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COUNTY COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND
AGENDA
Legislative Session 2025, Legislative Day No. 19
Monday, October 20, 2025 – 7:00 P.M.
County Council Chambers
44 Calvert Street
Annapolis, Maryland
5:00 P.M.
Maryland Department of Transportation Consolidated Transportation Program Tour
7:00 P.M.
A. Call to Order
B. Invocation (Pickard)
C. Pledge of Allegiance
D. Ethics Statement
E. Invitation to Audience
F. Announcement of Items Not Appearing on Agenda
G. Preliminary Motion
H. Approval of Minutes
October 6, 2025 – Legislative Day No. 18
I. Introduction of Bills
BILL NO. 87-25 – AN ORDINANCE concerning: Planning and Development – Odenton
Town Center Master Plan – Amendments – FOR the purpose of amending the Odenton
Town Center Master Plan, adopted February 5, 2024, to alter certain text and maps; and
generally relating to the Odenton Town Center Master Plan.
Introduced by Ms. Hummer, Chair
(by request of the County Executive)

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J. Introduction of Resolutions
RESOLUTION NO. 31-25 – RESOLUTION supporting the Anne Arundel County Board
of Education’s Fiscal Year 2027 Public School Construction Capital Improvement
Program request for submission to the Interagency Commission on School Construction
Introduced by Ms. Hummer, Chair
(by request of the County Executive)
RESOLUTION NO. 32-25 – RESOLUTION urging the establishment of an Adequate
Public Facilities Study Group to address the need for an electrical grid impact review for
new development
Introduced by Mr. Smith
K. Public Hearings and Call of Bills and Resolutions for Final Reading and/or Vote
BILL NO. 77-25 (As Amended) – AN ORDINANCE concerning: Personnel – Pay Plan
– Classification Plan – Department of Inspections and Permits – Department of Aging and
Disabilities – Positions in the Classified Service – Police Department – Public Ethics –
Financial Disclosure– FOR the purpose of approving an addition to the Personnel Officer’s
pay plan for the classified service for the current fiscal year; approving amendments to the
Personnel Officer’s classification plan for the classified service for the current fiscal year;
requiring a certain job classification in the Police Department to file a financial disclosure
statement with the Ethics Commission; decreasing certain positions in the classified
service and increasing certain positions in the classified service within the Police
Department, the Department of Inspections and Permits, and the Department of Aging and
Disabilities; and generally relating to personnel, public ethics, and the Personnel Officer’s
Classification and Pay Plans.
Introduced by Ms. Hummer, Chair
(by request of the County Executive)
RESOLUTION NO. 30-25 – RESOLUTION proposing an amendment to the Charter of
Anne Arundel County to permit all authorized employee representatives to enter into
binding arbitration to resolve labor disputes relating to the terms and conditions of
employment
Introduced by Ms. Pickard, Ms. Hummer and Ms. Rodvien
BILL NO. 67-25 (As Amended) – AN ORDINANCE concerning: Floodplain
Management, Erosion and Sediment Control, and Stormwater Management – Clearing and
Pruning – FOR the purpose of defining “pruning” and “woody vegetation”; modifying the
definitions of “clearing” and “standard grading plan”; requiring certain approved permits
or plans to clear or grade property on certain steep slopes in the critical area; adding a
habitat enhancement plan to those plans required for approval to clear or grade in certain
circumstances; requiring certain approved permits or plans to prune on property outside of
the critical area, outside of a forest conservation easement, or not on steep slopes inside the
critical area in certain circumstances; requiring certain approved permits or plans to prune
on property inside the critical area buffer, inside a forest conservation easement, or on steep
slopes in the critical area in certain circumstances; providing for the use of and establishing
the requirements for a standard grading plan in lieu of a grading permit that proposes
pruning or clearing under certain circumstances; adding certain fees; providing for the use,

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criteria, and requirements of a habitat enhancement plan and a vegetation management
plan; making the effective date of this Ordinance contingent on the approval of the
Maryland Critical Area Commission; and generally relating to floodplain management,
erosion and sediment control, and stormwater management.
Introduced by Ms. Hummer, Chair
(by request of the County Executive)
BILL NO. 68-25 (As Amended) – AN ORDINANCE concerning: Public Safety – Zoning
– Animal Rescue – the purpose of requiring an animal rescue license and establishing the
application and issuance criteria for a license; defining “animal rescue”; adding an animal
rescue as a conditional use and providing for the conditions in certain districts; adding an
animal rescue as a home occupation in certain circumstances; and generally relating to
public safety and zoning.
Introduced by Ms. Hummer, Chair
(by request of the County Executive)
BILL NO. 71-25 (As Amended) – AN ORDINANCE concerning: Public Campaign
Financing – Disbursement of Public Contribution – Funding for Public Campaign
Financing Fund – FOR the purpose of determining the deadline to file a notice of intent to
participate in the public campaign financing fund; aligning the ratio of amount and number
of contributions among County Executive and Council candidates; determining the
threshold for the Controller to certify sufficient fund balance; providing for a second review
of fund balance by the Controller during the election cycle; requiring the County Executive
to appropriate sufficient funds pursuant to the Charter; modifying the required timeframe
for disbursement of public contributions to the publicly funded campaign account of the
participating candidate; providing for limitations on public contributions for uncontested
elections; providing for minimum appropriations beginning in Fiscal Year 2028; providing
for staffing for the Commission; requiring the designation of a public liaison for the public
campaign financing system; requiring an audit of the public campaign financing system
after a general election; and generally relating to public campaign financing.
Introduced by Ms. Hummer
BILL NO. 78-25 – AN ORDINANCE concerning: Capital Budget and Program – Odenton
MARC TOD Development Phases 1 & 2A, MD 170 Widening, MD 214 & Loch Haven
Road, and Campus Improvements Capital Projects – Supplementary and Transfer of
Appropriations – FOR the purpose of amending the Capital Budget for the current fiscal
year by transferring an appropriation of funding source in the Odenton MARC TOD
Development Phases 1 & 2A and the MD 170 Widening capital projects; amending the
Capital Budget for the current fiscal year by making supplementary appropriations of funds
to the MD 214 & Loch Haven Road and the Campus Improvements capital projects;
amending the Capital Program and Capital Projects Bond Ordinance for the current fiscal
year; and generally relating to appropriation of funds in projects in the Capital Budget for
the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.
Introduced by Ms. Hummer, Chair
(by request of the County Executive)

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RESOLUTION NO. 27-25 – RESOLUTION concerning a petition to the Maryland
Higher Education Commission for Anne Arundel Community College funding for the
Dragun Science Building
Introduced by Ms. Hummer, Chair
(by request of the County Executive)
RESOLUTION NO. 28-25 – RESOLUTION concerning a petition to the Maryland
Higher Education Commission for Anne Arundel Community College funding for the
Florestano Building
Introduced by Ms. Hummer, Chair
(by request of the County Executive)
BILL NO. 76-25 (As Amended)(Amendment(s) Proposed) – AN ORDINANCE
concerning: Public Safety – Sidewalks – Removal of Snow and Ice – FOR the purpose of
modifying the requirements for removal of snow and ice from sidewalks; making failure
to remove snow and ice from sidewalks as required a civil offense and not a criminal
offense; providing for exemptions from requirement to remove snow and ice; and generally
relating to crimes, civil offenses, and fines, and public safety.
Introduced by Ms. Hummer, Chair
(by request of the County Executive)
BILL NO. 82-25 – AN ORDINANCE concerning: Finance, Taxation, and Budget – Real
Property Taxes – 9 1 1 Specialist Property Tax Credit – FOR the purpose of increasing the
duration of the 9-1-1 specialist property tax credit; and generally relating to finance,
taxation and budget.
Introduced by Ms. Pickard, Mr. Smith, Mr. Volke and Ms. Hummer
BILL NO. 79-25 (Amendment Proposed) – AN ORDINANCE concerning: Construction
and Property Maintenance Codes – Civil Fines – International Property Maintenance Codes
– Codes and Supplement – Air Conditioning in Multiple Dwellings – FOR the purpose of
modifying the method of imposition of certain civil fines for violations of the Property
Maintenance Code for multiple dwellings; requiring multiple dwelling owners that provide
air conditioning systems to tenants to keep the same in good working order and capable of
meeting certain temperature levels; requiring owners of multiple dwellings to provide
certain alternative cooling relief to tenants when air conditioning systems are in disrepair;
allowing the County to bill property owners for providing alternative cooling systems to
tenants if the owner fails to; and generally relating to the construction and property
maintenance codes.
Introduced by Ms. Hummer, Chair
(by request of the County Executive)
and by Ms. Hummer and Ms. Pickard
RESOLUTION NO. 29-25 – RESOLUTION requesting the Department of Inspections
and Permits to develop a Forest Conservation Manual to serve as a guidebook for property
owners and homeowners associations who maintain forest conservation easements on their
properties
Introduced by Ms. Fiedler and Ms. Rodvien

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BILL NO. 81-25 – AN ORDINANCE concerning: Subdivision and Development –
Adequate Public Facilities – Adequate Transportation Facilities – Mitigation – Fees and
Securities – Development Impact Fee Credits – FOR the purpose of revising the
transportation adequate public facilities standards and processes to include additional
modes of transportation for bicycles, pedestrians and transit; providing for mitigation for
additional modes of transportation; revising the standards for granting impact fee credits
for transportation improvements over and beyond mitigation requirements; amending
certain titles of sections and subtitles; and generally relating to subdivision and
development.
Introduced by Ms. Hummer, Chair
(by request of the County Executive)
L. Other Business
M. Adjournment
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