Finance Committee - Regular Meeting

Friday, July 24, 2026

The Finance Committee met on July 24, 2026, and voted to remove the minute approval from the agenda. The committee then took no action on R-29-26, an update of Fiscal Year 2027 City Fees, allowing it to move to the full council for discussion.

About this meeting

Government Body
Finance Committee
Meeting Type
Finance Committee
Location
Annapolis, MD
Meeting Date
July 24, 2026

Transcript

10 sections

0:02 – 0:14Speaker 2

All right. Meeting of the Finance Committee. Special meeting is called to order today, July 24th, 2026 at 1.05 p.m. At this time, I'll do a roll call. Alderman Thorpe, are you here?

0:16 – 1:33Speaker 2

Alderman O'Neill, are you here? Present. All right. And I'm here. At this time, is there a motion to approve the agenda with um removing the minute approval the approval of the minute so that our agenda will just be r2926 is there a motion for that so moved second all those in favor please say aye aye aye motion carries all right uh we just have r2926 on the agenda today I think that this is something that lots of folks have lots of thoughts on and we want to not let it linger, but also we want the full council to be able to weigh in on this. So my hope is that the finance committee can just rapidly vote to take no action on this and that will allow it to move out of committee, but still give us plenty of time to discuss it on Monday night. Is there any discussion on that? It's so much fun. I got a lot of stuff. All right. See, is there a motion to take no action on our part?

1:33Speaker 3

You're talking about annexation. So moved.

1:38Speaker 3

There's an annexation. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

1:43Speaker 2

All right, motion carries. With that, is there a motion to adjourn?

1:49Speaker 3

Motion to adjourn. Second.

1:52 – 2:04Speaker 2

All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. And with that, the shortest ever Finance Committee meeting concludes. Thank you guys so much, and thanks to the city staff for making this happen. Bye, everybody.

2:21 – 2:39Speaker 1

John Sarbanes, Congressman John Sarbanes, who was absolutely tenacious, absolutely tenacious when it came to making sure that the city of Annapolis had what it needed and was constantly pushing and pushing. And of course, former state senator.

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