1, and this time, please join us for the invocation given by Honour and Savage, followed by the pledge of allegiance.
Thank you, Mr Mayer. May we legislate this evening with wisdom, patience and respect.
One nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and circumstances on.
Madam City Clerk, please call a roll.
Our man, Buffley.
Alden Hattley.
Alden O'Neill.
President, Alden Pendel Charles.
Here.
Alden Finlayson.
President, Alden Shandemire.
President.
Alderman Gay. Here.
Alden with Savage.
Alden and Arnett.
President.
Can you please present the first item on the agenda?
First item on the agenda?
First item on the agenda is approval of the agenda.
It's time to entertain a motion, a pretty agenda.
As amended to postpone, ceremony items, city council, citation, ID1425.
Citation andapolis Centre run until Monday, February 10, 2025.
We're going to motion on that.
Second.
All those in favour?
Say aye.
Aye.
Opposed.
Thank you.
Mr City, please present the next item on the agenda.
The next item on the agenda is petition for the communications.
Beginning with update from the mayor.
That's great because my update is not quite here yet.
Can I go through in the council?
We're just reading it through in the other room and she's reprinting it.
Can we start with the city council?
Please.
I think it's 20 minutes tonight.
It's okay.
It's only about 30 minutes long.
So I'll be right here.
Audemars.
Thank you, Mayor.
Economic matters.
Canceled.
It's January meeting.
We will be reconvening on February 19th at 6.30 p.m.
Thank you.
Audemars.
Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor.
Transportation.
Committee meeting.
We'll take place on February 12th.
The next one at 4 p.m.
That will be a virtual meeting.
Thank you.
Audemars.
Thank you.
Audemars.
Thank you.
Audemars.
Thank you.
I get my report the last meeting.
So our next meeting is February 13th at 3 p.m.
I don't know if it's virtual or in person.
I think it's a person.
Okay.
It's in person.
Thank you.
And I was the Jen is not finalized but I do recall.
I believe the public works are going to be presenting on the storm water fee.
stormwater fee. They ran your report to us. Thank you. I'm holding my net. You had
hand up and then let me go. Don't have a standing. Okay. I saw you head up. I apologize.
How was 20 to?
Um, are we going to the Ottoman Hudley? He is the, um, finance chair Emerita. Is it?
Yeah. Um, housing human welfare committee is scheduled to meet the 17th.
But that's a holiday. So, um, once we find out the TV studios availability,
we will reschedule our February meeting. Thank you.
This city is preserving the president's day that. Thank you.
The finance committee recommended favorably both a supplemental appropriation and a fund transfer
at our last meeting. The supplemental appropriation 2425 provides $500,000 for a grant program
to address environmental restoration with the just big bay trust.
And, um, I'm really excited about that one. I think that's cool. I had some great
questions. I apologize to our urban forester who walked into that meeting for, uh,
we'll run into my wheelhouse and having to answer a bunch of detailed questions.
But then our fund transfer was just moving some money around in the wrecking parks budget,
so they're able to do some repairs of one of their pools.
Finally, we did consider, uh, for our third or fourth time,
our 53-24 changes to the executive pay ranges.
We decided to postpone that until the finance committee meeting on February 19,
our next meeting, uh, with the understanding that, uh,
at that meeting, we either need to have some amendments or we're going to recommend it on
favorably. So, uh, our next meeting again is February 19.
Thank you. Thank you, uh, Autumn Finlayson and O'Pignell Charles.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The rules and city government committee met on the third of January,
and I gave the report at the last meeting. Our next meeting will be on Friday, February 7,
one o'clock here in council chambers. All are invited to attend. Thank you.
Thank you, Autumn Pignell Charles.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, these public safety standing committee.
We'll be meeting on this coming Thursday and you were at the 30th at 630.
And, um, at that time, we would have presentations from NAM and no harm,
Office of Emergency Management, Friday Park and Police Department.
And, at that time, we will be presenting data from 2024 and other pieces of information,
but we also this year will be focusing per month on award.
So, um, we're focusing on award one this coming week,
and we'll be taking inquiries from award one residents,
uh, in person and old and hungry of conferred with him.
And so, uh, he's aware that we also have two pieces of legislation to consider.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, everybody. Thank you.
All right. Thanks for bearing with me in reverse order here.
So, let's, let's give you guys an update. Good evening. Everyone.
Last week, last week, uh, attended the, uh, annual mayor's winter conference in Washington, D.C.
Uh, I always relish the opportunity to meet with other mayor's from across the country.
Uh, here they're issues and learned from their ideas.
Uh, when we're together, we don't ask about party affiliation.
Uh, we just try to help each other and learn from each other.
Mayor's, uh, and local councils, do not have the luxury of wearing too much about politics and ideology.
Uh, we have to get on with the job of fixing local problems and ensuring our communities have what they need.
Uh, that is why I was proud to present on the Hillman Garage P3,
uh, in the city dot project at the conference.
Uh, the level of interest was outstanding.
Uh, we had a packed audience and almost all the questions afterwards were about how.
Did we do it here in the city of anapolis?
Uh, so many communities need to finance infrastructure and resilience and the costs are staggering.
Uh, we're all looking for innovative ways to get there.
And anapolis can be proud. Uh, that we are ahead of the curve.
So many big ideas have come from this community.
Uh, the Hillman P3, the resilience authority for an example.
And I'm always delighted and proud to share with these with other men,
because we are working together on how to solve problems.
Uh, speaking of big audiences.
Uh, as I noted at our last meeting, the city dot resilience plan, uh,
developed over four years with the community and with stakeholders with the oversight of this council,
uh, has been approved by the Planning Commission and also approved by the Historic Preservation Commission.
But as I said last week, there are some who are clearly seeking to prevent this project,
designed with the community and for the community from being completed.
Uh, find an interesting thing that many of the critics say,
I support the park and the resilience and then go on to object to almost every aspect of the park and the resiliency.
We've heard objections to the fountain, uh, which was an idea,
first put forward in the jointly authorized city dog action plan published in 2020,
and which was received an overwhelming, uh, positive feedback from across the community.
Uh, we've heard objections to the raised covered area that can act as a stage when needed,
even though, uh, even though the need for performance space was all,
also first outlined in the city dog action plan and there's a central to,
for so many events that are there and centered at city dog for the community.
While here in the city we're going to invest in place making to create a park that is welcoming
and an inviting place for everyone, a place, uh,
where kids can splash in and fountain in the summer, uh,
or skate in a rink in the winter if we make that happen, a park where we can all gather and listen to the great
artists perform at the singer song right if festival or where we can continue to enjoy the amazing
and your bo show, a park where we can sit in the shade, walk in the sun, access the water,
and learn about some of the lost history of anapolis that hasn't been widely valued before now.
We've heard objections based on the maintenance cost, as though the city doesn't
already have a recreation and parks department or a public works department that already
undertakes this kind of maintenance all across the city.
These concerns for future maintenance costs would be far more believable.
If the individuals who all also shows the same concern for the staggering costs
to the city of flooding events, and that happens more frequently each year.
The costs for our public safety teams are public work teams, I, I, I huge,
and we will save those costs when we finally build out this project.
Even more telling is the fact that these objectives never once acknowledged the cost
to our businesses from this ongoing flooding.
Apparently these costs are worth mentioning.
That is why there is a resolution before us on second read it tonight,
because this project is urgent, and we cannot let a small group of narrow,
special interests to URL all the work that we've done over the past five years.
That is why we changed our legal strategy.
And instead of opposing a stay, brought about by an anonymous complaint that we have asked
the court to expediate the legal review, because we know the merits of this case
and this project will speak for itself.
So thank you.
Just need to get that off my chest.
In February, we will celebrate Black History Months, another chance to showcase the stories
that have not always been acknowledged.
As we, as we have each year, we will fly the flags of the African diasporas on Main Street,
and we will host a weekly series of state and Black and Atlas events
in partnership with the Michael E. Bush Library.
The speaker series organized by the mayor's office of African American outreach team
will feature local experts, historians on topics related to African American culture
and life and the enduring contribution of African American residents.
Past and present.
The content is suitable for all ages, and each week a free dinner will be provided
by Black owned catering companies from the Anapolis area.
Each event is free and open to the public.
Please go to our website at Anapolis.gov and learn more about this amazing program.
Another event we are excited to host in February is the Crown Affair.
A key to the city award we can to ceremony to honor our own homegrown celebrity
hairstylists Kendall Dorsey.
For his success, working in the entertainment and fashion industry with some of today's
top music and fashion celebrities.
Kendall Dorsey was born and raised in anapolis, graduated from anapolis public schools,
including anapolis Middle and Anapolis High.
He's talent has led him to work professionally in New York, Los Angeles and Miami,
and abroad, and has also been featured in New York Fashion Week, Good Morning
America, Vote Magazine, Essence Magazine, and more.
Kendall is truly a hometown hero and a force to be reckoned with in the professional hair
and beauty industry.
We look forward to honoring him with a key to the city on February 16th.
Again, you will find details on our website.
This week we will reach an important milestone in our planning for the
Charizard Tonya Heritage Park.
Our recreation and parks department, in conjunction with the resilience authority,
we'll host a series of community listening sessions to hear directly from you,
what do you want to see in this new park?
These sessions will be held from Thursday and Friday at 5pm and 630pm
and on Saturday at 9am and on Saturday starting at 1030am.
There will be special sessions, youth workshops to hear directly from young residents
about what they would like to see in our new park on age would road.
All sessions will be at the PIP Moya Rec Centre.
Please also go to the city website to find out about those events.
Finally, I want to say thank you to our Rec Centre and OEM staff for standing up
to stand in a warming shelter for our most vulnerable residents
and making arrangements for a daytime location so folks could get in from the
extreme cold last week.
It's been a hard time in anapolis with a run of extreme cold weather.
We haven't seen it in many years.
They also want to commend our staff and our partners, including our state elected officials
and housing authority inapolis, for their efforts to ensure power was restored
promptly to rob them wood residents last Saturday.
It has truly been a team effort to see vulnerable residents safely through this cold
period and we truly feel for them.
We are going to be a nailer's ask for some heads to roll at B.J.
So we will be following up on that.
Well done to all the work that everybody was put in.
Thank you for the notifications that came from all the Council on all the work that you all
put in over the weekend.
I truly appreciate.
It was a great team effort.
Thank you everybody and let's get on with the meeting.
Thank you very much.
The next item in the agenda is comments for the agenda.
First up, Tim Lahi.
Tim Lahi, 110, archward avenue. I have lived in an apples 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. But just so you know, I want to comment on the resolution for the city doc.
I'm glad I wrote down everything I wanted to say, because I follow on what I thought was somewhat disrespectful commentary there, Mr. Mayor.
I do thank you for the hard work that you do. And I know sometimes it's a thankful, thankless job, but I really do thank all of you.
Surprise, I'm here to support the resolution. I agree with all of my Honolese amendment. I would further strengthen the focus on flood resiliency by just deleting last phrase, which just as well as deliver a many other amenities and services.
I think the focus needs to be on flood protection and no one has argued with this for years and years. So let's just keep on that focus.
To that end, I request more detail on the lump sum, the 63.5 million dollar lump sum in the budget.
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, such as the parallels, the chairs and the game tables.
In my opinion, we'd be prudent to evaluate the cost of these and the ability of the city to pay for them over time.
I think we might gain more traction with a smaller budget.
Another question, just in general, the 72 million dollar budget is not sure it includes the compromise street aspect of this, which was budget separately and I don't see it.
It's progress. It was approved years ago.
I believe, and it still was waiting for funding.
I think I saw it in the capital improvement plan in July. So that's just kind of missing. So where is that?
It's 72 million plus what's going on on compromise. It's an important part of the flood resiliency is going to fail if we don't have that.
I final budget question.
All of them are hungry. Thank you for responding today. The ongoing maintenance costs are important.
We can't just ignore them.
And I just think that there's no reason to not approve this resolution because of that.
It just needs to be defined and the public needs to be included.
One amenity, which I fully support is a Prince George Street Park.
It's a major flooding problem.
And I'm very happy that it's going to be named after my late friend Lvinc Legit.
It's very good to see that that's a start for the important heritage interpretation that we're going to have over the next decade.
I hope.
Okay.
Thank you.
The project team has done a great job over the years with public outreach.
I've participated in at least five meetings.
But I've still disappointed that some basic practical changes have not been incorporated.
And why one practical change.
I know I'm not taking a page of your book.
I know I'm not supposed to talk about the MWC.
But just simple things like the bathroom locations so far away from where the bus drops off.
Perhaps off has been brought up over and over again.
So that could be moved into one of the vacant buildings at least.
So these creative ideas have not been incorporated.
We see the same design over the last year.
All of them in savage.
I could hear the frustration in your voice at the last meeting like where are these people in water or the concern.
So those are my concerns.
My major concerns at this point.
So in summary, I think you should amend and approve this resolution.
And then ask the project team to focus on taking the flood aspects of this and breaking the budget out.
And possibly it can get moving with a smaller scope.
Why in turn might be able to get going if it were a smaller.
Finally, I have to address the assertions that there's a small group of people blocking this project.
There are many reasons this project is behind schedule, not the least of which is the FEMA funding.
And so it is not fair to say a smaller group of people blocking this project.
It's complicated.
It's expensive.
So please stop blaming people.
And let's try to solve the problem together.
Thank you.
Thank you for supporting the resolution.
Next up.
Tim Taylor.
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 dock.
But I do have concerns.
You know, they center around the other amenities and services that Tim mentioned there.
And they center around financing.
I do not consider myself part of the small group of narrow, special interest.
I consider myself a taxpayer.
And it scares a heck out of me that we're talking about proceeding before 100 percent of the financing is definitive.
I do not believe that it is.
I think we're depending on FEMA.
And I think that's a very dynamic organization today even more so now than just a couple months ago.
Last week our new president talked about eliminating FEMA 100 percent.
Okay.
And in last three weeks FEMA has received over 68,000 claims or applications from the fires out in California.
That's 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.
A top that we've got state money and our state's facing a multi-doion dollar deficit.
And so you know all the stuff we're expecting from other levels of government I think are less definite than they were a couple months ago there.
And then secondly, the amenities and services that were mentioned and that are in the resolution there.
It scares me that these are not wants, these are not requirements, these are not things that we need, these are things that would be nice to have.
Okay.
They're the extras there and to talk about putting in a splash bad sure it would be a blast and great for kids but very expensive to put in extremely expensive to maintain.
And over half of municipal thumbs in the US are decommissioned or inoperable within five years okay.
And that numbers even higher in northern climates where we get freezes okay.
So for us to put money into that when we don't have 100 percent of the financing lined up for this project.
I think it's scary as a tax payer there.
We're going to be settling the taxpayers with some long-term operational maintenance for the new project there 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.
At least I haven't been able to find them and I don't even know if there are 100 percent identified there.
So 100 percent for resiliency and scared the death about the extra add-ons that that would be nice to have that are not requirements.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for your support.
Anybody else like to come forward and speak?
Please come forward.
Can everyone hear me?
Hi.
Good evening.
Rachel Robinson from Historic andapolis 18 Pete Me Street.
I'm here to state for the record once again.
Historic andapolis is full support of resiliency at city dock through flood barrier protection.
Within our portfolio of historic properties,
H.A. is the steward of five buildings for owned by the state of Maryland and one we own that are within view of city dock and susceptible to flooding worsened by climate change.
H.A. was the city's partner in the city dock action committee and we have been active in the protection of city dock for more than a decade and the main proponent of preservation in anapolis for nearly 75 years.
The question H.A. is commitment to the resiliency of city dock is unfounded.
As is the accusation that we are attempting to slow down this project.
We have skin and the game with our buildings. Why would we do that?
Our main criticism of the project is and has been the size of the proposed maritime welcome center.
That application, as you know, is currently going through the review process at the historic preservation commission.
We are watching it closely and preparing testimony.
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 dock.
Thank you for your support.
Thank you.
Do you want to?
We might have a question for you, sir.
I'm just curious and with capacity he work with.
I'm sorry.
Do you mind repeating that?
I have just what's a role with historic enough.
Vice President of historic preservation.
Okay. Thank you.
I'd like to ask you the story.
The fountain has already been approved as we understand it.
We do not have a problem with the fountain or the park.
No problem with the fountain.
That has been approved.
That is not our main concern of criticism.
Sir, we do not have a problem with anything that has been approved thus far.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Oh, man, the attitude there took a turn.
Hello, everyone.
I'm going to keep it light and positive.
This is off a rock 13.6 President Street.
I wanted to give a few positive shout outs to city officials.
I've had interactions with over the last couple of weeks.
Hopefully, I'll see you guys again soon.
I wanted to first thank the boys in green.
The team I saw a couple weeks ago.
Finally, getting rid of the hatefully planted spite trees.
And the wealth of easement that was blocking public access.
Now, the only thing publicly blocking our access to the water is
Your aptitude and desired to move forward with ensuring
Reprarian rights and actual access to the water.
So the fight goes on.
One to two.
So that would be the public works in planning and zoning.
We're behind that.
Thank you, guys.
The people on this council that recommended strong towns to me.
I'm loving it.
You know who you are.
Department of Planning and Zoning code enforcement.
Chief code enforcement.
Mr. Menasa and also Ms. Minker in that office.
I wanted to thank you guys.
If you listen or are here, I doubt you are.
For your help in addressing the issue of snipes,
the left rating or neighborhood and being.
You know, tasted of board.
Public utilities.
Don't want to waste my time here.
I will talk on the issue of premium parking.
It's like an enforcement on copper my street.
Many of you guys are in those emails.
Please take them seriously and accident.
We'll occur over your negligence that may be causes that.
If you don't address it.
Wanted to quickly address the last thing.
I don't have as well.
It remarks on the resiliency project.
Although I'm generally in favor of it.
And I really do hope that we get a nice beautiful large welcome
center.
The public can access.
Like a public yacht club.
View of our beautiful seven river out across the base.
Something we don't really have it.
Just like the level of city dog.
Because it is right now with all those nasty parking.
You know, spots that will turn into a park.
What I just wanted to really say.
Was from his score.
Anapolis.
You heard that they are maybe not okay with these.
Science and location of this proposed welcome center.
And so much of their funding comes from the people on the lot downtown.
That have that huge, hideous pest control billboard.
I also oppose the nasty size and location of that billboard.
And you guys give that a pass.
If you're planning and zoning or whoever department.
Because you're meant to regulate that a non-compliant sign come into code compliance.
If it is to be changed if it is grandfathered in.
So every time they change the appearance of that sign.
You could do something immediately to beautify downtown.
And just say that billboard is not allowed and should come down.
So please consider that something that would make everyone so happy.
It's been so ugly in there since I was a child.
And it shouldn't be.
And just get rid of it.
And that's nothing to do with that project.
You know.
Thank you.
Anybody else like to come forward and speak?
Okay.
Thank you.
I declare a comment about the general public closed.
I'm going to introduce any place to present the next image.
The next item on the agenda is business and miscellaneous.
Item is beginning with appointments.
And the first one is AP4424.
A reappointment of Mr. Robert Rubie.
Building Board of Appears.
I'm going to get a motion to approve AP44-24.
Second.
All those in favour say aye.
Aye.
Opposed.
Abstain.
Mr. City Attorney, please present the next item.
The next item on the agenda is AP4524 reappointing of Mr. John Jay Swartz.
Building Board of Appears.
Get a motion.
Second.
The next item.
All those in favour say aye, aye, abstain, abstain, abstain, abstain.
Let me hear you. Is it cold? When is on how long a member can serve on a commission?
No, thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. I'm sorry.
Thank you.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
Mr. City Attorney, please present the next on agenda.
The next item of the agenda is supplemental appropriations, $50,000 above, beginning with SA-2425,
preforestation fund planning and zoning, FY-2024, preforestation fund balance, contractual services.
Thank you. Could it get motion on that please?
Assembly.
Second.
Thank you.
All those in favour say aye, aye, abstain, aye, abstain.
Thank you. Mr. City Attorney, please present the next on agenda.
The next item is fund transfer, leading with FT-625, general department of recreation and parks,
full contractual services supplies and other.
Thank you. Could it get a motion please?
So moved.
Second.
All those in favour say aye, aye, abstain, abstain.
Thank you. Mr. City Attorney, please present the next on agenda.
Yes. The next item of the agenda is public hearing, beginning with ordinance.
Oh, 225, W-R-N-R, radio tower lease with the city.
Would anybody like to come forward and speak on the radio tower?
Right.
On the go.
Thank you. Just for clarity. All they want to do is just put it back to use.
For the same exact building, correct?
I believe so.
Thank you.
And if I can add one other thing.
I think it's really important to note that the lease is as is.
So it does not obligate the city to maintain its cost.
You said the city is obligated.
The city is not obligated.
Okay.
As is.
Thank you.
Okay. All those are public hearing.
I declare the public hearing closed.
Mr. City Attorney, please present the next on agenda.
The next item of the agenda is legislative action.
Beginning with items of second reader.
Beginning with ordinance.
Oh, 3124.
A mobile food service.
Vendors signage.
So, a motion.
No.
Oh, that's 3124 and second reader.
Second.
Alvin Savage has an amendment.
Yeah.
I'd like to move that.
I'd like to move amendment one.
Second.
Thank you.
I just have concerns about legislation general.
I'll address quickly because I know we have a shortage.
And it's a nice.
But I just think it's kind of unfair to the.
To the food truck.
In particular, because this was created.
Just out of concern for a few spots in the city.
And I think a food truck.
It typically, at this point inapolis, are only really utilized around events.
In private parking spaces.
Things that are already heavily regulated.
And so.
I get the concern, but I'm just worried about.
You know, what that may do to the industry is obviously not an expensive change.
But it's a change nonetheless.
I was still vote for, but I just wanted to echo the concern.
Thank you all, Michelle.
Thank you, Mayor.
I'm going to address amendment one, which might.
I'll reduce some of your concerns.
The main concerns from the food trucks that I've spoken to.
Smash Bros. Food Truck or Zaskers.
Coffee truck had been around the sandwich board regulations.
Amendment one had been a very good compromise that it is weight a lot of their concerns on the sandwich board issue.
With that passing, most of them went from being very against this to a shrug and.
Whatever.
Question if just two very quick questions.
Why don't want to give some of the amendment is redundant size.
Not a task to be a wasabi removed in store when the food truck is not an opportunity.
I feel like us.
Sandwich boards are was little.
Yeah, the ones that we do downtown.
So they are isn't that there's a code already speak to the use of sandwich boards.
And requirements to remove or replace them during business hours and operations.
Hold on.
So every gentleman to that.
It does only for downtown.
And so this part of the amendment.
There was some concern from the food trucks.
The only channel I alluded to.
They didn't.
They wanted to still be able to put sandwich board signs up and the original version was a bit too restrictive.
They wanted to make sure that there wasn't a proliferation of like dozens of these signs.
And they wanted to make sure they didn't block sidewalks and egress that kind of thing.
Lastly, no more than three more will signs were needed to be displayed for vehicle.
Does that include marketing materials.
Which is.
You know, signage.
How are you enforcing that?
I'm just curious.
Which provision?
This is no more than three removable signs that are permitted to be displayed for vehicle.
I mean, would it, would it a amendment to that.
Or would you maybe add to that sentence during operation.
If you have marketing materials that are on the vehicle, that shouldn't count.
Because they've been through permanent time.
These are just removable.
Gotcha.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you.
Oh, man, on that.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I'd like to point out having.
Then the author signed legislation that the legislation for food trucks is much more lenient than the legislation for.
Bricks and sticks kinds of buildings.
I think the concern that this legislation is addressing is sort of the visual pollution of flashing lights and abundance of lights.
And I personally find it to be quite a good compromise.
So I'm certainly supporting the amendment and the ordinance as amended.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor.
I have two questions.
We've got to that.
I know that at least one food truck that currently has flashing lights.
Banner.
Not to call them out, but this is the food truck that's on Bay Ridge at the gas station right before two value when you're heading out.
So would the.
Be in non-compliance and have to remove that sign appears to be part of their truck.
And.
Well, that's my first question.
What's the average.
Yeah, I mean, that particular sign is what triggered this for me because I drive by at all the time or bike by at all the time.
But yeah, presumably they.
You know, I 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 from the vehicle, but.
The fact that it's flashing would be prohibited and proposed code.
So it would be very different from, I mean,
How does it differ from the across the street that.
The.
Highs are pantry.
Whatever it is that has the flashing lot of sign in that.
Well, that's well, I don't know if that's in the.
So those signs are minor things that prohibited currently because there's a prohibition in the code for brick and mortar stores.
And when I brought that to the attention of staff, I said, well, we can apply that code to the food trucks because they're on.
Wheels or something like that.
And so it turned out they have no regulations on their signs.
And and it's far my attention is I don't.
Personally, just don't want to see those types of flashes signs proliferate all the way down the road.
It's it's not to.
I haven't been that business. I do need to stop by and try it.
But something personal against them.
I just just brought my attention.
Okay, and then my last question is who's in charge of enforcement.
Be our code enforcement office in.
Thank you.
So I just want on the record on them and so this is not about any particular business.
Correct. This is a general provision. Thank you.
Thank you. I'm a go.
I had a question from the public.
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.
Probably not.
I'm not aware of that type of practice happening.
I don't think there were just the legislation's not written that way.
So I think there is any plan for that.
Yeah, again, I think that's why I think this is going to policy thing really with you know, with planning and zoning or something like that.
Because the unintended consequences sometimes even with these tiny businesses, you know,
LED sign is $2,500.
And so the very saved up to invest in this sign and it's helping attract us to that business.
You know, but I honestly take your your point value.
And so that's why I'll still support it.
Thank you.
Okay.
All is in favour, please say aye.
Aye.
Opposed.
Okay, I get a motion to adopt ODH 3124 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.
Thank you.
Aye.
All done.
Aye.
All done.
Aye.
All done.
Aye.
All done.
Aye and Alden.
Thank you.
All done.
Aye.
All done.
Aye.
Mr. City Attorney.
Please present the next.
Next.
amendment, so move amendment 1, and can you give some background, please?
Yes, so this started, so what this legislation does is prohibit testing for cannabis,
particularly testing employees for pre-screening, so when we go to higher, but also for
cannabis testing for cannabis of current employees, and it would exempt any positions where
there's a state of federal law that overrules such as U.S. Department of Transportation,
or something to state policing laws, but concerns that were brought to my attention
by law office, and that's what we've worked it in to exempt those, 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 of 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,
or if they're safety sensitive, they're subject to immediate termination, and so the problem
of that is the testing utilize, there's no biological testing that could detect whether or not
somebody's impaired, the city and the county use urine testing, and urine testing can't actually
detect the very component, the psychotropic component of THC that actually makes you impaired, it
can't actually detect that, and so the test is flawed, which is why it's often overruled in
people challenge it, and so since there is no, so the problem with the test again is it detects
usage, possibly months ago, and so again, we're penalizing, preventing basically if you're an employee,
you can't even partake in legal recreational responsibilities of cannabis because it could be in
your bloodstream for months, and I think that's a bit over reach, I don't think we should
begin to involve with one employees do responsibly, bother off duty, and so this just limits that
test, prevents them city from testing, however, it does also clearly prohibit on duty use,
this is not allowed 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, and so there's still going to be
that checks and bounds, but we heard in some of the committees is that there's data from
Institute in particular, well one in Canada who did research to show that the best deterrent is just
having a supervisor be aware instead of testing, we also have states that have had legal marijuana to
one degree or another for well over a decade, and they have not had any increase in all-in-duty usage
of cannabis, they also have not had any kind of increase in workplace incidence, or overdoses
or deaths, there are no deaths, those kind of things that have been documented, so I feel pretty good about
this and also I should say I was working on this for probably about two years, I couldn't quite figure
how to craft the language until I came across the governor more as executive order, and it was just
so simple and common sense that I ended up copying it, we use the definitions from the executive order,
it has executive order just applied to state employees, but it essentially just declassified cannabis
as a controlled danger substance, which means you can you have a lot more nuance as far as how you
manage it, because controlled danger substance are.
By name, danger, we want to make sure we keep those on our control. But senator, I want to thank the governor for providing the inspiration and the way forward on this. And that's kind of nice.
The specifics of this amendment and how many amendments are there?
The amendment is something that the city manager and the generation. I'm sorry.
I think the resources recommended and just to clarify, to give them some more comfort with those particular provisions.
And then we can't I do support them.
Yeah, what it does is it focuses the definition of impairment or it broadens the definition of impairment as a general condition.
And then narrows it where is most appropriate, which is when you're talking about discipline.
People can be impaired for all kinds of different reasons.
That's not necessarily going to lead to discipline.
So it clarifies those relationships.
And I think leaves us with then code that really can speak to that question.
The Aldermen Savage raised earlier of impairment training of supervisors.
And some of that, which is obviously a longer term discussion.
And then Mr. Effect just clarified too.
We hear testimony and just to be clear that this other jurisdictions have taken similar approaches, including Atlanta.
A Bernouillow County in Albuquerque, Cleveland, District of Columbia, Philadelphia, St. Louis.
And several states have also adopted similar workplace protections, including California, Connecticut, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island.
So it's nothing out of the unusual.
Thank you. Oh, and Pindil Sheldon. Oh, I'm going to go ahead.
Thank you. It's the mayor. I just want to make sure I'm clear.
Someone who's impaired as a result of cannabis versus alcohol, they're going to be treated the same way as that correct.
So, so yes and no.
The question of impairment on the job, regardless of why you might be impaired, is something that the city should respond to.
The issue at hand here and the reason why it's both yes and no is that there currently are no tests that are correlated with impairment for cannabis, the way there are currently tests that are correlated with impairment for alcohol.
How about medications?
Yeah, the screening that the city contracts for does detect some kinds of prescription medications.
Okay.
But this is in some ways why the change in the definition for us is something that we wanted to see as impairment as you alluded to.
Can be the result of any of a variety of things.
And when you're talking about safety, impairment in general is something we should be paying attention to regardless of source.
The question of discipline being a somewhat related, but separate question. I guess I'm looking at equity.
So the the legislation from from my perspective does not differentiate and why you might be impaired.
Right, the the question of you shouldn't be impaired on the job.
That that is a through line with the legislature, that doesn't change with this legislation.
The question of are you going to do testing for cannabis, the answer to that.
Given that there are no tests right now that are correlated with impairment, you would not test for cannabis because you don't have a test available.
That's correlated with impairment.
I'm still looking at the issue of equity, but thank you.
Thank you. Oh my god.
Thank you so much.
Just quickly first I want to say I'm incredibly proud of all the men.
Savage for introducing this getting the votes and finally bringing this to fruition and something else.
I've been passionate about in 2020 when Brandon Scott signed an executive order.
That allows Baltimore 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 about for us.
I'm incredibly proud of him for that.
To your point.
And as we were just sharing various equity in this and in the fact that.
Now in times out of 10 the individual regardless of how the regardless of the fact that we know that.
African Americans in in Caucasians probably use cannabis around the same rate.
African Americans are more likely to be punished for their use.
And so from me the important thing in this was making sure that.
You're exactly right.
The equity is there across the board and and that the city is declaring.
Punishment, you know, for something that is completely legal.
And so that and and also I share your concern as well that for years.
You know somebody can get off a work at 430 in drink a case of Heinrich and or whatever their preference is.
And show up to.
Hey listen something that's how some people do case about or whatever and show up to work the next day.
But you couldn't get off of working, you know.
Use vape or THC whatever you did and you know come in and that's just a huge prop of so.
I think we saw the equity in this.
Lastly, I just on the amendment.
I think that.
In paired, why are we striking that results from use of drugs.
I call cannabis a controlled dangerous substance.
That wasn't really making sense to me.
As it relates to the definition is as impaired means reducing the cognitive cognitive or physical ability.
And then we strike why they would be impaired.
Substance and so do measure.
Yeah, the.
SCD director of HR is walking as well.
You want to come up.
Yeah, you can jump into.
Thank you.
We've gone through a couple of a couple of iterations of of this amendment.
And earlier version of this had simply moved that from the definition down to the bottom.
But after consultation with with office of law, we ended up settling on this particular language.
So the.
I I understand your your question.
In in this case.
In paired as a definition.
It is about your condition, not necessarily why you're there.
Right.
That's something that's that comes.
Can you either view.
Just maybe put my mind on the east on this.
The reason that I ask that is because it says impair means reduce the cognitive or physical ability.
And then we're replacing the new definition.
For him is the city from taking to dissonary or taking dissonary action against an employee found to be impaired while on duty.
And so again, there's as the all the woman's saying there's a difference in, you know, maybe me coming.
To work on under the influence of or impaired by cannabis and impaired by.
You know, you know, yeah.
You wouldn't know with something that's still very, very legal.
Okay.
You know, so you would want to be able to discipline them for being impaired on that substance.
So why will we strike control dangerous substance?
Oh, no, no, so the the way that that's so nothing in this section.
For him is the city from taking disciplinary.
So what this says is that this.
If someone is found to be impaired.
The city has the right to pursue disciplinary.
Action.
So may offer a little bit more to that.
Dr. Chahapkins human resources manager.
The definition of impairment isn't general section of human resources.
So where to what we're trying to do is just.
Carrow the language in the in the cannabis related pieces of that.
It would really wasn't to take it away.
That's really the the just of our conversation with Ottoman savage.
That we really weren't trying to remove that or or not acknowledge that.
We just want to put it in the right location.
And then what also, you know, it we clearly want to make sure that we're not.
We always make sure that we do proper investigation.
We're going to always do that evidentiary piece.
It's not necessarily before you ever even consider taking to disciplinary action.
We're not trying to even make all of this look like it's in that in that unique direction of.
Carrying out disciplinary action.
We're just trying to keep impairment 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 that we're not sanctioning which is.
Because we are.
Clearly having to comply with federal law was just creating a.
Drug free workplace as well as a safe workplace.
We're trying to make sure that the areas that we would address that or in the proper sections of the code.
And that's really the only intent with that change.
Thank you.
I don't know.
Charles and I don't know.
Just one commentary.
I guess I think back on.
Some of the people who've been.
Release from their duties or relief from their duties due to alcohol.
And.
Seems kind of unfair.
I guess that's my equity piece.
We're going back away.
I mean, I support the the amendment.
But it's really for some is too little too late.
I guess that's my whole point.
So.
I'm sorry.
No, I didn't say that.
All I'm saying is just seems.
Just my course is that.
But anyway.
Thank you.
On a meal.
Thank you Mr. Mayor.
I had a constituent that did reach out to me today.
And I just want to make a clarification.
So.
He had said that all the focus lately has been on employee rights.
And what rights to employers have to protect the businesses.
And that's what I'm saying.
But what I'm hearing from you is that's exactly what this is doing.
It's getting.
It's allowing the city to still uphold his.
You know, his example is.
They've consumed.
Off duty like in their private home where their cars on their way to work.
But then they're coming to work impaired.
Technically or could be.
So I just wanted that clarification that.
You know, we answered that correct.
With your explanation.
Yes.
That was the intent.
Thank you.
On a message.
Yes.
And there's a couple of clarifications.
And one of the things that.
I guess calls me to be supportive of this amendment was.
You know, during our conversations with with HR and as a risk management.
They gave an example of a lifeguard.
And.
And I said, well, that's a good point because we really we don't want to lifeguard.
And.
Parade and amen.
It doesn't matter if it's cannabis or if they're too tired.
Somebody who used to be a lifeguard.
It absolutely can't.
You have to be alert, right?
And so that's where it comes back to.
Supervisor my mind doing what a supervisor should be.
Is making sure that their employees doing their job as best they can.
Doesn't matter how they're impaired.
They need we doing their job well.
And.
And again, that's I just want to reiterate that the research that's out there.
Uh, has not shown any kind of increase in.
All in the job.
You see, you're on the job impairment.
When the walls are.
Made to be more fair like we're proposing.
There's been.
I know some people are hesitant because they're certain employees will shut.
Stone, but it just hasn't proven out in the data.
Thank you.
The.
Automation.
Yeah, thank you Mr. Mayor.
First of all, I'd like to be added as a sponsor.
My question is.
Um.
For Miss Hopkins.
How are employees prepared.
You know, we oftentimes set policies and make all sorts of changes.
But it never gets down to the people who are directly impacted.
So how do the employees know about their rights?
So in orientation.
We go over all of our policies with incoming employees.
All of our policies are online as well.
And and and individuals have access to them through our employees self service.
So that it's an ongoing access point for them.
Um, with this change, I imagine that we're going to.
Um, need to clarify.
Um, shift in in direction as a result of this ordinance.
Uh, as if it passes and changes the code tonight.
Um, so we would.
We would need to make sure that we're providing that kind of guidance to employees as well.
We, we are already set up.
Um, to.
Not test individuals who.
Um, would be exempted under this legislation.
So we've already been contacting our.
Our vendor that we work with for our drug and alcohol testing.
And we are voice to make the appropriate changes to our policy.
And that would be redistributed to our employees.
I hope we take.
Um, every possible.
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, under the exemptions.
If you don't read, then nothing in the section teeth. You missed that.
Because the next part is the most important. So to make sure that, and I don't know why that couldn't be highlighted in such a way.
So we know that nothing in this section prohibits disciplinary action if an employee is employed or impaired on the job.
But anyway, I would hope that we would make an extra effort to give the employees a level of comfort in knowing what this does, how this impacts them.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Thank you.
Okay. Let's vote on the amendment.
How many amendments are the please?
Just one.
Okay.
All those in favour say aye, aye, aye.
Opposed?
Could I get a motion as amended, please?
So moved.
Second.
All those in favour say aye, aye, aye.
Opposed?
Could I get a motion on third reader?
So moved.
Second.
Thank you.
Madam City Clerk, please call the roll.
Yes, sir. May I back leave?
Aye.
I'll move the license.
Aye.
I'll move the license.
Aye.
I'll move the license.
Aye.
I'll move the license.
Aye.
I'll move the license.
Aye.
I'll move the license.
Aye.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
All right.
Mr. City, please.
The next item agenda.
Yes, sir.
The next item agenda is Resolution R325.
City Doc was a easy project.
Could I get a motion please?
Second.
I think we have an amendment.
Yes.
So amendment 1, which you have before you, is really not meant to change the resolution.
Can I just move it and get a second?
Second.
Thank you.
Yes.
Amendment 1 is not 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 is already gotten all the approvals.
My hope here is just to make that even more clear.
And I think, particularly because we're saying in here that the council commits to it,
I want to everybody to know exactly what we're committing to.
I hope that this does not make any of my colleagues feel like we're trying to shut out.
The maritime welcome senator say that that is opposed.
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.
You can park in the flood protection and all the approvals that it has already.
Thank you.
Any questions on that?
On the Panama.
I think this mayor, I think that's fair because the maritime welcome senator is a totally separate piece of the project.
And this clarifies that.
Good idea.
Thank you.
Okay.
All those in favour say aye.
Aye.
Opposed.
Thank you.
Can I get a motion.
As amended, please.
So.
So Mr. Mayor, I should have been listed as a sponsor.
And I'd like to thank you.
Yeah.
But what do I know?
I just had one on my copy that I'm looking at.
This is R324 first reader.
When I click that, it does click through the 325.
But I don't know if that needs to be changed.
If somebody were trying to search for it.
Gina.
Yeah, it is.
Yes.
It doesn't.
The business is R325.
25.
Yeah.
We'll make sure.
But you're going 325.
Okay.
Let's make a second.
I'll say that.
You want to.
thank you.
Two questions.
It's that.
I just want to clarify for that.
When they.
When people keep mentioning that the city can release.
Space downstairs.
Our downtown.
From.
Vigant.
Building.
One head.
Why have we done a feasibility study on that.
Bonnie chance and just.
What it would cost.
for the foreseeable future as opposed to building and owning our own.
You know, maintenance included in that obviously upkeep, I'm just curious if we've actually looked into that.
Not that I am a fan of leasing, I think is, you know, donkey backwards to lease an old building
when you have an opportunity to create a state of an art facility for your visitors and residents.
So, curious if that has been done in the 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 as of the right locations.
I mean, I'm sure most of us would agree that the mission barbecue, a location would be a terrible place to put a harbourmaster.
We'd all agree. And then I would think that the management of a smite agree there to lease a building just to put toilets in is probably not the best idea.
Maybe the visit anapolis might support share that use, but I haven't had any interest from them.
I think we've all been through this two, three year process of time for people to put in.
Put that those ideas forward and none of those ideas have been situated.
And that's why we're here today.
That's not relevant to this resolution.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, it's getting away. It is my last question also.
Or just comment actually, there is no city.
And when you talk about this at lunch, but I know of that has, you know, 40,000 or over 40,000 residents.
That doesn't have some sort of city center space.
And, you know, one of the things that just upsets me about about this and some of the public comment that we'd be hearing is, you know,
It's not, they're against revitalizing the downtown.
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 inapolis town center.
And then look at downtown inapolis close to eight o'clock, not a single soul walking around.
The town center is packed.
They're hosting events.
They've got skating rinks out there.
Hot chocolate things.
All of these things that we could be doing on a new downtown that protects our businesses.
But also serves our residents and helps us stay economically viable.
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.
Thank you.
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I think we'll sorry.
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So we thank this mayor.
Yeah, just a quick following.
Based on some of the testimony I've heard and read over the past few days or weeks.
You know, there's been opposition on some of the public amenities that we've been proposing to add.
Those I think are.
I mean, what makes the most excited is that we're actually finally trying to do some resilience and protect our city dock, which has been very, very long time coming.
But the public amenities also just make me very excited.
I'm really glad we've looped those in.
I'm a firm believer of those.
Because what I do what I don't understand about some of the concern that we've heard some people about the amenities is that.
You know, what's there now is a parking lot.
And it would cost money to put a parking lot back.
So why not just spend that money to put in a actual public.
A many that's going to draw people downtown.
That I think it's worth the investment to make it more lively.
It's an ultimate stated so.
100% behind it and thanks for getting this things in there project.
I'm sure when they see them in other cities, they like them.
I don't know why they wouldn't work here, you know.
Automational.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
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.
It creates this genuine emotional connection to their city and that boosts civic engagement.
That boosts economic activity, that boosts community pride.
And I see that in these public amenities that we want to put in in city dock.
And when people reach out to me and ask, how do I feel about the park and all the amenities that we put in.
That's what I tell them.
I want this to be a place of awe.
I don't want to spend tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars raising a parking lot.
I think that would be a waste.
If we are going to put that much money into it,
let's do something that we can be proud of on some of the best real estate on the east coast.
And I had some people actually reach out to me.
They did oppose the fountain.
But even when I drove down into them or dug into it a little bit and asked like, what would you like it?
Even they actually wanted some cool amenities.
And I do encourage them if they're listening to come in 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 it's silly.
And there's really no other way to phrase it.
This is going to be a project that generations after we are gone will be with.
Let's spend the money on something we are going to be proud of.
Our names are going to be attached to this.
And I want to be proud of that.
And that's not going to be lifting a parking lot.
It's going to be in a park that I can show my children that they could potentially show their children.
Let's go for it.
Let's get this done.
I'm very excited for this resolution.
I'm very excited to get a shovel at the ground for this resiliency for this park.
Let's do it.
Thank you.
Thank you Mr. Mayor.
This is a personal note.
When I was a child, my mom and I and my dad would bring us because my mom was in driving.
We bring us downtown every Saturday.
We go to Randall's tab where the old library was.
Listen to some stories and we go shopping.
We saw people in our community all the time.
My aunt worked downtown and quite a few people that from my church worked downtown.
So there were a lot of people that I knew from my community, especially from parole,
who came downtown every Saturday and doing the week as well.
I was on a task for us, I guess, about 15 years ago when church was in charge of my old boss.
You can't hear me.
Okay.
And so at that time we talked about the city doc as well.
That was on on the hearts and minds of everyone.
About a year or so ago, I was at one of all the men on that town halls of an East Point.
And a gentleman stood up and asked me point blank how can we get more people to come downtown?
I knew what the question was.
And I told the gentleman as far as I'm concerned as any was talking I guess about parole.
I told him I really didn't know.
But I thought about it later.
I thought about what we've been trying to do with downtown over the past several years.
And I do believe, and this is my belief, that with these amenities,
we can actually draw people who live here downtown, all sorts of people.
You can go downtown now, someone was telling me recently,
that they don't recognize, they set here for four hours.
He and his wife and their well-known, I'm not going to mention their names.
They've been here a long, long time.
They don't know anybody.
No residents.
Nobody looks familiar.
They come downtown.
And so we have to do something.
And if it draws people from our communities, from every community to come downtown,
for me it's well worth it.
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 for.
So I know we've had a lot of iterations, and we've talked about different things.
But I think it's really important for us to think about the residents.
We know the visitors are going to come.
But there needs to be something downtown that brings the residents downtown.
That's really important to me.
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.
But that's really, I guess, as far as I'm saying, that's all I got to say about that.
But no, I think we really need to do this thing.
It's been going on much too long.
The one other thing I thought about too recently,
the trauma that our businesses go through every time we have a flooding event.
That's clinically traumatic.
I'm not a clinician, but I would venture to say it's got to be clinically traumatic.
To have them go through this over and over and over again.
So that's my three cents.
That's where? Thank you. Thank you. 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 and like to do a role call for this thank you. May I back please? Yes.
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And this is my Sunday and I am more Hye Boo.
You're a revolution path.
Thank you.
Um, so you tell me please present the next on the agenda?
I don't know.
Okay. Anything else for good order?
I want to kneel.
Thank you very much.
I know you said it earlier,
but I wanted to give a huge shout out to
Dr. Simmons of OEM.
Um, I don't know about you all,
but my text came through at 105 a.m.
Um, on Saturday morning.
Um, I happened to hear the buzz go off.
So he started working on it prior to that.
Um, didn't stop until he was sure that every single one of our residents was safe and had had a warm meal in their belly.
So I wanted to just shout out to Dr. Simmons and staff for taking care of our residents once again.
You're here.
And there were a lot of directors on the call.
We were on the phone a lot all weekend.
And so for the public, um,
I think it's nearly 50, 40 or 30 residents were without power.
Um, in this cold freezing cold weather,
power went out overnight.
The utilities, people left the job.
Uh, didn't finish the job.
Didn't come back to the next morning.
Some of our residents, uh, were without heat.
Uh, and then without ability to cook food.
We found food.
We found shelter.
And, um, uh, and we got through it.
But it must have been harrowing for all the people that lived there.
And I think Alderman gave his input there.
That just got it.
It's jumping a blessing set to, um,
because they were at the, um,
warming center.
Then jumping on this and getting the meals.
And so I think these are times where we're grateful that we live in.
A close-knit small city, uh, city that we're,
where people live or rely on their city government.
So thank you.
Thank you.
On the show tomorrow.
Thanks, Mayor.
Uh, I just want to say publicly.
A big thank you to, uh, public works.
We had a wannabane break in my neighborhood last Wednesday.
And specifically, thank you to Warren, who came out quickly.
And, uh, helped fix the issue in the middle of a freezing cold night.
Thank you, Warren.
Thank you public works.
Emergency response team.
Uh,
you guys work hard.
I know all the recent cold and snow.
Uh, you've been getting it hard for everybody, including us.
But you do work hard.
And you do work effectively.
So thank you, team.
Um, to add to that, you know,
it's easy for us to find fault in in government.
That seems to be the flavor of the month now.
But, you know, we're not the people down those whole,
you know, those deep holes in the freezing cold night.
I want to connect to Maine and, um, and if you've seen that kind of work,
it's not easy and it's not easy in the night.
And, uh, there's been a lot of it because of these extreme conditions.
I think it's 15 degrees that night.
Also, uh, thank you, Warren.
Something also very important.
Somebody just reminded me, I've been getting a lot, a lot, a lot.
A lot, a lot of causing concerns about ice.
And, you know, in particular when I, I represent a school in Tyler,
Heist has a 98% Hispanic and Latino population.
And, um, I would hope that, uh, in the next few weeks,
maybe we could get a close session together with, uh, the police department,
office of emergency management, um, and any individual that needs to be involved.
Because we don't have a plan in place.
If I've shows up, uh, to our community schools and start trying to, uh,
our family's, uh, a part.
And so I, I would hope that we could be, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
you know, village in that as well and, and try to get some plan together.
Um, if the city already has a plan, then I would hope that we could share with the council.
So we're working on getting, uh, post, snow debrief work session.
Nice.
Ice.
Oh, sorry.
Sorry.
I'm sorry.
My mind went to the wrong.
So that I get a motion to a gym, some of those, so I get all those in five,
but say, hi.
Hi.
Meeting a gym.
So, receded the pumps kicked in when it was, uh, uh, at the level that they could handle.
And we were back in business.
And so we've got some people back in their, on their feet, but we need to get everybody back in their feet.
Because the business, uh, community is just a bigger part of the community than the residential community in the city.
And, uh, we, we, we want to support them.
We want to be there for them.
And, uh, they know that the state, the county, and the city have their backs.
So.
We appreciate you all being there.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
And I do have the names of all of our speakers printed out for using it.
The spelling, right?
We also have a flyer with the QR code for folks to get to the, uh, to the application.
Thank you.
Eight, two, one.
Thank you.
You know, coach, if you care about something and you got a little loving your heart,
there is nothing that you can't do.
Yep.
And this team has got some of the best players in Maryland.
All we need to know is that people are not plus.
They love this team as much as we do.
You know what?
You can just get everybody to come out to the opening going for the blues.
Hopefully we see everybody out home up north at Navy Stadium on June 5th.
Perfect.
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Hello, I'm Ken White with the Anapolis Farter Department.
This week's theme for Fire Prevention Week is Circle of Safety in the Kitchen.
So this holiday season, here's some tips from the Anapolis Farter Department that can help you serve of safety in the kitchen.
Tip 1.
When frying, boiling, or simmering, stay in the kitchen.
Never leave the home and always use a timer.
Tip 2.
If a grease fire starts, never try to extinguish with water.
Use a lid to cover over the pot, turn the burner all, and wait till the pan cools down.
Tip 3.
Always keep your cleaning and cooking surfaces free of any clutter.
Tip 4.
Remember to always keep a three-foot distance around a cooking area.
A three-foot kid zone, as I like the colder.
And remember, if you're unable to control the fire, get out of your house and dial 911 immediately.
And ever forget, every month, to test your smoke on off, have an escape plan and practice your escape plan.
Unattended cooking is a leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries.
For more information on tips on how you can serve of safety in the kitchen, visit www.fireproventionweek.org.
Stay safe andapolis.
Good afternoon.
First, I would like to acknowledge three special guests here to our program, which is the parole,
Rosenwald School Historical Ceremony, dedication, signing, unveiling, and celebration here on Friday, May 10th
at Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal.
eligible church to his avenue the church on the hill. Miss Valerie Mills Cooper, which is the daughter
of principal, parole principal, Walter S. Mills. Miss Mills Cooper is a retired vice principal
in Anne-Wonda County Public Schools and she's on keyboard today as well. Ms. Debbie Otem, our war-three community
He lays on who's on route, and Dr. Carol Benson, who is the executive director of the
Chesapeake Crossroads Heritage Area Formally, the four rivers heritage areas.
Thank you so much, Carol, for being here.
At this time, we will sing with Valerie's accompaniment.
The official parole school song, which was written by Mr. Walter S. Mills, the principal,
and it's entitled, I Love O. Parole, and it's printed on the back of your program.
Boys there, who's strong and sturdy, and girls that find this, you've never seen
Ron, Ron, Ron, son there, is always shining, sky's there, always blue, oh, I love
her, to let's do that again, oh, Ron, I love her, oh, I love her, oh, I love her, oh, oh,
I love her, I'm drawn in this huge, a small room, a small room as you can see.
We're in the sand and the bank which ends when its way past.
And this time, we'll have prayer. Thank you so much, Valerie, prayer and scripture around Reverend Dana A. Swan, who's the assistant pastor, here at Mount of African Methodist Episcopal Church. Reverend Swan, pastor Swan.
Thank you, greetings to all, welcome to Mount Olive, welcome to this great event here today. Today, here in for all, we are at a place a history, a place of understanding, in the necessity of teaching.
And so, from that scripture that I lift up is what the Psalm is said in Psalm 111 and verse 10.
It says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, a good understanding, have all that do as commandments as praise and do as forever.
That is to say that we are here because of a landmark celebration of a building which had to do with teaching.
And as we review the history, we think of the wisdom, and we therefore ask for that to stay. And this is my prayer for you, let us pray.
Almighty God, we are thankful for this day which you have given to us. The evidence is found in the sign of the rising of the sun, even behind the clouds and above the rain we've experienced today.
The evidence is found in the signs of the changing of the seasons in the air, even in the pollen we breathe from the grass, the trees and the blossoming flowers.
The evidence is in the sign of the beating of our hearts which echo the drumbeat of the words of the Him, which says, and are we yet alive and see each other's faith.
In a great and global way, evidence is found as we observe the signs of the times and they are changing, where we must daily seek individually and collectively to address the challenges of life with all of the opportunities and tools we possess.
Therefore Almighty God, we need your help in your guidance. As we today dedicate a sign at Hicks and Dorsey avenues in Parole and Annapolis, may have reminded us all of the history represented by this Parole Rosenwall School building.
May those who see this sign pause and reflect on the historic place in the seeking of knowledge, may we from it, note a continue to seek the wisdom from the years gone by, may we now be wise enough to embrace it with conviction, courage, compassion and commitment for us to do.
May we have the knowledge and understanding to tell the incredible stories of a school whose teaching is rooted in the lives of those who are yet present here today, as we continue to write the new stories in this present moment, and indeed to those who are in the future generations.
So today Almighty God, we thank you at the Parole Rosenwall School building at Dorsey and Hicks avenues and here hosting at Mount Alleth. 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 work given to our hands.
May we also remember the words of the Him by Harry Faustick, God of grace, God of glory, grant us wisdom, grant us courage for the facing of this hour for the living of these days that we fail not man nor the throughout the Lord Christ Amen.
Thank you so much. Where the head and the heart built heroes, again good afternoon. Julius Rosenwall was born in Springfield, Illinois. He never finished high school, but he rose to become president of the retail giant Sears Robot Company, and as a result he amassed a fortune serving as president and part owner of Sears.
Rosenwall was influenced by the writings of fame, Tuskegee Educator, Booker T. Washington, writings that emphasize the education of African Americans.
Subsequently, these two men became friends, and Rosenwall's philanthropy took a dramatic turn after reading accounts by African American thinkers.
Additionally, Booker T. Washington's accomplishments parallel with Rosenwall had achieved.
Washington approached Rosenwall in 1912 to assist in funding a program in line with Washington's belief of self-help for African American southerners that emphasize economic advancement through vocational education.
As a result, this Jewish philanthropist and this African American educator joined forces without African American communities during the Jim Crow South and established a fund to build new state-of-the-art school buildings for African American children living in the rural South.
Between 1917 and 1932, the Julius Rosenwall fund was responsible for the construction of more than 5,300 new schools in the United States, from Texas to Maryland.
However, one of the stipulations to building these schools was that the African American community would provide a certain amount of sweat equity in the process which they readily did.
All the Rosenwall school buildings used the same building format and template.
For example, the windows facing the outside were strategically positioned to face east so that the rising of the sun in the morning would provide sunlight into the school building.
In 1943 of Anna Undercounty, 32 black schools were Rosenwall buildings.
The Rosenwall school building program advanced African American education to a level unmatched and unprecedented until the decision in 1954 in the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown V. Board of Education, which declared the end of segregation.
Inspired by the Jewish ideals of Z.D. charity and Ticun Olam repairing the world and a deep concern of a racial and equality in America, Julius Rosenwall used his wealth to become one of America's most effective philanthropists.
Because of his modesty, Rosenwall's philanthropy and social activism are not well known today. He gave away 62 million dollars in his lifetime.
And so today, we salute some of these parole walls and wall school heroes who still reflect upon this building, which still stands at our community today.
And these heroes are here today to tell their stories and to recount their memories.
Also today it is especially apropos in this year and at this moment in time and at this time in the world that we recognize the over 100 years century long relationship between the Jewish community and the African American community.
And so out of this very modest building that was built here in 1923, 101 years ago, the head of Booker T. Washington and the heart of Julius Rosenwall like rise resulted in heroes being built here.
Thank you and may God continue to bless us all.
At this time, we will have remarks by the honorable Gavin Buckley who is our mayor of the city of Annapolis, then our state senator Sarah Elfrith, who has to leave a little bit early and we all know why and we are happy for that.
Then delegate Henson or her representative Ms. Burrell Downs who is 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 are playing this program but she's unable to be here today.
Then Lisa Brannigan Rodvien at Squire who is our county council woman district six which serves Annapolis and several surrounding can take with areas.
Then Dr. C Jane Cox administrator of cultural resources section of historic preservation program.
And one of the county planning and zoning department then Dr. Joanna based Tobin and one of the county board of education district six Annapolis Ms. Burrell Downs who is the act in president of the greater pro community association.
Ms. Alice K. Wright are in president community health center for role in corporate the pro health center.
And then Ms. Lindra Pratt Marshall Heritage and Cultural Preservationist Rosa Wall School project coordinator and Booker T. Washington and Rosenwall Schools documentary film project coordinator.
Thank you so much and one secret I want to provide to you about Ms. Lindra who is also my cousin that she was contacted recently by the father.
By Beyonce's father to do a documentary for him. So we have we have a lot of great people in this room.
But unfortunately she's been so busy she had to turn down the invitation.
But anyway. So anyway in that order everyone please come up. Thank you all so much.
So we want to welcome everybody here to the Cecil B. The Mills Ronda Bendel Charles event for the Rosenwall School.
Great to be here with all my cousins.
I want to thank everyone Ronda Bendel Charles for organizing today's dedication and I want to recognize all of you who worked on this project to install historic marker here.
It will help current residents descendents of past residents and future generations to understand the importance of this site.
It looks like a typical residential structure.
Doesn't it?
In the early part of the 20th century it was anything but typical.
As a Rosenwall school this site was one of more than 5,000 such Rosenwall school constructed between 1917 to 1932.
Only about 10% remained standing today.
What was important about what Julius Rosenwall the owner of CS Robux department store and author and educator Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute built was just a uniform
design structure. Although it was a pretty cool design back in the day.
I'll talk about that in a minute. What was impressive about it of course was the mission and the mission was education.
Rosenwall and Washington believed that the path to a better future for African American children was throughout the American South with was public education.
Rosenwall schools did not challenge segregation but had a tremendous impact on the literacy rate among black Americans in the South.
Notable graduates of the Rosenwall schools which typically stopped at eighth grade include Dr. Charles Drew, author, Ralph Ellison,
Zopzara Nolan Hurston and of course James Baldwin, poet Maya J. Angelo, Langston Hughes and civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis,
plus scientists, artists and others. The impact of the Rosenwall school on the development of black intellectuals in the mid and late 20th century can never be overstated.
The building is all shared a similar blueprint north of the South facing windows to maximize light because most lacked electricity.
Cream or eggshell paint on the walls to encourage learning a plain exterior that helps schools avoid unwanted attention.
Each will work one classroom or when more than one classroom were separated by a partition the schools were always staffed with highly.
Quality, qualified and dedicated teachers. In 1954, the Supreme Court decision, Brown, versus the Board of Education, integrated
public education, in a short amount of time, Rollers and World Schools were obsolete. Of the 20, known sites in
Enronor County, only about 10 remains standing, including this one. And that is why we're so thrilled that this work is coming to fruition.
And that this structure will never be torn down. Those that have survived that have been restored are primarily used now today as community centers.
I've said a lot of positive things about the Roosevelt School, but they were born of an unequally, an unequally American system of education, a pathide.
It's a difficult chapter to say anything positive about that chapter in American history,
that we know influence us so much of our society functions, even to this day. Recognizing that history helps us understand it was wrong.
Recognizing our history, even the ugly parts help us move forward together as a nation. Again, I thank the organizers 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.
Now I'd like to pass it over to my Senator, Elthworth. Thank you all.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and thank you to all the women, Pindel Charles, for your 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.
And more importantly, how that history reflects on our legacy today and the work we still have ahead of us. I also want to thank Ms. Lindra and Ms. Lindra. I can't help but think of Ms. Gertrude right now.
And think about the fact that I believe in Orlando County has more standing, rose and mold schools than any other community in the entire country. 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, Ron and mentioned partnerships, between Lincoln and another great mayorlander Frederick Douglass and the promise that reconstruction could have had, had he lived and had that vision for rebuilding this country, repairing the wounds of this country actually come to fruition.
Especially that never occurred and we spent decades in the darkness with government not doing what it should have done in terms of lifting up all of its citizens and making sure education, as we know it to be the great equalizer, actually could repair those wounds.
And instead it took decades in a different partnership. It took Mr. Rosenwald and Mr. Washington to come together and see this vision of 5,000 schools across this country. That let's be clear the government did not build.
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 history collectively and reflect on our responsibility collectively to do better and we can only do that by knowing where we came from and so I'm particularly grateful for this morning. Thank you very much.
I feel like it hints in is being in addition to being a legislator you all know that she's an attorney.
So court was on the schedule this morning and so on behalf of delegate Henson. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Much has been said about the Rosenwald school. I want to tell you a little bit about parole.
History, education, service and dedication are the pillars that this community stands on it is the foundation of this community many in this room.
I see promote that. I'm going to tell you just a little bit about our greater parole community association which Ron Dimension I'm the acting chair.
Kind of. 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 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. Thank you.
Good afternoon. I'm Lisa Radbien and I'm the County Councilwoman for Ann Royal County Council. Ann Royal County district six, which includes the city of Annapolis.
It's really my honor and privilege to be here today. I'm going to sort of scratch my remarks because Alderman Pindell Charles actually took most of what I intended to say.
But I think one of the things about the Rosenwald schools is that there are so many different lessons to learn.
And that is one of the reasons why the history is so important for us to keep. First off, as Senator Alfred said, if you don't know where you've come from, how are you going to figure out where to go next.
But before I came here this morning, I looked up a couple different, a couple different folks that I think really reflect and embody one of the things that really started the Rosenwald schools and that's ally ship.
The idea that Booker T. Washington and Julius Rosenwald could come together and both see the need and both understand how deeply important education was and that that was not something that should be narrowed that it should be expanded.
I'm going to put on my glasses so I can read my notes here for a second.
A suffragette, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, an African-American woman born in Baltimore who worked alongside many people to help get the right to vote said, 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 Julius Rosenwald and the way Booker T. Washington understood.
I feel like more individuals are starting to learn this but I think it's something we all all need to continue to remember that as we are lifted up and as we grow ourselves, we need to continue to turn and look for others that need to be lifted up.
And not just be the savior that comes in but to really work alongside because really our community is all tied together.
Even the people in your community that you might dislike the most, we are connected to them.
Mayor Buckley joked at the beginning of his remarks that he was saying hello to all of his cousins.
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.
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.
And I think that's what Julius Rosenwald was doing and I think that's what Booker T. Washington was doing 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.
Thank you very much.
Happy preservation month.
Isn't it appropriate that we're here today?
I'm Jane Cox with the Toronto County.
I'm thrilled to be here today.
Thank you for inviting me to this and including me.
I'm the administrator for the county's historic preservation program and I just want to thank you for the honorary PhD but to my mother's
program I only have a masters.
So I started the county's historic marker program four years ago with a goal of recognizing the historic sites that are of local significance.
Most preservation programs, a site must meet this national standard of significance to be protected and what I saw happening across the board was that these community landmarks were at
these simple vernacular buildings and you drive by the Rosenwald school and not blink an eye and not think oh it's the William Pakehouse.
But but these sites perhaps they've seen better days.
They were being tossed aside disregarded neglected forgotten by the system.
These are the places that I heard time 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.
Those places that we drive and walk by every day.
And I realized that naming a thing is the first step to protecting it and remembering it.
So our sign program four years in now recognizes more than 60 historic sites across the county.
These include both these brown roadside markers with a date on them but also more elaborate interpretive signs.
And the process keeps building as the lindronos.
So from buildings like the Rosenwald school to archaeology sites to historic cemeteries 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.
So early on with linders encouragement we place the Rosenwald schools in and around a county at the top of our list for signage and recognition.
So based on the latest research by lindra 23 were built in the county.
At least 12 remains standing two or three maybe more which is a pretty astounding preservation level.
And today we have placed signs brown roadside marker signs at almost every single Rosenwald school.
So I challenge you to go for a drive see if you can find them all.
So recognizing these schools though is bigger than just celebrating this single building or the architecture of a structure.
These school buildings were and remain the center in the heartbeat of significant historically black communities.
And it's important chapter of our local history.
I'm excited to see it brought forward. I hope these signs help lift it up and I hope these signs really help make sure people know that this is an important place.
So congratulations.
Thank you.
Good afternoon. Good afternoon.
Now let's write the president of the community health center after all and thank you all the woman Charles for giving me this opportunity.
Well my story may be a little different from everything that has been said this morning so I'm going to say really quickly.
That's where it started for me and many, many children in the many, many African American children in the parole community.
Our school is where we went and when we went to learn where there were teachers that taught us taught us English arithmetic.
You don't even use the word arithmetic nowadays arithmetic spelling.
We went to parole school to learn and thanks be to God for the teachers that took the time and made sure that we learned.
The discipline, respect, love for the community but most of all they prepared us for the future.
So I say today I thank God for those teachers because of those teachers giving us a beginning and a start.
I am here where I am today because of the education that was given to us back in the day.
And when you went to school you went to school to learn. You were disciplined. If you didn't do it right you got to tap on the fingers on the hand.
And the parents didn't come to school to fight with the teachers because you got to tap.
You got another tap when you got home.
So parole school was an instrument of just helping and providing and teaching and preparing the students for tomorrow.
Today where we are even even though some of us are not here, I can say it was decades ago that I attended parole school.
So we are just grateful for that. We are grateful for the love and we really appreciate you doing that, Brandon.
And to all the teachers that have gone on and principal Mills, thank you. Thank you for loving us enough to give us a chance to God be the glory.
Thank you.
Good afternoon. Again, I am Lyndra Pratt Marshall, and I am the coordinator of the Rosenwald School
Project. But I want to begin by thanking President 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 may I? We have been working on this and finally, thank God, it's happening today.
And I want to thank all the participants who and guests who's here today, because without you, we wouldn't have extra footage for our video.
Many things to pass the audience in the trustees of this great church, Matt Olive, African American, African Methodist, Episcopal Church, for allowing us to use this space today.
I really bring you greed and is not from parole, but from the Galesville Community Center Organization Inc.
We are good stewards of another Rosenwald School in South County. In 2022, we were awarded a grant from the Maryland Heritage Area Authority to conduct research, document, and conduct or accounts of the history
The history of the former school houses here in Anilwanda County.
But today, I can't stand here and just say it's all about me, because it's not. I like to introduce the team that's behind this, Mr. Roger Marshall, who's the Act and President of the Galesville Community Center Organization,
Mr. Valentino Owens, who is the photographer for this project and many others, and so as Mr. Anthony Smith, who's a videographer for this project.
But we couldn't do it alone, and so we have trusted colleagues, such as Mr. Jane Pots.
Heather Ers, and Dr.
Thank you.
Dr. Carl Bidson.
Thank you. If it wasn't for you all, we could not do the work that we do.
Yes.
I also want to thank, we had many team members, leaders that supported this project.
Every county had a team leader, and so we want to thank all of them, which include Kazamanda for the parole school.
And we also want to thank the brave students that when we called on them, they said yes.
And so we have Ms. Kropper.
We have three siblings, Kazam Betty, Kazam Alfreda, Kazam Alfred, all from the Brown family.
We also have Ms. Wright and Mr. Harris, Mr. Harris.
And yeah, I call her first.
And so they will be meeting us after this program downstairs to give their full account of their experience with the Rosewood schools.
Okay, so thank you so much. We greatly appreciate this.
And Kazamanda, I don't have the body here about this anymore.
Because we will incorporate today's event and with the documentary. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you all so much. Just a couple of other observations.
I do want to recognize Heather, her is from a resident of Napa, Sananda County.
And she's been a great supporter and a blessing for her efforts as well. Thank you, Heather.
I want to let everyone know that Dr. Reverend Dr. Ronald Owens, who's our pastor here at Mount Olive, is away at his daughter's graduation.
So otherwise he would be here. He would have been here. We had the first state, but he wanted me to let you all know that.
I am not a product of the Rosewood school here on the corner.
But my dad is a product of that school.
And my mother, who's from the on-clave of Queen's Town in the seven community, attended the Queen's Town Rosewood School.
So I feel like at least I'm an emeritus member, I guess, of the Rosewood school family.
But I just want to thank everybody for being here. Now this time, of course,
Mr. Mitchell Stevenson, our public information officer, and I were trying to figure out how to unveil this sign.
But what I think we will do, Mr. Stevenson, we're going to unveil that sign right here virtually.
And we'll all, I guess, at the count of three, raise our hands and pull our hands down and simulate what we would do if we were pulling the sign down.
But at some point, I guess even after this, maybe we, some of us can walk over and do the official signing unveiling.
So unless anyone else has a better suggestion, I'm all ears, just let me know.
But at this time, we will do the five, four, three, two, one, unveil.
And at this, at this time, Reverend Swan will give us the blessing of the sign, the virtual sign,
and the documentary as well as the benediction.
Thank you all again, so very, very, very much.
Thank you all to one of them and Charles and to all of the distinguished persons who are here,
protocol being established, I won't call all the names.
I just want to know representing a pastor and mount out with so glad that you all are here in a part of our community,
whether you're physically here or not, you very much are.
And we appreciate all that you've done in your presence here today.
There will be those of us who will virtually go out there and virtually means means in truth,
then in truth there will be those of us who will go out there and will be able to do that as well.
But in here, sheltered from the storms on the outside, become for some, some encouragement and we 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 will grant 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.
And as we be dismissed, to carry on the conversations, may we not just share them with ourselves, but share them with one another,
and share them with a world out there that needs to continue to tell the story.
But because we have the details, may we be willing to share as well as to work.
And now the benediction may the Lord bless you and keep you.
Causes name the Christ, causes face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you.
The Lord lift up the light of His countenance upon you and give you peace.
Now and always, everybody say amen.
God bless you today, glad that you are here.
You are here.
But with no words, you will always be in a peace of mind.
No words, you will always be in a peace of mind.
No words, you will have actualizations in real time about the conditions of the road,
you already know that you are at home or while you are at home.
You can see that you have been treated with a lot of relief to know when you are safe.
The day is easy with no words.
You already know that you have been treated with no words.
Or you have been treated with no words.
No words, you have been treated with real time,
showing that you have active actions working in your area.
And what do you think are no words of emergency routes?
You have to continue to understand with no words.
Imagine the future of anapolis as a place where you can walk safely from your home to a shopping centre.
Imagine being able to bike to a job from one end of the city to the other comfortably.
Imagine choosing to take public transit even though you own a car.
Just because the service is that good.
That's the city we want to move towards.
And to do that, we need to think about both policy in terms of how we guide our transportation investments.
Those are the design of those, how they are integrated with the city.
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.
Mobility is a foundational theme of the Napples Head 2040 comprehensive plan.
It's a distinguishing element of this comprehensive plan in comparison to all of our past comprehensive plans,
including the one from just 10 years ago.
Why is that?
Well, there's a recognition today that mobility has an oversized impact positively affecting a whole range of bigger issues
in anapolis from a public health safety and well-being, equitable access to opportunities, economic development, community development,
and environmental sustainability and resilience.
When you add up all of these things, dollar for dollar, the investments we make in our mobility infrastructure will pay huge dividends across all of these outcomes here in anapolis.
When we talk about our mobility network, we're talking about our roadways and our vehicles we use to get around
and both of these can be significantly improved to benefit our health, our communities, and ultimately environment.
We spend so much time on roadways getting around inapolis.
They should be as safe and comfortable as possible for all users, whether you're driving, walking, riding bike or taking transit.
They also connect communities to commerce, to school, to jobs, to parks.
One, we need a complete sidewalk network.
It says, you leave your home on foot to go somewhere.
You can get there on a connected sidewalk network that is adequately wide.
We need bike infrastructure that allows you to bike around the city in a way that makes it feel comfortable and safe.
Today, it has a variety of different bike infrastructure, quick strength lanes, share lane markings, signage.
We have some off-street trails.
At the future, we need a city where you can get around bike bike, no matter what type of a cyclist you are, and feel safe doing it.
The mobility vision of anapolis Head 2040 Comprehensive Plant 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 improved wayfinding.
It's still free, and we've seen increased ridership as a result.
We recently launched our first micro-immobility program in anapolis, which includes an e-bike and e-scooter share system.
If we can implement these kinds of new ideas in a connected way, we're going to have a transportation system in anapolis that is both safe and safe.
And comfortable, and efficient, and ultimately, environmentally responsible for the city as a whole.
Mobility can truly be a vehicle for the future success of anapolis, and makes sense for you to see how this is communicated in anapolis Head 2040 Comprehensive Plant.
I'm Eric Wichensky, Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the City of Anapolis.
Thank you for watching.
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Hello, I'm Ronda McCoy, professional standards manager for the Anapolis Police Department. I am pleased
to announce the launch of our new complaint and compliment portal where members of the public can make
a complaint or compliment the exemplary work of the five-minute women of the Anapolis Police Department.
A key feature of the new portal is that it will automatically send out notifications to a complaint through email or text messaging
when a complaint moves to different stages of the investigation when the investigation is concluded or when there's a finding in the investigation.
You can access the new portal by going to our web page, www.anapolis.gov, backslash police.
At the top of the page, click on the words, complaint, and compliment portal. You will then be directed to the portal.
Once you are at the portal, click create a new entry and follow the directions for submitting a complaint or compliment.
Chief Jackson would like to see the citizens of Anapolis to know that we take all complaints seriously and that they are handled in a professional and careful manner.
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.
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Hi, I'm Eric Lyshenski, Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the City of Anapolis.
I've been working on Anapolis ahead 2040 on Comprehensive Planning Update over the last few years.
I'm excited to finally release a draft plan for your review and comment.
Comprehensive plan is specific to the Anapolis of today, but it sets the vision for the Anapolis 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 anapolis 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, June 15,
and the Planning Commission regularly scheduled meeting Thursday evening starting at 7 p.m.
But there will be many ways to participate in reviewing and providing comments on the comprehensive plan.
The best way is to go to anapolishead2040.com where you'll find special website with information about the plan,
ways of providing comments, information about every chapter in the plan, and ways to contact planning staff if you have questions.
Throughout that 90-day comment period, we'll be doing many presentations to different boards and commissions.
We have a series of webinars, scheduled, and we'll be doing in-person meetings at four locations across the city
to try to reach any resident that wants to participate in this process.
I think you're going to love this plan, and I hope you'll help us make it as great a plan as possible by reviewing the draft
and submitting your comments to anapolishead2040.com.
Thank you.
Thanks for watching.
Thank you for being here today.
The amazing touch of my English and it's not the best, but my Spanish is beautiful.
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Thank you.
Hello, I'm Ken White with the Annapolis Farter Department.
This week's theme for Farter Prevention Week is Circle Safety and Decision.
So this holiday season, here's some tips from the Annapolis Farter Department that can help you,
Circle Safety and Decision.
Tip one, when frying, boiling, or simmering, stay in the kitchen, never leave the home, and always use the time.
Tip two, if a grease fire starts, never try to extinguish with water, use a lid to cover over the pot, turn the burner off, and wait till the pan cools down.
Tip three, always keep your cleaning and cooking surfaces free of any clutter.
And tip four, remember to always keep a three-foot distance around the cooking area at three feet, kids on as I like to call it.
And remember, if you're unable to control the fire, get out of your house and dial 911 immediately.
And ever forget, every month, to test your smoke alarms, have an escape plan and practice your escape plan.
Unattended cooking is a leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries.
For more information on tips on how you can serve a safety in the kitchen, visit www.farerproventionweet.org.
Stay safe andapolis.
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Hey, once you're on the bus, just $2 per ride and only $1 per seniors.
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Hey, I'm the captain of the city of LaFolix.
In this week's week, the new event is in LaCocina.
The main event in the house is in the house of LaCocina.
The main event in LaCocina is the fault of its provision.
With the number 1, you'll be using a automatic alarm.
Number 2, always maintain a traffic light or a traffic light when you're being taken.
If you're being taken with a traffic light or a traffic light, you'll have to pay the traffic light and wait for it to be free.
Number 3, ensure you have a clean, organized and organized traffic light.
And number 4,
This is the place where you maintain a free zone of children, or less of three feet or a meter.
In this case, there's a sign that is outside of your control.
Call me at 9-11 and immediately.
It's time to test your detectives.
There's also a plan to escape.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
You know, coach, if you care about something and you've got a little loving your heart,
there is nothing that you can't do.
Yep.
And this team has got some of the best players in Maryland.
All we need to know is that people are not plus.
They love this team as much as we do.
Just do it.
You know what?
You can just get everybody to come out to the opening and go for the blues.
Hopefully we see everybody out of home up north at Navy Stadium on June 5th.
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Looks like after you proper trust patient is bringing in again.
If you put the trash out, please place it into a bag.
And tie the bag up and place it into a watertight receptacle with your address placed on it.
So they can be seen from the street that you're probably for proper road collection.
And the matter of fact, the cycle is done all wrong also.
If you decide to place your recycling in a bag, please bring your bag to the receptacle
and take all items out of the bag and place them into the can.
And make sure they're there to close, please.
Let's bring back in the trash monster so I can show you things that are not recyclable.
See it's 40% non- recyclable right now.
This is non- recyclable, this is non- recyclable.
The metal utensils are non- recyclable.
Please be mindful of your trash and recycle placement to avoid fines.
Thank you for watching.
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then we put it in the basura container, we put it in the basura, we put it in the basura,
since we are ready to show you, we also look at the place, this bag has to be in the
place, and we are going to put it in the basura, so we are going to put it in the basura and we are going to
look at what it has to do to see if it can be recycled or not, this metal bag can not be recycled,
all this plastic finish of the basura bags are going to be recycled, this metal bag is going to be
a little bit, please tell me that when the basura bags are the ways to be able to do it to
be able to avoid it, that you can see or that you have a lot of it.
We need to find out that the carter has been treated with salt or barrels during a
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Here I am in the sub-signary, or route of travel to see exactly what paths have been treated and which
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Thank you so much for being here.
Over here, we have the waterfront.
It's one of the most beautiful waterfront cities in America.
One of our biggest economic drivers, but also it's one of our greatest threats.
We saw that on Tuesday. On Tuesday, we've been standing a step down there.
The water would have been up to my waist. It went around the market house and took out some of our most valuable businesses in the city.
Our businesses are used to this. They have a strategy.
But when you get the third worst flooding event in history and recent history in the city coming to you, we have to find ways to help them.
We have great partners at the state and at the county to help us get these businesses back on their feet.
Senator Elfruth texted me the other day about an idea which we could activate if we declare a state of emergency.
It will unlock funds that these businesses can use and I'll let them elaborate as they come to the microphone.
I want to say we have a great team here. We have our emergency management team here, many of the people from that.
We are a economic development people here that are going to help the businesses get to these resources as soon as possible.
This makes the case for protecting the city. We are at the state right now asking for the last $3 million of the $18 million of the status committed to this amazing project.
We are doing a $19 million revitalization of downtown. That not only is building a garage for us, but it is building a barrier against sea level rise, building a barrier against the next catastrophic weather event.
And creating a great public space, a park, a city, a spray park, things for people to do when they come down here.
Making this city resilient at the same time we are making this city more attractive.
So we want to thank the state for their support on that, especially in this type of budget that's coming up now.
And I'm going to now hand it off to the county to let you know where to go to access this money and I want to thank the businesses for their patience through this time.
It was a tough thing to go through. We know that their veterans are this, but I think this one hurt particularly bad, so we want to make sure we're getting back on their feet as soon as possible.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mayor.
I'm Amy Gowan, President and CEO for Anne Rundell Economic Development Corporation.
And for those who don't know, our organization exists to help the business community in Anne Rundell County and within the city of Annapolis.
So whether it's to 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 executive Stuart Pittman.
So I just wanted to say thank you so much to Senator Alfred and delegate Jones for their leadership last session to make the state's video lottery terminal funds available for disaster situations like this.
And our organization is nimble and can deploy them quickly.
And so we are in the process of standing up our grant program.
It is a disaster relief program.
We will offer up to $50,000 for businesses that have damaged due to flooding.
So it can be used for things like equipment, property damage, and some income loss.
We will have information on our website today.
You can visit that at a-a-e-d-c.org or myorundellvis.org.
And we will be taking applications starting on Tuesday.
So again, thank you very much.
We stand ready to support the businesses of this city.
And I am going to now turn it over to delegate Jones to say thank you so much.
Thank you all for being here.
Again, my name is delegate Dana Jones.
I am in the House of delegates here for anapolis and I just really want to thank the incredible work of my friend.
Chief Simmons, the Annapolis Office of Emergency Management as well as emergency responders countywide.
With over five feet of storm surge, over 17,000 left without power in the region.
These heroes once again stepped up as they always do.
And it answered the call from the storm water rescues to ensuring infants had the equipment they needed.
The community is indebted to you and I sincerely thank the Office of Emergency Management.
As many of you know, this week with our legislature, we kicked out the 446 legislative session.
Bringing an additional 185 legislators and countless staff to my district district 30A for the next 90 days.
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.
With the mayor's emergency declaration as Amy just explained inapolis small businesses and nonprofits are now able to receive vote funding for up to 50,000 in aid to mitigate damage from this week's storms.
I want to thank my friend, Mayor Buckley, his leadership in unlocking these funds and my partners in friend who I stand shoulder to shoulder with on both days like this and bad ones Sarah, I am forever grateful to my friend who I work with every day.
We in 2022 authored and passed legislation that allows the flexibility for funds to be used this way.
tragically, localized severe flooding and wind events were the exact disasters that the senator and I considered when writing this legislation three years ago.
We stood and pro.
Shoulder to shoulder and help that community clean up after an EF2 tornado and today we're here again, heartbroken by the damage to our community, our small businesses and so many others.
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.
This week we saw compromise streets stay open for hours longer than it normally would have.
Just because of the early deployments of storm and water management infrastructure.
I'm so proud to have worked with my district partners to bring millions of dollars home in 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.
I want to introduce my dear friend my partner in the senate on so many issues affecting anapolis and ananorundal county senator Sarah Elfra.
Good morning. I have the great privilege of representing you in the state senate, but I also stand here as a neighbor downtown.
I live just right behind us 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 and to those who are most affected whenever we have a large storm.
Now climate change is happening. I share it with my colleagues on the senate floor regularly and it's happening right here in the city of anapolis between tornadoes and flooding.
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 cutting their red tape. We get better at responding. We get better at being there for our neighbors.
So we learned lessons with every ensuing disaster after the tornado that devastated parole and Alderman ronda pandal Charles is district after we see in the record floods destroy Alderman lateri's district we learned what went wrong and what we can do better.
And we learned that we needed a more nimble response and our state laws did not allow at that time for that nimble response. We needed a state state of emergency.
And so we changed the law to say when we have these localized micro storms these natural disaster to 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. 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 non-profits that are so important to our community.
So in the last flood I've had a couple since I've been your senator the maritime museum over in Eastport took on nearly two feet of water and we're not eligible for this funding. We changed the law in order so that they could avail themselves of this support.
We cannot hold back the tide but we can be more responsive to our neighbors on their worst days. I'm so grateful to the city of napolis and especially the office of emergency management to the county academic development team to the governor's office who took a dozen calls for me over the last few days.
I might have gavled in the legislative session but I was on the phone with Ryan and Alice in the governor's office every hour over the last three days and make sure they had everything they need and so we can cut through this bureaucratic red tape and make sure our small businesses and our non-profits get everything they need to recover and reopen.
And with that I'm proud of.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Sarah. I'm very much on so many levels. Alice's strata, and I represent the
Annapolis Meriton Museum in the community of East Court. When city dock 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.
But still, 18 inches of water in the building will involve days and days of drying, and sanitizing, and drying, and sanitizing.
As we all know, water can be so damaging both to the health of the building and the infrastructure.
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.
And sure enough, you know, they told me we're going to get that changed, and sure enough, they did.
Unfortunately, I have another flooding event to make this available.
I also want to thank them because they also sponsored a bond bill for us to figure out some short-term and long-term solutions for
sea level rise at the Annapolis Meriton Museum. If you don't know, we are a beloved community anchor.
We want to figure out a way that we can stay viable, but these flooding events that are happening more and more often is not sustainable for us.
It's very, very expensive for us to recover, as I'm sure.
I speak for all the nonprofits.
Non-profits are businesses too. They just take their proceeds and put them back into their mission.
But yeah, I feel the pain of all my neighboring business downtown, and I just want to say thank you again for the support and the widespread city support as well.
Thank you.
Good morning. My name is Stephen Rice, some of the economic development manager for the city of Annapolis.
I just want to take a minute to talk very briefly about the negative economic impact that a flood can have on a business.
When flooding happens, you can have property damage, you can have equipment loss, you can have inventory loss,
and the longer that a business is closed, you have a loss of revenue.
So there are four different kinds of negative financial impacts that can happen to a business when you have an event such as this.
There are also some other issues when flood waters rise.
And in particular, of course, businesses have to clear out the water, and they have to clean up the debris.
But in addition to that, they may have repairs that require, if they're significant in particular, and actual city building permit.
And the city is committed to expediting those permits as quickly as possible.
The other thing from a health and an environmental standpoint is that when flood waters rise, you can have a sewage backup.
Sometimes it releases fuel, and other solvent, cleaners, and other chemicals that these businesses have on their premises.
The other potential hazard is that when flood waters rise, water coming in from from the creek, you don't know exactly what's in that water.
So you don't know what that water is bringing into the business, in addition to not knowing how it's impacting what's already inside the business.
So a couple of things I would like to say.
It's important, obviously, for all of us to work together.
And I think this is an example of city, county, and state cooperation.
When this event happened, the county was on site within about 30 minutes.
The city had pre-game the event before it even happened, and we have obvious state support that has come in to make funds available for these impacted businesses.
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.
That is our goal. And we also want to get this right, so that these businesses patrons are also protected.
At this point, I'd like to introduce Mr. Ryan Laming. He's the owner of Pips.
Quick plug. Pips has excellent hot dogs.
And it's right over there.
Good morning, everybody.
Please bear with me. I'm not a public speaker. I just make delicious chili dogs.
Just where do you begin?
We've been here 15 years.
We've dealt with nuisance flooding.
That's just something we deal with here on Dox Street.
Greatly looking forward to the revitalization of Dox Street with what we dealt with on Tuesday.
I don't think any of us were prepared for it.
We lost more than half of our equipment inside product, the revenue that we'll lose.
It's looking like we could be closed a week, maybe two weeks.
We've got employees.
And I'm speaking on behalf of all the small businesses downtown, just not mine.
We've gotten employees of depend on us.
And it's just we put everything we have into these businesses.
It's just I can't bear with me.
Thank you very much.
You have to be a huge burden lifted off of us,
just knowing that this financial aid is going to be made available.
It's just a lot to deal with.
It's our entire lives.
And again, I speak only half of everybody here on Dox Street in the downtown area.
And again, thank you to the community.
It's been a lot of outreach.
I'm just coming in saying, this asking how we're doing.
That means a lot.
And again, just thank you very much.
Really appreciate it.
And so if the city dock had been complete on Tuesday, none of these businesses would have been flooded.
So we are looking to make this happen sooner rather than later.
We start construction at city dock.
It's not a case of if there's going to be the next Isabelle or will there be.
It is going to come.
There's no question.
We just had the hardest year on record for the planet.
Catastrophic weather events are going to be a way of life.
And we have to deal with it.
We want the state capital of Maryland.
We want a napless to be the resilience capital of America.
We want to lead the way on this project.
But we have to come up with a short term solutions.
Another solution besides the barrier that we deployed next week is we're going to work with a delegate manager.
Senator Alfred on getting some money for an idea called these door dams and Dutch door dams.
For around $5,000, we could fit out a lot of these doorways.
And they would have some protection up to a certain point.
We have to sort of check 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 eSport.
So I want to thank you for covering this because these businesses are so important.
It was peeps as an institution. Everybody loves this man and everybody loves our restaurant.
So I'm looking forward to getting in there and getting my next hot dog.
We are open for questions if you have any questions of any of us.
There are people here from the county, state, city, please.
Go ahead.
I will ask you if you might know that.
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Thank you. This is a Chris Jacobiac department planning and zoning.
17 of right now. This is we're posted.
Roughly 13 are still posted.
The department is working in coordination with the county department of health to move those forward.
Some of the damage is extensive.
Equipment failures.
Wet floors obviously wet carpets.
The walls and foundations internal to the buildings are absorbing water.
Some water still standing in some structures.
That's the typical set of damage we're seeing.
And I know that.
There's some work that needs to be done on the hill.
So if you have any specific questions for.
General for earth, delegate Dana Jones.
Let us know because they told me they were on a tight schedule today.
We're watching until we're expecting 3.5 to 4 feet of title search.
And everybody knows that our problem here is title search.
It is water pushing up the bay into the storm drains and up through the grates and then into the businesses.
Or under compromised street stopping traffic.
So that's our problem.
More than rain.
It is title search.
So we are going to watch to see if we're going to need to deploy it.
We believe it's going to happen earlier in the morning when it's not such a heavily traffic time.
So we're still making that call.
So it's still a fluid assessment.
So we're waiting on a big FEMA grant.
So the question was, is all the funding secured for the city.
We need every dollar.
So we need and those dollars come in millions of dollars.
We're doing a $90 billion project here to reimagine this whole area.
Add additional parking out in the garage.
So the garage is finished.
We start working on the utilities here this year.
And then we move forward.
After boat show to fence off that area and raise city dock.
And then button it up at the end of the 20 in the middle of 26.
We're nearly there.
But we need our state partners.
We need our federal partners to really make it happen.
Thank you.
I think in the range of 10 to 20 something like that.
But we're pretty close and we feel we have the relationships and we had a lot of legislators show up.
And couldn't get into their hotels on Tuesday night because it was flooded in front of the hotel there.
So I think that makes the case for us.
And that's going to help our delegation.
Got a bat for us like they always do.
So we definitely not expecting it to be anything like was.
Sorry.
I can actually let us because the ground is that right.
Yeah.
We're already worried about the flooding in the area.
We need that it to have the snowstorm.
And people live with emergency plans.
If we want to get to the top and think we can get into this.
We need to get into the water.
Yeah, we are not expecting that to be an issue with this upcoming storm.
We think that the ground water is as 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 ground water question.
On access to the funds.
I'll let someone from the county come and speak to that.
Great.
So I think in an 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.
Correct.
That is correct.
Yes.
We'll get someone to look out.
The question was how long will the state of emergency last?
My name is David Mandel.
I'm deputy director of the city of anapolis office of emergency management.
By city code and state statute I understand the declaration of emergency last 30 days.
Unless renewed by council.
And I can't say enough about the team that we're out here in the rain on that night.
And the way they cleaned up afterwards.
If you came to the city of anapolis, you would think nothing happened.
The only way you would know anything happened in the city is if you happened to pressure
those up against the window and see the damage that some of these businesses have been affected by it.
But the team were out in full force.
We relocated residents from a homeless shelter.
We moved them across town because they had a fire in the middle of the storm.
We relocated 40 to 50 people.
We got the water moved out of here by the afternoon.
So receded the pumps kicked in when it was at the level that they could handle.
And we were back in business.
And so we've got some people back in there on their feet.
But we need to get everybody back in there because the business.
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 appreciate you all being there. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Thank you. And I do have the names of all of our speakers printed out for you to get the spellings, right?
We also have a flyer with the QR code for folks to get to the application.
Thank you.
I'm Eric Lishinsky, Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the Sea of Napolis.
Making anapolis a more walk-able place is one of the foundational goals of anapolis Head 2040, the comprehensive plan update.
Many of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city are highly vulnerable, think about downtown inapolis, or eastward, or air-westry.
Let's remember, anapolis is identity to begin. Anapolis, from its very beginnings, has been a walk-able place when you think of downtown inapolis, or eastward.
There are several places where people can get around very easily without a car.
In the 20th century, as Napolis expanded, it became less walk-able. Think of forestry or upper-westry as examples of what that kind of city looks like.
These are places that have a surface parking lot, next to the sidewalk. They may not have adequate shading, street trees, sidewalk, maybe narrow, and lots of obstructions.
There's no activity next to the sidewalk that generates interest, whether it's an active storefront or a cafe.
So let's get back to the why. What we heard from residents, for the most part, was this desire to be a walk-to-place in their community, whether it's a restaurant, a grocery store, a job, a school, a doctor's office, and hang.
To go to any of these places on foot, allows residents to meet their neighbors, to spend little businesses from a planner's perspective,
we're able to address all of the bigger issues, whether it's traffic congestion, economic development, addressing climate change.
So how do we get anapolis, like most cities in the United States, has a zoning code that guides most of our development?
Today, our zoning code limits what we can do to encourage walkable places.
You need buildings that are closer to the street, that have adequate sidewalks.
Even if they're set back from the street, 10 feet, 20 feet, that's space for a cafe, and if they're pushed up to the street, that's where you may have an active storefront.
Those are the kind of things that we can put into our zoning code.
And the way we do that is there's something called a form-based code.
But essentially what that means is the zoning code provides more guidance for how buildings should create a street scape that is more walkable.
What we've been talking about today is this one part of anapolis Head 2040, our comprehensive plan of the day.
To get a more complete view of the plan and the whole process leading up to it, go to the C's website and check out the webpage for anapolis Head 2040.
On that website, you can find a link to form-based code and a number of other pieces of the plan.
Stay tuned for other video snapshots. Thank you for joining us.
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Thank you.
I'm Eric Lishinsky, Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the Sea of Anapolis.
Making anapolis a more walk-able place is one of the foundational goals of anapolis head 2040, the comprehensive plan update.
Many of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city are highly vulnerable.
Think about downtown Anapolis, or Eastport, or Air West Street.
Let's remember Anapolis's identity to begin.
Anapolis, from its very beginnings, has been a walk-able place where you think of downtown Anapolis, or Eastport.
These were places where people could get around very easily without a car.
In the 20th century, as anapolis expanded, it became less walk-able.
Think of forestry, or upper-westry as examples of what that kind of city looks like.
These are places that have the surface parking lot.
Next to the sidewalk, they may not have adequate shading from street trees.
The sidewalk may be very narrow and have lots of obstructions.
There's no activity next to the sidewalk that generates interest,
whether it's an active storefront or a cafe.
So let's get back to the why.
What we heard from residents, for the most part, was this desire to be a walk-to-place in their community,
whether it's a restaurant, a grocery store, a job, a school, a doctor's office, and paying.
To go to any of these places on foot on the house residents, to meet their neighbors, to explore businesses,
on a planner's perspective, we're able to address all of the bigger issues,
whether it's traffic congestion, economic development, addressing climate change.
So how do we get anapolis, like most cities in the United States,
as a zoning code that guides most of our development?
Today, our zoning code limits what we can do to encourage walk-to-place businesses.
You need buildings that are closer to the street that have adequate sidewalks.
Even if they're set back from the street, 10 feet, 20 feet, that that space is a space for a cafe.
And if they're pushed up to the street, that's where you may have an active storefront.
Those are the kind of things that we can put into our zoning code.
And the way we do that is to something called a form-based code.
Essentially what that means is the zoning code provides more guidance
for how buildings should create a street scape that is more walkable.
What we've been talking about today is this one part of anapolis Head 24-day
or a comprehensive plan update.
You get a more complete view of the plan and the whole process leading up to it.
Go to the C's website and check out the webpage for anapolis Head 24-day.
On that website, you can find a link to form-based code and a number of other pieces of the plan.
Stay tuned for other video snapshots.
Thank you for joining us.
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Mantengas es presidenta y parte de la ciudad de la ciudad.
Rosanwal es influenciado por la righte de la ciudad de Tosquilla,
Tosquilla, Bucartí, Washington.
Mantengas que emphasize la edicación de African-Americans.
Subsequently, estos two men became friends.
En Rosanwalos, Philanthro, B. took a dramatic turn after reading accounts
by African-American thinkers. Additionally, Bucartí, Washington's accomplishments parallel
with Rosanwal had achieved. Washington approached Rosanwal in 1912
to assist in funding a program in line with Washington's belief of self-help
by African-American souteners that emphasize economic advancement through vocational education.
As a result, this Jewish philanthropist and this African-American educator
joined forces with African-American communities doing the Jim Crow South
and established a fund to build new state of the...
The Arts School buildings for African-American children living in the rural South.
Between 1917 and 1932, the Julius Rosenwald Fund was responsible for the construction of more
than 5,300 new schools in the United States, from Texas to Maryland.
How but one of the stipulations to building these schools was that the African-American
community would provide a certain amount of sweat equity in the process which they readily
did. All the Rosenwald school buildings used the same building format and template.
For example, the windows facing the outside were strategically positioned to face
east so that the rising of the sun in the morning would provide sunlight into the school building.
In 1943 of Anna-Runner County, 32 black schools were Rosenwald buildings.
The Rosenwald school building program advanced African-American education to a level
unmatched and unprecedented until the decision in 1954 in the U.S. Supreme Court case
Brown V. Board of Education, which declared the end of segregation.
Inspired by the Jewish ideals of Z.D. charity and Ticun Olam repairing the world
and a deep concern of a racial and equality in America, Julius Rosenwald used his wealth to become
one of America's most effective philanthropists. Because of his modesty, Rosenwald's philanthropy
and social activism are not well known today. He gave away 62 million dollars in his lifetime.
And so today we salute some of these parole walls and walls school heroes who still reflect upon
this building which still stands in our community today. And these heroes are here today
to tell their stories and to recount their memories. Also today it is especially apropos in this year
and at this moment in time and at this time in the world that we recognize the over 100 years
century-long relationship between the Jewish community and the African-American community. And so out
of this very modest building that was built here in 1923, 101 years ago, the head of
Booker T. Washington and the heart of Julius Rosenwald like rise resulted in heroes being built here.
Thank you and may God continue to bless us all.
At this time we will have remarks by the Honorable Gavin Buckley who is our mayor of the city of
Annapolis. Then our state senator Sarah Elfrez who has to leave a little bit 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 first time we are playing this program but she's unable to be here today.
Then Lisa Brannigan Rodvien, Esquire who's our county councilwoman, District 6 which serves
Annapolis and several surrounding contiguous areas. Then Dr. C. Jane Cox, Administrator
of Cultural Resources such in a historic preservation program. And I'm on the county planning and Zony
Department. Then Dr. Joanna Vaish Tobin and I'm on the county board of education. District 6
Annapolis Ms. Burrell Downs who's the acting president of the Greater Pearl Community Association.
Ms. Alice K. Wright are in president community health center for role in corporate the Pearl
Health Center and then Ms. Lindra Pratt Marshall, Heritage and Cultural Preservationist
Rosenwald School Project Coordinator and Booker T. Washington and Rosenwald School's documentary film
Project Coordinator. Thank you so much and one secret I want to provide to you about Ms. Lindra who
is also my cousin that she was contacted recently by the father by Beyonce's father to do a documentary for
him. So we have we have a lot of great people in this room but unfortunately she's been so busy
she had to turn down the invitation. But anyway so anyway in that order everyone get I'll please come up
thank you all so much. So what I want to welcome everybody here to the Cecil B. The Mills
Rundepindel Charles event for the Rosenwald School. Great to be here with all my cousins.
I want to thank everyone Rundepindel Charles for organizing today's dedication and I want to recognize
all of you who worked on this project to install historic marker here. It will help current residents
descendants of past residents and future generations to understand the importance of this site.
It looks like a typical residential structure. Doesn't it? In the early part of the 20th century it was
anything but typical. As a Rosenwald school this site was one of more than 5,000 such Rosenwald
constructed between 1917 to 1932. Only about 10% remained standing today. What was important
about what Julius Rosenwald, the owner of CS Robux, the partman store and author and educator
Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute, was just a uniform design structure. Although it was a
pretty cool design back in the day, I'll talk about that in a minute. What was impressive about it
of course was the mission and the mission was education. Rosenwald and Washington believed that the
path to a better future for African-American children was throughout the American South with
was public education. Rosenwald schools did not challenge segregation but had a tremendous impact on
the literacy rate among black Americans in the South. A notable graduates of the
Resort schools which typically stopped at eighth grade include Dr Charles Drew, author, Roth,
Ellison, Zara, Nolan, Hurston and of course James Baldwin, poet Maya J. Angelo,
Langston Hughes and civil rights leader, congressman John Lewis, plus scientists, artists and others.
The impact of the Rosenwald school on the development of black intellectuals in the mid and
late 20th century can never be overstated. The building is all shared a similar blueprint. North of
the South facing windows to maximize light because most lacked electricity. Cream or eggshell paint on
the walls to encourage learning, a plain exterior that helps schools avoid unwanted attention.
Each were one classroom or when more than one classroom were separated by a partition,
the schools were always staffed with highly qualified and dedicated teachers. In 1954, the
Supreme Court decision Brown versus the Board of Education integrated public education in a short
amount of time, Rosenwald schools were obsolete. Of the 20 known sites in Enronor County,
only about 10 remains standing, including this one. That is why we're so thrilled that this
work is coming to fruition and that this structure will never be torn down. Those that have survived
that have been restored are primarily used now today as community centers. I've said a lot of positive
things about the Rosenwald school, but they were born of an unequally an unequally American system of
education at Pathide. It's a difficult chapter to say anything positive about that chapter in
American history that we know influence us so much of our society functions even to this day.
Recognizing that history helps us understand it was wrong, recognizing our history, even the
ugly parts help us move forward together as a nation. Again, I thank the organizers for putting this
events together and for helping future generations understand exactly what happened right here
in parole and the significance of this simple yet elegant structure. Now I'd like to pass it over to
my senator, Elthworth. Thank you all. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And thank you to all the women,
Pindell Charles, for your 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 and more importantly, how that history
reflects on our legacy today and the work we still have ahead of us. I also want to thank Miss Lindra and
Miss Lindra. I can't help but think of Miss Gertrude right now. And think about the fact I believe
Ann Orlando County has more standing, rose and mold schools than any other community in the
entire country. 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, Ronan mentioned partnerships, between Lincoln and another great
Marylander Frederick Douglass, and the promise that reconstruction could have had, had he lived and had
that vision for rebuilding this country, repairing the wounds of this country, actually come to fruition.
Unfortunately, that never occurred and we spent decades in the darkness with government not doing
what it should have done in terms of lifting up all of its citizens and making sure education as we know
it to be the great equalizer actually could repair those wounds. And instead it took decades in a different
partnership. It took Mr. Rosenwald and Mr. Washington to come together and see this vision of
5,000 schools across this country. That let's be clear the government did not build. 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 history collectively and reflect on our responsibility collectively
to do better. And we can only do that by knowing where we came from. And so I'm particularly grateful
for this morning. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Billigan Hinson is being in addition to being a legislator you all know that she's an attorney.
So court was on the schedule this morning and so on behalf of the delegate Hinson, thank you. Thank
you, thank you, thank you. Much has been said about the Rosenwald School. I want to tell you a
little bit about parole. History, education, service and dedication are the pillars that this community
stands on. It is the foundation of this community. Many in this room. I see promote that.
I'm going to tell you just a little bit about our greater parole community association,
which Ron Dimension on the acting chair. Kind of. But one of the things that we talk about when we talk
about the greater parole community association is preserving our paths promoting our present
and protecting our future. We understand how important that is. 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. Thank you.
Good afternoon. I'm Lisa Radvien and I'm the County Councilwoman for Anne Rutherl County Council.
Anne Rutherl County District 6, which includes the city of Annapolis. It's really my honor and privilege
to be here today. I'm going to sort of scratch my remarks because Alderman Pindell Charles actually
took most of what I intended to say. I think there's still one of the things about the Rosenwald
schools is that there are so many different lessons to learn. And that is one of the reasons why
the history is so important for us to keep. First off, as Senator Alfred said, if you don't know where you've
come from, how are you going to figure out where to go next. But before I came here this morning, I looked
up a couple of different folks that I think really reflect and embody one of the things that
really started the Rosenwald schools and that's ally ship. The idea that Booker T. Washington
and Julius Rosenwald could come together and both see the need and both understand how deeply
important education was and that that was not something that should be narrowed that it should be expanded.
I'm going to put on my glasses so I can read my notes here for a second.
A suffragette Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, an African American woman born and
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 Julius Rosenwald and the way Booker T. Washington understood.
I feel like more individuals are starting to learn this, but I think it's something we all all need to continue to remember that as we are lifted up and as we grow ourselves, we need to continue to turn and look for others that need to be lifted up.
And not just be the savior that comes in, but to really work alongside because really our community is all tied together, even the people in your community that you might dislike the most.
We are connected to them.
Mayor Buckley joked at the beginning of his remarks that he was saying hello to all of his cousins.
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.
We are all, 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.
And I think that's what Julius Rosenwald was doing and I think that's what Booker T. Washington was doing 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.
Thank you very much.
Happy preservation month.
Isn't it appropriate that we're here today?
I'm Jane Cox with the Toronto County.
I'm thrilled to be here today.
Thank you for inviting me to this and including me.
I'm the administrator for the county's historic preservation program and I just want to thank you for the honorary PhD, but to my mother's shagran.
I only have a master's.
So I started the county's historic marker program four years ago with a goal of recognizing the historic sites that are of local significance.
Most preservation programs, a site must meet this national standard of significance to be protected.
And what I've saw happening across the board was that these community landmarks were at these simple vernacular buildings.
I mean, you drive by the Rosenwald school and not blink an eye and not think, oh, it's the William Pakehouse.
But these sites, perhaps they've seen better days.
They were being tossed aside, disregarded, neglected, forgotten by the system.
These are the places that I heard time 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.
Those places that we drive them walk by every day.
And I realized that naming a thing is the first step to protecting it and remembering it.
So our sign program four years in now recognizes more than 60 historic sites across the county.
These include both these brown roadside markers with a date on them, but also more elaborate interpretive signs.
And the process keeps building as the lindronos.
So from buildings like the Rosenwald school to archaeology sites to historic cemeteries, 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.
So early on with lindronos encouragement, we place the Rosenwald schools in and around a county at the top of our list for signage and recognition.
So based on the latest research by lindrono 23 were built in the county.
At least 12 remains standing two or three maybe more, which is a pretty astounding preservation level.
And today we have placed signs brown roadside marker signs at almost every single Rosenwald school.
So I challenge you to go for a drive, see if you can find them all.
So recognizing these schools, though, is bigger than just celebrating this single building or the architecture of a structure.
These school buildings were and remain the center and the heartbeat of significant historically black communities.
And it's important chapter of our local history.
I'm excited to see it brought forward. I hope these signs help lift it up.
And I hope these signs really help make sure people know that this is an important place.
So congratulations.
Thank you.
Good afternoon. Good afternoon.
Now let's write the president of the community health center at parole.
And thank you all the women, Charles, for giving me this opportunity.
Well, my story may be a little different from everything that has been said this morning. So I'm going to say really quickly.
That's where it started for me and many, many children in the many, many African American children in the parole community.
For all school is where we went and went, we went to learn where there were teachers that taught us taught us English arithmetic.
You don't even use the word arithmetic nowadays arithmetic spelling.
We went to parole school to learn and thanks be to God for the teachers that took the time and made sure that we learned.
They taught us discipline, respect, love for the community, but most of all they prepared us for the future.
So I say today, I thank God for those teachers because of those teachers given us a beginning and a start.
I am here where I am today because of the education that was given to us back in the day.
When you went to school, you went to school to learn. You were disciplined. If you didn't do it right, you got to tap on the fingers on the hand.
And the parents didn't come to school to fight with the teachers because you got to tap.
You got another tap when you got home. So parole school was an instrument of just helping and providing and teaching and preparing the students for tomorrow.
Today, we are even even though some of us are not here, I can say it was decades ago that I attended parole school.
So we are just grateful for that, we are grateful for the love and we really appreciate you doing that, and to all the teachers that have gone on.
And principal Mills, thank you, thank you for loving us enough to give us a chance to God be the glory.
Good afternoon. Again, I am Lingera.
I am the coordinator of the Rosemort school project. But I want to begin by thanking 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 God it's happening today.
And I want to thank all the participants who and guests who's here today because without you, we wouldn't have extra footage for our video.
Many things to pass the audience in the trustees of Discrete Church, Man Olive, African American, African Methodist Episcopal Church, for allowing us to use this space today.
I really bring you greetings and not from parole, but from the Galesville Community Center Organization Inc.
We are good stewards of another Rosemort school in South County.
In 2022, we were awarded a grant from the Maryland Heritage Area Authority to conduct research, document, and conduct or accounts of the history of the former school houses here in Annel Ronda County.
But today, I can't stand here and just say it's all about me because it's not.
I'd like to introduce the team that's behind this.
Mr. Roger Marshall, who's the act and president of the Galesville Community Center Organization, Mr. Valentino Owens, who is the photographer for this project and many others.
And so as Mr. Anthony Smoot, who's a videographer for this project, but we couldn't do it alone.
And so we have trusted colleagues, such as Mr. Jane Pots, Heather Urs, and Dr.
Thank you.
Dr. Carl Bidson. Thank you. If it wasn't for you all, we could not do the work that we do.
Yes.
I also want to thank, we had many team members, leaders that supported this project.
Every county had a team leader, and so we want to thank all of them, which include Kazamanda for the parole school.
And we also want to thank the brave students that when we called on them, they said yes.
And so we have Ms. Cropper.
We have three siblings, cousin Betty, cousin Alfreda, cousin Alfred, all from the Brown family.
We also have Ms. White, and Mr. Harris.
Mr. Harris.
And yeah, I call her first.
And so they will be meeting us after this program downstairs to give their full account of their experience
with the Roosevelt schools.
Okay?
So thank you so much.
We greatly appreciate this.
And Kazamanda, I don't have the body you're about this anymore.
Right?
Because we will incorporate today's event in what the Dr. Menorare.
Thank you.
Thank you all so much.
Just a couple of other observations.
I do want to recognize Heather, who's from a business in the Napa Center, under county.
And she's been a great supporter and a blessing for our efforts as well.
Thank you, Heather.
I want to let everyone know that Dr. Reverend Dr. Ronald Owens, who's our pastor here at Mount Olive,
is a way at his daughter's graduation.
So otherwise he would be here.
He would have been here.
We had the first date, but he wouldn't meet or let you all know that.
I am not a product of the Roosevelt School here on the corner.
But my dad is a product of that school.
And my mother, who's from the on-clave of Queen's Town in the Southern community,
attended the Queen's Town Roosevelt School.
So I feel like at least I'm an emeritus member, I guess, of the Roosevelt School family.
But I just want to thank everybody for being here.
Now, this time, of course, Miss Mitchell Stevenson, our public information officer,
and I were trying to figure out how to unveil this sign.
But what I think we will do, Miss Stevenson, we're going to unveil that sign right here virtually.
And we'll all, I guess, at the count of three, raise our hands and pull our hands down
and simulate what we would do if we were pulling the sign down.
But at some point, I guess, even after this, maybe we, some of us can walk over
and do the official signing unveiling.
So unless anyone else has a better suggestion, I'm all ears, just let me know.
But at this time, we will do the five and four, three, two, one.
unveil.
And at this time, Reverend Swan will give us the blessing of the sign, the virtual sign,
and the documentary, as well as the benediction.
Thank you all, again, so very, very, very much.
Thank you all, everyone.
And Charles and all of the distinguished persons who are here,
are protocol being established.
I won't call all the names.
I just want to know representing our pastor and mount out of whistleclad
that you all are here in a part of our community.
Whether you're physically here or not, you very much are.
And we appreciate all that you've done in your presence here today.
There will be those of us who will virtually go out there.
And it virtually means means in truth.
Then in truth, there will be those of us who will go out there.
And we'll be able to do that as well.
But in here, sheltered from this.
Forms on the outside 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 will grant 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 the easier people. And as we be dismissed to carry on the conversations, may we not just share them with ourselves, but share them with one another and share them with a world out there that needs to continue to tell the story.
But because we have the details, may we be willing to share as well as to work.
And now the benediction may the Lord bless you and keep you, cause his name to cause his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you.
The Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you and give you peace. Now and always, everybody say, amen.
God bless you today. Glad that you are here.
Thank you.
Hello.
I'm Ronda McCoy, professional standards manager for the Annapolis Police Department.
I am pleased to announce the launch of our new complaint and compliment portal where members of the public can make a complaint or compliment the exemplary work of the five-minute women of the Annapolis Police Department.
A key feature of the new portal is that it will automatically send out notifications to a complaint through email or text messaging when a complaint moves to different stages of the investigation when the investigation is concluded or when there's a finding in the investigation.
You can access the new portal by going to our webpage www.anapolis.gov.
Backslash Police.
At the top of the page, click on the words, complaint and compliment portal.
You will then be directed to the portal.
Once you are at the portal, click create a new entry and follow the directions for submitting a complaint or compliment.
Chief Jackson would like to see the citizens of Annapolis to know that we take all complaints seriously and that they are handled in a professional and careful manner.
We also love hearing from you when you are pleased with the performance of our officers while they're protecting and serving you in Annapolis.
Thank you.
Hello, I'm Ken White with the Annapolis Fire Department.
This week's theme for Fire Prevention Week is Circle of Safety and the Kitchen.
So this holiday season, here are some tips from the Annapolis Fire Department that can help you serve at safety and the kitchen.
Tip one, when frying, boiling or simmering, stay in the kitchen, never leave the home and always use a time.
Tip two, if a grease fire starts, never try to extinguish with water.
Use a lid to cover over the pot, turn the burner off and wait till the pan cools down.
Tip three, always keep your cleaning and cooking surfaces free of any clutter.
And tip four, remember to always keep a three-foot distance around the cooking area of three feet, kids on as I like to call it.
And remember, if you're unable to control the fire, get out of your house and dial 911 immediately.
And ever forget, every month, to test your smoke alarms, have an escape plan and practice your escape plan.
unattended cooking is a leading cause of home fires and home fire injuries.
For more information, on tips on how you can serve a safety in the kitchen, visit www.fireproventionweek.org.
Stay safe andapolis.
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To 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 equipment.
So, I just wanted to say, thank you so much to Senator Alfred and Valerie Getchones for their leadership last session
to make the state's video lottery terminal funds available for disaster situations like this.
And our organization is nimble and can deploy them quickly.
And so, we are in the process of standing up our grant program.
It is a disaster relief program. We will offer up to $50,000 for businesses that have damage due to flooding, so it can be used for things like equipment, property damage, and some income loss.
We will have information on our website today. You can visit that at a-a-e-d-c.org or myorondalvis.org.
And we will be taking applications starting on Tuesday.
So, again, thank you very much. We stand ready to support the businesses of this city.
And I am going to now turn it over to delegate Jones.
Thank you so much.
Thank you all for being here. Again, my name is Delegate Dana Jones.
I am in the House of Delegates here for anapolis.
And I just really want to thank the incredible work of my friend, Chief Simmons, the Anapolis Office of Emergency Management, as well as emergency responders countywide.
With over five feet of storm surge, over 17,000 left without power in the region, these heroes, once again, stepped up as they always do, and answered the call.
From the storm, water rescues to ensuring infants had the equipment they needed.
The community is indebted to you, and I sincerely thank the Office of Emergency Management.
As many of you know, this week with our legislature, we kicked out the 446 legislative session, bringing an additional 185 legislators and countless staff to my district district 30A for the next 90 days.
This storm and the flood waters brought by really struck many of my colleagues and show them firsthand the importance of the work that we are doing in the legislature to protect our communities from future storms.
With the mayor's emergency declaration, as Amy just explained, anapolis small businesses and nonprofits are now able to receive vote funding for up to 50,000 in aid to mitigate damage from this week's storms.
I want to thank my friend, Mayor Buckley, his leadership in unlocking these funds and my partners in friend, who I stand shoulder to shoulder with on both days like this and bad ones, Sarah, Alfred.
I am forever grateful to my friend who I work with every day.
We in 2022 authored and passed legislation that will allows the flexibility for funds to be used this way.
Strategically, localized severe flooding and wind events where the exact disasters that the senator and I considered when writing this legislation three years ago.
We stood and parole.
shoulder to shoulder and help that community clean up after an EF2 tornado and today we're
here again, heartbroken by the damage to our community, our small businesses and so many
others.
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.
This week we saw compromise streets stay open for hours longer than it normally would have.
Just because of the early deployments of storm and water management and infrastructure, 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 dock 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 that you all have worked on.
With that, I want to introduce my dear friend, my partner in the Senate on so many issues
affecting anapolis and an Toronto County Senator Sarah Elfreth.
Good morning.
I have the great privilege of representing you in the state Senate but I also stand here as a neighbor
downtown.
I live just right behind us 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
and to those who are most affected whenever we have a large storm.
Now climate change is happening.
I share it with my colleagues on the Senate floor regularly and it's happening right here in the
city of Anapolis between tornadoes and flooding.
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
for all and Alderman Ronda Pendel Charles is district.
After we see in the record floods destroying Alderman Lateri's district, we learned what
went wrong and what we can do better.
And we learned that we needed a more nimble response and our state laws did not allow at that
time for that nimble response.
We needed a state state of emergency and so we changed the law to say when we have these localized
microstorms, 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.
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.
So in the last flood, and I've had a couple since I've been your senator, the Maritime Museum
over in Eastport took on nearly two feet of water and we're not eligible for this funding.
We changed the law in order so that they could avail themselves of this support.
We cannot hold back the tide but we can be more responsive to our neighbors on their worst days.
I'm so grateful to the City of Napolis and especially the Office of Emergency Management
to the County Economic Development Team to the governor's office who took a dozen calls
for me over the last few days.
We might have gavled in the legislative session but I was on the phone with Ryan and Alice in
the governor's office every hour over the last three days to make sure they had everything
they need and so we can cut through this bureaucratic red tape and make sure our small businesses
and our nonprofits get everything they need to recover and reopen.
With that, I'm proud to welcome my partner, Alice Estrada, the CEO of the Napolis Maritime
Museum.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, Sarah, very much on so many levels, Alice Estrada and I represent the
Napolis 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 but still 18 inches of water
in the building will involve days and days of drying and sanitizing and drying and sanitizing.
As we all know, water can be so damaging both to the health of the building and the infrastructure.
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 and sure enough,
they told me we're going to get that changed and sure enough they did.
Unfortunately, we have another flooding event to make this available but I also want to thank
them because they also sponsored a bond bill for us to figure out some short-term and long-term
solutions for sea level rise at the Napolis Maritime Museum.
If you don't know, we are a beloved community anchor.
We want to figure out a way that we can stay viable but these flooding events that are happening
more and more often is not sustainable for us.
It's very, very expensive for us to recover as I'm sure.
I speak for all the nonprofits.
Non-profits are businesses too.
They just take their proceeds and put them back into their mission but yeah, I feel the pain
of all of my neighboring businesses downtown and I just want to say thank you again for
the support and the widespread city support as well.
Thank you.
Good morning, my name is Stephen Rice, I'm the economic development manager for the city of
Napolis.
I just want to take a minute to talk very briefly about the negative economic impact that a flood
can have on a business.
The flooding happens, you can have property damage, you can have equipment loss, you can
have inventory loss, and the longer that a business is closed, you have a loss of revenue.
So there are four different kinds of negative financial impacts that can happen to a business
when you have an event such as this.
There are also some other issues when flood waters rise and in particular, of course, businesses
have to clear out the water and they have to clean up the debris.
But in addition to that, they may have repairs that require if they're significant in particular
and actual city building permit and the city is committed to expediting those permits as quickly
as possible.
The other thing from a health and environmental standpoint is that when flood waters rise, you can
have a sewage back up, sometimes it releases fuel, and other solvents, cleaners, and other
chemicals that these businesses have on their premises.
The other potential hazard is that when flood waters rise, water coming in from the creek,
you don't know exactly what's in that water.
So you don't know what that water is bringing into the business in addition to not knowing
how it's impacting what's already inside the business.
So a couple of things I would like to say, it's important, obviously, for all of us to work together.
And I think this is an example of city, county, and state cooperation when this event happened.
The county was on site within about 30 minutes.
The city had pre-game the event before it even happened, and we have obvious state support
that has come in to make funds available for these impacted businesses.
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.
That is our goal.
And we also want to get this right so that these businesses patrons are also protected.
At this point, I'd like to introduce Mr. Ryan Laming.
He's the owner of PIPS, Quick Plug, PIPS has excellent hot dogs, and it's right over there.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm leaving with me.
I'm not a public speaker.
I just make delicious chili dogs.
Just a, where do you begin?
We've been here 15 years.
We've dealt with nuisance flooding.
That's just something we deal with here on Dox Street, greatly looking forward to the revitalization
of Dox Street with what we dealt with on Tuesday.
I don't think any of us were prepared for it.
We lost more than half of our equipment inside product, the revenue that we'll lose.
It's looking like we could be closed a week, maybe two weeks.
We've got employees.
I'm speaking on behalf of all the small businesses down town, just not mine.
We've gotten employees that depend on us.
Just we put everything we have into these businesses.
It's just, I can't bear with me.
Just thank you very much, you know, to the mayor, to the center, all of Earth's, it'll be
a huge burden lifted off of us, just knowing that this financial aid is going to be made
available.
It's just, it's a lot, it's a lot to deal with, it's, it's our entire lives.
And again, let's speak, let me have of everybody here on Dox Street in the downtown area.
And again, thank you to the community, it's been a lot of outreach, just coming in, saying,
you know, just asking how we're doing, it means a lot, you know, again, just thank you
very much.
And so if the city doc had been complete on Tuesday, none of these businesses would have
been flooded.
So we are looking to make this happen sooner, rather than later.
We start construction at city doc.
It's not a case of if there's going to be the next Isabelle, or will there be?
It is going to come.
There's no question.
We just had the hardest year on record for the planet.
Catastrophic weather events are going to be a way of life and we have to deal with it.
We want the state capital of Maryland, we want a necklace to be the resilience capital of
America.
We want to lead the way on this project.
So but we have to come up with a short term solutions.
Another solution besides the barrier that we've deployed next week is we're going to work
with a delicate data Jones and Senator Alfred on getting some money for an idea called
these door dams and Dutch door dams.
For around $5,000, we could fit out a lot of these doorways and they would have some protection
up to a certain point.
We have to sort of check, you know.
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 eSport. So I want to thank you for covering this because these businesses are so important.
Pips is an institution. Everybody loves this man and everybody loves our restaurant.
So I'm looking forward to getting in there, getting my next hot dog.
We are open for questions if you have any questions of any of us.
There are people here from the county, state, city, please go ahead.
I will ask you if you might know that.
Thank you. This is Chris Jakubiak, Department of Planning and Zoning.
17 of right now, this is we're posted. Roughly 13 are still posted.
So we've worked the department is working in coordination with the county department of health to move those forward.
Some of the damage is extensive equipment failures.
Wet floors, obviously wet carpets, the walls and foundations internal to the buildings are absorbing water.
Some water still standing in some structures. That's the typical set of damage we're seeing.
And I know that there's some work that needs to be done on the hill.
So if you have any specific questions for Senator Alfred, delegate Dana Jones, let us know because they told me they were on a tight schedule today.
So we're expecting 3.5 to 4 feet of title search and everybody knows that our problem here is title search.
It is water pushing up the bay into the storm drains and up through the grates and then into the businesses or under compromised street stopping traffic.
So that's our problem. More than rain, it is title search.
So we are going to watch to see if we're going to need to deploy it.
We believe it's going to happen earlier in the morning when it's not such a heavily traffic time.
So we're still making that call. So it's still a fluid assessment.
So we're waiting on a big FEMA grant.
So the question was, is all the funding secured for the city dock project.
We need every dollar. So we need and those dollars come in millions of dollars.
We're doing a $90 billion project here to reimagine this whole area.
Add additional parking out in the garage. The garage is finished.
We start working on the utilities here this year and then we move forward.
After votes showed a fence off that area in raised city dock and then button it up at the end of the 20 in the middle of 26.
We're nearly there but we need our state partners.
We need our federal partners to really make it happen.
I think in the range of 10 to 20 something like that.
But we're pretty close and we have the relationships and we had a lot of legislators show up.
And couldn't get into their hotels on Tuesday night because it was flooded in front of the hotel there.
So I think that makes the case for us and that's going to help our delegation go to bat for us like they always do.
So we're definitely not expecting it to be anything like this.
Sorry.
Yeah.
We're not expecting that to be an issue with this upcoming storm.
We think that the groundwater is as 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 on it someone from the county come and speak to that or.
Great so I think in an answer to that question if there were to be another state of emergency declared for this upcoming storm then yes those those funds would be available.
But as the mayor just indicated he doesn't expect there would be another emergency situation.
Correct that is correct yes.
The question was how long will the state of emergency last my name is David Mandel I'm deputy director of the city of anapolis office emergency management.
By city code and states that you understand the declaration of emergency last 30 days unless renewed by council.
And I can't say enough about the team that we're out here in the rain on that night and the way they cleaned up afterwards if you came to the city of anapolis you would think nothing happened.
The only way you would know anything happened in the city is if you happened to press your nose up against the window and see the damage that some of these businesses have been.
But the team were out in full force we relocated residents from a homeless shelter we moved them across town because they had a fire in the middle of the storm we relocated 40 to 50 people we got the water moved out of here by the afternoon so receded the pumps.
And we were back in business and so we got some people back in there on their feet but we need to get everybody back in their feet because the business community is just a bigger part of the community and the residential community and the city and and we 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 backs.
And we appreciate you all being there thank you so much thank you thank you and I do have the names of all of our speakers printed out for using to the spellings right.
We also have a flyer with the QR code for folks to get to the to the application.
Thank you.
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Imagine the future of enapolis as a place where you can walk safely from your home to a shopping center.
Imagine be able to bike to a job from one end of the city to the other comfortably.
Imagine choosing to take public transit even though you own a car just because the service is that good.
That's the city we want to move towards and to do that we need to think about both policy
in terms of how we guide our transportation investments.
Those are the design of those.
How they're integrated with the city.
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.
Mobilities are foundational theme of the Naples Head 2040 comprehensive plan.
It's a distinguishing element of this comprehensive plan in comparison to all of our past comprehensive plans including the one from just 10 years ago.
Why is that?
Well there's a recognition today that mobility has an oversized impact positively affecting the whole range of bigger issues in enapolis from a public health, safety and well being.
Equivalent access to opportunities, economic development, community development, and environmental sustainability and resilience.
When you add up all of these things, dollar for dollar, the investments we make in our mobility infrastructure will pay huge dividends across all of these outcomes here in anapolis.
When we talk about our mobility network, we're talking about our roadways and the vehicles we use to get around.
And both of these can be significantly improved to benefit our health, our communities and ultimately environment.
We spend so much time on roadways getting around inapolis.
They should be as safe and comfortable as possible for all users whether you're driving, walking, riding bike or taking transit.
They also connect communities to commerce to school, to jobs, to parks.
One, we need a complete sidewalk network. It says, you leave your home on foot to go somewhere.
You can get there on a connected sidewalk network that is adequately wide.
We need bike infrastructure that allows you to bike around the city in a way that makes it feel comfortable and safe.
Today, it's a variety of different bike infrastructure.
Sure, quick straight lanes, shared lane markings, signage, we have some off-street trails.
With the future, we need a city where you can get around by a bike, no matter what type of a cyclist you are, and feel safe doing it.
The mobility vision of a NAPLUS head 2040 comprehensive plant 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 improved way-finding, it's still free and we've seen increased ridership as a result.
We recently launched our first micro-mobility program in NAPLUS, which includes an e-bike and e-scooter share system.
If we can implement these kinds of new ideas in a connected way, we're going to have a transportation system in a NAPLUS that is both safe and comfortable and efficient and ultimately
environmentally responsible for the city as a whole.
Mobility can truly be a vehicle for the future success of NAPLUS, and excited for you to see how this is communicated in NAPLUS
at a 2040 comprehensive plant.
I'm Eric Wishingsky, Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the Saving Apples.
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and we are going to show you that you have to be able to recycle it.
This is not possible to recycle it.
All this plastic is done,
and the bases are going to dry a little bit.
This is a metal cut, a little bit.
Please tell me that when your base is done,
these are the ways to make it to be able to edit it,
that you have seen or that you have done a lot.
I'm going to add the base to the base,
and I'm going to use the base to make it to the base.
Hi, I'm Eric Lushinski.
Chief of Comprehensive Planning for the City of Annapolis.
I've been working on Annapolis ahead 2040 on Comprehensive Planning
Update over the last few years.
I'm excited to finally release a draft plan for your review and comment.
Comprehensive plan is specific to the Annapolis of today,
but it's set 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.
It's covering every imaginable aspect of the city we live in.
We'll be kicking off the 90-day public review and comment period,
June 15 at the Planning Commission's regularly scheduled meeting,
30 evening starting at 7pm.
But there will be many ways to participate in reviewing and providing comments
on the Comprehensive Plan.
The best way is to go to Annapolishead2040.com
where you'll find special website with information about the plan,
ways of providing comments, information about every chapter in the plan,
and ways to contact planning staff if you have questions.
Throughout that 90-day comment period,
we'll be doing many presentations to different boards and commissions.
We have a series of webinars, scheduled,
and we'll be doing in-person meetings at four locations across the city
to try to reach any resident that wants to participate in this process.
I think you're going to love this plan,
and I hope you'll help us make it as great a plan as possible
by reviewing the draft and submitting your comments to Annapolishead2040.com.
Thank you.
Need to check which roads have been salted or plowed during this snowstorm?
With snowpads, you can access real-time updates on winter road maintenance,
right from your device.
Simply visit the city of Annapolis website and click on the snowpads portal.
From there, you'll see an interactive map,
showing the current status of winter road maintenance of road-salting and snowplowing.
Zoom in to your neighborhood or commute route to see exactly which roads have been treated
and which ones are in progress.
Click on a road segment to see what it was last serviced.
Snowpads work seamlessly on both desktop and mobile devices,
so you can get updates on the go.
Stay informed, stay safe, and plan your essential travel
during snow emergencies with real-time updates from snowpads.
Visit Annapolis.gov slash snowpads this winter.
Thank you.
I am pleased to announce the launch of our new complaint and compliment portal,
where members of the public can make a complaint or compliment the exemplary work
of the five-minute women of the Annapolis Police Department.
A key feature of the new portal is that it will automatically send out notifications
to a complaint through email or text messaging
when a complaint moves to different stages of the investigation
when the investigation is concluded or when there's a finding in the investigation.
You can access the new portal by going to our webpage www.annapolis.gov
backslashpolice.
At the top of the page, click on the words, complaint, and compliment portal.
You will then be directed to the portal.
Once you are at the portal, click create a new entry
and follow the directions for submitting a complaint or compliment.
Cheat Jackson would like to sit as an Annapolis to know that we take all complaints seriously
and that they are handled in a professional and careful manner.
We also love hearing from you when you are pleased with the performance of our officers
while they are protecting and serving you in Annapolis.
Thank you.
Hey, good afternoon.
It looks like I have to do proper stress patient training again.
If you put the trash out, please place it into a bag.
And tie the bag up and place it into a watertight receptacle with your address
placed on it so that it can be seen from the street that any of your property for proper local action.
As a matter of fact, the cycle is done all wrong also.
If you decide to place your recycling in a bag, please bring your bag to the receptacle
and take all items out of the bag and place them into the can.
And make sure the lid is closed, please.
Let's bring back getting the trash monster so I can show you things that are not recyclable.
See, it's 40% of the recyclable right now.
This is not recyclable. This is not recyclable. The metal utensils are not recyclable.
Please be mindful of your trash and recycle piece of it to avoid fines.
In anapolis, winter weather can make it hard to plan your day.
But with snowpads, the city's new GPS tracking system, you can get ahead of the storm.
With snowpads, you can track the city's road, salty, and plowing operations in real time.
See which streets have been cleared, which routes are in progress, and plan your day with confidence.
Whether you're commuting to work, running errands, or keeping your family safe.
Snowpads let you know when your streets are being treated, so you can make better decisions for your travels.
Available on the City of Anapolis website, snowpads is easy to use, and decide with you in mind.
Simply check the map to see real time updates on snowplow and sulthing 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.
We're going to put the snowpads on the bus.
First, we're going to put all the snowpads on the bus.
Then we're going to put them on the bus.
We're going to put them on the bus.
So we're going to show you how we're going to do.
This snowpads are not going to be in the snow.
We're going to put the snowpads on the bus.
So we're going to put the snowpads on the bus.
And we're going to show you how to do it.
This snowpads can't be recycled.
This snowpads are not going to be recycled.
Please tell me when you're going to be able to do these things
to prevent the snowpads or the snowpads.
We're going to put the snowpads on the bus.
So we're going to put the snowpads on the bus.
Thank you.