The Mayor and Board of Aldermen of Frederick held a workshop on September 4, 2024, from 3:00 PM. The meeting covered two major items: agreements for a youth center at 300 Scotty's Bus Lane and a report from the Neighborhood Advisory Council (NAC) Ad-Hoc Committee proposing changes to the NAC resolution. No formal votes were taken on the substantive items, but staff was directed to prepare an ordinance for the NAC changes.
Good afternoon and welcome to the mayor and board of ultimate workshop for the fourth of September. We begin with a Pledge of Allegiance. One nation. We have minutes from August 21st, 2024. Move for approval. Second. Motion by Ottawa McSemchek, seconded by Altwoman Nash. All those in favor. That is four zero with Albert McShane not present. Two items on our workshop agenda today. Item number one discussion of agreements for 300 Scotty's bus lane for use as a youth center. I think Scott can hear us, so he'll be coming down soon to be with us. Hi, I'm Guyan Sampson. I'm the chief of staff to the mayor. Hi, Ashley Waters, Senior Assistant Director, Department of Housing and Human Services. They can't hear the audience. They they simply can't hear us. But especially the presenters. Can someone from the A V team come out here? So yeah, I think you're gonna have to talk for her to know that you're not she's not hearing you. I think she heard me better. Sure. So today our plan is to briefly recap uh some of the information that was shared in a presentation a few months ago from Romenta Catrell and Lee Adams. Do you want to give me the clicker guy? Thank you. So as a reminder, we are talking about the 300 Scotty's bus lane property. This is located in right along McCarthy Field. Thanks, Claire. But it also is the center of really this youth service campus idea. We have Mental Health Association, Boys and Girls Club, along with a city park right there. And so we're really excited about the opportunities that this site brings for the city in this area for all of our youth and emerging adults. So just for anyone who hasn't seen this map, it was a really great location. Yeah, perfect. We're not gonna get through this in detail because I think Romenta and Lee did a great job of really walking through how we got here, but getting to a youth center for Frederick has been a long road, well researched, um, with a lot of community engagement, a lot of feedback, and you can see over the last five or six years the work from both the city and the county that has been done, various work groups and assessments to get us to the point that we know we need this service for the youth and emerging adults in Frederick. So today we're gonna walk through three agreements with two different parties. So the first agreement is with the county, and this is a donation agreement in which the city will be donating 300 Sky's bus lane to the city at no cost. Um I realized there was a $10 fee included in the backup that had been struck from the agreement, but somehow I missed that in the executive summary. So please disregard that $10 fee that may have been in previous copies. Overall, the agreement outlines the donation. And then the city must open the building within six years, or the county again may take the building back, and we must operate it for at least five years, or the county could then also take the building take the building back. So this is the first agreement that we'll be talking through today. Really quick. I mean, I didn't mean to replicate I can ask questions because you say May. So what's or if they don't, what happens then? Yeah. I mean, uh the the agreement continues. I'm just asking, does it continue? How does this because she's using the word May? I mean they have the county has an option, correct? I think the ability was an option that let's say the construction doesn't happen in six years, but it happens in seven years, it allows them to say, okay, we understand you need more time for that.