Thank you.

Maybe.

You're not opposed to what to do again.

Stafford.

All right, good afternoon, everyone.

Welcome to the sports session of the Mayor and City Council.

Today is Tuesday, October 13th, and it is just after 1 p.m.

First on today's agenda.

I have a notice and a report on our closed session.

Part of the Mayor and City Council's open session being held at 1 p.m.

on October 13th, 2026.

A closed session was held today here at City Hall beginning at 12 noon.

Topics of discussion were legal, real estate, and public security matters.

Persons present were Mayor Rick Mean, City Manager Terry McGean, Deputy City Manager J.R.

Harmon, Council President Matt James, Council Secretary, Will Savage, Councilmembers John Gehrig, Carol Proctor, Peter Bus, and Jeff Heiser, City Clerk Diana Chavis, City Solicitor Heather Stansbury, Director of Tourism and Business Development, Tom Perlazo, and our finance director, Sean Bunting.

Sorry,

the mayor and council consulted with legal counsel on pending and potential litigation and continued a discussion regarding event security and scheduling needs as well as real estate matters and potential property acquisition.

There's a motion from Secretary Savage, seconded by Councilmember Heiser to close the closed session.

This passed with six in favor at 1 p.m.

And just for the record, Councilmember Metressic will be absent from today's meeting.

Moving on, we have comments from the public.

Any person who may wish to speak on a matter scheduled for discussion on the work session agenda may be heard during comments from the public for a period of three minutes for such time as may be deemed appropriate by the council president.

Anyone wishing to be heard shall state their name, their address, and the agenda item on which he or she wishes to speak.

Would anyone anyone from the public like to speak today?

Ma'am?

If you could come up, you can either sit here or stand at the uh the microphone.

Good morning.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to the council and the mayor and Terry.

My name is Mary Dorsey Kellerman.

I live at 13704 Sand Dune Road in Ocean City.

I'm a member of the Kane Woods Association.

I'm also a retired faculty of the Catholic University of America, School of Nursing, Nurse Practitioner Geriatric Program.

I am a practicing adult and geriatric nurse practitioner.

Now Ocean City is my home.

I'm privileged to be here.

And in part of that, I started a conversation graciously awarded by the mayor in February of 2024 about applying for Ocean City to become an AARP World Health Organization designated elder livable community.

And he graciously listened to

me

and supported my contact with Terry about the information regarding pursuit of such a phenomenal recognition, not only nationally, but internationally.

Subsequent to that February 2024 meeting, I volunteered to have meetings with the Worcester County Department of Aging, the AARP Associate Director of Community Outreach, Jen Haltz, do presentations to the AARP, Ocean City chapter.

President is also supportive of this initiative, and worked with numerous meetings and group members of the mayor's group in the town of Ocean City to try to look into this process of addressing eight domains of livability of elder folks age 60 and older that addresses across generations.

This is not a wheelchair thing.

This is not a walker thing.

This is helping elder folks like me, 71, live vibrantly and contributing to and fro in our community to young ones, old ones, even older than

me.

So I urge the council to support the mayor and Terry's moving forward with the very first step, which is a letter of intent to the ARP.

One piece of paper outlining the already established commitment of Ocean City to community members, including the elderly.

As we are increasing our numbers of elder folks moving permanently to Ocean City, or having this as a second or third home for their generations of children and grandchildren, it behooves Ocean City to look forward to live ability, to excitement, to vibrancy, to increase the marketability across generations to bring people to live in Ocean City, to visit it, enjoy it, and talk about it.

This is an international recognition that they do not take lightly at AARP and the World Health Organization.

So please help

me

in my volunteer effort as a researcher, as a talker, as a schmoozer to get this done.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mary.

Would anyone else like to speak this afternoon?

All right, seeing none, we'll move on to new business.

Item A is a request to approve minutes.

Regular session number fifteen, dated October fifth, twenty twenty six.

Secretary Savage.