The Prince George's County Council, sitting as the Committee of the Whole, convened at 12:57 p.m. on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, and adjourned at 2:26 p.m. The meeting addressed 13 legislative items: six county bills (CB-041 through CB-046) related to clean communities, vacant properties, illegal signage, and a beautification incentive program; five bond bills (CB-051 through CB-055) for capital projects; and five charter amendment resolutions (CR-053 through CR-057). All items were presented with staff overviews and sponsor comments, followed by votes.
All righty, good afternoon. We have returned and are now sitting as committee of the whole again. Today is Tuesday, May 26, 2026. Madam Clerk, can I please have a roll call? Good afternoon, Chair Oyeva. Here. Mr. Adams. Present. Ms. Adam Stafford. Present, Mr. Burroughs. Present. Mr. Denoga. President. Mr. Harrison. Ms. Hunter. Present. Here. Vice Chair Olson. Here. Nine members present at roll call. Thank you. I'm gonna jump around on the agenda, colleagues. So I'm gonna start with CR. 53, 2026, a resolution concerning amendment of Section 813 Charter of Prince Shorty's County for the purpose of proposing an amendment to Section 813 of the Charter of Prince Shorts County to exempt from referendum taxes and fees imposed upon operations and business uses deemed to have adverse impact on community health safety and welfare on county economic development and generally relating to approval of new or additional taxes and referendum. I will now have a staff overview. And then after this, just for staff, we'll move to CR 57 2026. Okay, good afternoon, Council members. Josh Hemlin, legislative attorney. It to be make it very brief, what this would do is exempt from the existing chart, the charter requirement that any new or increased fee or tax other than those which are specifically exempted within that section be submitted to the voters uh at the next general election for the House of Representatives, so every two years. Um what this would do is um add an exemption specifically for taxes and fees to imposed upon operators of business uses deemed to have an adverse impact on community health, safety and welfare or county economic development. It it gives some examples that are non-exclusive, uh, which are sellers of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products and consolidated storage uses. Um basically again to be clear, what this does is remove the referendum requirement that is in the charter that doesn't grant any additional authority directly. I think that's pretty much it. Thank you. Um next we'll turn to the sponsor. That is me, his colleagues, as you know. Uh, when we worked on uh passing the quality of life uh impact fee, uh that addressed the oversaturation of liquor stores, uh 24 hour tobacco stores, um, the self-storage in our community. Um we talked about also uh updating the charter uh to strengthen our ability to do that. And so this legislation is what I promised we would do, um, which is also make sure that we put this on the referendum to continue to look at uh the types of impacts that we see with industries like the over saturation of to 2024 hour tobacco stores, the liquor stores, and the peripheration of um self-storage. So do can I have an opinion from Office of Law The Office of Law reviewed uh this resolution for legal sufficiency finds it to be in proper form, and uh that there are no legal impediments to its uh adoption. Thank you, county executive. The county executive is in support of the resolution. Thank you. Um you have any speakers seeing none.