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Monday, October 31, 2011
Senator Ben Cardin presents MML president Mike Bennett a certificate
Senator Ben Cardin presents MML president Mike Bennett a certificate recognizing the 75th anniversary of the MML.
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Newly elected officials at the fall MML conference. Caroline
Newly elected officials at an orientation at the fall MML conference.
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Schedule of events for the Fall MML conference Monday October 31, 2011
Schedule of events for the Fall MML conference Monday
October 31, 2011
MML – Maryland Municipal League Fall Conference October 31 -
November 2, 2011 schedule of workshops, meetings and discussions slated for
Monday, October 31, 2011:
“To bring MML’s 75th
anniversary celebration to a close, the Maryland Municipal League will return
to the beautiful Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay Resort for the annual MML fall
conference,” notes the Maryland
Municipal League website: http://www.mdmunicipal.org/conferences/falloverview.cfm.
“This conference is
first and foremost an opportunity for city and town officials to gather, attend
workshops, exchange information, and renew acquaintances. It is also the event
where the membership discusses and adopts the League’s legislative agenda
recommended by the MML Legislative Committee.”
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Monday, October 31, 2011
9:00 – 10:00 Orientation for Municipal Officials (OMO)
This session will provide you with everything you need to
know about how to maximize your League membership.
10:30 – 12:30 MML Board of Directors Meeting
11:30 – 12:30 Large City Forum
Municipalities of all sizes experience many of the same
issues. However, there are some issues and topics that are of special interest
to large municipalities. Network and brainstorm with a roundtable of officials
from cities, urban, suburban and rural with large populations. Representatives
from smaller cities facing urban issues are also welcome to attend.
11:30 – 12:30 Small Town Forum
Although there are issues that impact cities and towns of
all sizes, there are some issues and topics that are of special interest to
medium and smaller sized municipalities. Network and brainstorm with a
roundtable of officials from rural and suburban towns with small populations.
Representatives from larger cities with small-town flavor are also welcome to
attend.
12:00 Lunch on your own
12:00 – 4:30 Registration
12:00 – 5:00 Table Top Exhibits Open
1:00 – 2:00 Refreshment Break
1:15 – 1:45 MML Legislative and Resolutions Committee
Meeting (if needed
1:30 – 3:30 Ethics
Officials should have sufficient knowledge of their Public Ethics
Ordinance as generally required by state law. Many officials fill out the
necessary forms and assume that they have complied with the law. But, are their
day-to-day actions living up to the intent of the law? The often fine-line
differences between legal and ethical behavior will be illustrated in small
group discussions.
1:30 – 3:30 Environmental Issues
What is a “TMDL” and what does it mean to me? I keep hearing
about a “WIP” but I don’t really understand what it is.
What’s going to happen with septic systems in Maryland in
the future? These questions and more will be answered at this session where
presenters will discuss the Federal initiative to put the Chesapeake Bay on a
“pollution diet”. Attendees will also hear about the work of the Task Force on
Sustainable Growth and Wastewater Disposal.
3:45 – 4:45 Maryland Mayors Association Meeting
5:30 – 6:30 Welcome Reception
Dinner on your own
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According to the Maryland Municipal League website:
Conference Workshops and Special Sessions
This year, attendees
will have the opportunity to attend eleven workshops, three of which are
Academy core classes and three are Academy electives. The Academy core classes
at this year’s conference are Ethics, Open Meetings, and Employment Issues.
This year’s three
Academy elective workshops will address a variety of issues of importance
impacting every city or town, regardless of size or location. An
environmentally focused workshop will provide updates on Maryland’s Watershed
Implementation Plan, the ongoing effort to curtail future growth on septic
systems, and best practices for curtailing stormwater runoff in urban
settings.
A second Academy
elective workshop will provide an overview of several of Maryland’s most
popular municipal grant programs. Speakers at a third Academy elective workshop
will talk about enhancing municipal business development opportunities through
the use of property tax credits and provide an overview the Maryland’s newly
developed program to expedite development projects
There will be three
additional workshops at this year’s conference. One workshop will provide an
update on Maryland’s current law pertaining to Miss Utility and an overview of
how to best implement a stormwater utility fee; Howard County Executive Ken
Ulman will discuss Maryland’s expanding
broadband
opportunities across the State; and a third session will give attendees an
overview of the just-completed Maryland Department of Planning’s PlanMaryland
initiative.
In response to
feedback generated at last year’s conference, a special session has been
included in this year’s conference schedule to allow attendees to better
understand the legislative process and how to improve interaction with members
of their legislative delegation when advocating on behalf of their municipality
and the League in general.
As a follow up to the
Large City and Small Town Forums held at the 2011 annual convention in Ocean
City, time has been set aside in the conference schedule to allow elected and
appointed officials from Maryland’s municipalities to meet and discuss issues
pertinent to both large and small cities and towns
The fall conference is
also the venue for several other groups to meet. The MML Board of Directors and
the Maryland Mayors Association will both meet on Monday, October 31. The MML
Legislative/Resolutions Committee will also meet if necessary.
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Municipal officials gather in Cambridge for annual conference
Municipal officials gather in Cambridge for annual
conference By Kevin Dayhoff October 30, 2011
Sunday evening and early Monday morning, elected officials
from Maryland cities and towns throughout the state will converge on the
Cambridge Hyatt Chesapeake Bay conference facilities for the Maryland
Municipal League’s fall legislative conference.
The Maryland Municipal League, was founded in 1936 by
Annapolis Mayor Louis N. Phelps in an effort for Maryland municipalities to
obtain funds available to local governments from the Work Progress
Administration (WPA] under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.
The organization that is completely run by local officials
from the 157 cities and towns from across the state works as an advocate for
municipalities throughout the State of Maryland.
Rockville Mayor Phyllis Marcuccio summed it up best in a June
9, 2011 press release when “Rockville was one of 44 cities and towns in
Maryland to earn the Maryland Municipal League (MML) distinction of Banner
City/Town…
“The work that the Maryland Municipal League does is vital
to the cities and towns in Maryland, and Rockville is better able to enhance
the quality of life for residents because of our work with the group,” said Marcuccio.
This year’s fall conference comes hours after a rare October
winter storm dumped approximately 4 to 9 inches of heavy wet snow on the
Maryland area for most of Saturday.
According to a Baltimore
Sun article by Joe Burris,
“Wet snow fell throughout Maryland, with the National Weather Service issuing
preliminary reports of up to 4.5 inches in northern Baltimore County, as much
as 6 inches in Carroll County and up to 9 inches in Allegany County…”
The unseasonable cold temperatures resulted in “The weather
service (issuing) a freeze warning for the Baltimore-Washington area from
midnight to 9 a.m. on Sunday. The weather service said that temperatures would
range from the 20s in mountainous areas to the low 30s in urban areas,”
according to Burris.
The weather may not the only “deep freeze” descending upon
the state as national, statewide and local elected officials attempt to fathom
the political consequences of the recent Maryland General Assembly’s
congressional redistricting special session, October 17 – 19, 2011.
On the third day of the special session, October 19, the
Maryland House of Delegates passed Democrat Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley
controversial redistricting map to redraw Maryland eight seats in the U.S.
House of Representatives by a vote of 91-46.
The results drew the ire of statewide and local official,
both Democrat and Republican alike and spawned threats of federal lawsuits.
“A coalition of African-American voting rights groups and
Republicans announced they will oppose Gov. Martin
O'Malley's plan to redraw the state's eight congressional districts and
warned that they intend to take the issue to court,” noted Bryan Sears in
an article for the Lutherville – Timonium Patch,
“Carletta Fellows, a spokeswoman for the Fannie Lou Hamer PAC, called O'Malley's plan
‘institutional racism’ and said it violates the federal Voting Rights Act by
not creating a third majority minority district.”
With the controversial congressional redistricting already a
distant distraction from the country’s ongoing economic malaise, elected
officials from Maryland’s cities and towns have their work cut out for them as
they prepare for the upcoming regular
session of the Maryland General Assembly in January 2012.
The contracted economy has caused a prolonged reduction of
revenues from local governments from across the state in the face of increased
demands on services.
The most
pressing issue on the minds of municipal officials is the matter of restoring
funds that have been lost over the last number of years because of problems in
the state budget.
Other areas that appear to be on the minds of municipal
officials are Maryland Department of Planning’s PlanMaryland initiative and the
recent recommendation by the Maryland Blue Ribbon Commission on Maryland
Transportation Funding that the state increase the gas tax by 15 cents per
gallon.
Cities
have lost the most money in Highway User Revenues.
Maryland’s incorporated cities and towns have few municipal
revenue sources to rely on. More than other government forms in Maryland,
cities and towns depend on the property tax as their primary general fund
revenue source with which to support basic services for our communities.
However, as I learned first hand when I served on the MML
board of directors for five consecutive years, from June 2000 to May 2005; in
addition to education and networking, perhaps the MML has been most effective
in advocating for municipalities with the Maryland General Assembly.
Each year, the MML chooses several priority issues that
directly affect the future well-being of Maryland’s cities and towns, and those
who live in them.
The MML then has these issues introduced as legislation
before the Maryland General Assembly, and works to usher these issues through
the legislative process.
While the MML’s legislative agenda for the upcoming Maryland
General Assembly remains a priority of the conference, the annual training and
educational get-together has been expanded in recent years to make it more like
a “mini convention.”
Each year, the MML
fall conference gives elected officials from municipalities across the state an
opportunity to get together for seminars, workshops and discussions on the
various issues facing Maryland cities and towns and helps prepare for the
upcoming regular session of the Maryland General Assembly in January.
It may be easily argued that Maryland state budget cuts to
municipalities in recent years could have easily caused much more damage to
local governments if it had not been for the tireless efforts of the MML
working the hallways and offices of Annapolis during the legislative session.
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November 2, 2011
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For more information on the 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal
League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency
Chesapeake Bay, including a “Complete 2011
Fall Conference Information (.pdf)” packet, visit the MML website at www.mdmunicipal.org.
MML Fall Conference October 31 - November 2, 2011
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Sustainable Maryland Awards Luncheon at MML Fall Conference October 2012
Sustainable Maryland - ACTIONS
FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES - Sustainable... October, 2012 Awards Luncheon
at MML Fall Conference
Retrieved October 30, 2011
To achieve certification, municipalities will need to
complete actions worth a total of 150 points (including two Mandatory Actions
and two of six Priority Actions) and submit the appropriate documentation as
evidence that the SMC requirements have been satisfied.
Sustainable Maryland Certified recognizes that this is not
a complete list of of sustainable actions that could be undertaken by a
municipality. SMC plans to add additional actions, in areas like
Transportation, in Year 2 and incorporate Bronze & Silver levels of
certification. Those certified in Year 1 will automatically receive Bronze
certification.
[…]
Certification deadlines:
October 3,
2011 Municipalities may begin
submitting applications for certification
June 29,
2012 Deadline
for submissions for certification to be considered for Fall Awards Luncheon
October,
2012 Awards
Luncheon at MML Fall Conference
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Sustainable Maryland Awards Luncheon at MML Fall Conference
October 2012
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Reminiscing about the 2004 October MML Fall Conference - By Kevin Dayhoff October 30, 2011
By Kevin Dayhoff October
30, 2011
On Sunday evening, October 30, 2011 and early Monday
morning, October 31, 2011, elected officials from Maryland cities and towns
throughout the state will converge on the Cambridge Hyatt Chesapeake Bay
conference facilities for the Maryland
Municipal League’s fall legislative conference.
I have not attended a fall Maryland Municipal League (MML) conference
since 2004. In that year, I attended as the mayor of Westminster and an elected
member of the Maryland Municipal League’s board of directors.
The contracted economy has caused a prolonged reduction of
revenues from local governments from across the state in the face of increased
demands on services.
However, as I learned first hand when I served on the MML
board of directors for five consecutive years, from June 2000 to May 2005; in
addition to education and networking, perhaps the MML has been most effective
in advocating for municipalities with the Maryland General Assembly.
It may be easily argued that Maryland state budget cuts to
municipalities in recent years could have easily caused much more damage to
local governments if it had not been for the tireless efforts of the MML
working the hallways and offices of Annapolis during the legislative session.
If I am not mistaken, the first fall MML legislative
conference I attended was in 1999. On October 27, 2004, I wrote about the fall
conference:
On October 21-23, 2004, I had the privilege to join Carroll
County leaders such as Suzanne Albert, Laurell Taylor, John Medve, Haven
Shoemaker, Jim McCarron, Bob Flickinger, Frank Johnson and Wendy Peters at the
annual Maryland Municipal League’s (MML) Fall Legislative Conference at Rocky
Gap near Cumberland.
Each year, the MML
fall conference unites elected officials from municipalities across the state
and experienced speakers to assist local governments with various issues.
While the MML’s legislative agenda for the upcoming Maryland
General Assembly remains a priority, the conference has been expanded in recent
years to make it more like a "mini convention.
This year, over 225 municipal officials from 70 of the
state's 157 municipalities, joined statewide leaders such as Senator Rich
Colburn, Harford County Executive Jim Harkins, Delegate Brian Moe, Congressman
Bartlett and Lt. Governor Michael Steele in an intense interactive agenda that
included nine workshops that touched upon issues that are affecting citizens
today, including everything from
environmental issues and growth and development to an explanation on First
Amendment legal issues and the Main Street Maryland program.
The conference had a
good mix of education and training through workshops, networking and meeting
counterparts and other officials with information that could be helpful
to all of us – now.
Local officials, John Medve and Steve Horn gave excellent
presentations on planning issues. Other
presentations included: Local Government Employment Issues; Administering the
Chesapeake Bay Restoration Fund; Municipal Utilities – Growth Capacity
Analysis; The “Main Street Maryland” Program; Maryland’s “Priority Places”
Initiative; Growth is Coming – Are You Ready?; Parliamentary Procedure &
Effective Council Meetings; First Amendment Legal Issues Explained; Basics of Risk Management for Public
Officials; and Understanding Your Municipal Charter.
The main issues were growth and planning issues, and that
five letter word: ‘water’. The issue just doesn’t seem to go away.
At the business meeting on October 22, the three MML
priorities for this coming year were intensely debated.
Each year, the MML chooses several priority issues that
directly affect the future well-being of Maryland’s cities and towns, and those
who live in them.
The MML then has these issues introduced as legislation
before the Maryland General Assembly, and works to usher these issues through
the legislative process. This year's legislative platform
addresses public safety, restoring municipal resources and electric
aggregation.
All
three issues greatly impact the lives of citizens, with the biggest priority
being the issue of restoring funds that have been lost over the last three
years because of problems in the state budget.
Cities
have lost the most money in Highway User Revenues and Program Open Space funds.
Maryland’s incorporated cities and towns have few municipal
revenue sources to rely on. More than other government forms in Maryland,
cities and towns depend on the property tax as their primary general fund
revenue source with which to support basic services for our communities.
For the FY 2005 budget, approximately 36% of Maryland’s
municipalities increased instituted or increased cost recoveries or user fees,
14% reduced or eliminated existing services, 45% laid off employees or
eliminated cost of living increases in salary, 46% delayed construction
projects, delayed capital purchases or sold assets, 48% used money from their savings
accounts to pay operating expenses, and 18% increased property taxes.
In terms
of public safety, the idea is for police departments to receive better
equipment so officers can communicate with each other quicker.
The most
hotly debated issue was the matter of municipal electric aggregation.
The 1999
electric deregulation legislation specifically did not allow municipalities a
reasonable opportunity to pool our citizens’ electric bills in an attempt to
minimize the impact of electric deregulation and rising electric bills.
In
subsequent attempts in the last several legislative sessions, the Maryland
General Assembly has consistently said that it will not even entertain MML
legislation to remedy this situation.
Reminding
the municipalities at the business session, the MML leadership wanted to change
the Electric Aggregation Legislative Priority to request a Taskforce, instead
of remedial legislation.
After a
floor fight conducted by about 60 mayors, who dusted the cobwebs off the deep
arcane corners of Roberts Rules of Parliamentary Procedure and traded motion
and counter motion for 45 minutes, ultimately deciding upon, attempting the
legislation with a fall back position of a Taskforce. Can you say “aspirin”?
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November 2, 2011
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For more information on the 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal
League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency
Chesapeake Bay, including a “Complete 2011
Fall Conference Information (.pdf)” packet, visit the MML website at www.mdmunicipal.org.
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Dr. Spaulding: Thank you Nick DiMarco and Bryan Sears
J-students should learn how to use social media to build their personal brand, two Patch.com journalists told students in MCOM 257 Tuesday.
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Nice article. The article is reaffirming and reassuring about the future of journalism… and that is certainly reinforced in the comments. The glass is half-full. I’m just saying.
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Kevin Dayhoff: Eagle Archive: Halloween, tale of a Westminster native with a taste for adventure, with side order of macabre
Eagle Archive: Halloween, tale of a Westminster native with a taste for adventure, with side order of macabre
Eagle Archive: Halloween, tale of a Westminster native with a taste for adventure, with side order of macabre
By Kevin Dayhoff
October 29, 2011
Carroll County has many sons and daughters who have made contributions to the literary and artistic world. Take William Buehler Seabrook, for example.
What's that? You never heard of him? Seabrook was apparently one interesting character. It is only fitting that we talk about him on the eve of Halloween.
He was born in Westminster Feb. 22, 1884, and died Sept. 20, 1945.
[...]
Yes indeed. Seabrook was part of the American Lost Generation genre of writers, which includes, for example,F. Scott Fitzgerald and T. S. Eliot. "Lost Generation" was the term coined by Gertrude Stein, according toErnest Hemingway, who utilized the theme in "The Sun Also Rises," published in 1926. He noted the Lost Generation in his posthumously published "A Moveable Feast," a memoir about life in Paris in the 1920s with other American writers and artists... http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/community/ph-ce-eagle-archive-1030-20111026-8,0,427237.story
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Wet snow falls on Maryland, Northeast By Joe Burris, The Baltimore Sun
Wet snow falls on Maryland
BGE monitoring for outages caused by heavy, wet snow
By Joe Burris,
The Baltimore Sun October 29, 2011 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-october-snow-20111029,0,4242687.story
[...]
Wet snow fell throughout Maryland, with the National Weather
Service issuing preliminary reports of up to 4.5 inches in northern Baltimore
County, as much as 6 inches in Carroll County and up to 9 inches in Allegany County.
The rare October snowstorm bore down from Virginia to Connecticut,
delaying flights and knocking out electricity for hundreds of thousands of
customers.
The weather service issued a freeze warning for the
Baltimore-Washington area from midnight to 9 a.m. on Sunday. The weather
service said that temperatures would range from the 20s in mountainous areas to
the low 30s in urban areas.
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MML Fall Conference October 31 - November 2, 2011
For more information on the 2011 Fall Maryland Municipal
League’s Fall Legislative Conference at the Cambridge Maryland Hyatt Regency
Chesapeake Bay, including a “Complete 2011 Fall Conference Information (.pdf)”
packet, visit the MML website at www.mdmunicipal.org.
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Rockville Maryland Earns 'Banner City' Designation from Maryland Municipal League
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Rockville Earns 'Banner City' Designation from Maryland
Municipal League
ROCKVILLE, Md., June 9, 2011 — The City of Rockville was one
of 44 cities and towns in Maryland to earn the Maryland Municipal League (MML)
distinction of Banner City/Town. This is Rockville's first year to apply for
and earn the MML designation.
The program formally recognizes Maryland cities and towns
that have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to MML programs and activities
through the involvement of their elected and appointed officials. Cities and
towns must meet five requirements for consideration in the program. Those
include participating in the "If I were Mayor…" contest, supporting
Municipal Government Works Month, attending MML chapter meetings, participating
in the annual convention and fall conference, and participation in an MML outlined
service activity.
"I'm very proud that Rockville earned the designation
for the first time," said Mayor Phyllis Marcuccio. "The work that the
Maryland Municipal League does is vital to the cities and towns in Maryland,
and Rockville is better able to enhance the quality of life for residents
because of our work with the group."
MML was founded in 1936 and represents 157 municipal
governments and two special taxing districts throughout the state of Maryland.
The organization is a voluntary, non-profit, nonpartisan association controlled
and maintained by city and town governments, and it works to strengthen and
support municipal government through advocacy and the development of effective
leadership.
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Maryland Municipal League (MML) Synopsis and disclosure
Maryland Municipal League (MML) Synopsis and disclosure
By Kevin Dayhoff
May 30, 2005
The Maryland Municipal League, founded in 1936, works as a
advocate for municipalities throughout the State of Maryland, strengthening the
role and capacity of municipal government through research, legislation,
technical assistance, training and the dissemination of information for its
members.
MML is a statewide organization in Maryland composed solely
of municipal officials.
The Maryland Municipal League represents more than 150
municipal governments and two special taxing districts in the State. A
voluntary, nonprofit, nonpartisan association controlled and maintained by
these city and town governments, MML works to strengthen the role and capacity
of municipal government through research, legislation, technical assistance,
training and the dissemination of information to its members. http://www.mdmunicipal.org/mmlhome/index.cfm
Disclosure: I served on the Maryland Municipal League Board
of Directors annually for five consecutive years, from June 2000 to May
2005.
I graduated from the University of Maryland Academy for
Excellence in Local Government in June 2001.
I served on the Maryland Municipal League’s Legislative
Committee in 1999-2000 and 2001-2002.
I served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Carroll County
Chapter of the Maryland Municipal League for five years (12/07/1999 –
05/16/2005).
I was first elected to the Westminster City Council in May
of 1999 and served as the Mayor
of Westminster from May 2001 until May 16th, 2005.]
Wednesday, September 01, 1999 / May 30, 2005 UPDATE ked
Reposted: October 30, 2011
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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Lobby of the Cambridge Hyatt for fall MML conference on legislative issues
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MML – Maryland Municipal League Fall Conference October 31 -
November 2, 2011
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