The Frederick City Council convened on April 2, 2026, to address a range of items including the approval of the community-wide climate and energy action plan, a lease amendment with the National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and the ordinance concerning City of Frederick Values and immigration enforcement activities. The meeting featured extensive public comment, particularly on the immigration enforcement ordinance, which ultimately passed unanimously.
National Museum of Civil War Medicine Lease Amendment & MOU
Community-wide Climate and Energy Action Plan
City of Frederick Values and Immigration Enforcement Activities Ordinance (City Values Act)
Call this April second meeting of the Frederick City Council to order. We will start with the Pledge of Allegiance. Before we start on the um agenda, just a couple of things since there's a lot of folks here. Um to address the public comments. So there'll be two opportunities to uh give public comments. One right here in the beginning of the meeting. Generally, that's for general public comment. Anything that you want to um bring forth in f uh to the council. Um and then after each individual item, there'll be an opportunity to uh to speak then. So if you want to speak in general, you can do it at the first one if you want to address a specific item in the agenda. Um there'll be public comments before we take a vote on every single item. So just wanted to clear that up. Um so first order of business is approval of the March nineteenth, twenty twenty-six regular public meeting minutes. Motion by Councilmember Bram. Second. Second. Councilmember Taylor, all in favor. I six zero. Umbers to make any comments. We'll start on this end with Councilmember Hempler Running. So thank you. Okay, that'll you can do that when we bring that up. Thank you. I do come in support of the resolution to approve a community-wide climate and energy action plan and also the ordinance concerning the City of Frederick Values and immigration enforcement activities. And I wanted to urge related to Frederick Values a broader resolution as well, insisting that our Federal Government obey the law. Not selectively, not when convenient, but always. Article 6 of the Constitution makes treaties the supreme law of the land. Yet our President told the New York Times recently, I don't need international law. And last night we heard him say that he would bomb Iran into the Stone Age. We're a nation that cannot go forward without legal restraint. And we're a nation of immigrants. Yet families are torn apart through detention, arrest, and deportation. Under Obama, we had almost two and a half million people deported. Under Biden, over one million, and under Trump's first term, about uh 1.5 million. Different presidents, different language, too often, the same fear, the same disruption, the same human cost. We should also be honest about what drives migration. More than one-third of humanity lives under crushing sanctions. Many are imposed by the United States. Many are widely condemned as unlawful under international law. Many are compounded by wars and interventions backed by the United States. We should not be surprised when people flee violence, instability, and despair, and seek safety elsewhere. And this is not limited to one party. The devastation of Gaza and throughout Palestine has continued under both the Biden and Trump administrations. Different rhetoric, similar consequences, horrific and unnecessary suffering. When our federal government acts unlawfully abroad and unjustly at home, communities like Frederick bear the cost. We feel it budgetarily, with neglect neglected needs, fear within immigrant communities, and growing distrust that speaking honestly will be met with fairness, with without fairness and protection. I urge you to pass a general resolution insisting on inheritance, adherence rather, to domestic and international law. It is time to act. Thank you. Thank you.