.

I made one phone call.

Sure did.

I move for approval.

Second.

It's been motioned by Councilmember Kazimchak, second by councilmember Russell.

Any discussion on this item?

All those in favor.

Thank you.

Motion carries 30.

Thank you so much.

Next on our agenda is approval of to piggyback the county agreement for crossing guard and services and issues of purchase order in the amount of 216,005 and 20 cents.

This item represented by Lieutenant John Corbett.

Don't see him.

I don't see him.

City attorney, would we see I don't know much about it other than what's in your backup?

Uh maybe just move it to the end of the agenda and I'll see if I can get a hold of somebody.

Yes, is there we I can just do it?

We can just do that procedurally.

City attorney.

I'm sorry?

We don't need a move in motion.

We can just no, you can just change the order.

All right.

Okay, great.

All right.

Next on our agenda is approval of the amendment to the agreement RFP 25-C and issues of purchase order and amount of 66 66, 464 dollars to McClure Company for a rooftop unit at the Tally Recreation Center.

This item would presented by Sean Poulin, superintendent of recreation.

Welcome, Sean.

Good.

Thank you.

Good evening, counsel.

Um Sean Poole and Superintendent Recreation.

So yes, this amendment approval of amendment to the agreement uh with McClure is for a rooftop unit replacement of HVAC system.

Um it is over, they have a lifespan of about 15 to 20 years, and this is over that, and it's failing.

So this is to replace that.

Happy to answer any questions.

Any questions for Sean?

So we're talking about replacing both the rooftop unit and the air handler.

No, no, so just the rooftop unit.

This company handles all of our HVAC systems, including air handle and all of that stuff, chillers, all of that.

Um but yes, this is just the rooftop unit.

There's multiple of them.

Um we actually just replaced last year another one that's on the top of the roof, um, about the same age, and this one's and was that one around the same price?

Now, actually, uh it was more, and we expected this to be more as well.

Um, but because uh well it's 20 years newer, they're a little bit better efficiency, and uh the other the the company believes that uh we don't need as many different measures in tons, and we don't need two 15 tons to cool the area that we need.

It's actually a 15 and a believe it's a 12 and a half, so that's why it's a little bit cheaper.

Yeah, it's I'm thinking, oh my gosh, it seems like so much for the rooftop unit and not the air handler too, but it is what it is.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Any other questions for Sean?

Is there a public comment on this agenda item?

Is there a motion?

I move for approval.

Second.

It's been motioned by council member Kazimczek, seconded by council member Russell.

All those in favor.

Motion carries 30.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next on our agenda is issuance of a purchase order and amount of 153,510 to Atlas SSI for the repair to the Lingonore Traveling Screen Upper Section.

The difference in the proposal and purchase order amount of $15,000 will be utilized as a contingency for potential unforeseen adjustments to the scope of the work.

This item presented by Robert Rosenberg, superintendent of water treatment.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Good evening, counsel.

Um yes, so I am here to gain approval for uh issuance of a purchase order and the amount of 153,510 to SSI for the repair to the lingonor traveling screen upper section.

Uh the difference in proposal price and purchase order amount of $15,000 will be utilized in contingency for potential unforeseen adjustments to the scope of work.

Um the raw water traveling screen is mechanical rotating screening uh device that catches debris from the river intake uh just before the water reaches our raw water pumps.

Uh provides protection for the pumping equipment and prevents clogs that would require plant shutdowns.

Uh over the last few years, the integrity of the upper section of the traveling screen has declined and now needs repairs and part replacements.

Uh these repairs would provide all new drive components, a head section, and new framing.

Uh no formal solicitation was pursued.

Uh it says an SVR MWBE exemption has been issued since this repair has a sole source justification.

Uh the funds we propose on using are from the repair and maintenance service account and staff recommends approval.

Thank you.

Any questions?

So mine's not a question so much as I'm not sure who puts the backup together, but the um sole source letter is also attached to the item before this.

So when I got to it on that item, I was a little confused.

Um but then I figured out where it went.

So I don't know who does the puts the things together, but anyway, it I found it.

It's it's all good.

Thank you.

I was just thinking from another thing.

I probably should have caught this.

I was looking at this earlier.

Probably would be nice to have a graphic of what this would be lovely.

Of what the equipment is.

I mean, not that I know how it works about any stretch, but just it would be interesting to see, I'm sure.

So is there any public comment on this agenda item?

Is there a motion?

Move for approval.

Seconds.

Been motion by council member Kazemchak, seconded by Councilmember Russell.

All those in favor.

Motion carries three zero.

Thank you.

Next on our agenda is a approval of purchase order to Sidnor Hydro in the amount of 78,000 dollars and five hundred and seventy seventy-eight thousand five hundred seventy-five dollars for vertical turbine pump.

This item would be presented by Tim Moffett, superintendent of water and sewer facilities maintenance.

Welcome, Tim.

Good evening, Council members.

I'm here tonight to request approval of a purchase order.

Um, as mentioned for $78,575 for this uh vertical turbine pump at the Lingonore water treatment plant.

Um the Lingonore water treatment plant has three raw water pumps which pump water from the Lingonore Creek into the plant for processing.

Pump one has reached the end of its useful life and is currently inoperable.

Parts for this unit are no longer available, and city maintenance staff have exhausted all temporary fixes.

This pump is critical for the for redundancy and for the treatment of the city's water supply.

Um with that, I'd be happy to uh answer any questions that you may have.

Are there any questions?

Yeah, I have a question about the I'm sorry.

Excuse me, I apologize.

Um this sole source is it will will we always be having to purchase things sole source for this equipment here?

Yes, for for this for this uh company is the sole source for this style of vertical turbine pump gotcha for these particular pumps.

So for just just for these pumps, but not necessarily for the um uh treatment plan as a whole, just for these particular gotcha.

Thank you.

Yes, comment similar before we probably could have an actual description or picture of the item probably would be helpful as well.

Thank you.

Uh is there any public comment on this agenda item?

Is there a motion?

Move for approval.

Second.

It's been motion by council member Kazinchak, seconded by Councilmember Russell.

All those in favor.

Motion carries three zero.

Thank you.

Next on our agenda is a discussion of a request by the Merlin Orthnological Society three fast three times.

Society incorporated to waive the park pavilion rental fee for a birding field trip and dinner social on Friday, September 26, 2025, from 12 p.m.

to 10 p.m.

at Minoxie Village Park Pavilion.

This event will be for participants of the MOS 77th Annual Convention in Frederick during September 26th through the 28th, 2025.

The City of Frederick is designated a bird city and MOS has coordinated some birding trips with the Office of Sustainability.

This item would be presented by Deputy Superintendent Bob Smith.

Welcome, Bob.

Thank you.

Uh good evening, Council Bob Smith Parks and Recreation.

Uh, this is a fee waiver request from the Maryland Ornithological Society.

It was reviewed at the June Parks and Recreation Commission meeting.

Uh the commission recommended uh denial of the entire fee waiver uh but did support the reduction of the fee to the city rate.

Uh the application was filed by a non-city resident.

Uh I will note the pavilion rental fees uh during that time uh in FY25 when the application was received in April uh were 75 dollars for city residents and 100 for non-city uh with the fee schedule change FY26, those fees have raised to 110 dollars for city residents and 220 for non-city.

Uh there are representatives from the applicant here tonight as well.

If you have any questions, we'd be happy to answer.

Are there questions for Bob?

Yeah, I I guess I I I want to know what the there had to have been uh a determination that it would be good for the city to waive this fee.

Yes, no.

From the Parks and Rec Commission?

I believe the Parks and Rec Commission recognized uh the value of the event.

Um the people that it would bring to the city, uh the fact that Maryland is the bird city is as as uh uh council member Shackled uh referenced.

Um there is always concern with the commission about waiving fees, uh setting precedent.

Um so it it was kind of a a medium was reached to support a reduction to the city resident rate.

There's always concern with me about waving fees also.

Do we know how many um so this is a this is a natural national group coming together?

Yeah, I would if maybe maybe yeah, if we could get it to place that'd be great.

Uh good evening, my name is Jim Rep.

I'm with the Maryland Ornithological Ornithological Society, a statewide organization.

We move the convention around the state each year.

This year we'll be in Frederick in September.

Okay.

And how many residents of Frederick are part of your group?

How many residents?

Uh-huh.

The Frederick Bird Club.

I'm not sure our city residents versus county, but there is a Frederick Bird Club that's a partner also.

Oh, I know a couple of them, yes.

Okay.

Also, Autumn Society Central Maryland's a partner.

They're helping us host all the field trips.

I don't have a number for how many city residents are they're more than welcome to join us, but I don't have a number for that, unfortunately.

Okay.

And it's just for the one evening.

Yes.

That's right, Friday, September 26th.

Okay.

Well, I'm hoping that you all will after your meeting and bird watching you'll go to the local establishments.

We uh may I we will we have a nice partnership also with the downtown Frederick Partnership?

They've been promoting this for us.

So thank you for mentioning that.

Okay.

Thanks, then I'm good.

I had a question for staff about the recommendation.

I'm sorry if it's in the backup.

The recommendation was for the city rate, but was it for the city rate prior to the rate change or at the it was for the city rate prior to the rate prior to the rate change?

So applications that came in before July 1st for anything after July 1st were charged at that at the rate at that time.

So the application came in in April.

It was reviewed in June, so it would have been 75 and 100.

Okay, so they were recommending 75 dollars.

Just wanted to be clear on that.

Okay, thank you.

Is there a public comments on this agenda item?

Is there a motion or discussion on this item?

I'm not for some reason I'm not able to bring this up right.

Um I move for approval.

I but of the recommendation to um change the rate to the $75 city rate for the one evening of September 26th.

Um for whatever time frame they're gonna be there.

I'll second that just adding that in compliance with 613 uh that we considered the benefit to the public and the city and the effect and fairness on other users.

I think it'll be uh great benefit to the city and the surrounding community and would have no effect on fairness of other users.

You accept that.

That's my finding.

Sorry that to my second.

I do accept that.

Thank you.

I I was hoping you might jump in and make the motion as I was trying to find things.

All those in favor?

Motion carries to be zero.

Thank you, Bob.

Appreciate it.

Council member comments.

Councilmember Kazimczak.

Uh council vice president.

I'm sorry, before you uh yeah, the proceeding agenda item.

Uh yeah, there was a little bit of uh apologize.

Uh there was a little bit of confusion.

So Lieutenant Corbett would like to present his uh contract on the September 4th meeting.

Do we need to make an official it wouldn't hurt to just continue that to September 4th?

Okay.

I'll move to continue it to the September.

What was the date?

Fourth meeting.

Do they not start before then?

Uh I'm sorry, second.

Is there is August 21st?

August 21st.

My communication with FPD was that September 4th would be the date that they would like to present it.

So does this affect the school upcoming school?

I mean school definitely starts before then next week.

August 21st.

August 21st.

This item Okay.

There's an official motion that needs to be made, city attorney.

I I personally have read all the backup, etc.

I mean, so we're we first and seconded to have discussion, but I I'm not sure that I actually I mean I do have a question.

No, we never we never discussed the item.

We never bought it forward, but we never go ahead, city attorney.

If you I'm sorry, still talking about the crossing card contract.

If you're prepared to approve that tonight, you don't have any questions.

I mean, I could certainly sort of read the executive summary.

I just don't know that I can answer any questions.

I I do have questions, but they're not not enough to stop me from getting the rest of the contract in place.

Hopefully, make some we can proceed.

We would have picked you back the Frederick County Agreement with all city management services for crossing guards and show by purchase or the amount of 216,056 and 20 cents.

Thank you.

So I'm just gonna read uh or summarize Lieutenant Corbett's um executive summary here.

Uh this would be a contract um piggybacking the county agreement for crossing guard services and the issuance of a purchase order and the amount of 216,056.20 cents.

Uh all city management services, a certified minority business providing crossing guards to communities across the country.

It's the newest nation's largest and most experienced crossing guard company uh and assumes complete responsibility for recruiting, hiring, training managing, etc.

with respect to um crossing guards.

We've been contracting with them since 2017 by picking piggybacking on the contract with Fred or County government.

And so the request is um for approval of this contract, which would go into effect immediately for crossing guard services for the 2025 to 2028 school years.

So I did send uh a question actually, Lieutenant Corbett got in touch with me.

I've had concerns in the past about guards within the city being paid different amounts than guards that are like right outside of the city.

Um he and he assured me that the contracts are for the same, so people who are doing the work inside the city will be paying being paid the same as those who are not right inside the city.

So I was thrilled with that.

Um I do know all there's always a question of the locations and how the locations are chosen, and I know that that changes a little bit as the school year starts and moves through.

So there um there is a question from some parents at Parkway about them whether or not there is um a crossing guard at parkway.

I understand we can't uh answer that tonight without Lieutenant Corbett here, but again, I also know that we changed these through the year at various times.

So I'm sure that it'll be very um good about answering the question and looking into it.

So I'm comfortable moving forward as presented.

Is there a public comment on this agenda item?

Is there a motion?

I move for approval as presented.

Second.

It's been motion by council member Kazimchak, second by council member Russell.

All those in favor motion carries three zero closing council member comments, Councilmember Kazimczak.

Thank you, Vice President.

Um I would like to note that there has been some conversations um and I've certainly heard from some people about how the city should not be involved in um resolutions that don't necessarily just have something to do with the city of Frederick.

So I'd like to note that in um April of 2020, we approved a resolution concerning a climate emergency that was submitted by um then Alderman Ben McShane on July of 2020.

We approved resolution concerning racism as a public health crisis, submitted by Otterman Derek Shackelford.

In August of 2020, we um approved a resolution regarding equity as a fundamental value submitted by Alderman Kelly Russell.

In August of 2022, we approved a resolution in support of a call for nuclear disarmament.

That was submitted by Mayor Michael O'Connor and approved.

In January of 2023, we approved a resolution regarding the final report on climate emergency mobilization work group.

That really is mostly in Frederick, but it does have to do with climate change throughout the world, and that was submitted by then older woman, Katie Nash and Alderman Ben McShane.

In July of 2023, we approved a resolution concerning Medicare for all, um, submitted by Mayor Michael O'Connor, but approved by this group of people.

So there is precedent certainly for resolutions that are not just limited to the city.

I do also understand a huge concern about having.

So I would like to make a motion to um bring forward the resolution.

Um I've lost it again.

The resolution for the end of U.S.

complicity and ongoing violence across the world for um August 21st, giving us time to get it out into the public eye to put that on the agenda for the 21st.

Has been motioned by Councilman Zemchek is our second.

Motion fails.

Please again, please again.

Speaking out does not really help.

But I think that's a good question.

One more opportunity for public comment.

Is there a public comment?

Please come to the microphone state.

Name it general name name in general just for the record, please.

Good evening, everyone.

Can you turn the microphone on, please?

Sure.

Is it okay?

Perfect.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Keely Hollyfield.

Um, I've not spoken at one of these uh council meetings before, but I am a resident of Frederick.

I want to thank again um Councilmember Kazumchak for bringing this motion forward.

And I want to shame publicly other council members for not seconding and moving forward this motion.

I think it's absolutely shameful.

Thank you.

Um I want to also commend every speaker who's come forward and said something to you this evening because this is a dire issue that requires your immediate attention.

Um additionally, I want to also just comment on the efficiency of all of these motions that have been brought forward this evening with a very simple I move motion to approve, I second, and then three zero on every other motion brought forward tonight.

You could so easily move for a ceasefire in Gaza, yet you refuse.

You could motion again right now after this comment that I'm making right here, yet you refuse.

I'm disgusted with you.

You do not, you need public shame at this point.

Free Palestine.

Excuse me, excuse me.

You've already you've already given a public comment.

Oh, you can't go twice.

Oh, oh, yeah, but my apologies.

My apologies, you my apologies, my apologies.

My apologies.

I staying corrected, my apologies.

I feel like that's emblem emblematic of not being able to have this discussion or this dialogue.

That's what we're asking for here.

We're showing up, you know, consistently to ask to just have this dialogue and make this vote.

And I think that it again is very disheartening to not see that happen again when and giving time, especially when there's precedent here.

And it's very disheartening.

Yeah.

My name is Christian Benford.

I live on Carroll Parkway.

I'm failing to understand the non-committal to move forward.

It's strange to me that it has to be brought up that this council should not be deciding on foreign affairs or federal policy when us as constituents have the right to voice our opinions to our higher authorities so they can go to even higher authorities.

And we have Congress.

Oh, we have a Congresswoman's office two blocks down the street.

This is ridiculous that there is a humanitarian crisis in another country that you have constituents routinely showing out for, voicing their opinions, just asking, asking their city to just pass a ceasefire resolution.

Yes, Frederick City is not going to stop Israel killing an entire people.

But our voices matter, our opinion matters, and it's so shameful.

As I said earlier, we could have other resolutions passed forward.

We could have other motions passed forward three nothing, and this is the one that is haltered on.

This is the one that's put off to the side and just I don't know.

This is a spoiling shame.

Shame on each of you.

Thank you for making it very clear to everyone here tonight, except for council member who pushed for a second vote.

Thank you for telling us you believe in collective punishment.

My name is Emris Malley, and earlier today we had kids, Palestinian kids, come up and speak, and you just denied their pain and suffering.

Shame on you.

Shame.

Yeah.

James Wagner.

Forgive me if I'm making assumptions, but um I think you just voted against democracy and for your political futures because you are afraid to even vote on this.

I guess for fear of losing in the next election is the only thing I can gather if I'm wrong.

Please explain yourselves.

Thank you.

Good evening.

My name is Hannah Jacobson.

I am not a resident of Frederick City, but I am a resident of Rocky Ridge in Frederick County.

I lived two doors down from the former Grand Wizard of the KKK, and I have come to understand what white supremacy is and the cultural characteristics that carry through ubiquitously in our community that do uphold white supremacy.

A brother, several speakers before me said he does not understand what is happening in this council, but I understand white supremacy, and I understand what a former speaker said about her right to comfort.

And that's what I feel what that's what this is that this is a right to comfort to not bring this to discussion because of fear of causing discomfort to other people.

However, our discomfort here is not any worse than the pain and the suffering that is happening that we are seeing live on our feeds, and we are hearing from our friends and our families.

So I ask you to please reconsider the motion and second the motion.

Thank you.

No business before this board.

We are standing adjournment to send me again this body's call.