[0:38] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. May we legislate this evening with wisdom, patience, and respect.

[0:43] Thank you.

[0:52] I play a Julie Jones to the flag of the United States.

[0:57] So through the Republic, we would understand one nation, undergar individual, with liberty and justice,

[1:11] Madam City Clerk, please call the roll.

[1:13] Sir, mayor Bobbley?

[1:14] Yes.

[1:15] Alderman Hattley.

[1:16] Here.

[1:16] Alderman O'Neill.

[1:17] Present Alderman Pendell Charles.

[1:19] Erol, are the one from Laison, President Alderman Sandomyer, Alderman Gay, Alderman Savage,

[1:25] Alderman Arnet.

[1:26] Councillor interjecting.

[1:28] Councillor interjecting.

[1:29] The first item on the agenda.

[1:31] Yes, sir, the first item on the agenda is approval of the agenda.

[1:34] This time I entertain a motion of approval the agenda, as amended to postpone, ceremonial

[1:40] items, City Council's citation, I-D-1425, citation andapolis's Santa Run, until Monday,

[1:48] February 10th, 2025. I'm going to get a motion on that.

[1:53] Second. Second. All those in favour? So aye.

[1:57] Aye. Aye. Opposed.

[1:59] Thank you.

[2:00] Mr. City Attorney, please present the next on me agenda.

[2:03] So the next item agenda is petitioners reports and communications beginning with update from

[2:06] the Mayor. That's great, because my update's not quite here yet, so can I go through in the

[2:12] council? We were just reading it through in the other room and she's reprinting it.

[2:16] We start with the City Council, please.

[2:19] It's a negative 20 minutes tonight.

[2:22] It's okay, it's only about 30 minutes long, so we'll be right here.

[2:27] Audemoiselle Amire.

[2:28] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[2:29] Economic matters cancelled.

[2:30] It's January meeting.

[2:31] We will be reconvening on February 19th at 6.30 p.m.

[2:35] Thank you.

[2:37] Audemoiselle O'Neill.

[2:38] Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor.

[2:39] Transportation committee meeting will take place on February 12th, the next one at

[2:45] 4 p.m. That will be a virtual meeting on line. Thank you.

[2:53] Thank you. On the savage. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I give my report the last meeting.

[3:01] So our next meeting is February 13th at 3 p.m. I don't know if it's virtual or in person.

[3:07] I think it's in person. Okay, it's in person. Thank you. And the agenda is not finalized,

[3:13] But I do recall, I believe public works are going to be presenting on an update on the stormwater fee their annual report to us.

[3:22] Thank you.

[3:23] I'm on my net.

[3:23] You had to hand up and then I don't have a standing committee.

[3:26] Okay.

[3:28] I saw you hand up.

[3:29] I apologize.

[3:29] I was pointing to an old man on my way to the old man Huddly.

[3:33] He is the finance chair.

[3:36] Where America, is it, is it the,

[3:43] the housing human welfare committee is scheduled to meet the 17th, but that's a holiday.

[3:49] So, once we find out the TV studio's availability, we will reschedule our February meeting.

[3:56] Thank you.

[3:59] It's actually not happening to me, the city is reserving the President's day that day.

[4:04] Thank you.

[4:06] The Finance and Committee recommended favorably both a supplemental appropriation and a fund transfer at our last meeting.

[4:13] The supplemental appropriation 2425 provides $500,000 for a grant program to address environmental restoration with the Just Big Bay Trust.

[4:26] And I'm really excited about that one, I think that's cool.

[4:29] I had some great questions.

[4:31] I apologize to our urban forester who walked into that meeting for

[4:36] we're running into my wheelhouse and having to answer a bunch of detailed questions.

[4:40] But then our fund transfer was just moving some money around in the Reck and Parks budget.

[4:45] So they're able to do some repairs of one of their pools.

[4:48] Finally, we did consider for our third or fourth time.

[4:53] Our 5324 changes to the executive pay ranges.

[4:56] is we decided to postpone that until the final-

[5:00] Committee meeting on February 19th, our next meeting with the understanding that at that meeting, we either need to have some amendments or we're going to recommend it unfavorably. So our next meeting again is February 19th. Thank you. Thank you.

[5:18] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[5:20] The rules and City Government Committee met on the 3rd of January, and I gave the report at the last meeting.

[5:27] Our next meeting will be on Friday, February 7th, 1 o'clock, here in Council Chambers.

[5:32] I will invite it to attend.

[5:33] Thank you.

[5:34] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[5:37] The Public Safety Standing Committee will be meeting on this coming Thursday, and you will worry the 30th at 630.

[5:46] And at that time, we will have presentations from NAMM and No Harm, Office of Emergency Management,

[5:53] Fire Department, Police Department, and at that time, we will be presenting data from 2024 and

[6:00] other pieces of information.

[6:02] But we also this year will be focusing per month on award.

[6:05] So we're focusing on award one this coming week and we'll be taking inquiries from award

[6:11] one residence in person and Alden Huntly, I've conferred with him and so he's aware that we also have two piece of legislation to consider.

[6:21] Thank you so much.

[6:22] Thank you, everybody.

[6:24] Thank you.

[6:25] All right.

[6:26] And thanks for bearing with me in reverse order here.

[6:28] So let's let the give you guys an update. Good evening, everyone.

[6:31] Last week, last week I intended the annual Mayor's Winter Conference in Washington, D.C.

[6:38] I always relish the opportunity to meet with other mayors from across the country, hear

[6:43] their issues and learn from their ideas.

[6:46] When we are together, we don't ask about party affiliation, we just try to help each

[6:52] other and learn from each other.

[6:55] Mayors and local councils do not have the luxury of worrying too much about politics and ideology.

[7:01] We have to get on with the job of fixing local problems and ensuring our communities have

[7:07] what they need.

[7:09] That is why I was proud to present on the Hillman Garage P3 and the City Doc project

[7:15] at the conference.

[7:17] The level of interest was outstanding.

[7:19] We had a packed audience and almost all the questions afterwards were about how did we do

[7:25] it here in the City of Annapolis.

[7:28] So many communities need to finance infrastructure and resilience and the costs are staggering.

[7:35] We are all looking for innovative ways to get there and anapolis can be proud that we

[7:41] are ahead of the curve.

[7:43] So many big ideas have come from this community, the Hillman P3, the resilience authority

[7:48] for an example.

[7:50] And I'm always delighted and proud to share with these, with other mayors, because we are

[7:55] working together on how to solve problems.

[8:00] Speaking of big audiences, as I noted at our last meeting, the City Doc Resilience Plan

[8:06] developed over four years with the community and with stakeholders, with the oversight

[8:11] of this Council has been approved by the Planning Commission and also approved by the Historic

[8:17] Preservation Commission, but as I said last week, there are some who are clearly seeking

[8:22] to prevent this project, designed with the community and for the community from being

[8:28] completed.

[8:29] I find it interesting that many of the critics say I support the park and the resilience

[8:34] and then go on to object to almost every aspect of the park and the resiliency.

[8:40] We've heard objections to the Fountain, which was an idea first put forward in the jointly

[8:45] authorized CityDoc Action Plan published in 2020 and which was received an overwhelming

[8:51] positive feedback from across the community. We've heard objections to the raised covered

[8:57] area that can act as a stage when needed, even though the need for performance space

[9:03] was all so first outlined in the CityDoc Action Plan. And there's essential for so many

[9:10] events that are there and censored at CityDoc for the community.

[9:15] While here in the city we are going to invest in place making to create a park that is

[9:19] welcoming and an inviting place for everyone, a place where kids' conspiration are found

[9:24] in the summer, or skate and a rink in the winter if we make that happen, a park where we

[9:29] can all gather and listen to the great Isles perform and the singer's songwriter festival

[9:33] or where we can continue to enjoy the amazing annual boat show, a park where we can sit in

[9:39] the shade, walking the sun, access the water and learn about some of the lost history

[9:44] of anapolis that hasn't been widely valued before now. We've heard objections based

[9:50] on the maintenance cost. As though the city doesn't already have a recreation and parks

[9:55] department or a public works department that already undertakes.

[10:00] This kind of maintenance all across the city. These concerns for future maintenance costs

[10:04] would be far more believable if the individuals who also showed the same concern for the

[10:10] staggering costs to the city of flooding events, and that happens more frequently each year.

[10:17] The costs for our public safety teams, our public works teams, are huge, and we will save

[10:23] those costs when we finally build out this project. Even more telling is the fact that these

[10:28] These objectives never once acknowledge the costs to our businesses from this ongoing

[10:33] flooding, apparently these costs aren't worth mentioning.

[10:37] That is why there is a resolution before us on 2nd Reader tonight because this project

[10:43] is urgent and we cannot let a small group of narrow, special interests derail all the work

[10:48] that we've done over the past five years.

[10:51] That is why we changed our legal strategy and instead of opposing the state brought about

[10:57] by an anonymous complaint that we have asked the court to expediate the legal review because

[11:02] we know the merits of this case and this project will speak for itself.

[11:09] So thank you.

[11:10] I just need to get that off my chest.

[11:13] In February, we will celebrate Black History Months another chance to showcase the stories

[11:19] that have not always been acknowledged.

[11:22] As we have each year, we will fly the flags of the African diaspora's on Main Street and

[11:27] we will host our weekly series of State and Black and Atlas events in partnership with

[11:32] the Michael E. Bush Library. The speaker series organised by the Mayor's Office of African

[11:37] American Outreach team will feature local experts and historians on topics related to African

[11:42] American culture and life and the enduring contribution of African American residents, past and present.

[11:50] The content is suitable for all ages and each week a free dinner will be provided by Black

[11:57] area. Each event is free and open to the public. Please go to our website, www.anabust.gov and

[12:04] learn more about this amazing program. Another event we are excited to host in

[12:09] February is the Crown Affair, a key to the City Award weekend ceremony to honour our own

[12:15] homegrown celebrity hairstylist, Kendall Dorsey, for his success working in the entertainment

[12:21] and fashion industry with some of today's top music and fashion celebrities. Kendall Dorsey

[12:27] was born and raised in Annapolis, graduated from Annapolis Public Schools, including Annapolis

[12:32] Middle and Annapolis High. His talent has led him to work professionally in New York, Los

[12:38] Angeles and Miami, and abroad and has also been featured in New York Fashion Week, Good Morning America,

[12:44] Vogue Magazine, Essence Magazine, and more. Kendall is truly a hometown hero and a force to be

[12:51] with in the professional hair and beauty industry. We look forward to honouring him with a key

[12:57] to the city on February the 16th. Again, you will find details on our website. And this week,

[13:03] we will reach an important milestone in our planning for the cars of Tonya Heritage Park.

[13:09] Our Recreation and Parks Department in conjunction with the Resilience Authority will host a series

[13:14] of community listening sessions to hear directly from you. What do you know one to see in this

[13:21] New Park. These sessions will be held from Thursday and Friday at 5 p.m. and 6.30 p.m.

[13:28] and on Saturday at 9 a.m. and on Saturday starting at 10.30 a.m. There will be special

[13:34] sessions, youth workshops, to hear directly from young residents about what they would

[13:39] like to see in our New Park on Edgewood Road. All sessions will be at the PIP MoIA Rec Centre,

[13:47] please also go to the City website to find out about those events.

[13:53] And finally, I want to say thank you to our recs and parks and OEM staff for standing

[13:57] up the stands and a warming shelter for our most vulnerable residents and making arrangements

[14:02] for a daytime location so folks could get in from the extreme cold last week.

[14:08] It's been a hard time in Annapolis with a run of extreme cold weather.

[14:13] We haven't seen it in many years.

[14:14] They also want to commend our staff and our partners, including our State Elected Officials

[14:19] and Housing Authority and Appless, for their efforts to ensure power was restored

[14:24] promptly to Robin Wood Residence last Saturday.

[14:27] It has truly been a team effort to see vulnerable residents safely through this cold period

[14:32] and we truly feel for them.

[14:35] We are going to be—I will not kneel as asking for some heads to roll at BGN, so we will

[14:40] be following up on that—well done to all the work that everybody was putting thank you

[14:44] for the notifications that came from all the Council and all the work that you all put

[14:48] in over the weekend.

[14:48] I truly appreciate it.

[14:50] It was a great team effort, and so thank you, everybody, and now let's get on with

[14:54] the meeting.

[14:55] Mr. Chair, the next item in the agenda is comments from the general public.

[15:03] First up, Tim Leahy.

[15:14] Tim Leahy, one ten, Archwood Avenue. I have lived in Annapolis for 39 years, and was also on the Historic Preservation Commission for 14 years. My wife also wanted me to inform you that I have a degree in architecture and an MBA and worked in construction management for 30 years, so I wasn't going to bring that up. Just so you know, I want to comment on the resolution for

[15:41] for the city doc. I'm glad I wrote down everything I wanted to say because I follow on what I thought was but somewhat disrespectful commentary there, Mr. Mayor.

[15:56] But I do thank you for all the hard work that you do and I know sometimes it's a thankful thankless job, but I really do thank all of you.

[16:07] Surprise, I'm here to support the resolution.

[16:11] I agree with all of my hon.

[16:13] least amendment.

[16:15] I would further strengthen the focus on flood resiliency by just deleting last phrase,

[16:20] which just as well as deliver other amenities and services.

[16:25] I think the focus needs to be on flood protection.

[16:28] And no one has argued with us for years and years.

[16:31] So let's just keep on that focus.

[16:33] To that end, I request more detail on the lump sum, the $63.5 million dollar lump sum in the budget.

[16:40] It should be broken down to separate out the costs for floodgates, barriers, and walls that separate those out from the amenities, the other amenities.

[16:51] Such as the burglars, the chairs, and the game tables.

[16:56] In my opinion, it would be prudent to evaluate the costs of these and the ability of the city to pay for them over time.

[17:03] I think we might gain more traction with a smaller budget.

[17:07] Another question just in general, the $72 million budget is not short includes the compromise

[17:14] street aspect of this, which was budgeted separately, and I don't see it, it's progress.

[17:20] It was approved years ago, permitted I believe, and it still was waiting for funding.

[17:26] I think I saw it in the capital improvement plan in July, so that's just kind of missing.

[17:30] So, where is that?

[17:32] It's 72 million plus what's going on on compromise.

[17:35] It's an important part of the flood resiliency.

[17:38] It's going to fail if we don't have that.

[17:41] I, final budget question.

[17:44] Autumn and Hundley, thank you for responding today.

[17:46] The ongoing maintenance costs are important.

[17:48] We can't just ignore them.

[17:50] And I just think that there's no reason to not approve this resolution

[17:54] because of that.

[17:55] It just needs to be defined and the public needs to be included.

[17:59] One amenity, which I fully support is the Prince George Street Park.

[18:02] It's a major flooding problem, and I'm very happy that it's going to be named after my late friend, Vince Leggett.

[18:10] It's very good to see that that's the start for the important heritage interpretation that we're going to have over the next decade, I hope.

[18:19] Okay.

[18:19] All right, thank you, appreciate it.

[18:24] The project team has done a great job over the years with public outreach.

[18:28] I've participated in at least five meetings.

[18:32] But I'm still disappointed that some basic practical changes have not been incorporated

[18:38] in my one practical change.

[18:40] I know I'm not taking a page out of your book.

[18:42] I know I'm not supposed to talk about the MWC, but just simple things like the bathroom

[18:47] locations so far away from where the bus drops off has been brought up over and over again.

[18:53] So that could be moved into one of the vacant buildings and at least.

[18:57] So these creative ideas have not been incorporated.

[18:59] We see the same design over the last year.

[19:04] On a more savage, I can hear the frustration in your voice at the last meeting like where

[19:08] are these people and what are the concerns.

[19:10] So those are my concerns, my major concerns at this point.

[19:14] So, in summary, I think you should amend and approve this resolution, and then ask the

[19:20] project team to focus on taking the flood aspects of this and breaking the budget out, possibly

[19:26] it can get moving with a smaller scope, while you can turn it might be able to get going

[19:34] if it wears smaller.

[19:37] Finally, I have to address the assertions that there's a small group of people blocking this

[19:41] project.

[19:42] There are many reasons this project is behind schedule, not the least in which is the FEMA funding and so it is not fair

[19:48] To say a smaller group of people are blocking this project. It's complicated. It's expensive

[19:53] So please stop blaming people and let's try and solve the problem together. Thank you

[20:00] Thank you for supporting the resolution. Next up, Tim Towne?

[20:11] Tim Towne, 8 Taney Avenue.

[20:16] I'm here to say a lot of what Tim just said, so maybe I can keep it shorter than I had planned here. I'm a supporter of resiliency, a hundred percent. I feel so badly for the businesses and residents, downtown around city doc, but I do have concerns,

[20:34] they send around the other amenities and services that Tim mentioned there.

[20:39] And they center around financing.

[20:41] I do not consider myself part of the small group of narrow special interest.

[20:46] I consider myself a taxpayer, okay?

[20:49] And it scares the heck out of me that we're talking about proceeding before 100% of the financing is definitive.

[20:57] I do not believe that it is.

[20:58] I think that we're depending on FEMA, and I think that's a very dynamic organization today, even more so now than just a couple of months ago.

[21:06] So, last week our new president talked about eliminating FEMA, 100%, okay, and in the last three weeks FEMA has received over 68,000 claims or applications from the fires out in California.

[21:21] That certainly is going to play on their financing, and for us to think that that won't have an impact potentially on our FEMA funding I think is not a smart move.

[21:32] Atop that we've got state money and our state's facing a multi-dillion dollar deficit.

[21:37] And so all the stuff that we're expecting from other levels of government, I think are less

[21:44] definite than they were a couple months ago there.

[21:47] And then secondly, the amenities and services that were mentioned and that are in the resolution

[21:55] there, it scares me that these are not wants, these are not requirements, these are not

[22:00] not things that we need.

[22:01] These are things that would be nice to have, okay?

[22:04] They're the extras there.

[22:05] And to talk about putting in a splash pad,

[22:08] sure it would be a blast and great for kids,

[22:10] but very expensive to put in, extremely expensive to maintain,

[22:14] and over half of municipal fountains in the US

[22:18] are decommissioned or inoperable within five years, okay?

[22:22] And that number is even higher in northern climates

[22:24] where we get freezes, okay?

[22:26] So for us to put money into that,

[22:28] That, when we don't have 100% of the financing lined up for this project, I think it's scary as a taxpayer there.

[22:35] We're going to be saddling the taxpayers with some long-term operational maintenance for the new project there.

[22:41] Which is expected, I understand that, but I think that those exact operating expenses that we're going to have long-term have not been shared, have not been identified in dollars and cents, or at least I haven't been able to find them.

[22:53] And I don't even know if they're 100% identified there.

[22:58] So 100% for Presidency and scared to death about the actual add-ons that would be nice to have that are not requirements.

[23:08] Thank you very much.

[23:10] Thank you for your support.

[23:13] Anybody else like to come forward and speak?

[23:17] Please come forward.

[23:25] Can everyone hear me?

[23:27] Hi, good evening. Rachel Robinson from Historic Annapolis, 18 Pinkney Street.

[23:32] I'm here to state for the record, once again, historic Annapolis's full support of resiliency at Citidoc through flood barrier protection.

[23:42] Within our portfolio of historic properties, HA is the steward of five buildings, four owned by the state of Maryland and one we own that are within view of Citidoc and susceptible to flooding worsened by climate change.

[23:56] H.A. was the city's partner in the City Doc Action Committee, and we have been active in the protection of City Doc for more than a decade, and the main proponent of preservation in Annapolis for nearly 75 years.

[24:10] To question H.A.'s commitment to the resiliency of City Doc is unfounded.

[24:15] As is the accusation that we are attempting to slow down this project, we have skin in the game with our buildings. Why would we do that?

[24:22] Our main criticism of the project is and has been the size of the proposed maritime welcome center.

[24:28] That application, as you know, is currently going through the review process at the Historic Preservation Commission.

[24:35] We are watching it closely and preparing testimony.

[24:38] The maritime welcome center is not part of resiliency and disagreements over the proposed building should not be an impediment to realizing critical hazard mitigation at city doc.

[24:49] Thank you.

[24:52] Thank you for your support.

[24:55] Anybody else like to come forward to speak?

[24:58] Please.

[25:03] Yeah, I'll get you. Please come forward. Thank you. Do you want to? We might have Rachel might have a question for you, sorry. I'm just curious in what capacity he worked with historic Annapolis.

[25:22] I'm sorry, do you mind repeating that? What's your role with historic Annapolis? Vice President of historic preservation. Okay, thank you. And Rachel, can I just ask you, the historic Annapolis don't support the fountain?

[25:34] The fountain has already been approved as we understand it, we do not have a problem with the fountain or the park.

[25:39] No problem with the fountain.

[25:41] No problem with the fountain that has been approved, that is not our main concern of criticism.

[25:46] Stage area, so approve the stage area.

[25:49] Sir, we do not have a problem with anything that has been approved thus far.

[25:53] Thank you so much, thank you.

[25:59] Please come forward, thank you.

[26:04] Oh man, the attitude there took a turn. Hello everyone, I'm going to keep it light and positive.

[26:08] This is up a Brock 13 or six president street.

[26:11] I wanted to give a few positive shout outs to city officials.

[26:14] I've had interactions with over the last couple of weeks.

[26:18] Hopefully I'll see you guys again soon.

[26:20] I wanted to first thank out the boys in green.

[26:23] The team I saw a couple of weeks ago.

[26:25] Finally getting rid of the hatefully planted spy trees in the Wells

[26:30] Cove easement that was blocking public access.

[26:33] Now the only thing publicly blocking our access to the water is your

[26:38] We're aptitude and desire to move forward with ensuring riparian rights and actual access to the waters of the fight goes on.

[26:46] One to two. That would be public works and planning and zoning. We're behind that. Thank you guys.

[26:51] The people on this council that recommended strong towns to me. I'm loving it. You know who you are.

[26:57] Department of planning and zoning code enforcement, chief code enforcement, Mr. Manassah, and also Ms. Minker in that office wanted to thank you guys.

[27:05] if you listen or are here, I doubt you are. For your help in addressing the issue of snipe

[27:10] signs, proliferating in our neighborhood and being, you know, pasted aboard public utilities.

[27:16] I don't want to waste my time here. I will talk on the issue of premium parking like I'm

[27:21] enforcement on compromise street. Many of you guys are in those emails. Please take them seriously

[27:24] and accident will occur. It will be your negligence that maybe causes that if you don't address it.

[27:29] Wanted to quickly address the last thing. I don't have as well prepared remarks on the

[27:34] Resiliency Project although I'm generally in favor of it and I really do hope that we get a nice beautiful large welcome center

[27:41] The public can access like a public yacht clubs view of our beautiful seven river out across the base something

[27:47] We don't really have it just like level at city doc as it is right now with all those nasty parking

[27:52] You know spots that will turn into a park

[27:54] But what I just wanted to really say

[27:57] Was from historic Annapolis you heard that they are maybe not okay with these sides

[28:04] and location of this proposed welcome center

[28:07] and so much of their funding comes from the people

[28:12] that own the lot downtown that have

[28:15] that huge hideous pest control billboard.

[28:20] And I also oppose the nasty size and location

[28:23] of that billboard.

[28:24] And you guys give that a pass if you're planning

[28:28] and zoning or whoever department because you're

[28:30] meant to regulate that a non-compliant sign

[28:33] come into code compliance if it is to be changed if it was grandfathered in. So every time they

[28:39] change the appearance of that sign, you could do something immediately to beautify downtown and just say

[28:46] that billboard is not allowed and should come down. So please consider that something that would make

[28:52] everyone so happy. It's been so ugly in there since I was a child and it shouldn't be and just get

[28:58] And that has nothing to do with that project, but it, you know, you know, thank you.

[29:03] Thank you.

[29:09] Anybody else like to come forward and speak?

[29:15] Okay.

[29:15] Thank you.

[29:16] I declare comments by the general public closed.

[29:18] Mr. City City, please present an excellent agenda.

[29:20] So the next item on the agenda is business and Mr. Laney's items beginning with appointments.

[29:26] And the first one is AP 4424, a reappointment of Mr. Robert Ruby, building board of appeals.

[29:32] I can get a motion to approve AP 44-24.

[29:36] Second.

[29:38] All those in favour say aye.

[29:40] Aye.

[29:41] Aye.

[29:41] Opposed?

[29:43] Abstain.

[29:45] Mr. Senate attorney please present the next item agenda.

[29:48] The third item agenda is AP 45-24 reappointment of Mr. John J. Swartz building board of a piece.

[29:56] I can get a motion.

[29:58] Second.

[29:58] Okay.

[29:59] Cool.

[30:00] All those in favour say aye, aye, opposed? Oh, sorry. I'm just curious. Is the code had limits on how long a member can serve on a commission?

[30:14] Nope. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[30:20] Thank you.

[30:20] Thought you guys had a sick, have you had a sick?

[30:22] No, no, no.

[30:23] Okay.

[30:26] Mr. City attorney please present the next on agenda.

[30:29] The next item on the agenda is supplemental appropriations.

[30:31] $50,000 and above.

[30:33] Beginning with SA2425,

[30:35] Reforestation Fund Planning and Zoning, FY2024,

[30:38] Reforestation Fund Balance Contractual Services.

[30:43] Thank you, could you get a motion on that please?

[30:45] Assembly.

[30:46] Second.

[30:47] Thank you. All those in favour say aye.

[30:49] Aye.

[30:50] Opposed?

[30:52] Thank you, Mr. City Attorney, please present the next on agenda.

[30:55] Mr. Chair, the next item is fund transfer beginning with FT625, the general Department of Recreation

[31:00] and Parks, who contracts with services, supplies and other.

[31:05] Thank you. Could I get a motion, please?

[31:07] So moved.

[31:08] Second.

[31:09] All those in favour say aye.

[31:11] Aye.

[31:12] Opposed?

[31:13] Thank you, Mr. City Attorney, please present the next on agenda.

[31:16] Yes, the next item of the agenda is the public hearing beginning with ordinance O 225 WR and R radio tower lease with the city

[31:24] Would anybody like to come forward and speak on the radio tower?

[31:32] Right on the gate. Thank you. Just for clarity all they want to do is just put it back to use for the same exact building correct

[31:40] I believe so. Thank you

[31:43] And if I can add one other thing on the gate

[31:46] Okay, I think it's really important to note that the lease is as is so it does not obligate the city to maintenance costs.

[31:53] I'm sorry, you said the city is obligated?

[31:55] The city is not obligated, but the lease is as is.

[32:00] Thank you.

[32:01] Okay, all those, sorry, it's a public hearing, is there?

[32:05] I declare the public hearing closed.

[32:08] Mr. City Attorney, please present the next item, agenda.

[32:11] Sir, the next item of the agenda is legislative action beginning with items of second reader,

[32:16] You're beginning with ordinance 031-24, a mobile food service vendor's signage.

[32:22] It's a motion to adopt O-31-24 and second reader.

[32:27] Second, Aldman Savage has an amendment.

[32:30] Yeah, I'd like to move that.

[32:32] Yeah, I'd like to move amendment one.

[32:35] That was the second.

[32:36] Second, thank you.

[32:41] I'm a guy then, I'm a gentleman.

[32:43] Thank you, I just have concerns with the legislation in general.

[32:46] I'll address quickly because I know we have a short agenda tonight, but I just think it's kind of unfair to the food truck in particularly because this was created just out of concern for a few spots in the city.

[33:03] And I think a food truck, typically at this point inapolis are only really utilized around events in private parking spaces, things that are already heavily regulated.

[33:17] And so I get the concern, but I'm just worried about what that may do to the industry.

[33:24] It's obviously not an expensive change, but it's a change nonetheless.

[33:27] I still vote for it, but I just wanted to echo the concern.

[33:30] Thank you, old Michelle, thank you, smare.

[33:33] So I'm going to address amendment one, which might reduce some of your concerns.

[33:39] The main concerns from the food trucks that I've spoken to, Smashburgers, Food Truck,

[33:44] or Zaskers, copy truck had been around the sandwich board regulations.

[33:48] Amendment one had been a very good compromise that had swayed a lot of their concerns on the

[33:54] sandwich board issue.

[33:56] with

[33:59] that passing, most of them went from being very against this to a shrug and whatever.

[34:08] Question, just two very quick questions.

[34:11] One, I'm wondering if some of the amendment is redundant.

[34:13] Size non-tastic, if you ever move the store when the food truck is not in operation.

[34:18] I feel like that's sandwich boards are those little, yeah, the ones that we do downtown.

[34:26] now. And so they are, isn't there's a code already speak to the use of sandwich

[34:30] boards and requirements to remove or replace them during business hours and operations?

[34:36] The old one, so have a gentleman to that.

[34:38] It does only for downtown.

[34:40] And so this, this part of the amendment, there was some concern from the food trucks

[34:45] that was on the Shannemiah alluded to. They wanted to still be able to put a sandwich

[34:50] board signs up and the original version was a bit too restrictive.

[34:52] It's a plan and zoning recommended this, and they just wanted to, they recommended this

[34:57] because they wanted to make sure that there wasn't a proliferation.

[35:00] Any question of like, you know, dozens of these signs, and they want to make sure they have blocks, sidewalks, and egress that kind of thing.

[35:06] Lastly, no more than three movable signs are omitted to be displayed per vehicle.

[35:13] Does that include marketing materials, which is signage, how are you enforcing that?

[35:24] I'm just curious, which provision?

[35:27] This is no more than three removable signs are permitted to be displayed per vehicle.

[35:32] I mean, would an amendment to that, or would you maybe add to that sentence during operation?

[35:41] If you have marketing materials that are on the vehicle, that shouldn't count.

[35:45] That won't count, because they've been considering permanent sign.

[35:48] These are just removable, gotcha.

[35:51] Okay.

[35:53] Thank you.

[35:54] Armin on that.

[35:56] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[35:57] I'd like to point out having been the author of signed legislation that the legislation for

[36:05] food trucks is much more lenient than the legislation for bricks and sticks, kinds of buildings.

[36:15] I think the concern that this legislation is addressing is sort of the visual pollution of flashing lights and

[36:24] abundance of lights, and I personally find it to be quite a good compromise.

[36:30] So I'm certainly supporting the amendment and the ordinance as amended.

[36:36] Thank you.

[36:37] On one new.

[36:38] Thank you very much, Mr. Samar.

[36:39] I have two questions in regards to that.

[36:41] I know of at least one food truck that currently has flashing lights.

[36:46] Banner, not to call them out, but this is the food truck that's on Bay Ridge at the gas station right before true value when you're heading out.

[36:53] So would they be in non-compliance and have to remove that sign, it appears to be part of their truck, and well that's my first question.

[37:11] I mean, that particular sign is what triggered this for me because I drive by it all the time or bike by it all the time, but yeah, presumably they haven't spoke to them as far as how they would handle it, but presumably they could just turn it off if they can't remove it from the vehicle, but the fact that it's flashing would be prohibited in the proposed code.

[37:38] So it would be very different from, I mean, how does it differ from the across the street,

[37:45] the highs or pantry, whatever it is that has the flashing lot of sign in that.

[37:53] Well, I don't know if that's in the, so those signs are minor signs that prohibited currently.

[38:01] Okay.

[38:02] Because there's a prohibition in the code for brick and mortar stores, and when I brought

[38:05] that to the attention of staff they said well we can't apply that code to the food trucks because

[38:11] they're on wheels or something like that and so it turned out they have no regulations on their

[38:18] signs and where my attention is I don't personally just don't want to see those types of flashing signs

[38:26] proliferate all the way down the road it's not to I haven't been in my business I do need to stop

[38:32] by and try and put something personal against them,

[38:35] I just brought some attention.

[38:37] Okay, and then my last question is,

[38:39] who's in charge of enforcement?

[38:41] It's DR Code Enforcement Office in Plano, Zoning.

[38:45] Thank you, onman Huntly.

[38:48] So I just want, on the record, onman 7,

[38:51] this is not about any particular business, correct?

[38:54] This is a general provision.

[38:56] Thank you.

[38:57] Thank you, on the guy.

[38:59] I had a question from the public.

[39:01] So, if the business currently has the sign that now will be legal, will the city compensate them for what they've already invested in the business?

[39:16] Probably not, I'm not aware of that type of practice happening.

[39:22] I don't think the legislation's not written that way, so I don't think there is any plan for that.

[39:27] Yeah, again, I think that's why I think this could have been a policy thing really with you know with planning and zoning or something like that

[39:37] Because like the unintended consequences sometimes even with these tiny businesses, you know

[39:42] LED signs, you know, $2,500 and so they've saved up to invest in this sign and it's helping attract ask to the business

[39:52] You know, but I honestly take your point valid and so that's why I still support it.

[40:00] Thank you. Okay. All those in favour? Please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. Could I get a motion to adopt O-31-24, as amended on second reader? All those in favour? Say aye. Aye. And then a motion on third reader. Second. Madam City Clerk. Yes, sir. Mayor Buckley. Aye. All the way to Lisa. Aye. All the way to Santa Mayer. Aye.

[40:29] All the men get all the savage all the men are not all the men hunt me all women on the oil and all women in the trials

[40:46] Mr. City Tony please present the next on agenda. The next item agenda is ordinance 035 24 fair cannabis

[40:53] important practices, and there will be an amendment.

[40:55] So, thank you, and I believe amendments coming up,

[41:01] Alderman Savage.

[41:02] Chairman, I speak to the legislation, or can you move the amendment?

[41:07] Can you move the amendment line?

[41:09] Thank you.

[41:11] And then can you give us some background please?

[41:14] Yes, so this started, so what this legislation does is prohibit testing for

[41:23] for cannabis, particularly testing employees for pre-screening, so when we go to hire, but also for his testing for cannabis, so current employees, and it would exempt any positions where there's a state or federal law that over rules, such as US Department of Transportation or the state policing laws, but concerns that were brought to my attention by law office, and that's what we worked it into exempt those.

[41:50] And so my rationale is that the current policy, and this is an issue with a number of jurisdictions, including the county, but the policies have not kept pace with the legalization of recreational and medical marijuana and just as an example, the current policy states that if an employee is found tested positive for cannabis that they have to go through a full drug rehabilitation program.

[42:19] Or if they're safety sensitive, they're subject to immediate termination.

[42:24] And so the problem with that is the testing utilize, there's no biological testing that can detect whether or not somebody's impaired.

[42:33] The city and the county use urine testing and urine testing can't actually detect the very component, the psychotropa component of THC that actually makes you impaired.

[42:46] It can't actually detect that.

[42:49] And so the test is flawed, which is why it's often overruled

[42:53] and people challenge it.

[42:55] And so since there is no, so the problem with the test again

[42:59] is it detects usage possibly months ago.

[43:03] And so again, we're penalizing, preventing, basically,

[43:06] if you're an employee, you can't even partake in legal,

[43:10] recreational, responsible use of cannabis,

[43:12] because it could be in your bloodstream for months.

[43:15] And I think that's a bit overreach.

[43:18] I don't think we should begin involved with what employees do responsibly, while they're off duty.

[43:23] And so this just limits that test, prevents the city from testing.

[43:29] However, it does also clearly prohibit on duty use.

[43:34] This does not allow on duty use of cannabis, it's going to be up to the supervisors to determine if somebody's impaired, be a cannabis or some other substance.

[43:43] And so, there's still going to be that checks and balance.

[43:46] What we heard in some of the committees is that there's data from some institute in particular.

[43:53] Well, one in Canada who did research to show that the best deterrent is just having a supervisor be aware instead of testing.

[44:01] We also have states that have had legal marijuana to one degree or another for well over a decade, and they've not had any increase in all due to usage of cannabis.

[44:13] They also have not had any kind of increase in workplace incidents.

[44:19] Overdose, those are deaths.

[44:20] Yeah, no deaths, those kind of things that have been documented.

[44:24] So I feel pretty good about this, and also I should say, I was working on this for

[44:29] probably about two years.

[44:30] I couldn't quite figure out how to craft the language until I came across Governor Moore's executive order.

[44:37] And it was just those simple and common sense that I ended up copying it.

[44:42] that we use the definitions from the executive order.

[44:46] His executive order just applied to state employees,

[44:48] but it essentially just declassified cannabis

[44:51] as a controlled danger substance,

[44:53] which means you have a lot more nuance as far as how you manage it.

[44:57] Because controlled danger substance are.

[45:00] By name, dangers, and we want to make sure we keep those under control. But, anyway, I want to thank the governor for providing the inspiration and the way forward on this. And that's kind of my summary. Specifically amendment and how many amendments are there? The amendment is something that the city manager and human relation, I sorry, human resources recommended. And just to clarify, to give them some more comfort with those particular provisions.

[45:28] Then we can't, I do support them, and then.

[45:31] Yeah, what it does is it focuses the definition of impairment, or it broadens the definition of impairment as a general condition.

[45:44] And then narrows it where it's most appropriate, which is when you're talking about discipline.

[45:51] People can be impaired for all kinds of different reasons that's not necessarily going to lead to discipline.

[45:56] And so it clarifies those relationships, and I think leaves us with then code that really can speak to that question that Alderman's savagery is earlier of impairment, training of supervisors, and some of that, which is obviously a longer term discussion.

[46:22] And Mr. Refag, just clarify too, we hear testimony and just to be clear that this other jurisdictions have taken similar approaches, including Atlanta,

[46:36] Bernalillo County in Albuquerque, Cleveland, District of Columbia, Philadelphia, St. Louis and several states have also adopted similar workplace protections, including California,

[46:47] in Connecticut, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island.

[46:51] So it's nothing out of the unusual.

[46:55] Thank you, Owen Pindel-Charles and Owen Gaye.

[46:57] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[46:58] I just want to make sure I'm clear.

[47:00] Someone who's impaired as a result of cannabis versus alcohol,

[47:05] they're going to be treated the same way, is that correct?

[47:07] So yes and no, the question of impairment on the job regardless of why you might be impaired

[47:20] is something that the city should respond to.

[47:25] The issue at hand here and the reason why it's both yes and no is that there currently

[47:32] are no tests that are correlated with impairment for cannabis the way there are currently tests that are correlated with impairment for alcohol.

[47:45] How about medications?

[47:47] So, yeah, the screening that the city contracts for does detect some kinds of prescription medications.

[48:04] Okay.

[48:05] Yeah, but this is in some ways why the change in the definition for us is was something that we wanted to see.

[48:12] Because impairment, as you allude to, can be the result of any variety of things.

[48:19] And when you're talking about safety, impairment in general is something we should be paying attention to regardless of source.

[48:28] The question of discipline being a somewhat related but separate question, I guess I'm looking at equity.

[48:35] So the legislation from my perspective does not differentiate why you might be impaired, right?

[48:51] The question of, you shouldn't be impaired on the job.

[48:56] That is a through line with the legislation.

[49:00] That doesn't change with this legislation.

[49:04] The question of, are you going to do testing for cannabis the answer to that given that

[49:16] there are no tests right now that are correlated with impairment?

[49:22] You would not test for cannabis because you don't have a test available that's correlated

[49:29] with impairment.

[49:30] But I'm still looking at the issue of equity, but thank you.

[49:36] Thank you.

[49:37] Oh, my God.

[49:38] Thank you so much.

[49:41] Just quickly, first I want to say I'm incredibly proud of Alderman Savage for introducing

[49:47] this, getting the votes and finally bringing this to fruition is something I also been passionate

[49:53] about.

[49:53] in 2020 when Brendan Scott signed an executive order that will that allows

[50:00] So, ultimately, the ultimate city employees to consume cannabis in their personal time, responsibly. I thought we could have done the same thing immediately. And we linked up on this and he's just really cared to ball for us. So, I'm incredibly proud of him for that. To your point, as we were just sharing, there is equity in this and the fact that nine times out of 10, the individual, regardless of the fact that we know that,

[50:29] that African-Americans and Caucasians probably use cannabis around the same rate, African-Americans are more likely to be punished for their use.

[50:41] And so for me, the important thing in this was making sure that you're exactly right, that equity is there across the border and that the city is deterring punishment for something that is completely legal.

[50:55] And so that and also I share your concern as well that for years, you know, somebody can get off of work at 430 and drink a case of Hanukkah or whatever their preference is.

[51:07] And show up to, hey, listen, that's how some people do.

[51:11] Case, bottle, whatever. And show up to work the next day, but you couldn't get off of work and, you know, use vape or THC or whatever you did.

[51:20] And, you know, come in, and that's just a huge problem.

[51:23] So I think we solved the equity in this.

[51:26] Lastly, I just on the amendment, I think that impaired.

[51:32] Why are we striking that results from use of drugs?

[51:35] I call cannabis a controlled danger substance.

[51:37] That wasn't really making sense to me as it relates to the definition.

[51:43] It says impaired means reducing the cognitive or physical ability.

[51:47] And then we strike why they would be impaired.

[51:52] I see the director

[51:58] of HR is walking it as well.

[52:00] Do you want to come up?

[52:02] Yeah, you can jump into.

[52:05] Thank you, Trish.

[52:06] We've gone through a couple of iterations of this amendment.

[52:12] An earlier version of this had simply moved to that from the definition down to the bottom.

[52:19] But after consultation with Office of Law, we ended up settling on this particular language.

[52:30] So the, I understand your question, in this case impaired as a definition is

[52:45] about your

[52:46] condition, not necessarily why you're there, right?

[52:50] That's something that comes.

[52:52] Can you later, or either of you just maybe put my mind to ease on this.

[52:57] The reason that I ask that is because it says impaired means reduced to cognitive or physical ability.

[53:03] And then we're replacing the new definition prohibits the city from taking to disinary or taking dismay action against an employee found to be impaired while on duty.

[53:11] And so again, there's as the all the women are saying, there's a difference in, you know, maybe me coming to work under the influence of or impaired by cannabis.

[53:20] and impaired by, you know, with something that's still very, very legal, like cocaine, okay?

[53:30] You know, and so you would want to be able to discipline them for being impaired on that substance.

[53:35] And so why would we strike control dangerous substances?

[53:39] Oh, no, no.

[53:40] So the way that that, so nothing in this section prohibits the city from taking disciplinary,

[53:47] So what this says is that this, that if someone is found to be impaired, the city has the right to pursue disciplinary action.

[54:00] So may I offer a little bit more to that, Dr. Shahapkin's Human Resources Manager, the definition of impairment isn't general section of human resources.

[54:11] So what we're trying to do is just corral the language in the cannabis-related pieces of that.

[54:19] It really wasn't to, like, take it away.

[54:21] That's really the gist of our conversation with Alderman Savage that we really weren't trying to remove that or not acknowledge that.

[54:31] We just want to put it in the right location.

[54:33] And then what also, you know, we clearly want to make sure that we're not,

[54:38] But we always make sure that we do proper investigation.

[54:43] We're going to always do that evidentiary piece that's necessary before you ever even consider taking the disciplinary action.

[54:51] We're not trying to even make all of this look like it's in that unique direction of carrying out disciplinary action.

[54:59] We're just trying to keep-

[55:00] In paramount general, because it's in a general definition section, and then when we talk about those things that we're not going to do, or that we're not sanctioning, which is because we are clearly having to comply with federal law, which is creating a drug-free workplace as well as a safe workplace, we're trying to make sure that areas that we would address that are in the proper sections of the code. And that's really the only intent with that change.

[55:30] Thank you.

[55:31] I don't want to apologize and I don't want to kneel.

[55:33] Just one commentary, I guess I think back on some of the people who've been released

[55:40] from their duties or relief from their duties due to alcohol.

[55:47] And seems kind of unfair, I guess that's my equity piece, we're going back a ways.

[55:52] I mean, I support the amendment, but it's really, for some it's too little too late, I guess that's my whole point.

[56:05] I'm sorry.

[56:08] No, I didn't say that.

[56:10] All I'm saying is just seems just my course is that, but anyway, thank you.

[56:16] You're welcome.

[56:17] Thank you.

[56:18] Mr. Mayor, I had a constituent that had reached out to me today, and I just want to make a clarification.

[56:23] So he had said that all the focus lately has been on employee rights.

[56:28] And what rights do employers have to protect the businesses brand and the other employees.

[56:35] But what I'm hearing from you is that's exactly what this is doing.

[56:39] It's allowing the city to still uphold his example.

[56:46] is they've consumed off duty in their private home or in their cars on their way to work,

[56:53] but then they're coming to work impaired technically or could be.

[56:58] So I just wanted that clarification that we've answered that correct with your explanation.

[57:04] Yeah, that was the intent.

[57:05] Thank you.

[57:08] Thank you, Autumn and Savage.

[57:10] Yeah, and just there's a couple of clarifications.

[57:15] One of the things that I guess calls me to be supportive of this amendment was during our conversations with HR and risk management, they gave an example of a lifeguard, and I said, well, that's a good point, because really we don't want a lifeguard impaired in aiming, or it doesn't matter if it's cannabis, or if they're too tired, as somebody who used to be a lifeguard.

[57:41] You have to be alert, right?

[57:44] And so that's where it comes back to supervisor, my mind doing what a supervisor should be,

[57:50] is making sure that their employees doing their job as best they can.

[57:54] Doesn't matter how they're impaired, they need to be doing their job well.

[57:58] And again, that's, I just want to reiterate that the research that's out there has not shown any kind of increase in on the job usage or on the job impairment.

[58:11] when the laws are made to be more fair like we're proposing.

[58:17] There's been, I know some people are hesitant because the concern employees will show up stone, but it just hasn't proven out in the data.

[58:26] Thank you, Autumn Finlayson.

[58:29] Yeah, so thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[58:30] First of all, I'd like to be added as a sponsor please.

[58:33] My question is from Ms. Hopkins, how are employees prepared?

[58:40] We often times set policies and make all sorts of changes, but it never gets down to the people who are directly impacted.

[58:51] So how do the employees know about their rights?

[58:57] So in orientation, we go over all of our policies with incoming employees.

[59:03] All of our policies are online as well, and individuals have access to them through our employee self-service

[59:10] So that it's an ongoing access point for them with this change.

[59:15] I imagine that we're going to need to clarify shift in direction as a result of this ordinance

[59:24] as if it passes and changes the code tonight, so we would need to make sure that we're providing

[59:31] that kind of guidance to employees as well.

[59:32] We are already set up to not test individuals who would be exempted under this legislation.

[59:42] So we've already been contacting our vendor that we work with for a drug and alcohol testing.

[59:50] And we are poised to make the appropriate changes to our policy, and that would be redistributed to our employees.

[59:55] I hope we take every possible

[1:00:00] All opportunity to educate our employees, as opposed to expecting them to just go read the policy, you know, and to let them know that we're following the same guidelines that the state's following. So we're not, because this can be misinterpreted, you know, on under the exemptions. And if you don't read the nothing in this section, please, you miss that.

[1:00:29] Because the next part is the most important.

[1:00:33] So to make sure that, and I don't know why that couldn't be highlighted in such a way.

[1:00:38] So we know that nothing in this section prohibits disciplinary action if an employee is employed or impaired on the job.

[1:00:49] But anyway, I would hope that we would make an extra effort to give the employees the level of comfort in knowing what this does.

[1:00:57] That's how this impacts them.

[1:00:59] Thank you.

[1:01:00] You're welcome.

[1:01:01] Thank you.

[1:01:01] Okay.

[1:01:02] Let's vote on the amendment.

[1:01:05] How many amendments are there, please?

[1:01:06] Just one.

[1:01:07] Just one.

[1:01:08] Okay.

[1:01:09] All those in favour say aye.

[1:01:11] Aye.

[1:01:12] Opposed?

[1:01:14] May I get a motion as amended, please?

[1:01:17] So moved.

[1:01:18] Second.

[1:01:19] All those in favour say aye.

[1:01:21] Aye.

[1:01:22] Opposed.

[1:01:23] I'm going to get a motion on third reader.

[1:01:25] So moved.

[1:01:26] Second.

[1:01:26] Thank you.

[1:01:28] Q, Madam City Clerk.

[1:01:29] Please call the roll.

[1:01:30] Yes, sir.

[1:01:31] Mayor Buckley.

[1:01:31] Aye.

[1:01:32] All the way to Lacey.

[1:01:33] Aye.

[1:01:34] All the way to Shana Mayer.

[1:01:35] Aye.

[1:01:35] All the way to Gay.

[1:01:36] Aye.

[1:01:37] All the way to Savage.

[1:01:38] Aye.

[1:01:38] All the way to Arnett.

[1:01:39] Aye.

[1:01:40] All the way to Lacey.

[1:01:41] Aye.

[1:01:41] All the way to O'Neill.

[1:01:43] Aye.

[1:01:43] And all the way to Pindelcho.

[1:01:44] Aye.

[1:01:45] Thank you.

[1:01:46] Congratulations.

[1:01:47] Thank you.

[1:01:51] Mr. City, please present the next item agenda.

[1:01:53] Yes, sir, the next item of agenda is Resolution R325, city doc was easy project.

[1:02:00] Could I get a motion, please?

[1:02:02] So moved.

[1:02:03] Second.

[1:02:04] I think we have an amendment.

[1:02:05] Is it right?

[1:02:06] Yes.

[1:02:08] So amendment one, what you have before you, is really not meant to change the resolution.

[1:02:13] Can you just move it and get a second?

[1:02:15] Oh, I'm sorry.

[1:02:16] Second.

[1:02:16] Yeah.

[1:02:17] Thank you.

[1:02:17] I'll move to that. Thank you. Yes, a member one is now meant to change the resolution at all as I understand it was always the intention for this really just to be about phase one which has already gotten all the approvals.

[1:02:32] My hope here is just to make that even more clear and I think particularly because we're saying here that the council commits to it.

[1:02:40] But I want everybody to know exactly what we're committing to.

[1:02:45] I hope that this does not make any of my colleagues feel like we're trying to shut out.

[1:02:52] The Maritime Welcome Center said that that is opposed.

[1:02:55] And it's current form, it's just saying that it's just making even more clear that this resolution is about the part that's already gotten all of the city approvals.

[1:03:05] Okay, the parking, the flood protection, and all the approvals that it has already.

[1:03:08] Thank you.

[1:03:09] Any questions on that?

[1:03:11] On the Shantama.

[1:03:13] I think Mr. Mayor, I think that's fair because the Maritime Welcome Center is a totally

[1:03:16] separate piece of the project, and this clarifies that.

[1:03:19] So, good idea.

[1:03:21] Thank you.

[1:03:22] Okay.

[1:03:22] All those in favour?

[1:03:23] Say aye.

[1:03:24] Aye.

[1:03:25] Opposed?

[1:03:27] Thank you.

[1:03:27] Can I get a motion?

[1:03:28] As amended, please.

[1:03:30] So moved.

[1:03:31] So, Mr. Mayor, I should have been listed as a sponsor.

[1:03:34] and I'd like to thank you on my copy that I'm looking at is this R324 for a

[1:03:43] streeter when I click that it does click through the 325 but I don't know if that

[1:03:47] needs to be changed if somebody were trying to search for it Gina yeah it is

[1:03:55] The legislation is our 325, we'll make sure it's correct.

[1:04:00] Boarding on 325, yes, okay, I've got some hands up here.

[1:04:03] We've got a first and a second on the go, then on on the agenda.

[1:04:06] Thank you, two questions, because I just want to clarify for the.

[1:04:11] When people keep mentioning that the city can lease a space downstairs or

[1:04:19] or downtown from vacant buildings.

[1:04:22] One, have we done a feasibility study on that by any chance and just what it would cost to lease.

[1:04:30] For the foreseeable future as opposed to building and owning our own.

[1:04:36] You know, maintenance included in that, obviously upkeep,

[1:04:42] I'm just curious if we've actually looked into that, not that I am a fan of leasing.

[1:04:47] I think is donkey backwards to lease an old building when you have an opportunity to create a state of an art facility for your visitors in residence.

[1:04:57] So, curious if that has been done in the-

[1:05:00] Action committee. It has been done. We've asked various property owners if the properties are for sale. We know that some of the properties are for lease. And I think it's been assessed, you know, as are the right locations. I mean, I'm sure most of us would agree that the Mission Barbeque location would be a terrible place to put a harbour master. We'd all agree. And then I would think that many of us might agree that to lease a building just to put toilets in.

[1:05:29] is probably not the best idea. Maybe the visit anapolis might support share that

[1:05:40] use, but I haven't had any interest from them. I think we've all been through this two,

[1:05:46] three-year process of time for people to put in, put those ideas forward and none of those

[1:05:52] These ideas have been divided and that's why we're here today.

[1:05:55] That's not relevant to this resolution.

[1:05:57] Yeah, yeah.

[1:05:58] Well, yeah, again, the way it is, my last question also or just comment actually, there is no city.

[1:06:08] And we talked about this at lunch, but I know of that has, you know, 40,000 or over 40,000 residents.

[1:06:15] That doesn't have some sort of city center space.

[1:06:20] And you know, one of the things that just obsessed me about this and some of the public comment that we've been hearing is, you know, it's, it's not, they're against revitalizing the downtown.

[1:06:34] I want people to, for a quick second, if you have an opportunity on Friday or Saturday or even during the week, look at the Annapolis Town Center and then look at downtown Annapolis, close at 8 o'clock, not a single soul walking around.

[1:06:47] the town center's pact, they're hosting events, they've got skating rings out there, hot chocolate things, all of these things that we could be doing on a new

[1:06:57] downtown that protects our businesses, but also serves our residents and helps us state economically viable.

[1:07:05] I feel like that's the most important thing, if we don't have that, we don't have a city really, that's where our money comes from, so I support this and can't wait for the project to take off.

[1:07:15] Thank you, Onwyn Savage. I think we're sorry, it was next and then. On Michelle Maiden, Onwyn Huntly, sir.

[1:07:22] So, thank you, Ms. Mayor. Yeah, just a quick thought. Based on some of the testimony I've heard and read over the past few days or weeks.

[1:07:31] You know, there's been opposition on some of the public amenities that we've been proposing to add. And those, I think are, I mean, what makes the most exciting is that we're actually finally

[1:07:41] I try to do some resilience and protect our city doc, which has been very, very long time coming.

[1:07:48] But the public amenities also just make me very excited.

[1:07:52] I'm really glad that we've looped those in.

[1:07:55] I'm a firm believer of those because what I don't understand about some of the concern that we've heard some people about the amenities is that what's there now is a parking lot.

[1:08:09] And it would cost money to put a parking lot back.

[1:08:12] So why not just spend that money to put in an actual public amenity that's going to draw people downtown?

[1:08:18] That I think it's worth the investment to make it more lively as Alderman stated, so 100% behind it.

[1:08:26] And thanks for getting those things in that project.

[1:08:29] I'm sure when they say to me in other cities, I like them, I don't know why they wouldn't work here, you know.

[1:08:35] Alderman, channel my-

[1:08:37] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[1:08:39] I'm reading this book called for the love of cities, and it stresses how building a place for people to connect with each other and with the place that they live in and have a date creates this genuine emotional connection to their city, and that boosts civic engagement, that boosts economic activity.

[1:09:04] that boosts community pride and I see that in these public amenities that we

[1:09:14] want to put in in city doc and when people reach out to me and ask how do I

[1:09:20] feel about the park and all the amenities that we put in that's what I tell

[1:09:25] them. I want this to be a place of awe. I don't want to spend tens of millions to hundreds

[1:09:36] of millions of dollars raising a parking lot. I think that would be a waste. If we are

[1:09:43] going to put that much money into it, let's do something that we can be proud of on some

[1:09:48] of the best real estate on the east coast, and I had some people actually reach out to

[1:09:55] me today.

[1:09:56] They did oppose the fountain, but even when I drove down into...

[1:10:05] And I do encourage them if they're listening to comment and suggest what some of those may be. But even they came in and saying, well, here's some alternative suggestions. But if someone is just going, no, let's spend all this and just raise a parking lot, that's.

[1:10:21] It's silly. And there's really no other way to phrase it. This is going to be a.

[1:10:29] project that generations after we are gone will be with. Let's spend the money on

[1:10:39] something we are going to be proud of.

[1:10:44] Our names are going to be attached to

[1:10:45] this and I want to be proud of that and that's not going to be lifting a

[1:10:51] parking lot. It's going to be in a park that I can show my children that they

[1:10:56] could potentially show their children.

[1:11:00] Let's go for it. Let's get this done. I'm

[1:11:03] I'm very excited for this resolution.

[1:11:05] I'm very excited to get a shovel in the ground for this resiliency, for this park.

[1:11:10] Let's do it.

[1:11:11] Thank you, Unmenhutley, and Donald Pindel-Charles.

[1:11:14] Thank you, Unmenhutley, and Donald Pindel-Charles.

[1:11:17] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[1:11:19] This is a personal note.

[1:11:21] When I was a child, my mom and I, and my dad would bring us, because my mom wasn't driving.

[1:11:26] Would bring us downtown every Saturday.

[1:11:29] We go to Reynolds tab and where the old library was, listen to some stories, and we go shopping.

[1:11:35] We saw people in our community all the time.

[1:11:38] My aunt worked downtown and quite a few people that from my church worked downtown.

[1:11:43] So there were a lot of people that I knew from our community, especially from parole, who

[1:11:48] came downtown every Saturday and during the week as well.

[1:11:53] I was on a task force, I guess, about 15 years ago, when Kirk Schmoke wasn't charged my

[1:12:00] old boss,

[1:12:03] you can't hear me.

[1:12:06] Okay.

[1:12:07] And so at that time, we talked about the city doc as well.

[1:12:11] That was on the hearts and minds of everyone.

[1:12:16] About a year or so ago, I was at one of Alderman Arnett's town halls of an East Point and a gentleman

[1:12:25] stood up and asked me point blank, how can we get more people to come downtown?

[1:12:33] I knew what the question was. And I told the gentleman, as far as I'm concerned,

[1:12:39] and he was talking I guess about parole.

[1:12:42] I told him I really didn't know.

[1:12:45] But I thought about it later.

[1:12:48] I thought about what we've been trying to do with downtown

[1:12:53] over the past several years.

[1:12:57] And I do believe, and this is my belief,

[1:13:00] that with these amenities, we can actually draw people

[1:13:05] who live here downtown,

[1:13:07] all sorts of people. You can go downtown now. Someone was telling me recently that they don't recognize, they said here for four hours, he and his wife and they're well known, I'm not going to mention their names, they've been here a long, long time.

[1:13:23] They don't know anybody, no residents, nobody looks familiar, they comes downtown. And so we have to do something.

[1:13:31] And if it draws people from our communities, from every community to come downtown, for me it's well worth it.

[1:13:41] Because the same people pay the taxes, whoever they are, wherever they live, but not taking advantage of it because there's nothing that they feel close to to come downtown or.

[1:13:54] So I know we've had a lot of iterations and we've talked about different things.

[1:13:59] But I think it's really important for us to think about the residents.

[1:14:03] We know the visitors are going to come.

[1:14:05] But there needs to be something downtown that brings the residents downtown that's really important to me.

[1:14:13] I remember when it was a lot of fun coming downtown, and I saw people that I knew, but I don't see them anymore.

[1:14:22] But that's really, I guess, as far as gump state, that's all I got to say about that.

[1:14:29] But no, I think we really need to do this thing.

[1:14:33] It's been going on much too long.

[1:14:35] The one other thing I thought about too recently,

[1:14:39] the trauma that our businesses go through every time

[1:14:43] we have a flooding event, that's clinically traumatic.

[1:14:48] I'm not a clinician, but I would venture to say

[1:14:51] it's got to be clinically traumatic.

[1:14:53] To have them go through this over and over and over again.

[1:14:57] So, that's my three.

[1:15:00] It's worth. Thank you. Thank you.

[1:15:04] Okay. I want to thank everybody for supporting this. This is happening because of this city council here. So we, you know, whatever we do in our future lives, we'll always be able to look back on this and know that we built a city dock for the next generation and we protected the downtown. And you know, it's clearly it's not an easy thing to do. And that's why no one has attempted it before us. So I want to thank everybody for their support.

[1:15:29] Gordon, I'd like to do a roll call for this thank you.

[1:15:33] Mayor Buckley?

[1:15:34] Yes.

[1:15:37] Alderman Felacin?

[1:15:38] Aye.

[1:15:39] Alderman Shannemeyer?

[1:15:41] Aye.

[1:15:42] Alderman Gay?

[1:15:43] And then Fatick?

[1:15:44] Aye.

[1:15:45] Alderman Savage?

[1:15:46] Aye.

[1:15:47] Alderman Arnett?

[1:15:48] Aye.

[1:15:49] Alderman Huntley?

[1:15:50] I like Alderman Gays, I'm Fatick Aye.

[1:15:54] Alderman O'Neill?

[1:15:55] Aye.

[1:15:56] And Alderman Fendelter?

[1:15:57] I'm having what Gay and Huntly are having.

[1:16:01] Your resolution passed.

[1:16:02] Thank you.

[1:16:05] So, Tony, please present the next on the agenda.

[1:16:08] The agenda is complete, Mr. Mayor.

[1:16:09] Okay, anything else for good order?

[1:16:11] I want to kneel.

[1:16:12] Thank you very much.

[1:16:13] I know you said it earlier, but I wanted to give a huge shout out to

[1:16:18] Dr. Simmons of OEM.

[1:16:21] I don't know about you all, but my text came through at 105 AM on

[1:16:27] Saturday morning, I happened to hear the buzz go off, so he started working on it prior to that.

[1:16:35] Didn't stop until he was sure that every single one of our residents was safe and

[1:16:41] had a warm meal in their belly.

[1:16:45] So I wanted to just shout out to Director Simmons and his staff for taking care of our residents once again.

[1:16:53] There were a lot of directors on the call.

[1:16:56] We were on the phone a lot all weekend.

[1:16:58] And so for the public, I think it was nearly 50, 40 or 30 residents were without power.

[1:17:07] In this cold, freezing cold weather, the power went out overnight.

[1:17:10] The utilities, people left the job, didn't finish the job, didn't come back to the next morning

[1:17:15] some of our residents were without heat.

[1:17:19] And then, with our ability to cook food, we found food, we found shelter, and we got through it, but it must have been harrowing for all the people that lived there when I think Oldman gave his input there.

[1:17:30] I'm just jumping a blessed inset to, because they were at the warming center then jumping on this and getting the meals.

[1:17:43] And so I think these are times where we're grateful that we live in a close knit small city that we're people able to rely on their city government, so thank you.

[1:17:57] I just want to say publicly a big thank you to public works.

[1:18:01] We had a water bane break in my neighborhood last Wednesday and specifically thank you

[1:18:06] to Warren who came out quickly and helped fix the issue in the middle of a freezing cold

[1:18:12] night.

[1:18:13] Thank you Warren, thank you public works emergency response team.

[1:18:16] You guys work hard.

[1:18:18] I know all the recent cold and snow you've been getting it hard from everybody including

[1:18:23] us, but you do work hard and you do work effectively. So, thank you, team.

[1:18:30] To add to that, you know, it's easy for us to find fault in government.

[1:18:36] It seems to be the flavor of the month now. But, you know, we're not the people down those whole, you know,

[1:18:42] those deep holes in the freezing cold night trying to connect to Maine.

[1:18:46] And if you've seen that kind of work, it's not easy. And it's not easy in the night.

[1:18:50] And there's been a lot of it because of these extreme conditions.

[1:18:55] Because 15 degrees that night, so thank you, Warren.

[1:18:57] Something also very important, somebody just reminded me I've been getting a lot, a lot, a lot of calls and concerns about ice.

[1:19:06] And you know, in particular when I represent a school in Tyler Heiss as a 98% Hispanic and Latino population.

[1:19:16] And I would hope that in the next few weeks,

[1:19:20] May we could get a close session together with the police department, Office of Emergency Management,

[1:19:26] and any individual that needs to be involved, because we don't have a plan in place.

[1:19:31] If I shows up to our community schools and start trying to rip families apart.

[1:19:39] And so I would hope that we could be diligent in that as well and try to get some plan together.

[1:19:45] If the city already has a plan, then I would hope that we could share it with the council.

[1:19:49] So we're working on getting a post-snow debrief work session.

[1:19:54] Nice, nice, nice, all the way to the council.

[1:19:57] Oh, sorry, sorry.

[1:20:02] You can tell where my mind is.

[1:20:07] I'm sorry, my mind went to the right. Did I get a motion to adjourn some moves? Second, all those in favour say aye, aye. Meeting adjourned, so

[1:20:35] receded the pumps kicked in when it was the level that they could handle and we were back in business. And so we've got some people back in their feet but we need to get everybody

[1:20:46] everybody back in their feet, because the business community is just a bigger part of the

[1:20:50] community than the residential community in the city, and we want to support them.

[1:20:55] We want to be there for them, and they know that the state, the county and the city have

[1:21:00] their back, so we

[1:21:05] appreciate you all being there.

[1:21:06] Thank you so much.

[1:21:07] Thank you.

[1:21:08] And I do have the names of all of our speakers printed out for you so you get the spelling

[1:21:12] right? We also have a flyer with the QR code for folks to get to the to the

[1:21:19] application. Thank you. Thank you.

[1:26:04] If you care about something, and you've got a little love in your heart, there is nothing that you can't do. And this team has got some of the best players in Maryland. All we need know is the people who are in our place, is to love this team as much as we do.

[1:26:28] There you are, Kellermann, is there anything I can help you with? You know what? You can just get everybody to come out to the opening game for the blues. Hopefully we see everybody out at home or not, and maybe stay there on June thoughts.

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[1:28:08] Hello, I'm Ken White with the Annapolis Fire Department.

[1:28:11] This week's theme for Fire Prevention Week is, Surf of Safety in the Kitchen.

[1:28:16] So this holiday season, here are some tips from the Annapolis Fire Department that can help

[1:28:20] you surf of safety in the kitchen.

[1:28:22] Tip 1. When frying, boiling, or simmering, stay in the kitchen. Never leave the home and

[1:28:30] always use a timer. Tip 2. If a grease fire starts, never try to extinguish with water.

[1:28:36] Use a lid to cover over the pot. Turn the burner off and wait until the pan cools down.

[1:28:43] Tip 3. Always keep your cleaning and cooking surfaces free of any clutter.

[1:28:49] and tip four, remember to always keep a three-foot distance around the cooking

[1:28:56] area, a three-feet kids zone as I like to call it. And remember, if you're

[1:29:02] unable to control the fire, get out of your house and dial 911 immediately.

[1:29:08] And never forget, every month, to test your smoke alarms, have an escape plan

[1:29:12] and practice your escape plan. Unattended cooking is the leading cause of home

[1:29:17] fires and home fire injuries. For more information on tips on how you can

[1:29:22] serve up safety in the kitchen, visit www.firepreventionweek.org. Stay safe

[1:29:28] Annapolis. Good

[1:29:39] afternoon.

[1:29:42] At first, I would like to acknowledge three special

[1:29:45] guests here to our program, which is the parole Rosenwald School Historical

[1:29:51] Ceremony, dedication, signing, unveiling, and celebration here on Friday,

[1:29:56] May 10th at Mallall of African Methodist Episcopal.

[1:30:29] Local government meeting. Local government meeting. Local government meeting.

[1:30:35] Heritage Area, formerly the Four Rivers Heritage Area.

[1:30:39] Thank you so much, Carol, for being here.

[1:30:43] At this time, we will sing with Valerie's accompaniment,

[1:30:48] the official parole school song which was written by Mr. Walter

[1:30:52] S. Mills, the principal, and it's entitled, I Love O Parole,

[1:30:56] and it's printed on the back of your program.

[1:32:50] Thank you so much, Valerie.

[1:32:51] Prayer and scripture, Reverend Dana A. Swan,

[1:32:54] who's the assistant pastor here at Mount

[1:32:56] out of African Methodist Episcopal Church.

[1:32:59] Reverend Swan, pass this one.

[1:33:05] Thank you, greetings to all.

[1:33:06] Welcome to Mount Olive.

[1:33:07] Welcome to this great event here today.

[1:33:10] Today here and for all, we are at a place of history,

[1:33:13] a place of understanding in the necessity of teaching.

[1:33:17] And so from that scripture that I lift up

[1:33:19] is what the Psalmist said in Psalm 111 in verse 10,

[1:33:24] it says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,

[1:33:26] a good understanding, have all that do his commandments,

[1:33:29] is praise and doerth forever. That is to say that we are here because of a landmark celebration

[1:33:34] of a building which had to do with teaching. And as we review the history, we think of the wisdom

[1:33:39] and we therefore ask for that to stay. And this is my prayer for you, let us pray.

[1:33:44] Almighty God, we are thankful for this day which you have given to us.

[1:33:48] The evidence is found in the sign of the rising of the sun, even behind the clouds and above the

[1:33:52] rain we've experienced today. The evidence is found in the signs of the changing of the seasons

[1:33:57] in the air even in the pollen we breathe from the grass, the trees and the blossoming flowers.

[1:34:04] The evidence is in the sign of the beating of our hearts which echo the drum beat of the words

[1:34:09] of the hymn which says, and are we yet alive and see each other's faith. In a great and global way

[1:34:14] evidence is found as we observe the signs of the times and they are changing where we must daily seek

[1:34:20] individually and collectively to address the challenges of life with all of the opportunities and tools

[1:34:25] we possessed. Therefore, Almighty God, we need your help and your guidance. As we today

[1:34:31] dedicate a sign at Hicks and Dorsey Avenue's in Perollin and Appless, may it remind us

[1:34:36] all of the history represented by this parole-rosan-wall school building. May those who see this sign pause

[1:34:42] and reflect on the historic place in the seeking of knowledge. May we from it know to continue

[1:34:47] to seek the wisdom from the years gone by. May we now be wise enough to embrace it with conviction,

[1:34:53] courage, compassion, and commitment for us to do.

[1:34:56] May we have the knowledge and understanding

[1:34:58] to tell the incredible story.

[1:35:04] As we continue to write the new stories in this present moment, and indeed to those who are in the future generations.

[1:35:12] So today, Almighty God, we thank you. At the parole, Rosenwald School building a dorsi in Hicks Avenue, and here hosting at Mount Aleth, there will be a sign. May we faithfully remember the words of Scripture for in this moment we seek wisdom, understanding, how to live, and how to do the right.

[1:35:29] work given to our hands. May we also remember the words of the hymn by Harry Fostick,

[1:35:36] God of grace, God of glory, grant us wisdom, grant us courage for the facing of this hour,

[1:35:41] for the living of these days, that we fail not man nor the throughout Lord Christ. Amen.

[1:35:57] Thank you so much. Where the head and the heart built heroes. Again, good afternoon.

[1:36:05] him. Julius Rosenwald was born in Springfield, Illinois. He never finished high school, but

[1:36:12] he rose to become president of the retail giant Sears Roboc Company. And as a result,

[1:36:18] he amassed a fortune serving as president and part owner of Sears. Rosenwald was influenced

[1:36:23] by the writings of fame, Tuskegee educator, Booker T. Washington, writings that emphasized

[1:36:29] the education of African Americans. Subsequently, these two men became friends, and Rosenwald

[1:36:35] Walls Philanthropy took a dramatic turn after reading accounts by African-American thinkers.

[1:36:41] Additionally, Booker T. Washington's accomplishments paralleled what Roosevelt had achieved. Washington

[1:36:47] approached Roosevelt in 1912 to assist in funding a program in line with Washington's

[1:36:53] belief of self-help for African-American southerners that emphasized economic advancement

[1:36:58] through vocational education.

[1:37:00] As a result, this Jewish philanthropist and this African-American educator joined forces

[1:37:06] without African-American communities during the Jim Crow South and established a fund

[1:37:11] to build new state-of-the-art school buildings for African-American children living in the

[1:37:16] rural south.

[1:37:18] Between 1917 and 1932, the Julius Rosenwald Fund was responsible for the construction of

[1:37:26] more than 5,300 new schools in the United States,

[1:37:31] from Texas to Maryland.

[1:37:32] However, one of the stipulations to building these schools

[1:37:35] was that the African-American community

[1:37:37] would provide a certain amount of sweat equity

[1:37:40] in the process which they readily did.

[1:37:43] All the Rosenwald School buildings

[1:37:44] used the same building format and template.

[1:37:48] For example, the windows facing the outside

[1:37:51] were strategically positioned to face ease

[1:37:54] so that the rising of the sun in the morning

[1:37:56] will provide sunlight into the school building.

[1:37:59] In 1940, 23 of Anoronder County's 32

[1:38:02] black schools were Rosenwald buildings.

[1:38:05] The Rosenwald school building program

[1:38:07] advanced African-American education

[1:38:10] to a level unmatched and unprecedented

[1:38:13] until the decision in 1954

[1:38:16] in the US Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education,

[1:38:19] which declared the end of segregation.

[1:38:21] Inspired by the Jewish ideals of the DACA charity, and took on Olam, repairing the world,

[1:38:30] and a deep concern of a racial and equality in America, Julius Rosenwald used his wealth

[1:38:36] to become one of America's most effective philanthropists.

[1:38:41] Because of his modesty, Rosenwald's philanthropy and social activism are not well known today.

[1:38:47] He gave away $62 million in his lifetime and so today we salute some of these

[1:38:54] parole walls and wall school heroes who still reflect upon this building

[1:38:59] which still stands in our community today and these heroes are here today to

[1:39:05] tell their stories and to recount their memories. Also today it is especially

[1:39:10] apropos in this year and at this moment in time and at this time in the world

[1:39:15] that we recognize the over 100 year century long relationship between the

[1:39:21] Jewish community and the African American community. And so out of this very

[1:39:26] modest building that was built here in 1923, 101 years ago, the head of Booker

[1:39:34] T. Washington and the heart of Julius Rosenwald like rise resulted in heroes

[1:39:39] being built here. Thank you and may God continue to bless us all.

[1:39:49] At this time we

[1:39:50] We will have remarks by the honorable Gavin Buckley who is our mayor of the city of Annapolis.

[1:39:55] Then our state senator Sarah Elveth, who has to leave a little bit.

[1:40:00] We did it early, and we all know why, and we are happy for that. Then, Delegate Henson or her representative, Ms. Burrell Downs, who's our state delegate. Delegate Dana Jones, unfortunately, could not be here today. She had a prior engagement. She was available the last, the first time we planned this program, but she's unable to be here today. Then, Lisa Brandigan-Rodbyen Esquire, who's our county councilwoman, District 6.

[1:40:28] which serves Annapolis and several surrounding contiguous areas then Dr. C. Jane Cox,

[1:40:36] Administrator of Cultural Resources Section of Historic Preservation Program,

[1:40:41] and one of the county planning and zoning department, then Dr. Joanna Bates-Toban,

[1:40:47] and one of the county board of education, District 6 Annapolis, Ms. Burrell Downs,

[1:40:51] who's the acting president of the Greater Probe Community Association, Ms. Alice K. Wright,

[1:40:55] our end president community health center parole incorporate the parole health center and then

[1:41:01] Ms. Lindra Pratt Marshall Heritage and Cultural Preservationist Rosenwald School Project

[1:41:07] coordinator and Booker T. Washington and Rosenwald School's documentary film project coordinator.

[1:41:14] Thank you so much and one secret I want to provide to you about Ms. Lindra who is also my cousin

[1:41:21] that she was contacted recently by the father, by Beyonce's father, to do a

[1:41:32] documentary for him. So we have, we have a lot of great people in this room, but

[1:41:40] unfortunately she's been so busy she had to turn down the invitation. But anyway,

[1:41:49] So, anyway, in that order, everyone, please come up.

[1:41:52] Thank you all so much.

[1:42:02] So, I want to welcome everybody here to the Cecil B. DeMille's

[1:42:06] Rondapindel Charles event for the Rosenwald School.

[1:42:11] Great to be here with all my cousins.

[1:42:16] I want to thank everyone Rondapindel Charles for organising today's

[1:42:20] dedication, and I want to recognise all of you who worked on this

[1:42:24] project to install a historic marker here. It will help current residents, descendants

[1:42:32] of past residents and future generations to understand the importance of this site.

[1:42:40] It looks like a typical residential structure, doesn't it? In the early part of the 20th

[1:42:48] century, it was anything but typical. As a Rosenwald school, this site was one of more

[1:42:55] than 5,000 such Rosenwald school constructed between 1917 to 1932. Only about 10% remained

[1:43:06] standing today. What was important about what Julius Rosenwald, the owner of Sears Robux

[1:43:12] department store and author and educator Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute

[1:43:19] built was just a uniform design structure, although it was a pretty cool design back in

[1:43:26] the day. I'll talk about that in a minute. What was impressive about it, of course, was

[1:43:32] the mission and the mission was education. Rosenwald and Washington believed that the path to

[1:43:40] a better future for African-American children was throughout the American South with public

[1:43:46] education.

[1:43:48] Rosenwald schools did not challenge segregation, but had a tremendous impact on the literacy

[1:43:54] rate among black Americans in the South.

[1:43:58] Notable graduates of the Rosenwald schools, which typically stopped at 8th grade include Dr.

[1:44:04] Charles Drew, author, Ralph Ellison, Zyra Nolan Hurston, and of course James Baldwin,

[1:44:12] poets Maya Jaangelo, Langston Hughes, and civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis,

[1:44:18] plus scientists, artists, and others.

[1:44:22] The impact of the Rosenwald School on the development of black intellectuals in the mid and late

[1:44:27] 20th century can never be overstated.

[1:44:30] The building is all shared a similar blueprint north of the south facing windows to maximize light because most lacked electricity.

[1:44:41] Cream or egg shell paint on the walls to encourage learning a plane exterior that helps schools avoid unwanted attention.

[1:44:50] Each, where one classroom or when more than one classroom was separated by a partition, the schools were always staffed with highly

[1:45:00] Quality, qualified and dedicated teachers. In 1954, the Supreme Court decision, brown, versus

[1:45:07] the Board of Education, integrated public education, in a short amount of time, roles and world

[1:45:14] schools were obsolete. Of the 20 known sites in Anoron, County, only about 10 remain standing,

[1:45:22] including this one. And that is why we're so thrilled that this work is coming to fruition

[1:45:29] and that this structure will never be torn down.

[1:45:33] Those that have survived and have been restored are primarily used now today as community

[1:45:38] centres.

[1:45:39] I've said a lot of positive things about the Rosemore School, but they were born of

[1:45:44] an unequally, an unequally American system of education or pathide.

[1:45:50] It's a difficult chapter to say anything positive about that chapter in American history, that

[1:45:56] we know influences so much of our society functions even to this day. Recognising that history

[1:46:03] helps us understand it was wrong. Recognising our history, even the ugly parts, help us move

[1:46:10] forward together as a nation. Again, I thank the organisers for putting this event together

[1:46:17] and for helping future generations understand exactly what happened right here,

[1:46:23] their imperial and the significance of this simple yet elegant structure.

[1:46:30] Now I'd like to pass it over to my senator, Elthruth.

[1:46:33] Thank you all.

[1:46:39] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you to all the woman, Pindel Charles, for your tireless, tireless effort to make sure that we know exactly the history of not just the parole community but the history of the entire city of Annapolis.

[1:46:52] And more importantly, how that history reflects on our legacy today.

[1:46:57] And the work we still have ahead of us.

[1:46:59] I also want to thank Ms. Lindra and Ms. Lindra.

[1:47:01] I can't help but think of Ms. Gertrude right now.

[1:47:05] And think about the fact I believe Interundal County

[1:47:09] has more standing, Rosenwald schools

[1:47:11] than any other community in the entire country.

[1:47:14] And that's not an accident.

[1:47:17] That's because people have fought to preserve

[1:47:20] that history, to tell that history, to celebrate that history.

[1:47:24] And so that's why it's particularly important

[1:47:26] that we're here today.

[1:47:28] In all my spare time lately, I've been reading a lot

[1:47:32] and thinking a lot about another partnership.

[1:47:35] Rhonda mentioned partnerships between Lincoln

[1:47:37] and another great Marylander, Frederick Douglass.

[1:47:41] And the promise that reconstruction could have had.

[1:47:46] Had he lived and had that vision for rebuilding

[1:47:50] this country, repairing the wounds of this country,

[1:47:53] actually come to fruition.

[1:47:54] Unfortunately, that never occurred, and we spent decades in the darkness with government

[1:48:00] not doing what it should have done in terms of lifting up all of its citizens and making

[1:48:05] sure education, as we know it to be the great equalizer, actually could repair those wounds.

[1:48:11] And instead it took decades in a different partnership.

[1:48:13] It took Mr. Rosenwald and Mr. Washington to come together and see this vision of 5,000 schools

[1:48:18] across this country.

[1:48:20] That let's be clear, the government did not build.

[1:48:22] It did not build and yet that vision and that seed that was planted had so many blossoms and so many trees and so much fruit in each of our communities and that is why it's important that we're here today and important to reflect on that history because we cannot see where we need to go if we do not recognize where we came from and so I'm so grateful to be here to reflect on take a moment this morning on a rainy Friday and reflect on our

[1:48:52] history collectively and reflect on our responsibility collectively to do

[1:48:57] better and we can only do that by knowing where we came from and so I'm

[1:49:00] particularly grateful for this morning. Thank you very much.

[1:49:14] Delegate Henson is being in addition to being a legislator you all know that

[1:49:20] she's an attorney so court was on the schedule this morning and so on behalf

[1:49:26] Catholic Delegate Henson, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

[1:49:31] Much has been said about the Rose and Wall School.

[1:49:34] I want to tell you a little bit about parole.

[1:49:37] History, education, service, and dedication are the pillars that this community stands on.

[1:49:46] It is the foundation of this community.

[1:49:49] Many in this room, I see promote that.

[1:49:56] I'm going to tell you just a little bit of

[1:50:00] We talk about our Greater Parole Community Association, which Ron Dimension, I'm the acting chair.

[1:50:08] But one of the things that we talk about when we talk about the Greater Parole Community Association is preserving our past, promoting our present, and protecting our future. We understand how important that is.

[1:50:26] As I look at, out at many of the pillars of this community, I thank you for your service, I thank you for making education important, I thank you for your dedication and I thank you for your faithfulness.

[1:50:40] Thank you.

[1:50:40] Good

[1:50:50] afternoon. I'm Lisa Radvian and I'm the county councilwoman for Anne Radell County Council.

[1:50:55] Anne Radell County District 6, which includes the City of Annapolis.

[1:50:58] It's really my honor and privilege to be here today.

[1:51:01] I'm going to sort of scratch my remarks because all the woman Pindell Charles actually took

[1:51:05] most of what I intended to say.

[1:51:08] But I think there's still, I think one of the things about the Rosenwald schools is that

[1:51:13] there are so many different lessons to learn and that is one of the reasons why the history

[1:51:18] is so important for us to keep.

[1:51:21] First off, as Senator Alfred said,

[1:51:24] if you don't know where you've come from,

[1:51:26] how are you going to figure out where to go next?

[1:51:29] But before I came here this morning,

[1:51:31] I looked up a couple different folks

[1:51:35] that I think really reflect and embody one of the things

[1:51:40] that really started the Rosenwald schools.

[1:51:44] And that's allyship.

[1:51:45] The idea that Booker T. Washington and Julius Rolzenwald could come together and both see the need and both understand how deeply important education was and that it was not something that should be narrowed, that it should be expanded.

[1:52:02] I'm going to put on my glasses so I can read my notes here for a second.

[1:52:07] A suffragette, Frances Ellen Watkins-Harper, an African-American woman born in Baltimore

[1:52:14] who worked alongside many people to help get the right to vote said, we are all bound

[1:52:22] up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and

[1:52:29] the feeblest of its members without receiving a curse in its own soul.

[1:52:35] And I think this is something that not many people understood in the time that the

[1:52:41] Rosenwald schools began, the way Julius Rosenwald and the way Booker T.

[1:52:45] Washington understood.

[1:52:47] I feel like more individuals are starting to learn this, but I think it's something we all

[1:52:52] need to continue to remember that as we are lifted up and as we grow ourselves,

[1:52:57] we need to continue to turn and look for others that need to be lifted up.

[1:53:02] And not just be the savior that comes in but to really work alongside

[1:53:07] because really our community is all tied together.

[1:53:12] Even the people in your community that you might dislike the most.

[1:53:16] We are connected to them.

[1:53:18] Mayor Buckley joked at the beginning of his remarks that he was saying hello to all of his cousins.

[1:53:26] I used to teach world history and I would start on the day, the first day of class saying,

[1:53:31] I want to introduce you to all of your cousins, because we really are.

[1:53:36] We are all, we are all from the same family tree.

[1:53:41] And we need to continue to lift up our whole family tree and bring in those that might

[1:53:47] have gone astray and say, we love you, you are part of us, and continue in that path.

[1:53:53] And I think that's what Julius Rosenwald was doing.

[1:53:56] And I think that's what Booker T. Washington was doing.

[1:53:59] And I think that's what this community was really about.

[1:54:02] Was lifting people up so that we could continue to move forward as a single family.

[1:54:08] Thank you very much.

[1:54:09] Happy

[1:54:16] preservation month.

[1:54:19] Isn't it appropriate that we're here today?

[1:54:22] I'm Jane Cox with Anorondal County.

[1:54:24] I'm thrilled to be here today.

[1:54:25] Thank you for inviting me to this, including me.

[1:54:28] I'm the administrator for the county's historic preservation program and I just want to

[1:54:32] note thank you for the honorary PhD but to my mother's sugar and I only have a master's.

[1:54:38] So I started the county's historic marker program four years ago with a goal of recognizing

[1:54:43] the historic sites that are of local significance.

[1:54:46] Most preservation programs, a site must meet this national standard of significance to be protected.

[1:54:51] And what I saw happening across the board was that these community landmarks were at these

[1:54:57] simple vernacular buildings. I mean, you drive by the Rosenwald's

[1:55:00] And not blink an eye and not think, oh, it's the William Pekahouse. But these sites, perhaps, they've seen better days. They were being tossed aside, disregarded, neglected, forgotten by the system. And these were the places that I heard time and time again from citizens, were places that mattered locally. They were so important to the fabric of community. They were the places that literally formed these historic communities. So I wanted to find a way to raise awareness about these places that were forgotten, hidden, marginalized.

[1:55:28] those places that we drive and walk by every day.

[1:55:32] And I realize that naming a thing is the first step to protecting it and remembering it.

[1:55:37] So our sign program, four years in, now recognizes more than 60 historic sites across the county.

[1:55:43] These include both these brown roadside markers with a date on them, but also more elaborate interpretive signs.

[1:55:49] And the process keeps building as Lindra knows.

[1:55:53] So, from buildings like the Rosenwald School to archaeology sites to historic cemeteries,

[1:55:58] this program has raised awareness about community history and hopefully has made people

[1:56:03] more curious about the rich local stories that are around every corner.

[1:56:07] So, early on with Lindra's encouragement, we placed the Rosenwald Schools in Anorondo

[1:56:12] County at the top of our list for signage and recognition.

[1:56:15] So, based on the latest research by Lindra, 23 were built in the county, at least 12

[1:56:22] remain standing two or three maybe more, which is a pretty astounding preservation level.

[1:56:28] And today we have placed signs, brown roadside marker signs, at almost every single

[1:56:32] Rosenwald school.

[1:56:34] So I challenge you to go for a drive, see if you can find them all.

[1:56:38] So recognizing these schools, though, is bigger than just celebrating this single building

[1:56:42] or the architecture of a structure.

[1:56:45] These school buildings were and remain the center and the heartbeat of significant historically

[1:56:49] black communities.

[1:56:50] And it's an important chapter of our local history.

[1:56:53] I'm excited to see it brought forward.

[1:56:55] I hope these signs help lift it up.

[1:56:57] And I hope these signs really help make sure people know

[1:57:00] that this is an important place.

[1:57:02] So congratulations.

[1:57:03] Thank you.

[1:57:45] Good afternoon.

[1:57:47] Good afternoon.

[1:57:48] Good afternoon.

[1:57:49] Malice Wright, President of the Community Health Center

[1:57:52] at Perot Ead.

[1:57:54] And thank you all the women chose for giving me this opportunity.

[1:57:58] Well, my story may be a little different

[1:58:00] from everything that has been said this morning. So I'm going to say real quickly, that's

[1:58:05] where it started for me. And many, many children in the many, many African-American children

[1:58:11] in the parole community. Parole school is where we went and went, we went to learn where

[1:58:18] there were teachers that taught us, taught us English arithmetic. You don't even use the

[1:58:25] for the arithmetic nowadays, arithmetic, spelling.

[1:58:29] We went to parole school to learn.

[1:58:33] And thanks be to God for the teachers

[1:58:35] that took the time and made sure that we learned.

[1:58:38] They taught us discipline, respect, love for the community.

[1:58:42] But most of all, they prepared us for the future.

[1:58:46] So I say today, I thank God for those teachers

[1:58:49] because of those teachers given us a beginning and a start.

[1:58:53] I am here where I am today because of the education that was given to us back in the day.

[1:59:00] And when you went to school, you went to school to learn.

[1:59:03] You were disciplined.

[1:59:04] If you didn't do it right, you got to tap on the fingers on the hand.

[1:59:08] And the parents didn't come to school to fight with the teachers because you got to tap.

[1:59:12] You got another tap when you got home.

[1:59:14] So parole school was an instrument of just helping and providing and teaching and preparing

[1:59:24] the students for tomorrow, today, where we are even though some of us are not here.

[1:59:31] I can say it was decades ago that I attended parole school.

[1:59:35] So we're just grateful for that, we're grateful for the love and we really appreciate you

[1:59:41] doing that, Grande, and to all the teachers that have gone on and principal

[1:59:46] mills. Thank you. Thank you for loving us enough to give us a chance to God be

[1:59:51] the glory.

[2:00:18] Good afternoon. Again, I am Linda Pratt Marshall, and I'm the coordinator of the Rosenwald School Project. But I want to begin by thanking

[2:00:32] cousin Ronda for organizing this event. I don't know how she can pull it off, but she did. I think it's been what nine months now. We have been working on this. And finally, thank

[2:00:45] guide it's happening today. And I want to thank all the participants who end

[2:00:51] guests who's here today because without you, we wouldn't have extra footage

[2:00:56] for our video. Many thanks to Pastor Owens and the trustees of this great

[2:01:04] church, Matt Olive, African American, African Methodist Episcopal Church,

[2:01:15] for

[2:01:17] I really bring you greetings, not from parole, but from the Galesville Community Center

[2:01:22] Organization Inc., where we are good stewards of another Roosevelt School in South County.

[2:01:31] In 2022, we were awarded a grant from the Maryland Heritage Area Authority to conduct research,

[2:01:40] document and conduct or accounts of the history of the former school houses here in Anoronder County.

[2:01:52] But today I can't stand here and just say it's all about me because it's not like to

[2:02:00] introduce the team that's behind this Mr. Roger Marshall who's the act and president of the

[2:02:08] Galesville Community Center Organization,

[2:02:11] Mr. Valentino Owens, who is the photographer

[2:02:15] for this project and many others.

[2:02:18] And so, as Mr. Anthony Smith,

[2:02:21] who's a videographer for this project,

[2:02:23] but we couldn't do it alone.

[2:02:26] And so we have trusted colleagues,

[2:02:29] such as Mr. Jane Pots, Heather Earths and Dr.

[2:02:36] thank

[2:02:40] you.

[2:02:44] Dr. Carl Bedson, thank you. If it wasn't for you all, we could not do the

[2:02:49] work that we do. Yes.

[2:02:55] Also want to thank, we had many team members, leaders that supported

[2:03:02] this project. Every county had a team leader and so we want to thank all of them, which

[2:03:09] include Kazimonda for the plural school. And we also want to thank the brave students

[2:03:20] that when we called on them they said yes. And so we have Miss Cropper, we have three siblings,

[2:03:31] cousin Betty, cousin Alfrida, cousin Alfred, all from the Brown family.

[2:03:38] We also have Miss White and Mr. Harris, Mr. Harris, and yeah, I call her first, huh?

[2:03:47] And so they will be meeting us after this program downstairs to give their full account of their

[2:03:53] experience with the Rosewald schools, okay?

[2:03:57] So thank you so much.

[2:03:58] We greatly appreciate this and cousin Rhonda. I don't have to bother you about this anymore, right?

[2:04:05] Because we will incorporate today's event in what the documentary. Thank you.

[2:04:16] Thank you all so much. Just a couple of other

[2:04:20] observations. I do want to recognize Heather earths from a visit in Annapolis, Annamonda county, and she's been a great

[2:04:27] supporter and a blessing for for our efforts as well. Thank you, Heather.

[2:04:32] I want to let everyone know that Dr. Reverend Dr. Ronald Owens, who's our pastor here at

[2:04:39] Mount Olive, is away at his daughter's graduation.

[2:04:43] So otherwise he would be here.

[2:04:44] He would have been here.

[2:04:45] We had the first date, but he wanted me to let you all know that.

[2:04:49] I am not a product of the Rosenwald School here on the corner, but my dad is a product

[2:04:59] Like M.

[2:05:00] That school, and my mother, who's from the enclave of Queenstown in the severing community, attended the Queenstown Rosenwald School. So I feel like at least I'm an emeritus member, I guess, of the Rosenwald School family. But I just want to thank everybody for being here now. This time, of course,

[2:05:23] and we're trying to figure out how to unveil this sign but what I think we will do, Ms.

[2:05:28] Stevenson, we're going to unveil that sign right here virtually and we'll all, I guess,

[2:05:35] at the count of three, raise our hands and pull our hands down and simulate what we would

[2:05:41] do if we were pulling the sign down. But at some point, I guess even after this, maybe

[2:05:47] that we some of us can walk over and do the official signing unveiling.

[2:05:53] So unless anyone else has a better suggestion,

[2:05:57] I'm all ears, just let me know.

[2:06:00] But at this time, we will do the five, four, three, two, one, unveil.

[2:06:20] And at this time, Reverend Swan will give us the blessing of the sign, the virtual sign,

[2:06:28] and the documentary as well as the benediction.

[2:06:32] Thank you all again, so very, very, very much.

[2:06:43] Thank you all to one of the Charls and to all the distinguished persons who are here, protocol

[2:06:47] being established.

[2:06:48] I won't call all the names.

[2:06:49] I just want to know, representing a pastor and Mount Alvarso Glad that you all are here

[2:06:53] and a part of our community, whether you're physically here or not, you very much are,

[2:06:57] and we appreciate all that you've done and your presence here today.

[2:07:01] There will be those of us who will virtually go out there and it virtually means in

[2:07:06] truth, then in truth, there will be those of us who will go out there and will be able

[2:07:10] to do that as well.

[2:07:11] But in here, sheltered from the storms on the outside, we come for some encouragement and

[2:07:18] I have it in the words of prayer and benediction, let us pray.

[2:07:21] Father, we thank you for this opportunity and the blessings of this day.

[2:07:24] We pray now that you grant your blessings upon these people as we go out into the world

[2:07:29] that's out there.

[2:07:30] But thank you for a few moments of reflection here and words of encouragement, words of fellowship

[2:07:35] and words of joining together even all the more to do great work that you have for our hands

[2:07:39] to do.

[2:07:40] And now Lord, we ask that you bless these people.

[2:07:43] And as we be dismissed to carry on the conversations, may we not just share them with ourselves but

[2:07:47] share them with one another and share them with a world out there that needs to continue

[2:07:51] to tell the story but because we have the details maybe be willing to share as well

[2:07:56] as to work.

[2:07:57] And now the benediction may the Lord bless you and keep you, cause his name, cause his face

[2:08:02] to shine upon you and be gracious unto you.

[2:08:05] The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace now and always

[2:08:10] God bless you today, glad that you are here.

[2:08:24] The inverted storms in Annapolis can be unpredictable, but with snowpads, you will always

[2:08:31] be on the way forward.

[2:08:34] Snowpads bring you updates in real time, about the conditions of the car

[2:08:40] Ratera, ya sea que estes en casa o mientras viajas.

[2:08:44] Compruebe que calles han sido tratadas con sal o barridas de nieve para saber cuando

[2:08:50] es seguro viajar.

[2:08:51] Planificar su día es fácil con Snowbad, ya sea que se dirija el trabajo, o haga recados

[2:08:57] sepa que rutas están despejadas antes de partir.

[2:09:02] Snowbad te actualiza en tiempo real, mostrando que tenieves activos trabajando en tu área,

[2:09:09] y qué caminos son rutas de emergencia.

[2:09:12] Mantengas de seguro o es ti invierno con snowpads.

[2:09:15] Visite anapolis.gov para snowpads

[2:09:21] para realizar un seguimiento de sus carreteras en tiempo real.

[2:09:26] Imagine the future of anapolis as a place where you can walk safely from your home

[2:09:33] to a shopping center.

[2:09:34] Imagine being able to bike to a job from one end of the city to the other comfortably.

[2:09:40] Imagine choosing to take public transit even though you own a car just because the service

[2:09:46] is that good.

[2:09:47] That's the city we want to move towards and to do that we need to think about both policy

[2:09:54] in terms of how we guide our transportation investments,

[2:09:58] but also the design of the...

[2:10:02] It's about connecting all of these places, looking at the entire city as a place that you should be able to get around without a personal vehicle safely. And to do that, we need more mobility options.

[2:10:17] Mobility is a foundational theme of the Naples Head 2040 Comprehensive Plan and it's a

[2:10:23] distinguishing element of this comprehensive plan in comparison to all of our past comprehensive

[2:10:28] plans, including the one from just 10 years ago. But why is that? Well, there's a recognition today

[2:10:35] that mobility has an oversized impact, positively affecting the whole range of bigger issues in

[2:10:41] and anapolis from a public health, safety and well-being,

[2:10:45] equitable access to opportunities,

[2:10:48] economic development, community development,

[2:10:51] and environmental sustainability and resilience.

[2:10:54] When you add up all of these things,

[2:10:56] dollar for dollar, the investments we make

[2:10:58] in our mobility infrastructure will pay huge dividends

[2:11:02] across all of these outcomes here in anapolis.

[2:11:05] When we talk about our mobility network,

[2:11:07] we're talking about our roadways

[2:11:08] and the vehicles we use to get around,

[2:11:10] and both of these can be significantly improved to benefit our health, our communities,

[2:11:16] and ultimately environment. We spend so much time on roadways getting around

[2:11:21] anapolis, they should be as safe and comfortable as possible for all users,

[2:11:27] whether you're driving, walking, riding a bike, or taking transit.

[2:11:31] They also connect communities to commerce, to school, to jobs, to parks.

[2:11:36] One, we need a complete sidewalk network, says, you leave your home on foot to go somewhere.

[2:11:45] You can get there on a connected sidewalk network that is adequately wide.

[2:11:50] We need bike infrastructure that allows you to bike around the city in a way that makes you feel comfortable and safe.

[2:11:57] Today, the city has a variety of different bike infrastructures including straight lanes,

[2:12:04] shared lane markings, signage, we have some off-street trails.

[2:12:09] At the future, we knew a city where you can get around by bike no matter what type of a

[2:12:14] cyclist you are and feel safe doing it.

[2:12:17] The mobility vision of Annapolis Head 2040 Comprehensive Plant is not necessarily something that will

[2:12:22] take years to implement.

[2:12:23] In fact, many of the key pieces are being set in motion today.

[2:12:28] Our downtown circulator shuttle has been rebranded with improved wayfinding.

[2:12:32] It's still free, and we've seen increased ridership as a result.

[2:12:36] We recently launched our first micro-mobility program in Annapolis, which includes an e-bike

[2:12:41] and e-scooter share system.

[2:12:43] If we can implement these kinds of new ideas in a connected way, we're going to have a transportation

[2:12:49] system in Annapolis that is both safe and comfortable and efficient and

[2:12:56] ultimately environmentally responsible for the city as a whole.

[2:13:01] Mobility can truly be a vehicle for the future success of Annapolis and

[2:13:06] I'm excited for you to see how this is communicated. Annapolis has a 2040

[2:13:10] comprehensive plan. I'm Eric Lyszynski, Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the

[2:13:14] So evenapolis, thank you for watching.

[2:13:49] Need to check which roads have been salted or plowed

[2:13:51] during a snowstorm?

[2:13:53] With snowpads, you can access real-time updates

[2:13:56] on winter road maintenance right from your device.

[2:13:59] Simply visit the City of Anapolis website

[2:14:02] and click on the snowpads portal.

[2:14:04] From there, you'll see an interactive map

[2:14:07] showing the current status of winter road maintenance

[2:14:09] of road salting and snowplowing.

[2:14:12] Zoom in to your neighborhood or commute route.

[2:14:15] To see exactly which roads have been treated and which ones are in progress, click on a

[2:14:21] road segment to see when it was last serviced.

[2:14:24] Snowpads work seamlessly on both desktop and mobile devices so you can get updates on the

[2:14:30] go.

[2:14:31] Stay informed, stay safe, and plan your essential travel during snow emergencies with real-time updates

[2:14:38] from Snowpads.

[2:14:40] Visit anapolis.gov slash snowpads this winter.

[2:15:23] I am pleased to announce the launch of our new complaint and compliment portal, where members

[2:15:28] of the public can make a complaint or compliment the exemplary work of the five minute women

[2:15:33] of the Annapolis Police Department. A key feature of the new portal is that it will automatically

[2:15:38] send out notifications to a complaint through email or text messaging when a complaint moves

[2:15:44] to different stages of an investigation, when the investigation is concluded, or when there

[2:15:49] of finding in the investigation. You can access the new portal by going to our webpage

[2:15:54] www.anapolis.gov-police. At the top of the page, click on the words complaint and compliment

[2:16:04] portal. You will then be directed to the portal. Once you are at the portal, click create a new entry

[2:16:13] and follow the directions for submitting a complaint or compliment.

[2:16:20] Chief Jackson would like the citizens of Annapolis to know that we take all

[2:16:25] complaint seriously and that they are handled in a professional and careful

[2:16:30] manner. We also love hearing from you when you are pleased with the performance

[2:16:36] of our officers while they're protecting and serving you in Annapolis.

[2:16:41] Thank you.

[2:16:41] Winter

[2:16:51] storms in anapolis can be unpredictable, but with snowpads, you're always one step ahead.

[2:16:58] Snowpads gives you real-time updates on road conditions, whether you're at home or on the go.

[2:17:04] Check which streets have been salted or plowed so you know when it's safe to travel.

[2:17:10] Planning your day is easy with snowpads.

[2:17:12] Whether you're headed to work or running errands, know which routes are clear before you leave.

[2:17:17] snow paths update you in real time showing active clouds working in your area

[2:17:23] and which roads are emergency routes. Stay safe this winter with snow paths.

[2:17:30] Visit anapolis.gov slash snow paths to track your roads in real time.

[2:17:39] I'm Eric Lishinsky, chief of comprehensive planning for the city of Annapolis. I've

[2:17:43] been working on Annapolis ahead 2040 on comprehensive plan update over the last

[2:17:48] years. I'm excited to finally release a draft plan for your review and comment.

[2:17:54] The comprehensive plan is specific to the Annapolis of today, but it sets the

[2:17:58] vision for the Annapolis of tomorrow. In fact, the next 20 years. What you'll find

[2:18:04] in the plan is a wide range of goals, recommended actions to make Annapolis a

[2:18:08] better place, covering every imaginable aspect of the city you live in.

[2:18:17] We'll

[2:18:18] June 15th at the planning commission's regularly scheduled meeting, Thursday evening, starting at 7pm.

[2:18:25] But there will be many ways to participate in reviewing and providing comments on the comprehensive plan.

[2:18:31] The best way is to go to naplesshead2040.com where you'll find special website with information about the plan,

[2:18:40] ways of providing comments, information about every chapter in the plan, and

[2:18:46] ways to contact planning staff if you have questions. Throughout that 98

[2:18:51] comment period, we'll be doing many presentations to different boards and

[2:18:55] commissions. We have a series of webinars scheduled and we'll be doing in-person

[2:19:00] meetings at four locations across the city to try to reach any resident that

[2:19:06] wants to participate in this process. I think you're going to love this plan and I hope you'll

[2:19:11] help us make it as great a plan as possible by reviewing the draft and submitting your comments

[2:19:17] to an Apple's Head 2040.com. Thank you.

[2:19:28] Nice to meet you everybody. Thank you for being here today.

[2:19:31] Amazing. That's all. My English is not the best but my Spanish is beautiful.

[2:19:37] 8, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8.

[2:22:22] One can wipe with the Annapolis Fire Department. This week's theme for Fire Prevention Week is,

[2:22:27] serve of safety in the kitchen. So this holiday season, here are some tips from the Annapolis

[2:22:31] Fire Department that can help you serve of safety in the kitchen. Tip 1. When frying,

[2:22:39] boiling, or simmering, stay in the kitchen, never leave the home and always use the time.

[2:22:45] Tip 2. If a grease fire starts, never try to extinguish with water. Use a lid to cover

[2:22:51] over the pot, turn the burner off and wait until the pan cools down.

[2:22:57] Tip 3 Always keep your cleaning and cooking surfaces free of any clutter.

[2:23:05] And tip 4 Remember to always keep a 3 foot distance around the cooking area a 3 feet

[2:23:11] kids zone as I like to call it.

[2:23:14] And remember if you're unable to control the fire, get out of your house and dial 911 immediately.

[2:23:20] and never forget that every month to test your smoke alarms,

[2:23:24] have an escape plan and practice your escape plan.

[2:23:27] Unattended cooking is a leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries.

[2:23:33] For more information on tips on how you can serve up safety in the kitchen,

[2:23:37] visit www.firepreventionweek.org.

[2:23:41] Stay safe, Annapolis.

[2:23:52] Hey Annapolis, it's go time.

[2:23:58] On Demand Transit that takes you where you want to go.

[2:24:03] It's fast, it's easy, and it's an affordable way to get around the nephilis.

[2:24:09] Going to the doctor, it's go time, going shopping, it's go time, exploring a nephilis,

[2:24:15] it's go time.

[2:24:16] It's easy to schedule your ride.

[2:24:18] Use the app or call transportation dispatch at 410-263-7964.

[2:24:27] Set your pick up and your destination, and we'll be right there.

[2:24:32] simply track the bus on the F so you'll know exactly when we'll be there to pick

[2:24:38] you up. Hey, once you're on the bus, just two dollars per ride and only one

[2:24:43] dollar for seniors, or you can use your daily, weekly, monthly, or annual bus

[2:24:49] pass. Getting around a necklace is easy with a necklace

[2:24:54] Let's go time. On-demand transit. See you on board.

[2:25:42] Yo el capitán zapalta del cuerpo de bomberos aquí de la ciudad de Nápolis. En esta semana

[2:25:47] está Mábalano de prevención de incendios en la cocina. La causa principal de incendios

[2:25:52] en casa proviene del uso de la cocina. La causa principal de incendios en la cocina es

[2:25:58] falta de su previsión. Punto número 1. Con usted cocinando, use un reloj al arma automático.

[2:26:06] Punto número 2. Siempre mantenga una tapa cerca o a la mano con usted cocinando. Si está

[2:26:12] Está cocinando con aceite o manteca y toma fuego, ponga la tapa sobre el sartén y espere

[2:26:18] que se enfrié.

[2:26:19] Punto número 3, aseguro acceder de mantener una área limpia y organizada cuando esté cocinando.

[2:26:26] Y punto número 4, este seguro que mantenga una zona libre de niños o lo menos de tres pies

[2:26:34] o un metro.

[2:26:35] Por su caso, hay un ensenio que está fuera de su control, llame a 9 o 11 inmediatamente.

[2:26:44] Acuérse de probar sus detecores de humo mensualmente, hago un plan de escape también,

[2:26:49] y practiclo. Mantente seguro anápolis. Muchísimas gracias.

[2:27:45] Es que lo lo amo a este team, mucho más que a vida.

[2:27:58] ¡Mare, yo soy Kelly, es el que me puedo ayudarnos.

[2:28:01] ¿Casi nos puedo ayudar a todos a hacer la oscuridad en la abogadilla?

[2:28:06] Obviamente, todos los los teníamos todos en la abogadilla y no,

[2:28:08] se nos quedan en un lugar con Juno Tops.

[2:28:38] ¡Hey, se ahí!

[2:28:40] Looks like you have to do proper trash, pacient and training again.

[2:28:43] If you put your trash out, please place it into a bag

[2:28:48] and tie the bag up and place it into a watertight receptacle

[2:28:52] with your address placed on it so they can be seen from the street

[2:28:54] at the end of your property for proper road collection.

[2:28:58] As a matter of fact, this recycle is done all wrong also.

[2:29:02] If you decide to place your recycling in a bag,

[2:29:04] please bring your bag to the receptacle

[2:29:06] and take all items out of the bag and place them into the can

[2:29:09] and make sure the lid is closed, please.

[2:29:11] Let's bring back in the trash monster

[2:29:13] para ver las cosas que no son recyclables.

[2:29:17] Esto es 40% de naram recyclable ahora.

[2:29:21] Esto es naram recyclable.

[2:29:22] Esto es naram recyclable.

[2:29:24] El metal retenso es naram recyclable.

[2:29:26] please be mindful of your trash

[2:29:28] and recycle placement to avoid fines.

[2:31:07] Lo he hecho para hacer una capacitación sobre cómo vamos a colocar bien la basura.

[2:31:13] Primero, levantamos todo y lo colocamos dentro de la bolsa de basura, luego lo atamos y lo colocamos dentro del contenedor de basura. Lo tapamos ya que estamos aprovechamos y miramos también el reciclado. Esta bolsa no tiene que estar en el reciclado y vaciamos todo esto nuevamente colocamos la capa

[2:31:38] así que vamos a pedir que vuelva nuestra monstruo de la basura y vamos a

[2:31:44] mirar que tiene para ver si se puede reciclar o no esto de metal acá abajo no se

[2:31:49] puede reciclar todo este plástico finito de las bolsas de basura tampoco entran

[2:31:53] en reciclado este cuchillo de metal tampoco por favor tome en cuenta que cuando

[2:32:00] saca su basura estas son las formas de poder hacerlo para poder evitar que les

[2:32:04] de navizos o que le hago en una multa.

[2:32:12] Necesita comprobar que carreteras han sido tratadas con sal o barridas durante una tormenta

[2:32:19] de nieve, con snow paths, puede acceder a actualizaciones en tiempo real sobre el mantenimiento

[2:32:25] de carreteras en invierno, directamente desde su dispositivo.

[2:32:29] Simplemente visite el sitio web de la ciudad de Anapolis y haga clic en el portal snow path

[2:32:36] Desde allí verá un mapa iterativo que muestra el estado actual del mantenimiento de carreteras

[2:32:43] en invierno ya sea con sal o quitado de nieve. Agas Zoom en su vecindario o ruta de viaje

[2:32:50] para ver exactamente qué caminos han sido tratados y cuáles están en progreso. Agas clic en un segmento

[2:33:00] de camino para ver cuándo se le dio servicio por última vez.

[2:33:04] Snowpads, funciona perfectamente tanto en dispositivos móviles como de

[2:33:10] escritorio. Usted puede obtener las solicaciones y entras viaj.

[2:33:14] Mantengas informado, mantengas seguro y planifique sus viajes

[2:33:18] esenciales durante emergencias de nieve con actualizaciones en tiempo real

[2:33:24] de Snowpads. Visite anápolis.gov para Snowpads este invierno.

[2:35:12] Thank you so much for being here. Over here we have the waterfront. Anapolis is one of the most beautiful

[2:35:21] waterfront cities in America. This water that brings so many people here is one of our greatest assets,

[2:35:28] one of our biggest economic drivers, but also it's one of our greatest threats. We saw that on Tuesday.

[2:35:34] On Tuesday I've been standing a step down there. The water would have been up to my waist. It went

[2:35:40] around the market house and took out some of our most valuable businesses in the city.

[2:35:46] Our businesses are used to this, they have a strategy, but when you get the third worst

[2:35:51] flooding event in recent history in the city coming to you, we have to find ways to help

[2:35:57] them. We have great partners at the state and at the county to help us get these businesses

[2:36:04] back on their feet. Senator Alfred texted me the other day about an idea which we could

[2:36:12] activate if we declare a state of emergency. It will unlock funds that these businesses

[2:36:18] can use, and I'll let them elaborate as they come to the microphone. I want to say we

[2:36:24] have a great team here. We have Christchurch here. We have our emergency management team here,

[2:36:29] many of the people from that. We have our economic development people here that are going to help

[2:36:33] the businesses, get to these resources as soon as possible.

[2:36:37] This makes the case for protecting the city.

[2:36:41] We are at the state right now asking for the last $3 million of the $18 million at the

[2:36:48] state that's committed to this amazing project.

[2:36:50] We are doing a $19 million revitalization of downtown.

[2:36:54] That not only is building a garage for us but it is building a barrier against sea level

[2:37:02] weather event and creating a great public space, a park, a city

[2:37:07] dock, a spray park, things for people to do when they come down here.

[2:37:11] So making this city resilient at the same time we're making this city more

[2:37:15] attractive. So we want to thank the state for their support on that, especially

[2:37:19] this tight budget that's coming up now. And I'm going to now hand it off to the

[2:37:23] county to let you know where to go to access this money. And I want to thank the

[2:37:28] businesses for their patients through this time. It was a tough thing to go through.

[2:37:33] We know that they have veterans at this, but I think this one hurt particularly bad, so

[2:37:37] we want to make sure we get them back on their feet as soon as possible. Thank you, Amy.

[2:37:44] Thank you, Mayor. I'm Amy Gowen, President and CEO for Anorundal Economic Development Corporation,

[2:37:50] and for those that don't know, our organization exists to help the business community in Anorundal

[2:37:55] county and within the city of Annapolis, so whether it's to help them start up or grow

[2:38:00] or unfortunately in situations like this, we're here to help businesses.

[2:38:05] So when Mayor Buckley called me yesterday and when Senator Alfred reached out and said,

[2:38:10] can you deploy some grant funding that is available?

[2:38:13] It was a resounding yes from both myself and county executives to your pitman.

[2:38:18] So I just wanted to say thank you so much to Senator Alfred and Delavio Jones for their leadership

[2:38:24] last session to make the state's video lottery terminal funds available for disaster situations

[2:38:29] like this. And our organization is nimble and can deploy them quickly. And so we are in the

[2:38:37] process of standing up our grant program. It is a disaster relief program. We will offer up

[2:38:43] to $50,000 for businesses that have damage due to flooding so it can be used for things like

[2:38:50] equipment, property damage, and some income loss.

[2:38:55] We will have information on our website today.

[2:38:58] You can visit that at a-a-e-d-c.org or mya-rundle-biz.org,

[2:39:05] and we will be taking applications starting on Tuesday.

[2:39:10] So again, thank you very much.

[2:39:12] We stand ready to support the businesses of this city,

[2:39:16] and I am going to now turn it over to delegate Jones

[2:39:19] say if you. Thank you so much. Thank you all for being here. Again, my name is Delegate Dana Jones.

[2:39:28] I am in the House of Delegates here for Annapolis, and I just really want to thank the incredible

[2:39:34] work of my friend, Chief Simmons, the Annapolis Office of Emergency Management, as well as emergency

[2:39:40] responders Countywide. With over five feet of storm surge, over 17,000 left without power in

[2:39:47] the region, these heroes once again stepped up as they always do and answered the call.

[2:39:53] From the storm, water rescues to ensuring infants had the equipment they needed.

[2:40:00] The community is indebted to you and I sincerely thank the Office of Emergency Management. As many of you know, this week in the legislature we kicked out the 446 legislative session, bringing in additional 185 legislators and countless staff to my district, district 30A for the next 90 days. This storm in the flood waters brought by it really struck many of my colleagues and showed them firsthand the importance of the work that we are doing in the legislature to protect

[2:40:29] our communities from future storms, with the mayor's emergency declaration, as Amy just explained,

[2:40:36] anapolis mall businesses and nonprofits are now able to receive vote funding for up to 50,000

[2:40:42] in aid to mitigate damage from this week's storms. I want to thank my friend, Mayor Buckley,

[2:40:48] his leadership in unlocking these funds and my partners and friend who I stand shoulder to shoulder

[2:40:54] with on both days like this and bad ones, Sarah Elfrith.

[2:40:59] I am forever grateful to my friend who I work with every day.

[2:41:03] We in 2022 authored and passed legislation that will allow the flexibility for funds

[2:41:09] to be used this way.

[2:41:12] Tragically, localized severe flooding and wind events were the exact disasters that the

[2:41:17] senator and I considered when writing this legislation three years ago.

[2:41:21] We stood in parole, shoulder to shoulder, and help that community clean up after an EF2 tornado.

[2:41:31] And today we're here again, heartbroken by the damage to our community, our small businesses, and so many others.

[2:41:37] In addition to the funding to help businesses recover from storms like this, we must also invest in resiliency projects to help stop damage from rising flood levels prior to it happening.

[2:41:49] This week we saw compromise streets stay open for hours longer than it normally would have.

[2:41:55] Just because of the early deployments of storm and water management and infrastructure.

[2:42:00] I'm so proud to have worked with my district partners to bring millions of dollars home and state funding that will go towards permanent city doc resiliency infrastructure to prevent future flooding and I am eager to see the city complete this project in the coming years. I'm so proud of everything you all have worked on.

[2:42:15] With that, I want to introduce my dear friend, my partner, in the Senate on so many issues

[2:42:21] affecting Annapolis and Anorondle County, Senator Sarah Elfroth.

[2:42:27] Good morning.

[2:42:29] I have the great privilege of representing you in the State Senate, but I also stand here

[2:42:33] as a neighbor downtown.

[2:42:35] I live just right behind us.

[2:42:36] And so whenever we anticipate rising seas and storms, my first thought is always going

[2:42:42] to be to my neighbors right here, to Ryan and to Alice and to the big cheese and to the

[2:42:47] those who are most affected whenever we have a large storm.

[2:42:51] Now, climate change is happening.

[2:42:53] I share it with my colleagues on the Senate floor regularly.

[2:42:56] And it's happening right here in the city of Annapolis

[2:42:59] between tornadoes and flooding.

[2:43:01] We are going to continue to see these natural disasters impact

[2:43:05] our communities.

[2:43:06] That's the bad news.

[2:43:07] But the good news is with every tornado and every flood,

[2:43:11] we get better.

[2:43:12] We get better at cutting the red tape.

[2:43:13] We get better at responding.

[2:43:15] We get better at being there for our neighbors.

[2:43:18] And so we learned lessons with every ensuing disaster after the tornado that devastated

[2:43:22] parole and Alderman rounded Pindale Charles's district.

[2:43:26] After we see in the record floods destroy Alderman elitirides district, we learned what went wrong

[2:43:32] and what we can do better.

[2:43:34] And we learned that we needed a more nimble response and our state law did not allow at that

[2:43:39] time for that nimble response.

[2:43:41] We needed a state state of emergency, and so we changed the law to say when we have these localized micro storms, these natural disasters and a small scale that don't meet the level of the state of emergency, but are still devastating for local communities, we need to be more responsive.

[2:43:57] We changed the law so that we could open up those precious economic development dollars, not just to our small businesses impacted, but also to our nonprofits that are so important to our community.

[2:44:09] So, in the last flood, and I've had a couple since I've been your senator, the Maritime

[2:44:13] Museum over in East Fort took on nearly two feet of water, and we're not eligible for

[2:44:18] this funding.

[2:44:19] We changed the law in order so that they could avail themselves of this support.

[2:44:24] We cannot hold back the tide, but we can be more responsive to our neighbors on their worst

[2:44:28] days.

[2:44:29] I'm so grateful to the City of Annapolis and especially the Office of Emergency Management

[2:44:33] to the County Economic Development Team, to the Governor's Office, who took a dozen

[2:44:38] calls for me over the last few days.

[2:44:40] We might have gabbled in the legislative session, but I was on the phone with Ryan and Alice in

[2:44:45] the governor's office about every hour over the last three days to make sure they had everything

[2:44:49] they need, and so we can cut through this bureaucratic red tape and make sure our small businesses

[2:44:54] and our nonprofits get everything they need to recover and reopen.

[2:44:58] And with that, I'm proud.

[2:45:05] Thank you.

[2:45:09] Thank you, Sarah. I'm very much on so many levels, Alice, Estrada, and I represent the Annapolis Maritime Museum in the community of Eastport. When City Doc floods, we flood. We took an 18 inches of water in this last event in the building. We were able to elevate all our contents, so no content loss.

[2:45:31] But still, 18 inches of water in the building will involve days and days of drying, and sanitizing, and drying, and sanitizing.

[2:45:42] As we all know, water can be so damaging both to the health of the building and the infrastructure.

[2:45:50] I really do want to commend Senator Alfred and delegate Jones because the last flooding event in October of 2021,

[2:45:56] one, I was so frustrated and disappointed that I was ineligible for these funds.

[2:46:02] And sure enough, you know, they told me we're going to get that changed and sure enough

[2:46:06] they did.

[2:46:07] Unfortunately, I have another flooding event to make this available.

[2:46:12] But I also want to thank them because they also sponsored a bond bill for us to figure out

[2:46:17] some short-term and long-term solutions for sea level rise at the Annapolis Maritime

[2:46:22] Museum.

[2:46:23] If you don't know, we are a beloved community anchor.

[2:46:26] We want to figure out a way that we can stay viable,

[2:46:31] but these flooding events that are happening

[2:46:34] more and more often is not sustainable for us.

[2:46:37] It's very, very expensive for us to recover,

[2:46:40] as I'm sure I speak for all the nonprofits.

[2:46:44] Nonprofits are businesses too, they just take their proceeds

[2:46:47] and put them back into their mission.

[2:46:49] but yeah, I feel the pain of all of my neighboring businesses downtown and I just

[2:46:56] want to say thank you again for the support and the widespread city support as

[2:47:02] well. Thank you.

[2:47:08] Good morning. My name is Stephen Rice from the economic

[2:47:11] development manager for the city of Annapolis. I just want to take a minute to talk

[2:47:16] very briefly about the negative economic impact that a flood can have on a

[2:47:20] business. When flooding happens, you can have property damage, you can have

[2:47:25] equipment loss, you can have inventory loss, and the longer that a business is

[2:47:31] closed, you have a loss of revenue. So there are four different kinds of

[2:47:35] negative financial impacts that can happen to a business when you have an event

[2:47:40] such as this. There are also some other issues when flood

[2:47:45] the water's rise. And in particular, of course, businesses have to clear out the water, and they have to clean up the debris.

[2:47:53] But in addition to that, they may have repairs that require, if they're significant in particular, an actual city building permit.

[2:48:02] And the city is committed to expediting those permits as quickly as possible.

[2:48:07] The other thing from a health and an environmental standpoint is that when floodwaters rise, you can have a sewage backup.

[2:48:17] Sometimes it releases fuel and other solvents, cleaners, and other chemicals that these businesses have on their premises.

[2:48:27] The other potential hazard is that when the flood water's rise, water coming in from the creek,

[2:48:36] you don't know exactly what's in that water. So you don't know what that water is bringing into the business

[2:48:40] in addition to not knowing how it's impacting what's already inside the business.

[2:48:46] So a couple things just, I would like to say, it's important obviously for all of us to work together.

[2:48:53] And I think this is an example of city, county, and state cooperation.

[2:49:01] When this event happened, the county was on site within about 30 minutes.

[2:49:08] The city had pre-gamed the event before it even happened.

[2:49:12] And we have obvious state support that has come in to make funds available for these impacted

[2:49:19] businesses.

[2:49:19] So I'm going to stop here, the last thing I want to say though is that we want these businesses to be up and running as soon as possible.

[2:49:30] That is our goal. And we also want to get this right so that these businesses patrons are also protected.

[2:49:38] At this point, I'd like to introduce Mr. Ryan Lamy. He's the owner of Pips Quick Plug. Pips has excellent hot dogs.

[2:49:48] And it's right over there.

[2:49:55] Good morning everybody.

[2:49:56] Please bear with me.

[2:49:57] I'm not a public speaker.

[2:49:58] I just make delicious chili dogs.

[2:50:04] Just, where do you begin? We've been here 15 years. We've dealt with nuisance flooding. That's

[2:50:10] just something we deal with here on Dox Street, greatly looking forward to the revitalization

[2:50:15] of Dox Street with what we dealt with on Tuesday. I don't think any of us were prepared for it.

[2:50:22] So, we lost more than half of our equipment inside product, the revenue that we'll lose.

[2:50:33] It's looking like we could be closed a week, maybe two weeks, the, you know, we've got

[2:50:40] employees.

[2:50:41] And I'm speaking on behalf of all the small businesses downtown, it's not mine.

[2:50:44] We've got employees that depend on us.

[2:50:49] It's just, we put everything we have into these businesses.

[2:50:57] It's just I

[2:51:00] can't bear with me just

[2:51:05] thank you very much

[2:51:06] You know for the mayor to

[2:51:08] Senator Alfred's

[2:51:10] Just this is it'll be a huge burden lifted off of us

[2:51:14] Just knowing that this this financial aid is gonna be made available

[2:51:20] It's just it's a lot it's a lot to deal with it's it's it's our entire lives and again

[2:51:25] I speak only half of everybody here on Doc Street in the downtown area

[2:51:31] And again, thank you to the community, there's been a lot of outreach, I'm just coming in, saying, you know, just asking how we're doing, it means a lot.

[2:51:41] And you know, again, just thank you very much, greatly appreciate it.

[2:51:50] And so if the city doc had been complete on Tuesday, none of these businesses would have been flooded.

[2:51:57] So, we are looking to make this happen sooner rather than later.

[2:52:03] We start construction at City Dock.

[2:52:05] It's not a case of if there's going to be the next Isabelle, or will there be?

[2:52:11] It is going to come.

[2:52:12] There's no question.

[2:52:14] We just had the hottest year on record for the planet.

[2:52:17] Catastrophic weather events are going to be a way of life and we have to deal with it.

[2:52:21] We want the state capital of Maryland, we want a napless to be the resilience capital

[2:52:27] of America.

[2:52:27] We want to lead the way on this project.

[2:52:30] But we have to come up with a short-term solutions.

[2:52:33] Another solution besides the barrier that we deployed next week is we're going to work with

[2:52:38] a delegate manager Jones and Senator Alfred on getting some money for an idea called

[2:52:44] these door dams, a Dutch door dams.

[2:52:47] For around $5,000 we could fit out a lot of these doorways and they would have some protection

[2:52:54] up to a certain point.

[2:52:56] We have to sort of check the vulnerabilities of that but we think we could probably provide

[2:53:02] 10 or 20 businesses with that kind of thing.

[2:53:04] We could provide the Maritime Museum with that kind of thing and it might be a way to get

[2:53:11] them to stay up longer.

[2:53:13] The barrier was great because we kept traffic flowing for four extra hours yesterday, the

[2:53:17] main artery into the city for Eastport. So I want to thank you for covering this because

[2:53:22] these businesses are so important. Pips is an institution. Everybody loves this man and everybody

[2:53:28] loves our restaurant. So I'm looking forward to getting in there and getting my next hot dog.

[2:53:35] We are open for questions. If you have any questions of any of us,

[2:53:38] there are people here from the county, state, city, please go ahead

[2:53:47] I will

[2:53:48] ask you if you might know that this is uh thank

[2:53:56] you this is Chris Jacobiac

[2:53:57] Department of Planning and Zoning

[2:54:05] 17 of renotuses were posted roughly 13 are

[2:54:12] still posted so we've worked the department is working in coordination with the

[2:54:18] County Department of Health to move those forward.

[2:54:25] Some of the damage is extensive.

[2:54:27] Equipment failures, wet floors obviously, wet carpets, the walls and foundations

[2:54:36] internal to the buildings are absorbing of water. Some water is still standing in

[2:54:41] some structures. That's the typical set of damage we're seeing.

[2:54:45] and

[2:54:51] I know that there's some work that needs to be done on the hill so if you

[2:54:55] need specific questions for Senator Alpha Earth, Delegate Dana Jones.

[2:55:00] Let us know, because they told me they were on a tight schedule today.

[2:55:10] We'll watch it until we're expecting 3.5 to 4 feet of title surge. And everybody knows that our problem here is title surge. It is water pushing up the bay into the storm drains and up through the greats and then into the businesses or under compromised street stopping traffic. So that's our problem more than rain. It is title surge. So we are going to watch to see if we're going to

[2:55:35] need to deploy it. We believe it's going to happen earlier in the morning when it's not

[2:55:40] such a heavily traffic time, so we're still making that call, so it's still a fluid assessment.

[2:55:52] So we're waiting on a big FEMA grant.

[2:55:56] So the question was, is all the funding secured

[2:56:01] for the CityDoc project? We need every dollar, so we need and those dollars come in millions

[2:56:08] of dollars. We're doing a $90 billion project here to reimagine this whole area, add additional

[2:56:14] parking out in the garage. The garage is finished. We start working on the utilities here

[2:56:19] this year and then we move forward. After boat show to fence off that area and raise city

[2:56:24] dock and then button it up at the end of the middle of 26. We're nearly there but we need

[2:56:31] our state partners, we need our federal partners to really make it happen.

[2:56:37] I think, you know, in the range of 10 to 20 something like that, but we're pretty close

[2:56:44] and we feel we have the relationships and we had a lot of legislators show up and couldn't

[2:56:50] get into their hotels on Tuesday night because it was flooded in front of the hotel there.

[2:56:55] So I think that makes the case for us and that's going to help our delegation go to bat

[2:57:00] for us like they always do.

[2:57:01] So,

[2:57:31] we're definitely not expecting it to be anything like was sorry, yeah,

[2:57:50] we are not

[2:57:52] expecting that to be an issue with this upcoming storm.

[2:57:56] We think that the ground water is receded so we will be okay through this as long as it

[2:58:02] doesn't do anything we don't expect, so 3.5 will be okay too.

[2:58:06] So that is on the ground water question, on access to the funds I'll let someone from

[2:58:11] from the county come and speak to that or?

[2:58:17] Great, so I think in answer to that question,

[2:58:20] if there were to be another state of emergency declared

[2:58:23] for this upcoming storm, then yes,

[2:58:25] those funds would be available.

[2:58:27] But as the mayor just indicated,

[2:58:29] he doesn't expect there would be another emergency situation.

[2:58:39] Correct, that is correct, yes.

[2:58:48] We'll get someone to look.

[2:58:49] Okay, the question was, how long will the state of emergency last?

[2:58:53] My name is David Mandel.

[2:58:54] I'm Deputy Director of the City of Annapolis Office

[2:58:56] of emergency management by city code and state statute I understand the declaration of emergency

[2:59:03] last 30 days, unless renewed by Council.

[2:59:09] Councillor interjecting.

[2:59:09] And I can't say enough about the team that were out here in the rain on that night.

[2:59:14] And the way they cleaned up afterwards, if you came to the city of Annapolis, you would think

[2:59:18] nothing happened.

[2:59:20] The only way you would know anything happened in this city is if you happened to press your

[2:59:23] nose up against the window and see the damage that some of these businesses have been affected

[2:59:28] by. But the team were out in full force. We relocated residents from a homeless shelter.

[2:59:36] We moved them across town because they had a fire in the middle of the storm. We were

[2:59:40] located 40 to 50 people. We got the water moved out of here by the afternoon. So receded

[2:59:46] the pumps kicked in when it was the level that they could handle. And we were back in business.

[2:59:53] And so we've got some people back in their feet, but we need to get everybody back in their

[2:59:58] because the business...

[3:00:00] The community is just a bigger part of the community than the residential community in the city, and we want to support them. We want to be there for them, and they know that the state, the county and the city have their back, so we

[3:00:16] appreciate you all be there. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I do have the names of all of our speakers printed out for you to get the spelling, right? We also have a flyer with the QR code for folks to get to the application. Thank you.

[3:00:32] Thank you.

[3:00:33] Thank you.

[3:00:34] Eric

[3:02:03] Lyszynski, Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the Sea of Annapolis.

[3:02:07] Making Annapolis a more walkable place is one of the foundational goals of Annapolis

[3:02:12] Head 2040, the Comprehensive Plan, update.

[3:02:18] Many of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city are highly walkable.

[3:02:22] Think about downtown Annapolis, or Eastport, or Interwest Street.

[3:02:30] Let's remember Annapolis's identity to begin with.

[3:02:33] Anapolis, from its very beginnings, has been a walkable place when you think of downtown

[3:02:37] Annapolis or Eastport.

[3:02:39] These were places where people could get around very easily without a car.

[3:02:44] In the 20th century, as anapolis expanded, it became less walkable.

[3:02:48] Think of Forest Drive or Upper West Street as examples of what that kind of city looks like.

[3:02:54] These are places that have a surface parking lot next to the sidewalk that may not have adequate

[3:02:59] shading from street trees, the sidewalk may be very narrow and have lots of

[3:03:05] obstructions. There's no activity next to the sidewalk that generates interest

[3:03:10] whether it's an active storefront or a cafe. So let's get back to the why. What we

[3:03:16] heard from residents for the most part was this desire to be able to walk to

[3:03:21] places in their community whether it's a restaurant, a grocery store, a job, a school,

[3:03:26] doctor's office and thing. To go to any of these places on foot allows residents

[3:03:31] to meet their neighbors to split little businesses. From a planner's perspective,

[3:03:36] we're able to address all of the bigger issues, whether it's traffic congestion,

[3:03:40] economic development, addressing climate change. So how do we get there? Anapolis,

[3:03:45] like most of these United States, has a zoning code that guides most of our

[3:03:49] development. Today, our zoning code limits what we can do to encourage walkable

[3:03:55] places. You need buildings that are closer to the street that have adequate sidewalks,

[3:04:01] even if they're set back from the street 10 feet, 20 feet, that that space is space for

[3:04:07] a cafe. And if they're pushed up to the street, that's where you may have an active storefront.

[3:04:12] Those are the kind of things that we can put into our zoning code. And the way we do that is

[3:04:17] there's something called a form-based code. But essentially what that means is the zoning code provides

[3:04:22] more guidance for how buildings should create a street scape that is more

[3:04:27] walkable. What we've been talking about today is this one part of an Apple's

[3:04:32] Head 2040, our comprehensive plan update. To get a more complete view of the plan

[3:04:37] and the whole process leading up to it, go to the seas website and check out the

[3:04:41] webpage for an Apple's Head 2040. On that website you can find a link to

[3:04:45] form-based code and a number of other pieces of the plan. Stay tuned for other

[3:04:50] video snapshots, thank you for joining us.

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[3:11:25] I'm Eric Lachinsky, Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the State of Annapolis. Making anapolis

[3:11:31] a more walkable place is one of the foundational goals of Annapolis Head of 2040,

[3:11:36] the Comprehensive Plan, update.

[3:11:41] Many of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city are highly

[3:11:44] walkable. Think about downtown Annapolis, or Eastport, or Interwest Street.

[3:11:52] Let's remember Annapolis's identity to begin with. Annapolis, from its

[3:11:57] Very beginnings has been a walkable place.

[3:11:59] What do you think of downtown Annapolis or Eastport?

[3:12:02] These were places where people could get around very easily

[3:12:05] without a car.

[3:12:06] In the 20th century, as Annapolis expanded,

[3:12:09] it became less walkable.

[3:12:11] Think of Forest Drive or Upper West Street

[3:12:13] as examples of what that kind of city looks like.

[3:12:16] These are places that have a surface parking lot

[3:12:19] next to the sidewalk that may not have adequate shading

[3:12:23] from street trees, a sidewalk, maybe very narrow and have lots of obstructions.

[3:12:29] There's no activity next to the sidewalk that generates interest whether it's an active

[3:12:34] storefront or a cafe. So let's get back to the why. What we heard from residents for the most

[3:12:41] part was this desire to be able to walk to places in their community, whether it's a restaurant,

[3:12:47] a grocery store, a job, a school, a doctor's office, a thing. To go to any of these places on foot

[3:12:53] allows residents to meet their neighbors, to explore local businesses, from a planner's perspective,

[3:12:59] we're able to address all of the bigger issues, whether it's traffic congestion, economic development,

[3:13:04] addressing climate change. So how do we get an app for us like most cities and the United States

[3:13:10] has a zoning code that guides most of our development. Today our zoning code limits what we can do to

[3:13:17] encourage walkable places. You need buildings that are closer to the street that have adequate

[3:13:23] sidewalks, even if they're set back from the street 10 feet 20 feet, that that's

[3:13:28] space is space for a cafe. And if they're pushed up to the street that's where

[3:13:33] you may have an active storefront. Those are the kind of things that we can put

[3:13:37] into our zoning code. And the way we do that is do something called a form-based

[3:13:41] code. Essentially what that means is the zoning code provides more guidance for

[3:13:46] how buildings should create a street scape that is more walkable. What we've been

[3:13:52] What I'm talking about today is this one part of the NAPLOS Head 2040, our comprehensive

[3:13:57] plan update.

[3:13:58] To get a more complete view of the plan and the whole process leading up to it, go to

[3:14:02] the city's website and check out the web page for a NAPLOS Head 2040.

[3:14:06] On that website, you can find a link to form-based code and a number of other pieces of the plan.

[3:14:11] Stay tuned for other video snapshots.

[3:14:14] Thank you for joining us.

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[3:22:00] Mayor, you're killing me. Is that anything I can help you with?

[3:22:04] You know what? You can just get everybody to come out to the opening, going for the blues.

[3:22:08] Hopefully we see everybody there, or hallmark, and maybe stay there on June 5th.

[3:22:25] Good afternoon.

[3:22:28] At first I would like to acknowledge three special guests here to our program which is

[3:22:35] the parole Rosenwald School Historical Ceremony, dedication, signing, unveiling, and celebration here on

[3:22:43] Friday, May 10th at Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church to his avenue, the church on the hill.

[3:22:52] Ms. Valerie Mills Cooper, who is the daughter of principal, parole principal, Walter S. Mills.

[3:22:59] Ms. Mills Cooper is a retired vice principal in Anna-Ronda County Public Schools, and she's on keyboard today as well.

[3:23:10] Ms. Debbie Odom, our war three community liaison, who's on route.

[3:23:15] And Dr. Carol Benson, who is the executive director of the Chesapeake Crossroads Heritage Area,

[3:23:22] of formerly the Four Rivers Heritage Area.

[3:23:25] And thank you so much, Carol, for being here.

[3:23:30] At this time, we will sing with Valerie's accompaniment,

[3:23:34] the official parole school song, which was written

[3:23:37] by Mr. Walter S. Mills, the principal, and it's entitled,

[3:23:41] I Love Old Parole, and it's printed on the back of your program.

[3:25:38] Prayer and scripture, Reverend Dana A. Swan, who's the assistant pastor here at Mount

[3:25:42] Al-African Methodist Episcopal Church. Reverend Swan, pastor Swan.

[3:25:51] Thank you,

[3:25:52] greetings to all. Welcome to Mount Olive. Welcome to this great event here today.

[3:25:57] Today here and for all, we are at a place of history, a place of understanding in

[3:26:02] the necessity of teaching. And so from that scripture that I lift up is what the

[3:26:07] The Psalmist said in Psalm 111 in verse 10,

[3:26:11] it says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,

[3:26:13] a good understanding, have all that do His commandments,

[3:26:16] His praise and do earth forever.

[3:26:18] That is to say that we are here

[3:26:19] because of a landmark celebration of a building

[3:26:21] which had to do with teaching.

[3:26:23] And as we review the history, we think of the wisdom

[3:26:26] and we therefore ask for that to stay.

[3:26:28] And this is my prayer for you, let us pray.

[3:26:30] Almighty God, we are thankful for this day

[3:26:32] which you have given to us.

[3:26:34] The evidence is found in the sign

[3:26:36] of the rising of the sun, even behind the clouds and above the rain we've experienced today.

[3:26:41] The evidence is found in the signs of the changing of the seasons in the air,

[3:26:45] even in the pollen we breathe from the grass, the trees, and the blossoming flowers.

[3:26:50] The evidence is in the sign of the beating of our hearts which echo the drum beat of the words

[3:26:55] of the hymn which says, and are we yet alive and see each other's faith? In a great and global way,

[3:27:01] evidence is found as we observe the signs of the times and they are changing,

[3:27:05] where we must daily seek individually and collectively

[3:27:08] to address the challenges of life

[3:27:10] with all of the opportunities and tools we possessed.

[3:27:13] Therefore, Almighty God, we need your help and your guidance.

[3:27:16] As we today dedicate a sign at Hicks and Dorsey Avenue's

[3:27:20] in parole and anapolis,

[3:27:21] may it remind us all of the history represented

[3:27:24] by this parole, Rosenwald School building.

[3:27:27] May those who see this sign pause and reflect

[3:27:29] on the historic place in the seeking of knowledge.

[3:27:32] May we from it know to continue to seek

[3:27:34] the wisdom from the years gone by, may we now be wise enough to embrace it with conviction,

[3:27:40] courage, compassion, and commitment for us to do. May we have the knowledge and understanding

[3:27:44] to tell the incredible stories of a school whose teaching is rooted in the lives of those who are

[3:27:49] yet present here today, as we continue to write the news stories in this present moment,

[3:27:55] and indeed to those who are in the future generations. So today, Almighty God, we thank you

[3:28:00] At the parole, Rosenwald School building at Dorsey in Hicks Avenue, and here hosting at Mount

[3:28:06] Aleth, there will be a sign. May we faithfully remember the words of Scripture for in this moment

[3:28:12] we seek wisdom, understanding how to live, and how to do the work given to our hands.

[3:28:18] May we also remember the words of the hymn by Harry Faustick, God of grace, God of glory,

[3:28:24] grant us wisdom, grant us courage for the facing of this hour, for the living of

[3:28:28] these days, that we fail not man, nor thee, through our Lord Christ. Amen.

[3:28:44] Thank you so much.

[3:28:46] Where the head and the heart built heroes. Again, good afternoon. Julius Rosenwald was born in

[3:28:55] Springfield, Illinois. He never finished high school, but he rose to become president of the retail

[3:29:00] giant Sears Robot Company, and as a result he amassed a fortune serving as

[3:29:06] president and part owner of Sears. Rosenwald was influenced by the writings of

[3:29:11] famed Tuskegee educator Booker T. Washington, writings that emphasized the

[3:29:16] education of African Americans. Subsequently, these two men became friends, and

[3:29:21] Rosenwald's philanthropy took a dramatic turn after reading accounts by

[3:29:26] African-American thinkers. Additionally, Booker T. Washington's accomplishments

[3:29:30] Parallel what Rosenwald had achieved. Washington approached Rosenwald in 1912 to assist in funding a program in line with Washington's

[3:29:39] belief of self-help for African American southerners that emphasized economic advancement through vocational education. As a

[3:29:47] result, this Jewish philanthropist and this African-American educator joined forces without African-American communities during the Jim Crow

[3:29:56] South and established a fund to build new state of the

[3:30:00] The art school buildings for African American children living in the rural south. Between 1917 and

[3:30:07] 1932, the Julius Rosenwald Fund was responsible for the construction of more than 5,300 new schools

[3:30:15] in the United States, from Texas to Maryland. However, one of the stipulations to building

[3:30:21] these schools was that the African American community would provide a certain amount of sweat

[3:30:26] equity in the process which they readily did. All the Rosenwald School buildings used

[3:30:31] the same building format and template. For example, the windows facing the outside

[3:30:37] were strategically positioned to face east so that the rising of the sun in the morning

[3:30:42] would provide sunlight into the school building. In 1940, 23 of Anoronder County's 32 black

[3:30:49] schools were Rosenwald buildings. The Rosenwald School Building program advanced African-American

[3:30:56] and education to a level unmatched and unprecedented until the decision in 1954 in the U.S. Supreme

[3:31:03] Court case, Brown v. Board of Education, which declared the end of segregation. Inspired

[3:31:09] by the Jewish ideals of Zedaka charity, and took on Olam repairing the world and a deep

[3:31:17] concern of a racial and equality in America, Julius Rosenwald used his wealth to become one

[3:31:24] of America's most effective philanthropist.

[3:31:27] Because of his modesty,

[3:31:29] Rosenwald's philanthropy and social activism

[3:31:32] are not well known today.

[3:31:34] He gave away $62 million in his lifetime.

[3:31:38] And so today, we salute some of these parole,

[3:31:41] Rosenwald school heroes who still reflect upon this building

[3:31:46] which still stands in our community today.

[3:31:49] And these heroes are here today to tell their stories

[3:31:52] and to recount their memories.

[3:31:55] Also today it is especially apropos in this year and at this moment in time and at this

[3:32:01] time in the world that we recognize the over 100 year century long relationship between

[3:32:08] the Jewish community and the African American community.

[3:32:12] And so out of this very modest building that was built here in 1923, 101 years ago the head

[3:32:20] of Booker T. Washington and the heart of Julius Rosenwald, like rise resulted in heroes being built

[3:32:27] here. Thank you and may God continue to bless us all.

[3:32:35] At this time we will have remarks by the

[3:32:38] honorable Gavin Buckley who is our mayor of the city of Annapolis, then our state senator Sarah Elveth

[3:32:44] who has to leave a little bit early and we all know why and we are happy for that. Then delicate

[3:32:52] Duncan Henson or her representative Ms. Burrell-Downs, who's our state delegate.

[3:32:58] Delegate Dana Jones, unfortunately, could not be here today.

[3:33:01] She had a prior engagement.

[3:33:03] She was available the last, the first time we playing this program, but she's unable

[3:33:07] to be here today.

[3:33:10] Then Lisa Brandigan-Rodvin Esquire, who's our county councilwoman, District 6, which serves

[3:33:17] Annapolis and several surrounding contiguous areas, then Dr. C. Jane Cox,

[3:33:23] Administrator of Cultural Resources, Section of Historic Preservation Program,

[3:33:28] Antwerwanda County Planning and Zoni Department, then Dr. Joanna Beish-Toban,

[3:33:33] Antwerwanda County Board of Education, District 6 Annapolis, Ms. Burrell Downsons,

[3:33:37] the Acting President of the Greater Probe Community Association, Ms. Alice K. Wright,

[3:33:42] our end president community health center parole incorporate the parole health center and then

[3:33:47] Miss Lindra Pratt Marshall Heritage and Cultural Preservationist Rosenwald School Project

[3:33:53] coordinator and Booker T Washington and Rosenwald School's documentary film project coordinator.

[3:34:00] Thank you so much and one secret I want to provide to you about

[3:34:05] a Miss Lendra who is also my cousin, that she was contacted recently by the father,

[3:34:15] by Beyoncé's father, to do a documentary for him. So we have, we have a lot of great

[3:34:23] people in this room, but unfortunately she's been so busy she had to turn down the invitation.

[3:34:30] But anyway,

[3:34:35] so anyway in that order everyone, please come up. Thank you all so much.

[3:34:48] So I want to welcome everybody here to the Cecil B. DeMille's Ronda Pindell Charles event for the Rosenwald School.

[3:34:58] Great to be here with all my cousins.

[3:35:08] I want to thank all of you who worked on this project to install a historic marker here. It

[3:35:15] will help current residents, descendants of past residents and future generations to understand

[3:35:22] the importance of this site.

[3:35:27] It looks like a typical residential structure, doesn't it?

[3:35:33] In the early part of the 20th century, it was anything but typical.

[3:35:38] As a Rosenwald School, this site was one of more than 5,000 such Rosenwald School constructed

[3:35:45] between 1917 to 1932.

[3:35:49] only about 10% remain standing today. What was important about what Julius Rosenwald,

[3:35:57] the owner of Sears Roadbuck's department store and author and educator Booker T. Washington

[3:36:03] of the Tuskegee Institute, was just a uniform design structure, although it was a pretty

[3:36:11] cool design back in the day. I'll talk about that in a minute. What was impressive about

[3:36:17] of course was the mission and the mission was education. Rosenwald and Washington believed

[3:36:25] that the path to a better future for African-American children was throughout the American South

[3:36:32] with public education. Rosenwald schools did not challenge segregation but had a tremendous

[3:36:39] impact on the literacy rate among black Americans in the South. Notable graduates of the

[3:36:46] Rosewood schools, which typically stopped at 8th grade include Dr. Charles Drew, author

[3:36:52] Ralph Ellison, Zara Nolan Hurston and of course James Baldwin, poets Maya Jaangelo, Langston

[3:37:01] Hughes and civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis, plus scientists, artists and others.

[3:37:08] The impact of the Rosewood school on the development of black intellectuals in the mid and late

[3:37:13] 20th century can never be overstated.

[3:37:17] The building is all shared a similar blueprint, north of the south facing windows to maximise

[3:37:23] light because most lacked electricity, cream or egg shell paint on the walls to encourage

[3:37:30] learning, a plane, exterior that helps schools avoid unwanted attention, each where one classroom

[3:37:40] or when more than one classroom was separated by a partition, the schools were always staffed

[3:37:45] with highly qualified and dedicated teachers. In 1954, the Supreme Court decision brown

[3:37:53] versus the Board of Education, integrated public education, in a short amount of time,

[3:38:00] roles in world schools were obsolete. Of the 20 known sites in Anne Rotterdam County,

[3:38:05] only about 10 remain standing, including this one.

[3:38:10] And that is why we're so thrilled that this work is coming to fruition

[3:38:15] and that this structure will never be torn down.

[3:38:19] Those that have survived and have been restored are primarily used now

[3:38:23] today as community centres.

[3:38:25] I've said a lot of positive things about the Rosenwald School,

[3:38:29] but they were born of an unequally,

[3:38:32] an unequally American system of education and pathide.

[3:38:37] It's a difficult chapter to say anything positive about that chapter in American history

[3:38:43] that we know influences so much of our society functions even to this day.

[3:38:48] Recognising that history helps us understand it was wrong.

[3:38:53] Recognising our history, even the ugly parts help us move forward together as a nation.

[3:39:00] Again, I thank the organisers for putting this event together and for helping future generations understand exactly what happened right here in parole and the significance of this simple yet elegant structure.

[3:39:16] Now I'd like to pass it over to my senator, Elthruth. Thank you all.

[3:39:20] Well,

[3:39:26] thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you to all the woman, Pindell Charles, for your

[3:39:31] tireless effort to make sure that we know exactly the history of not just the parole community

[3:39:36] but the history of the entire city of Annapolis, and more importantly, how that history reflects

[3:39:42] on our legacy today and the work we still have ahead of us.

[3:39:46] I also want to thank Ms. Lindra and Ms. Lindra.

[3:39:48] I can't help but think of Ms. Gertrude right now.

[3:39:52] And think about the fact, I believe Interundal County has more standing

[3:39:57] Rosenwald schools than any other community in the int-

[3:40:00] And that's not an accident. That's because people have fought to preserve that history, to tell that history, to celebrate that history. And so that's why it's particularly important that we're here today. In all my spare time lately, I've been reading a lot and thinking a lot about another partnership, Rhonda mentioned partnerships between Lincoln and another great Marylander, Frederick Douglass. And the promise that reconstruction

[3:40:31] could have had, he lived and had that vision for rebuilding this country, repairing the wounds

[3:40:38] of this country, actually come to fruition. Unfortunately, that never occurred, and

[3:40:43] we spent decades in the darkness with government not doing what it should have done in terms

[3:40:48] of lifting up all of its citizens and making sure education, as we know it to be the great

[3:40:54] equalizer, actually could repair those wounds. And instead, it took decades and a different

[3:40:59] partnership. It took Mr. Rosenwald and Mr. Washington to come together and see this vision

[3:41:03] of 5,000 schools across this country. That let's be clear the government did not build.

[3:41:10] It did not build. And yet that vision and that seed that was planted had so many blossoms

[3:41:20] and so many trees and so much fruit in each of our communities. And that is why it's important

[3:41:24] that we're here today and important to reflect on that history because we cannot see where

[3:41:29] where we need to go if we do not recognize where we came from.

[3:41:32] And so I'm so grateful to be here to reflect on, take a moment this morning on a rainy Friday,

[3:41:38] and reflect on our history collectively, and reflect on our responsibility collectively

[3:41:43] to do better.

[3:41:44] And we can only do that by knowing where we came from.

[3:41:46] And so I'm particularly grateful for this morning.

[3:41:49] Thank you very much.

[3:41:50] Thank you so much.

[3:42:01] Delegate Henson is being, in addition to being a legislator, you all know that she's

[3:42:06] an attorney.

[3:42:07] So court was on the schedule this morning, and so on behalf of delegate Henson, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

[3:42:17] Much has been said about the Rosenwald School.

[3:42:20] I want to tell you a little bit about parole.

[3:42:25] History, education, service, and dedication are the pillars that this community stands on.

[3:42:32] It is the foundation of this community.

[3:42:35] many in this room. I see promote that. I'm going to tell you just a little bit

[3:42:46] about our Greater Parole Community Association which Rhonda mentioned. I'm

[3:42:51] the acting chair kind of. But one of the things that we talk about when we talk

[3:43:01] about the Greater Parole Community Association is preserving our past, promoting our present,

[3:43:07] and protecting our future. We understand how important that is. As I look at, out at many of the

[3:43:16] pillars of this community, I thank you for your service. I thank you for making education important.

[3:43:23] I thank you for your dedication and I thank you for your faithfulness. Thank you.

[3:43:27] Good

[3:43:36] afternoon. I'm Lisa Radvian and I'm the county councilwoman for Anoradal County Council, Anoradal County District 6 which includes the City of Annapolis.

[3:43:44] It's really my honor and privilege to be here today.

[3:43:47] I'm going to sort of scratch my remarks because all the woman Pindal Charles actually took most of what I intended to say.

[3:43:54] So but I think there's still, I think one of the things about the Rosenwald schools is that there are so many different lessons to learn.

[3:44:02] And that is one of the reasons why the history is so important for us to keep.

[3:44:07] First of all, as Senator Alfred said, if you don't know where you've come from,

[3:44:12] how are you going to figure out where to go next.

[3:44:15] But before I came here this morning, I looked up a couple different folks that I think really reflect and

[3:44:25] embody one of the things that really started the Rosenwald schools.

[3:44:30] and that's allyship.

[3:44:32] The idea that Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald could come together and both see

[3:44:38] the need and both understand how deeply important education was and that that was not something

[3:44:44] that should be narrowed, that it should be expanded.

[3:44:48] I'm going to put on my glasses so I can read my notes here for a second.

[3:44:54] A suffragette, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, an African-American woman born and

[3:45:07] We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving a curse in its own soul. And I think this is something that not many people understood in the time that the Rosenwald schools began, the way that they were able to do so.

[3:45:30] in the way Booker T. Washington understood.

[3:45:33] I feel like more individuals are starting to learn this,

[3:45:36] but I think it's something we all need to continue to remember

[3:45:40] that as we are lifted up and as we grow ourselves,

[3:45:44] we need to continue to turn and look for others

[3:45:46] that need to be lifted up.

[3:45:49] And not just be the savior that comes in,

[3:45:52] but to really work alongside

[3:45:55] because really our community is all tied together.

[3:45:58] Even the people in your community that you might dislike the most, we are connected to them.

[3:46:04] Mayor Buckley joked at the beginning of his remarks that, you know, he was saying hello to all of his cousins.

[3:46:12] I used to teach world history and I would start on the day, the first day of class saying, I want to introduce you to all of your cousins, because we really are.

[3:46:23] We are all from the same family tree and we need to continue to lift up our whole family tree and bring in those that might have gone astray and say we love you, you are part of us and continue in that path.

[3:46:40] And I think that's what Julius Rosenwald was doing and I think that's what Booker T. Washington was doing.

[3:46:45] and I think that's what this community was really about, was lifting people up so that we could continue to move forward as a single family.

[3:46:54] Thank you very much.

[3:47:03] Happy preservation month.

[3:47:05] Isn't it appropriate that we're here today?

[3:47:08] I'm Jane Cox within Rundle County.

[3:47:10] I'm thrilled to be here today.

[3:47:11] Thank you for inviting me to this, including me.

[3:47:14] I'm the administrator for the county's historic preservation program.

[3:47:17] And I just want to thank you for the honorary Ph.D.

[3:47:20] But to my mother's chagrin, I only have a master's.

[3:47:24] So I started the county's historic marker program four years ago with a goal of recognizing

[3:47:29] the historic sites that are of local significance.

[3:47:32] Most preservation programs, a site must meet this national standard of significance to be protected.

[3:47:38] And what I've saw happening across the board was that these community landmarks were at

[3:47:43] these simple vernacular buildings, and you drive by the Rosenwald School and not blink

[3:47:47] and I, and not think, oh, it's the William Pekahouse, but these sites perhaps they've seen

[3:47:52] better days. They were being tossed aside, disregarded, neglected, forgotten by the system.

[3:47:58] And these are the places that I heard time and time again from citizens were places that

[3:48:02] mattered locally. They were so important to the fabric of community. They were the places that

[3:48:06] literally formed these historic communities. So I wanted to find a way to raise awareness

[3:48:11] about these places that were forgotten, hidden, marginalized. Those places that we drive

[3:48:16] and walk by every day, and I realize that naming a thing is the first step to protecting

[3:48:22] it and remembering it.

[3:48:23] So our sign program, four years in, now recognizes more than 60 historic sites across the

[3:48:29] county.

[3:48:29] These include both these brown roadside markers with a date on them, but also more elaborate

[3:48:34] interpretive signs, and the process keeps building as Lindra knows.

[3:48:40] So from buildings like the Rosenwald School to archaeology sites to historic cemeteries,

[3:48:44] This program has raised awareness about community history, and hopefully has made people more curious about the rich local stories that are around every corner.

[3:48:54] So early on with Lindra's encouragement, we placed the Rosenwald schools in Anorondo County at the top of our list for signage and recognition.

[3:49:02] So based on the latest research by Lindra, 23 were built in the county, at least 12 remained standing, two or three maybe more, which is a pretty astounding preservation level.

[3:49:13] and today we have placed signs brown roadside marker signs at almost every single

[3:49:19] Rosenwald school so I challenge you to go for a drive see if you can find them

[3:49:23] all so recognizing these schools though is bigger than just celebrating this

[3:49:28] single building or the architecture of a structure these school buildings were and

[3:49:32] remain the center and the heartbeat of significant historically black

[3:49:36] communities and it's important chapter of our local history I'm excited to see it

[3:49:40] brought forward. I hope these signs help lift it up and I hope these signs really help

[3:49:44] you know make sure people know that this is an important place. So congratulations.

[3:50:32] Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

[3:50:36] Malice, right, president of the Community Health Center at Perot. And thank you all, the woman chose for giving me this opportunity.

[3:50:45] Well, my story may be a little different from everything that has been said this morning. So I'm going to say very quickly, that's where it started for me. And many, many children in the many, many African-American children in the Perot community.

[3:50:59] For all school is where we went and went, we went to learn where there were teachers that

[3:51:06] taught us English, arithmetic.

[3:51:11] You don't even use the word arithmetic nowadays, arithmetic, spelling.

[3:51:16] We went to parole school to learn.

[3:51:19] And thanks be to God for the teachers that took the time and made sure that we learned.

[3:51:24] They taught us discipline, respect, love for the community, but most of all they prepared

[3:51:31] us for the future.

[3:51:32] So I say today, I thank God for those teachers because of those teachers given us a beginning

[3:51:38] and a start.

[3:51:40] I am here where I am today because of the education that was given to us back in the day.

[3:51:46] And when you went to school, you went to school to learn.

[3:51:49] You were disciplined?

[3:51:50] If you didn't do it right, you got to tap on the fingers on the hand.

[3:51:55] And the parents didn't come to school to fight with the teachers because you got to tap.

[3:51:58] You got another tap when you got home.

[3:52:01] So parole school was an instrument of just helping and providing and teaching and

[3:52:10] preparing the students for tomorrow today, where we are even though some of us are not here.

[3:52:17] Here I can say it was decades ago that I attended parole school.

[3:52:22] So we're just grateful for that, we're grateful for the love and we really appreciate

[3:52:27] you doing that, Ronda.

[3:52:29] And to all the teachers that have gone on and principal Mills, thank you, thank you for

[3:52:35] loving us enough to give us a chance to God be the glory.

[3:53:05] Good afternoon.

[3:53:07] Again, I am Mindra Pratt Marshall, and I'm the coordinator of the Rosenwald School Project.

[3:53:16] But I want to begin by thanking Cousin Ronda for organizing this event.

[3:53:22] I don't know how she can pull it off, but she did.

[3:53:26] I think it's been what nine months now.

[3:53:28] We have been working on this, and finally, thank God it's happening today.

[3:53:33] And I want to thank all the participants who, and guests, who's here today because

[3:53:40] without you, we wouldn't have extra footage for our video.

[3:53:45] Many thanks to Pastor Owens and the trustees of this great church, Mount Olive, African

[3:53:53] American, African Methodist Episcopal Church, for allowing us to use this space today.

[3:54:00] I really bring you greetings, not from parole, but from the Galesville Community Center

[3:54:09] Organization, Inc., where we are good stewards of another Roosevelt School in South County.

[3:54:18] In 2022, we were awarded a grant from the Maryland Heritage Area Authority to conduct research,

[3:54:27] document and conduct or accounts of the history of the former school houses here in Anoronder County.

[3:54:39] But today I can't stand here and just say it's all about me because it's not like to

[3:54:47] introduce the team that's behind this. Mr. Roger Marshall who's the act and president of the

[3:54:54] Galesville Community Center Organization,

[3:54:57] Mr. Valentino Owens.

[3:55:00] Who is the photographer for this project and many others? And so, as Mr. Anthony Smith, who's

[3:55:08] a videographer for this project, but we couldn't do it alone. And so, we have trusted colleagues,

[3:55:15] such as Ms. Jane Pots, Heather Earths, and Dr.

[3:55:26] thank you.

[3:55:30] Dr. Carl Bedson, thank you. If it wasn't for you all, we could not do the work that we do.

[3:55:38] Yes,

[3:55:42] I also want to thank we had many team members, leaders that supported this project.

[3:55:50] every county had a team leader and so we want to thank all of them which include

[3:55:56] Kazimanda for the plural school and we also want to thank the brave students that

[3:56:07] when we called on them they said yes and so we have Miss Cropper we have three

[3:56:14] siblings, cousin Betty, cousin Alfrida, cousin Alfred, all from the Brown family.

[3:56:24] We also have Miss White and Mr. Harris, and yeah, I call her first, and so they will

[3:56:34] be needing us after this program downstairs to give their full account of their experience

[3:56:41] with the Rosewood schools, okay?

[3:56:44] So thank you so much.

[3:56:45] We greatly appreciate this and cousin Rhonda,

[3:56:49] I don't have the body or about this anymore.

[3:56:52] Because we will incorporate today's event

[3:56:55] in what the documentary, thank you.

[3:57:03] Thank you all so much.

[3:57:05] Just a couple of other observations.

[3:57:07] I do want to recognize Heather Earths

[3:57:10] from a visit in the Napa Santa Ronda County

[3:57:12] and she's been a great supporter

[3:57:14] and a blessing for our efforts as well.

[3:57:17] Thank you Heather.

[3:57:19] I want to let everyone know that a doctor,

[3:57:22] Reverend Dr. Ronald Owens, who's our pastor here at Mount Olive,

[3:57:26] is away at his daughter's graduation.

[3:57:29] So otherwise he would be here.

[3:57:31] He would have been here.

[3:57:32] We had the first date, but he wanted me to let you all know that.

[3:57:36] I am not a product of the Rosenwald School here on the corner,

[3:57:42] But my dad is a product of that school and my mother who's from the

[3:57:49] enclave of Queenstown in the severing community attended the Queenstown

[3:57:54] Rosenwald School. So I feel like at least I'm an emeritus member I guess of

[3:57:59] the Rosenwald School family. But I just want to thank everybody for being here.

[3:58:04] Now at this time of course, Miss Mitchell-Stevens and our public

[3:58:08] information officer and I were trying to figure out how to unveil this sign but what

[3:58:13] I think we will do Miss Stevenson, we're going to unveil that sign right here virtually.

[3:58:20] And we'll all, I guess at the count of three, raise our hands and pull our hands down and

[3:58:26] simulate what we would do if we were pulling the sign down.

[3:58:30] But at some point, I guess even after this, maybe we, some of us can walk over and do the

[3:58:36] official signing unveiling. So unless anyone else has a better suggestion, I'm all ears.

[3:58:45] Just let me know. But at this time, we will do the five, four, three, two, one, unveil.

[3:59:06] And at this time, Reverend Swan will give us the blessing of the sign, the virtual sign,

[3:59:15] and the documentary as well as the benediction.

[3:59:19] Thank you all again, so very, very, very much.

[3:59:29] Thank you all to one of the Charls and to all the distinguished persons who are here, protocol

[3:59:33] being established.

[3:59:34] I won't call all the names.

[3:59:35] I just want to know, representing a pastor, and now, we're so glad that you all are here

[3:59:40] and a part of our community, whether you're physically here or not, you very much are,

[3:59:44] and we appreciate all that you've done and your presence here today.

[3:59:47] There will be those of us who will virtually go out there, and a virtually means in

[3:59:52] truth, then in truth, there will be those of us who will go out there, and we'll be able

[3:59:56] to do that as well.

[3:59:57] but in here, sheltered from the...

[4:00:00] Forms on the outside, we come for some encouragement, and I have it in the words of prayer and benediction. Let us pray. Father, we thank you for this opportunity and the blessings of this day. We pray now that you were granted your blessings upon these your people as we go out into the world that's out there. But thank you for a few moments of reflection here and words of encouragement, words of fellowship and words of joining together even all the more to do great work that you have for our hands to do. And now Lord, we ask that you bless these your people.

[4:00:29] And as we be dismissed to carry on the conversations,

[4:00:32] may we not just share them with ourselves,

[4:00:34] but share them with one another,

[4:00:35] and share them with a world out there

[4:00:37] that needs to continue to tell the story.

[4:00:39] But because we have the details,

[4:00:41] may we be willing to share as well as to work.

[4:00:44] And now the benediction may the Lord bless you and keep you,

[4:00:46] causes face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you.

[4:00:51] The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you

[4:00:53] and give you peace now and always.

[4:00:55] Everybody say amen.

[4:00:57] God bless you today. Glad that you were here.

[4:01:12] I'm Rhonda McCoy, professional standards manager for the Annapolis Police Department.

[4:01:17] I am pleased to announce the launch of our new complaint and compliment portal, where

[4:01:21] members of the public can make a complaint or compliment the exemplary work of the five

[4:01:25] minute women of the Annapolis Police Department.

[4:01:28] A key feature of the new portal is that it will automatically send out notifications to

[4:01:33] a complaint through email or text messaging when a complaint moves to different stages

[4:01:38] other investigation when the investigation is concluded or when there's a finding in the investigation.

[4:01:44] You can access the new portal by going to our webpage www.anapolis.gov backslashpolice.

[4:01:52] At the top of the page, click on the words complaint and compliment portal. You will then be directed

[4:01:59] to the portal. Once you are at the portal, click Create a New Entry and follow the directions

[4:02:08] for submitting a complaint or compliment.

[4:02:13] Chief Jackson would like the citizens of Annapolis

[4:02:15] to know that we take all complaints seriously and that they are handled in a professional

[4:02:22] and careful manner. We also love hearing from you when you are pleased with the performance

[4:02:29] of our office serves while they're protecting and serving you in anapolis.

[4:02:33] Thank you.

[4:02:55] Hello, I'm Ken White with the Annapolis Fire Department.

[4:02:59] This week's theme for Fire Prevention Week is

[4:03:01] serve of safety in the kitchen.

[4:03:03] So this holiday season, here are some tips from the Annapolis Fire Department

[4:03:06] that can help you serve of safety in the kitchen.

[4:03:10] Tip 1. When frying, boiling, or simmering,

[4:03:14] stay in the kitchen, never leave the home and always use the time.

[4:03:18] Tip 2. If a grease fire starts, never try to extinguish with water. Use a lid to cover

[4:03:25] over the pot, turn the burner off, and wait until the pan cools down.

[4:03:30] Tip 3. Always keep your cleaning and cooking surfaces free of any clutter.

[4:03:39] And tip 4. Remember to always keep a 3 foot distance around the cooking area a 3 feet kids

[4:03:45] zone as I like to call them. And remember, if you're unable to control the fire, get out of

[4:03:52] your house and dial 911 immediately. And never forget, every month to test your smoke alarms,

[4:03:58] have an escape plan and practice your escape plan. Unattended cooking is a leading cause of home fires

[4:04:05] and home fire injuries. For more information on tips on how you can serve up safety in the kitchen,

[4:04:10] visit www.firepreventionweeks.org.

[4:04:15] Stay safe, Annapolis.

[4:09:03] Capitan Zapata, del cuerpo de manveros, aquí de la ciudad de Nápolis. En esta semana está

[4:09:09] más blano de prevención de incendios en la cocina. La causa principal de incendios en casa proviene

[4:09:14] del uso de la cocina. La causa principal de incendios en la cocina es falta de su previsión.

[4:09:22] Punto número 1. Con usted cocinando, use un reloj arma automático. Punto número 2. Siempre mantenga

[4:09:29] una tapa cerca o a la mano cuando esté cocinando. Si está cocinando con aceite o manteca y toma fuego,

[4:09:37] ponga la tapa sobre el sartén y espere que se infrien. Punto número 3, aseguro

[4:09:42] de mantener una área limpia y organizada cuando esté cocinando. Y Punto número 4,

[4:09:50] esté seguro que mantenga una zona libre de niños por lo menos de tres pies o un metro.

[4:10:00] En ese caso, hay un inseño que está fuera de su control, llame al 9.11. inmediatamente. Acuérse de

[4:10:06] probar sus detecores de humo mensualmente, hago un plan de escape también, y

[4:12:09] practiclo. Mantente

[4:12:27] es una de los más grandes asesos, las más grandes economías de las vías,

[4:12:30] pero también es una de los grandes asesosos.

[4:12:34] Hemos visto eso por el día de la日na.

[4:12:36] En el día de la日na hemos estado haciendo un paso

[4:12:37] del gobierno de la subvención que el gobierno se llevó a mi height.

[4:12:40] Se ha llegado a la marca del trabajo y ha llegado a los más voluidos

[4:12:45] en la ciudad.

[4:12:47] Los propios propiosos son los de esto.

[4:12:49] Se han dado un par de los servicios, pero cuando llegan la tercienda

[4:12:51] la tercienda es una vez en un evento de la visión de la ciudad.

[4:12:55] La gente que viene para ellos, tenemos que encontrar los cambios de su propia house de trabajo.

[4:13:00] Tenemos afectaciones de la Comunidad y de la Universidad de El FEREF, para poder nos dedicarles

[4:13:05] a las negocios de la empresa aquí en el廈 delante.

[4:13:07] Senator Elfroth textó a mí el día de que, una idea en una queernesses,יכamos

[4:13:13] a la actividad si accedemos a la economía de la Comunidad, se捏jen las caras de las negocios

[4:13:18] que estos deinos yazos pueden usar. Y me

[4:13:20] voy a sacar los estudios, produce como que seleton entre los documentos de la conspiratura.

[4:13:23] y yo quiero decir, tenemos un gran equipo aquí,

[4:13:27] estamos en Christianquibia, estamos en our emergency management team,

[4:13:30] aquí hay muchas de las personas de eso,

[4:13:32] estamos en la economía de las personas,

[4:13:33] que van a ayudar a las discusiones,

[4:13:36] llegan a estas asociaciones,

[4:13:37] como siempre es posible.

[4:13:39] Esto hace el caso para proteger el sitio.

[4:13:43] Estamos en el estado, ahora,

[4:13:45] volviendo a dar $3,000,000 de las $18,000,000

[4:13:49] en el estado que ha comido a este proyecto increíble.

[4:13:50] el proyecto.

[4:13:51] Estamos haciendo un $19 mil y $1 mil de la situación del mundo.

[4:13:55] Eso no solo ha habido un gran barrio, pero ha habido un barrio, un barrio, un barrio,

[4:14:02] el próximo catastrophic weather evento y ha habido un gran espacio publico, un park en

[4:14:08] CityDark, un park spray, de cosas para personas cuando llegan a ir.

[4:14:12] Así, ha habido la ciudad de Resilienta en el mismo tiempo que ha habido la ciudad más atractiva.

[4:14:17] So we want to thank the state for their support on that,

[4:14:20] especially this tight budget that's coming up now.

[4:14:23] And I'm going to now hand it off to the county

[4:14:25] to let you know where to go to access this money.

[4:14:29] And I want to thank the businesses for their patience

[4:14:32] through this time.

[4:14:32] It was a tough thing to go through.

[4:14:34] And we know that they're veterans of this,

[4:14:36] but I think this one hurt particularly bad.

[4:14:38] So we want to make sure we get them back

[4:14:40] on their feet as soon as possible.

[4:14:42] Thank you.

[4:14:43] Amy.

[4:14:45] Thank you, Mayor.

[4:14:46] Ami Gowen, Presidente y CEO de Anorando Economic Development Corporation.

[4:14:51] Y para los que no saben, nuestra organización existe para ayudar a la comunidad

[4:14:56] en Anorando County y en la ciudad de Anapolis.

[4:14:58] So whether it's

[4:15:00] So I help them start up or grow, or unfortunately, in situations like this, we're here to help businesses. So when Mayor Buckley called me yesterday, and when Senator Alfred reached out and said, can you deploy some grant funding that is available, it was a resounding yes from both myself and county executives to your pitman. So I just wanted to say thank you so much to Senator Alfred and Velligit Jones for their leadership last session to make the state's video lottery terminal funds available for

[4:15:29] disaster situations like this and our organization is Nimble and can deploy and can deploy them quickly

[4:15:36] and so we are in the process of standing up our grant program it is a disaster relief program

[4:15:43] we will offer up to $50,000 for businesses that have damage due to flooding so it can be used for

[4:15:50] things like equipment, property damage and some income loss. We will have information on our website

[4:15:58] right today. You can visit that at A-A-E-D-C.org or myaRundalbiz.org. And we will be taking applications

[4:16:08] starting on Tuesday. So, again, thank you very much. We stand ready to support the businesses

[4:16:16] of this city. And I am going to now turn it over to delegate Jones to say a few.

[4:16:21] Thank you so much.

[4:16:24] Thank you all for being here again. My name is Delegate Dana Jones. I am in the House

[4:16:30] of Delegates here for anapolis and I just really want to thank the incredible work of my

[4:16:36] friend, Chief Simmons, the Annapolis Office of Emergency Management as well as Emergency

[4:16:41] Respondor's Countywide. With over 5 feet of storm surge, over 17,000 left without power

[4:16:48] in the region, these heroes once again stepped up as they always do and answered the call.

[4:16:54] From the storm, water rescues to ensuring infants had the equipment they needed, the

[4:17:01] community is indebted to you and I sincerely thank the Office of Emergency Management.

[4:17:05] As many of you know, this week in the legislature, we kicked out the 446 legislative session,

[4:17:12] bringing an additional 185 legislators and countless staff to my district, district 30A for the next 90 days.

[4:17:21] This storm and the flood waters brought by it really struck many of my colleagues and showed them firsthand the importance of the work that we are doing in the legislature to protect our communities from future storms.

[4:17:32] With a mayor's emergency declaration, as Amy just explained, anapolis mall businesses

[4:17:38] and nonprofits are now able to receive vote funding for up to 50,000 in aid to mitigate

[4:17:44] damage from this week's storms.

[4:17:46] I want to thank my friend, Mayor Buckley, his leadership in unlocking these funds and my partners

[4:17:52] in friend who I stand shoulder to shoulder with on both days like this and bad ones.

[4:17:59] Sarah Alfred, I am forever grateful to my friend who I work with every day.

[4:18:04] We in 2022 authored and passed legislation that will allow the flexibility for funds to be used this way.

[4:18:13] Tragically, localized severe flooding and wind events were the exact disasters that the Senator and

[4:18:19] I considered when writing this legislation three years ago.

[4:18:22] We stood in parole, shoulder to shoulder, and help that community clean up after an EF2 tornado.

[4:18:32] And today we're here again, heartbroken by the damage to our community, our small businesses and so many others.

[4:18:38] In addition to the funding to help businesses recover from storms like this, we must also invest in resiliency projects to help stop damage from rising flood levels prior to it happening.

[4:18:50] This week we saw compromise streets stay open for hours longer than it normally would have.

[4:18:56] Just because of the early deployments of storm and water management infrastructure.

[4:19:01] I'm so proud to have worked with my district partners to bring millions of dollars home and

[4:19:05] state funding that will go towards permanent city dock resiliency infrastructure to prevent future flooding.

[4:19:11] And I am eager to see the city complete this project in the coming years.

[4:19:14] I'm so proud of everything that you all have worked on.

[4:19:16] With that, I want to introduce my dear friend, my partner, in the Senate, on so many issues affecting Annapolis, and Anorondle County, Senator Sarah Elfrath.

[4:19:28] Good morning.

[4:19:30] I have the great privilege of representing you in the State Senate, but I also stand here as a neighbor downtown.

[4:19:36] I live just right behind us.

[4:19:38] And so whenever we anticipate rising season storms, my first thought is always going to be to my neighbors right here, to Ryan and to Alice and to the big cheese.

[4:19:48] and those who are most affected whenever we have a large storm.

[4:19:52] Now climate change is happening.

[4:19:54] I share it with my colleagues on the Senate floor regularly,

[4:19:57] and it's happening right here in the city of Annapolis.

[4:20:02] We are going to continue to see these national disasters impact our communities. That's the bad news. But the good news is, with every tornado and every flood, we get better. We get better at cutting the red tape. We get better at responding. We get better at being there for our neighbors. And so we learned lessons with every ensuing disaster after the tornado that devastated parole and Alderman-Ronda Pindell Charles' district. After we see in the record floods,

[4:20:32] We learned what went wrong and what we can do better.

[4:20:35] And we learned that we needed a more nimble response.

[4:20:38] And our state law did not allow at that time for that nimble response.

[4:20:43] We needed a state state of emergency.

[4:20:45] And so we changed the law to say when we have these localized microstorms,

[4:20:49] these natural disasters and small scale that don't meet the level of the state of emergency

[4:20:54] but are still devastating for local communities.

[4:20:57] we need to be more responsive.

[4:20:58] We changed the law so that we could open up

[4:21:01] those precious economic development dollars,

[4:21:03] not just to our small businesses impacted,

[4:21:06] but also to our nonprofits that are so important

[4:21:09] to our community.

[4:21:10] So in the last flood,

[4:21:12] and I've had a couple since I've been your senator,

[4:21:14] the Maritime Museum over in East Fort,

[4:21:16] took on nearly two feet of water,

[4:21:17] and we're not eligible for this funding.

[4:21:20] We changed the law in order so that they could

[4:21:22] avail themselves of this support.

[4:21:24] We cannot hold back the tide, but we can be more responsive to our neighbors on their

[4:21:29] worst days.

[4:21:30] I'm so grateful to the City of Annapolis and especially the Office of Emergency Management

[4:21:34] to the County Economic Development Team to the Governor's Office, who took a dozen

[4:21:39] calls from me over the last few days.

[4:21:41] We might have gavled in the legislative session, but I was on the phone with Ryan and Alice

[4:21:46] in the Governor's Office about every hour over the last three days to make sure they had

[4:21:50] everything they need.

[4:21:51] and so we can cut through this bureaucratic red tape and make sure our small

[4:21:54] businesses and our non-profits get everything they need to recover and re-open.

[4:22:00] And with that I'm proud to welcome my partner, Alice Estrada, the CEO of the

[4:22:05] Naples Maritime Museum. Thank you.

[4:22:10] Thank you Sarah, I'm very much on so many

[4:22:13] levels, Alice Estrada, and I represent the Naples Maritime Museum in the

[4:22:19] community of these port, when city dock floods we flood.

[4:22:23] We took an 18 inches of water in this last event in the building.

[4:22:28] We were able to elevate all our contents, so no content loss.

[4:22:33] But still, 18 inches of water in the building will involve days and days of

[4:22:39] drying and sanitizing and drying and sanitizing.

[4:22:43] As we all know, water can be so damaging both to the health of the building and the infrastructure.

[4:22:51] I really do want to commend Senator Alfred and delegate Jones because the last flooding event in October of 2021, I was so frustrated and disappointed that I was ineligible for these funds.

[4:23:03] And sure enough, they told me we're going to get that changed and sure enough, they did.

[4:23:08] it. Unfortunately, I have another flooding event to make this available. But I also want

[4:23:14] to thank them because they also sponsored a bond bill for us to figure out some short-term

[4:23:19] and long-term solutions for sea level rise at the Annapolis Maritime Museum. If you don't

[4:23:25] know, we are a beloved community anchor. We want to figure out a way that we can stay viable,

[4:23:32] But these flooding events that are having more and more often is not sustainable for us.

[4:23:39] It's very, very expensive for us to recover as I'm sure I speak for all the nonprofits.

[4:23:45] Nonprofits are businesses too.

[4:23:47] They just take their proceeds and put them back into their mission.

[4:23:51] But yeah, I feel the pain of all of my neighboring businesses downtown and I just want to say thank

[4:23:58] Thank you again for the support and the widespread city support as well.

[4:24:03] Thank you.

[4:24:09] Good morning.

[4:24:10] My name is Steven Rice from the Economic Development Manager for the City of Annapolis.

[4:24:15] I just want to take a minute to talk very briefly about the negative economic impact that a flood

[4:24:20] can have on a business.

[4:24:22] When flooding happens, you can have property damage, you can have equipment loss,

[4:24:30] you can

[4:24:31] that a business is closed, you have a loss of revenue.

[4:24:35] So there are four different kinds of negative financial impacts that can happen to a business when you have an event such as this.

[4:24:43] There are also some other issues when flood waters rise.

[4:24:48] And in particular, of course, businesses have to clear out the water, and they have to clean up the debris.

[4:24:53] But in addition to that, they may have repairs that require, if there's

[4:25:02] And the city is committed to expediting those permits as quickly as possible. The other thing

[4:25:10] from a health and an environmental standpoint is that when flood waters rise, you can have

[4:25:17] a sewage backup, sometimes it releases fuel, and other solvents, cleaners, and other chemicals

[4:25:24] vehicles that these businesses have on their premises.

[4:25:28] The other potential hazard is that when the flood water is rise, water coming in from

[4:25:36] the creek, you don't know exactly what's in that water.

[4:25:39] So you don't know what that water is bringing into the business in addition to not knowing

[4:25:43] how it's impacting what's already inside the business.

[4:25:47] So a couple things just, I would like to say, it's important obviously for all of us to work

[4:25:54] together, and I think this is an example of city, county, and state cooperation.

[4:26:02] When this event happened, the county was on site within about 30 minutes.

[4:26:09] The city had pre-gamed the event before it even happened, and we have obvious state support

[4:26:15] that has come in to make funds available for these impacted businesses.

[4:26:21] So I'm going to stop here, the last thing I want to say though, is that we want these businesses to be up and running as soon as possible.

[4:26:31] That is our goal. And we also want to get this right so that these businesses patrons are also protected.

[4:26:39] At this point, I'd like to introduce Mr. Ryan Lamey. He's the owner of Pips Quick Plug. Pips has excellent hot dogs.

[4:26:47] And it's right over there.

[4:26:56] Good morning, everybody.

[4:26:58] Please be with me.

[4:26:59] I'm not a public speaker.

[4:27:00] I just make delicious chili dogs.

[4:27:05] Just where do you begin?

[4:27:07] We've been here 15 years.

[4:27:08] We've dealt with nuisance flooding.

[4:27:10] That's just something we deal with here on Dox Street.

[4:27:14] Greatly looking forward to the revitalization of Dox Street.

[4:27:19] With what we dealt with on Tuesday.

[4:27:20] today. I don't think any of us were prepared for it. We lost more than half of our equipment

[4:27:29] inside product, the revenue that we'll lose. It's looking like we could be closed a week,

[4:27:37] maybe two weeks.

[4:27:41] We've got employees, and I'm speaking on behalf of all the small businesses

[4:27:44] downtown. That's not mine. We've got employees that depend on us.

[4:27:50] It's just we put everything

[4:27:51] we have into these businesses.

[4:27:58] It's just I

[4:28:02] can't bear with me.

[4:28:06] Just thank you very much

[4:28:07] again for the mayor to Senator Alfred's just this is it'll be a huge burden lifted off of us

[4:28:16] just knowing that this this financial aid is going to be made available. It's just it's a lot

[4:28:22] it's a lot to deal with. It's it's it's our entire lives and again I speak only half of everybody here

[4:28:29] on Doc Street in the downtown area and again thank you to the community. There's been a lot

[4:28:35] of outreach just coming in saying you know just asking how we're doing it means a lot.

[4:28:42] And you know again just thank you very much. Great way to share.

[4:28:52] And so if the city doc had been

[4:28:53] complete on Tuesday none of these businesses would have been flooded. So we are looking to make

[4:29:00] this happen sooner rather than later. We start construction at City Dock. It's not a case of

[4:29:08] if there's going to be the next Isabelle or will there be. It is going to come. There's no question.

[4:29:15] We just had the hottest year on record for the planet. Catastrophic weather events are going to be

[4:29:20] a way of life and we have to deal with it. We want the State Capital of Maryland.

[4:29:28] We want a

[4:29:31] So, but we have to come up with the short-term solutions.

[4:29:35] Another solution besides the barrier that we deployed next week is we're going to work

[4:29:39] with a delegate manager Jones and Senator Elfrith on getting some money for an idea called

[4:29:45] these door dams, a Dutch door dams, for around $5,000 we could fit out a lot of these doorways

[4:29:53] and they would have some protection up to a certain point.

[4:29:56] and we have to sort of check, you know.

[4:30:00] The vulnerabilities of that. But we think we could probably provide 10 or 20 businesses with that kind of thing. We could provide the maritime museum with that kind of thing. And it might be a way to get them to stay up longer. The barrier was great because we kept traffic flowing for four extra hours yesterday. The main artery into the city for export. So I want to thank you for covering this because these businesses are so important to us. Pips is an institution. Everybody loves this man.

[4:30:29] and everybody loves that restaurant so I'm looking forward to getting in there

[4:30:33] getting my next hot dog we are open for questions if you have any questions of

[4:30:39] any of us there are people here from the county state city please go ahead

[4:30:48] I

[4:30:49] will ask you if you might know that this is uh thank

[4:30:57] you this is Chris

[4:30:58] Jakubiak Department of Planning and Zoning

[4:31:06] 17 of renotuses were posted

[4:31:11] roughly 13 are still posted so we've worked the department is working in

[4:31:18] coordination with the County Department of Health to move those forward.

[4:31:26] Some of

[4:31:27] the damage is extensive, equipment failures, wet floors obviously, wet carpets,

[4:31:35] the walls and foundations internal to the buildings are absorbing of water. Some

[4:31:41] water still standing in some structures. That's the typical set of damage we're seeing.

[4:31:52] I know that some work that needs to be done on the hill. So if you have any specific

[4:31:57] questions for Senator Alvaro, Delegate Dana Jones, let us know because they told me they

[4:32:02] were on a tight schedule today.

[4:32:11] We'll watch until we're expecting 3.5 to 4 feet of tidal

[4:32:17] and everybody knows that our problem here is tidal surge.

[4:32:20] It is water pushing up the bay into the storm drains

[4:32:23] and up through the greats and then into the businesses

[4:32:25] or under compromised street stopping traffic.

[4:32:28] So that's our problem.

[4:32:30] More than rain, it is tidal surge.

[4:32:33] So we are going to watch to see if we're going to need

[4:32:36] to deploy it.

[4:32:37] We believe it's going to happen earlier in the morning

[4:32:40] when it's not such a heavily traffic time.

[4:32:43] So we're still making that call.

[4:32:45] so it's still a fluid assessment.

[4:32:53] So we're waiting on a big FEMA grant, so the question was,

[4:33:00] is all the funding secured for the CityDoc project? We need every dollar, and those dollars

[4:33:08] come in millions of dollars. We're doing a $90 billion project here to re-imagine this whole area,

[4:33:15] add additional parking out in the garage. The garage is finished. We start working on the utilities

[4:33:20] here this year and then we move forward after vote show to fence off that area and raise city

[4:33:25] dock and then button it up at the end of 20 in the middle of 26. We're nearly there but we need

[4:33:32] our state partners, we need our federal partners to really make it happen. Thank you.

[4:33:38] I think you

[4:33:39] know in the range of 10 to 20 something like that so but we're pretty close and we feel you know we

[4:33:46] We have the relationships and we had a lot of legislators show up and couldn't get into

[4:33:52] our hotels on Tuesday night because it was flooded in front of the hotel there.

[4:33:56] So I think that makes the case for us and that's going to help our delegation go to bat

[4:34:01] for us like they always do.

[4:34:32] So we're definitely not expecting it to be anything like we're expecting

[4:34:51] that to be an issue

[4:34:55] with this upcoming storm.

[4:34:57] We think that the ground water is

[4:35:00] As is receded, so we will be okay through this as long as it doesn't do anything we don't expect. So 3.5 will be okay too. So that is on the groundwater question. On access to the funds, I'll let someone from the county come and speak to that.

[4:35:19] Great. So I think in answer to that question, if there were to be another state of emergency declared for this upcoming storm, then yes, those funds would be available. But as the mayor just indicated, he doesn't expect there would be another emergency situation.

[4:35:32] Correct,

[4:35:41] that is correct, yes.

[4:35:49] We'll get someone to look out.

[4:35:52] The question was how long will the state of emergency last?

[4:35:54] My name is David Mandel.

[4:35:56] I'm Deputy Director of the City of Annapolis Office of Emergency Management by city code

[4:36:00] and state statute.

[4:36:02] I understand the declaration of emergency last 30 days unless renewed by council.

[4:36:10] And I can't say enough about the team that we're out here in the rain on that night.

[4:36:15] And the way they cleaned up afterwards, if you came to the City of Annapolis, you would

[4:36:19] I think nothing happened.

[4:36:21] The only way you would know anything happened in this city is if you happen to press your

[4:36:24] nose up against the window and see the damage that some of these businesses have been affected

[4:36:29] by.

[4:36:30] But the team were out in full force.

[4:36:32] We relocated residents from a homeless shelter.

[4:36:37] We moved them across town because they had a fire in the middle of the storm.

[4:36:41] We relocated 40 to 50 people.

[4:36:43] We got the water moved out of here by the afternoon, so receded the pumps kicked in when

[4:36:50] it was at the level that they could handle, and we were back in business and so we've

[4:36:55] got some people back in their feet, but we need to get everybody back in their feet because

[4:36:59] the business community is just a bigger part of the community than the residential community

[4:37:04] in the city and we want to support them, we want to be there for them and they know that

[4:37:10] that state, the county, and the city have their back, so we

[4:37:17] appreciate you all being there.

[4:37:18] Thank you so much.

[4:37:19] Thank you.

[4:37:20] Thank you.

[4:37:20] And I do have the names of all of our speakers printed out for you so you get the spellings,

[4:37:25] right?

[4:37:25] We also have a flyer with the QR code for folks to get to the application.

[4:37:33] Thank you.

[4:37:34] Thank you.

[4:39:25] Annapolis, winter weather can make it hard to plan your day, but with snowpads, the city's

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[4:39:33] With snowpads, you can track the city's road, salting, and plowing operations in real-time.

[4:39:39] See which streets have been cleared, which routes were in progress, and plan your day with

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[4:39:50] you know when your streets are being treated, so you can make better decisions for your travels.

[4:39:55] Available on the City of Annapolis website, snowpads is easy to use.

[4:40:00] what is the best way to use and design with you in mind, simply check the map to see real-time updates on snow plow and salting activity in your area. Stay informed on city efforts to keep roads safe and be prepared before heading out during a snow emergency. Stay safe and stay informed with snowpads. Visit our website to learn more and check your roads during snow events.

[4:40:39] Hey, get out of here. Looks like after due proper transportation and training again.

[4:40:44] If you put your trash out, please place it into a bag and tie the bag up and place it

[4:40:52] into a watertight receptacle with your address placed on it so they can be seen from the

[4:40:56] street that the end of your problem for proper road collection.

[4:41:00] As a matter of fact, the recycle is done all wrong also.

[4:41:03] If you decide to place your recycling in a bag, please bring your bag to the receptacle and

[4:41:08] take all items out of the bag and place them into the can and make sure the lid is closed.

[4:41:12] Please.

[4:41:13] Let's bring back in the trash master, so I can show you things that are not recyclable.

[4:41:18] She's 40% non-recyclable right now.

[4:41:22] This is non-recyclable, this is non-recyclable.

[4:41:25] The metal utensils are non-recyclable.

[4:41:28] Please be mindful of your trash and recycle placement to avoid fines.

[4:41:38] Winter storms at Annapolis can be unpredictable.

[4:41:41] But with snowpads, you're always one step ahead.

[4:41:44] snow paths gives you real-time updates on road conditions whether you're at

[4:41:49] home or on the go check which streets have been salted or plowed so you know

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[4:41:59] you're headed to work or running errands no which routes are clear before you

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[4:42:17] Visit anapolis.gov slash snowpads to track your roads in real time.

[4:42:25] Imagine the future of anapolis

[4:42:27] as a place where you can walk safely from your home to a shopping center. Imagine being able to bike

[4:42:34] to a job from one end of the city to the other comfortably. Imagine choosing to take public

[4:42:40] transit even though you own a car just because the service is that good. That's the city we want

[4:42:47] to move towards and to do that we need to think about both policy in terms of how we guide our

[4:42:54] transportation investments. They're also the design of those, how they're integrated with the city.

[4:43:01] It's about connecting all of these places looking at the entire city as a place that you should be

[4:43:07] able to get around without a personal vehicle safely and to do that we need more mobility options.

[4:43:16] Mobility is a foundational theme of the NAMPLUS head 2040 Comprehensive Plan and it's a

[4:43:21] distinguishing element of this comprehensive plan in comparison to all of our past comprehensive

[4:43:26] plans including the one from just 10 years ago. But why is that? Well there's a recognition today

[4:43:32] that mobility has an oversized impact positively affecting the whole range of

[4:43:38] bigger issues in anapolis from a public health safety and well-being,

[4:43:43] equitable access to opportunities, economic development, community development,

[4:43:49] and environmental sustainability and resilience. When you add up all of these

[4:43:53] things, dollar for dollar, the investments we make in our mobility infrastructure

[4:43:58] will pay huge dividends across all of these outcomes here in Annapolis.

[4:44:03] When we talk about our mobility network,

[4:44:05] we're talking about our roadways and the vehicles we use to get around,

[4:44:09] and both of these can be significantly improved to benefit our health,

[4:44:14] our communities, and ultimately environment.

[4:44:17] We spend so much time on roadways getting around Annapolis,

[4:44:21] they should be as safe and comfortable as possible for all users,

[4:44:25] whether you're driving, walking, riding a bike,

[4:44:27] taking transit. They also connect communities to commerce, to school, to jobs, to parks.

[4:44:35] One, we need a complete sidewalk network. It says, you leave your home on foot to go somewhere,

[4:44:43] you can get there on a connected sidewalk network that is adequately wide. We need

[4:44:48] bike infrastructure that allows you to bike around the city in a way that makes you feel comfortable

[4:44:55] and safe. Today's city has a variety of different bike infrastructures.

[4:45:15] The mobility vision of Annapolis Head 2040 comprehensive plan is not necessarily something that will take years to implement. In fact, many of the key pieces are being set in motion today. Our downtown circulator shuttle has been rebranded with improvements. The mobility vision of Annapolis Head 2040 comprehensive plan is not necessarily something that will take years to implement.

[4:45:29] way-finding, it's still free and we've seen increased ridership as a result.

[4:45:35] We recently launched our first micro-mobility program in Annapolis which

[4:45:38] includes an e-bike and e-scooter share system. If we can implement these kinds of

[4:45:44] new ideas in a connected way, we're going to have a transportation system in

[4:45:48] Annapolis that is both safe and comfortable and efficient and ultimately

[4:45:55] environmentally responsible for the city as a whole. Mobility can truly be a

[4:46:02] vehicle for the future success of Annapolis and I'm excited for you to see

[4:46:06] how this is communicated in Annapolis in the 2040 Comprehensive Plan. I'm Eric

[4:46:10] Lachinsky, Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the City of Annapolis. Thank you

[4:46:14] for watching.

[4:46:26] Nice to meet you everybody. Thank you for being here today. Amazing.

[4:46:31] So my English is not the best, but my Spanish is beautiful, A-2-3-4-6-7-A.

[4:48:29] We cover it, since we are taking advantage of it, and we look at the recycling.

[4:48:35] This bag does not have to be in the recycling.

[4:48:39] And we empty all this, again we place the cap.

[4:48:43] So we are going to ask you to return our garbage monster.

[4:48:48] And we are going to look what it has to see if it can be recycled or not.

[4:48:52] This, in the end, can not be recycled.

[4:49:43] Hi, I'm Eric Lachinski, Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the City of Annapolis, and I've been working on Annapolis ahead in 2040 on comprehensive plan update over the last few years.

[4:49:53] I'm excited to finally release a draft plan for your review and comment.

[4:49:59] The comprehensive...

[4:50:00] The plan is specific to the Annapolis of today, but it sets the vision for the Annapolis of tomorrow. In fact, the next 20 years. What you'll find in the plan is a wide range of goals, recommended actions to make Annapolis a better place, covering every imaginable aspect of the city we live in. We'll be kicking off the 90-day public review and comment period on June 15 at the planning commission's regularly scheduled meeting Thursday evening, starting at 7 p.m.

[4:50:29] But there will be many ways to participate in reviewing and providing comments on the

[4:50:35] comprehensive plan.

[4:50:36] The best way is to go to naplesshead2040.com where you'll find special website with information

[4:50:43] about the plan, ways of providing comments, information about every chapter in the plan,

[4:50:50] and ways to contact planning staff if you have questions.

[4:50:54] Throughout that 90-day comment period, we'll be doing many presentations to different

[4:50:59] boards and commissions. We have a series of webinars scheduled and we'll be doing

[4:51:04] in-person meetings at four locations across the city to try to reach any resident that

[4:51:10] wants to participate in this process. I think you're going to love this plan and I hope

[4:51:15] you'll help us make it as great a plan as possible by reviewing the draft and submitting

[4:51:21] in your comments to nappleshead2040.com.

[4:51:25] Thank you.

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[4:51:37] With snowpads, you can access real-time updates

[4:51:40] on winter road maintenance right from your device.

[4:51:43] Simply visit the City of Anapolis website

[4:51:46] and click on the snowpads portal.

[4:51:48] From there, you'll see an interactive map showing

[4:51:51] the current status of winter road maintenance

[4:51:53] of road salting and snow plowing.

[4:51:55] Zoom in to your neighborhood or commute route to see exactly which roads have been

[4:52:01] treated and which ones are in progress.

[4:52:04] Click on a road segment to see when it was last serviced.

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[4:52:14] the go.

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[4:52:24] Visit anapolis.gov slash snowpans this winter.

[4:52:30] Nice to meet you everybody. Thank you for being here today.

[4:52:34] Amazing to tell you my English is not the best, but my Spanish is beautiful.

[4:52:40] A-2-3-4-6-7-8

[4:52:44] Professional

[4:53:55] Standards Manager for the Annapolis Police Department.

[4:53:58] I am pleased to announce the launch of our new complaint and compliment portal

[4:54:02] where members of the public can make a complaint or compliment the exemplary work of the five-minute women of the Annapolis Police Department.

[4:54:09] A key feature of the new portal is that it will automatically send out notifications to a complaint through email or text messaging

[4:54:17] when a complaint moves to different stages of an investigation, when the investigation is concluded, or when there's a finding in the investigation.

[4:54:25] You can access the new portal by going to our web page, www.anapolis.gov, backslashpolice.

[4:54:34] At the top of the page, click on the words Complaint and Compliment Portal.

[4:54:39] You will then be directed to the portal.

[4:54:43] Once you are at the portal, click Create a New Entry and follow the directions for submitting

[4:54:51] a complaint or compliment.

[4:54:54] Cheat Jackson would like the citizens of Annapolis to know that we take all

[4:55:05] We also love hearing from you when you are pleased with the performance of our officers while they're protecting and serving you in anapolis. Thank you.

[4:55:41] Hey, get out of here. It looks like I have to do proper trash placement and training again. If you put the trash out, please place it into a bag.

[4:55:51] And tie the bag up and place it into a water tight with some school with your address

[4:55:55] Let's place it on it so they can be seen from the street

[4:55:57] that the end of your property for proper road collection.

[4:56:01] As a matter of fact, the cycle is done all wrong also.

[4:56:04] If you decide to place your recycling in a bag,

[4:56:07] please bring your bag to the receptacle

[4:56:08] and take all items out of the bag

[4:56:10] and place them into the can.

[4:56:11] And make sure the lid is closed, please.

[4:56:14] Let's bring back in the trash monster

[4:56:15] so I can show you things that are not recyclable.

[4:56:19] Seats 40% non recycled right now.

[4:56:23] This is non recyclable, this is non recyclable.

[4:56:26] The metal utensils are now recycled.

[4:56:29] Please be mindful of your trash and recycle placement to avoid fines.

[4:56:49] In anapolis, winter weather can make it hard to plan your day.

[4:56:52] But with snowpads, the city's new GPS tracking system,

[4:56:56] you can get ahead of the storm.

[4:56:58] With snowpads, you can track the city's road,

[4:57:00] salting, and plowing operations in real time.

[4:57:03] See which streets have been cleared, which routes were in progress,

[4:57:06] and plan your day with confidence.

[4:57:08] Whether you're commuting to work, running errands, or keeping your family safe, snowpads

[4:57:14] let you know when your streets are being treated so you can make better decisions for your

[4:57:18] travels.

[4:57:19] Available on the City of Annapolis website, snowpads is easy to use and designed with you

[4:57:25] in mind.

[4:57:26] Simply check the map to see real-time updates on snowplow insulting activity in your area.

[4:57:32] Stay informed on city efforts to keep roads safe and be prepared before heading out during

[4:57:38] a snow emergency. Stay safe and stay informed with snow paths. Visit our website to learn

[4:57:45] more and check your roads during snow events.

[4:58:30] we cover it, since we are taking advantage of it, if we look at the recycling.

[4:58:36] This bag does not have to be in the recycling.

[4:58:40] We empty all this, again we put the cap so we are going to have to

[4:58:45] return our garbage monster and we are going to look what it has to see if it can be recycled or not.

[4:58:52] This, in the end, can not be recycled. All this plastic,

[4:58:56] of basura bones are not in the recyclable.

[4:59:00] This metal knife is not in the case either.

[4:59:04] Please take into account that when you take out your basura,

[4:59:07] these are the ways to be able to do it,

[4:59:08] so you can avoid them,

[4:59:10] that they are Christmas or that they make a wall.

City Council - Special Meeting

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