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Good evening. Good evening. Today is August 27th, 2026 in the scheduled session of Howard County Board of Appeals. The board is before we begin with our

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main order of business board members. I'm sorry, let me first do a roll call because not all members are present in person.

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So, Ms. Harris, can you hear us and see us?

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Yes, I can.

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Okay, great, thank you.

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Okay, so all board members are attendance.

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A board members, you received the board meeting minutes,

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both open and closed for the meeting held on August 20th,

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2026.

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Anybody have any questions or comments?

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Seeing none, can I get a motion to prove the open and closed

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meeting minutes for August 28th, 2026?

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I'll second it and a second by Miss Philips any discussion. Seeing none. I'm

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I'm sure you can please call the roll. Chair Ryan. Approved. Miss

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Philips. Miss Harris. Approved. Miss McCurdy. Approved. Miss

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Philips. Approved. Okay. See it's been approved and the

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meeting minutes for August 20th, 2026. The open and closed meeting are both

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approved. Before we move on to our main order of business firmers say they

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have anything? Okay. Based on the general provisions article, the annotated code of Maryland,

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there's a need to meet and close session in accordance with Section 3,

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dash 305 B7 to consult with Council to obtain legal advice. Is there any discussion from the

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board regarding the need for a close session? Seeing none, I moved the meeting to this meeting be close

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and accordance with section three, dash 305 B7 to consult with Council to obtain legal vise.

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The topic of the legal vise is documents to be incorporated by reference.

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Can I please get a second on the motion to enter into closed session?

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Samut.

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I second. Okay, we have a first second. Does anybody have any objection to proceeding

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closed session in accordance with three, dash 305 B7?

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seeing none. Madam, I'm sure can you please call the roll to close the meeting minutes.

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Sure, Ryan. I'm sorry to close the meeting. I apologize to you.

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Sure, Ryan. Yes, yes. Mr. Cole. Yes. Mrs. Harris. Yes. Ms. McCurdy. Yes. Ms. Phillips.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Yes. The motion to close the meeting. Of course, there's three, four, three, five,

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be seven passes. We'll now adjourn, we'll now adjourn our session to go into close session.

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After the close session, the board will not return into open session. For those of you watching

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We'll be pausing our live stream now.

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Thank you.