Brunswick Keeps Tax Rate as City Budgets 1.7 Million
Brunswick retains the property tax rate at 1.27 per 100 assessed value while approving a 1.7 million dollar budget. General fund expenses are forecast to fall about 39 000 dollars with the overall tax levy unchanged. The council authorized a parking expansion plan for Brunswick Medical Center and broadened the Smart Growth revitalization area beyond Potomac Street to the Md 17 and Md 180 corridor.
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Brunswick
Thomas Smith
Carroll Jones
Richard Weldon
Jones
Brunswick Medical Center
Joanne Rankles
Rankles
George Harne
Harne
Cummings Drive
Frederick
Parris Glendening
Potomac Street
Delaware Avenues
MD. 17
MD. 180
Woodsboro lowers speed limit in town
Woodsboro town council moves to reduce Main Street speed from 30 to 25 mph and plans to install 12 new signs once deed issues clear. Officials frame enforcement with police while seeking bids for a drainage project and reviewing road repairs by Copper Oaks developer. County funds earmarked for park improvements and handicapped access.
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Woodsboro
Main Street
John Cutshall
Cutshall
Frederick County
Kenneth Morgan
Morgan
Second Street
Steve Blank
Dickerson
Ed Smariga
Copper Oaks
Dennis Kline
Kline
Smariga
Middletown approves 1.4 million water tank bid
Middletown commissioners approved a 1.4 million bid to C W Hetzer Inc for a 400000 gallon elevated water storage tank behind Middletown High School plus an access road pipe work a new treatment building and booster station upgrades construction starts this summer and lasts about 210 days funding from the state will be repaid. The panel also approved a 562200 bid for widening Green Street with work to begin this summer and finish in 150 days after utility poles are moved. A 5000 bypass estimate was authorized. A drainage swale dispute with Brookridge South residents was settled with a one third project cost share and remaining funded by builders and Valley Land investors. Officials seek annexation of land on Heron Road near the reservoir and a preliminary boundary survey was approved.
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Middletown
C.W. Hetzer Inc
Hagerstown
Middletown High School
Bruce McIntosh
Fayetteville Contractors
Fayetteville
Green Street
Brookridge South Subdivision
Valley Land
Water and baseball field win support in Myersville
Myersville residents praised a council plan to reverse the Easterday Road water line to deliver spring water to homes via a smaller reservoir at 83 000 cost and to fund filters by the town. They also backed moving the field’s home plate to cut noise in exchange for a permanent concession stand at Harp Place park.
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Myersville
Billy Eckstine
Easterday Road
Jim Hardy
Harp Place
Hardy
Bill Talbot
Dick Harp
Grimes pushes unlimited campaign funding in mayor race
Mayor Jim Grimes declared a wide open campaign finance stance as the mayoral race began. He rejected a $40,000 cap proposed by opponent Frances Baker, saying the cost is for the voters to decide and noting signs were reused from 1994. Baker criticized the stance and called voters to discern real choices from spending. Grimes plans focus on economic development and will be away June 2 through July 3 after the Maryland Municipal League events.
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Jim Grimes
Frances Baker
Baker
Grimes
City Hall
Mayor Grimes to hold June 18 city forum in Frederick
Frederick Mayor Jim Grimes will host a June 18 forum at 7 p.m. in the Staley Park Field multipurpose room. Residents may ask questions on local issues such as Jobs Pathway, East Street extension, Carroll Creek flood control, the MARC station and Fort Detrick annexations. The quarterly event invites citizens to discuss quality of life matters and neighborhood concerns.
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Frederick
Jim Grimes
Staley Park Field
Grimes
Seventh Street
Staley
East Street
Carroll Creek
Linear Park
MARC
Fort Detrick
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CitiTrust
Fema Evil
Woodard Patio
Thomas Johnson
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Eamet
Car Advanced Collision, Ltd
Rosemont Avenue
Saturn Factory
ICAR
Chie
Lizzie High
Lang & Wise
Boyd‘s Bears
Camille Beckman
Thomas Kincade
Diane Fox Jewelry
Margaret Furlong
Shab Row
The
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Dad
Baaranse
Gathstale Park
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