Mayor Grimes seeks time limit to shorten meetings
Mayor Jim Grimes plans to limit meeting hours after city sessions stretched past midnight two recent times. He will propose a formal time cap to the Board of Aldermen so officials can return home earlier. Planning staff and the clerk cheer the move as relief to end marathon meetings.
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Jim Grimes
Grimes
Board of Aldermen
Pam Reppert
Planning Commission
Seabee Mars Pages
Barbara Dunbar
Maryland residents give more when donors connect personally
A Maryland Gives study of 1,048 households finds residents donate more to charity when they know the recipient or a requester personally, with 70 percent giving under 1500 yearly. Among high earners, 46 percent give under 1500, and donors favor social welfare groups, religious causes, police and fire, and disease cures.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Maryland Gives
Kathleen Townsend
Ves!ry
Internal Revenue Service
Donald Hynes
University of Baltimore
Schaefer Center For Public Policy
Hynes
Frederick BZA approves off site sign at East Patrick Street
The Frederick Board of Zoning Appeals granted an off site directional sign for Marketing & Research Resources at 1303A East Patrick St to ease entrance access and reduce vehicular conflicts. It denied Brian Kobus request to enclose a residential porch at 605 NE, finding it would violate building restriction lines.
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Frederick
Kobus
Brunswick adopts Y2K compliance plan in council vote
Brunswick approves a Y2K readiness plan requiring municipal action by year end and urges residents to stock essentials. The meeting also accepted Waste Management trash bid, announced bulk pickup Oct 20, and reviewed the 1999 financial report noting a stable property tax rate and completed City Hall police wing and Square Corner Park dedication.
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Brunswick
Carroll Jones
Rick Brace
Brace
Council
South Maple Avenue
Carrie Anderson-Watters
Square Corner Park
Frederick County Officials Race to Finalize Tower Regulations
The Frederick County Commissioners push to finish a zoning text amendment before a moratorium on new communications towers expires. With seven tower proposals on file, they favor incentives to steer towers to industrial zones and ban towers in planned unit developments and mixed use areas. The plan sets a 200 foot height limit and tightens permit processes pending final revisions.
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Frederick County
Michael Thompson
Board of Appeals
Construction moratorium extends to November with tower rule changes
The commission set a November 28 end date for the construction moratorium and said height limits may be raised by special exception if the amendment passes. Tower permits would then be valid for five years with periodic reviews. Viewshed review was urged to be part of tower applications though no future review date was set. In other business, DHHS outlined a two phase consolidation begun in 1996 that merged four agencies and saved 4.2 million dollars. The board also approved buying a 553,959 aerial ladder truck from Be grave Manufacturing.
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Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services
Chuck Short
Department of Addiction, Victim and Mental Health Services
Family Resources
Social Services
Health Department
Beagrave Manufacturing
Officials say PeopleSoft rollout largely trouble free
Frederick Community College and local government agencies plan to implement PeopleSoft financial and payroll systems with minimal customizations. They report tested outputs match existing payroll while awaiting a January term rollout and a spring switch-over, despite larger campuses reporting delays and overruns.
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PeopleSoft Corp
Richard Yankosky
Frederick Community College
FCC
PeopleSoft
Uss
Yankosky
Frederick County Publichool
Patrick Kelly
Yankosk
Mitchell Hose
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