Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

13:48 – 14:25•KKKenneth A. Kiler

Okay. I don't have a lot. I did my commercial for the Library Book Festival. Unfortunately, the day of the festival, I'm out of town, so I can't be there. And it's interesting. I don't know if any of you had done them yet, but it's one of those chain things where somebody hands you something and then you hand it to the other person. So they film individuals so you have no idea who's given it to you. It'll be interesting to see how they work it out.

14:29 – 16:03•KKKenneth A. Kiler

It's like flowers in a vase that says something about the library. Now you're embarrassing me because I just passed it on and didn't. I said, is this a gift for me? And they said, no, you need to pass it on. And I did it in front of Finksburg Library on a nice sunny day, so that was good. And we have Deb now sitting here, and Roberta's officially gone. and we're looking at evaluating and interviewing a replacement. Rhonda and I went to an Oriole game, and of note, during the campaign prior to the primary, we didn't have time. We gave away tickets or did whatever, but we've gone. And of interes

Thank you very much, Commissioner. Commissioner Gordon? Thank you. I've got just a couple things of note. First off, I wanted to mention that one of our local nonprofits, Flying Colors of Success, has announced the retirement of their longtime president, Mike Hardesty, which is effective October 30th. He started working as a camp counselor at the Arc's Carroll Summer Camp during his years as an undergrad, and then attended Western Maryland. After graduating, began a 43-year career as a ceramic and woodworking instructor for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, continued his

You can tell I'm not with the times because I don't know what a swish mellow is, but I see it. First, I want to thank Commissioner Gordon for bringing up Mike Hardesty. I did not know he was retiring, and Mike, clearly, everything you said about him is true, and he's been around so long helping our developmentally disabled and then doing so many other things in the community, and he deserves to retire, but he really will be missed, and he is an example of those unsung heroes that are there every day taking care of folks that need it. Also, Congressman Olszewski is in Carroll County today visit

I do. If anybody would like to come up, I'd be happy to have you up here at the table.

Thank you very much. I didn't know if anyone else wanted to speak at all.

thank you both for sharing this morning i know it's got to be a tremendous place to be in where you're able to help you know give back i really truly personally appreciate that and and obviously you both have mentioned we all know this uh you know it affects everybody it affects an entire community even if it's not your immediate family it's a neighbor it's a friend it's someone's uncle uh it truly does affect us all and i greatly appreciate all all the uh that you all are doing So I'm going to read here. We have a proclamation for National Recovery Month. Whereas National Recovery Month is an

Are we going to do both of these at the same time? Yeah. The same people.

We have a month, which we already talked about the month, which is the annual recovery month. And we also have today, International Overdose Awareness Day, and this is the proclamation for that. International Overdose Awareness Day. Whereas International Overdose Awareness Day is observed annually on August 31st and is the world's largest campaign to end overdose, remember those lost, acknowledge the grief of loved ones, and renew a commitment to end overdose and related harms. And whereas the overdose crisis shatters not only families but communities, highlighting the importance of collective

38:42 – 40:44•KKKenneth A. Kiler

Lovely. I'm so glad you mentioned how hard it is to ask for help. And Tim, I'll update you at the same time. As he's aware, we've got some family members and it's hard to get them to ask for help. Brandon lost a kidney, walked out of the hospital the day after they operated. It was during COVID. We couldn't be there. But He's strong. He was OK. We haven't seen him for about two or three weeks because he was back on Coke and he knows the rules at our house and he was there almost every day prior to that. Rhonda got to see him this week in the hospital. He's currently at a university of Maryland

43:55•KKKenneth A. Kiler

I didn't get the memo. He didn't wear purple, but yeah.

44:08•KKKenneth A. Kiler

It's well. And you want to tell everybody about you making us like the building and everything, and you're going to bring some signs or.

And I had a question. I asked the question, I guess, during the water resources element, which we do every 10 years. I think most of us don't realize how really important these plans are. Really, really important, because that's your water. It's what we're looking at in the future, and then this is obviously just the amendment for the update. But a bigger question, when we do these plans, whether it's the water or the sewer part of it, the big plans, how do you anticipate? I know Westminster's got their water reuse project that they're building. At what point with that or an expansion or an up

So that would happen individually as it comes online?

And then I'm thinking about water, because I drove by the other day and saw the water reuse plant going up. So at what point, when that comes online, would that come into its just available capacity? It just would go in the books? How does that get worked into at what point?

Do we have any public? Well, that's yeah. Sorry. You're next.

Do you want to close it or do you want to close it or keep it open?

Move the Board of Commissioners conclude the public hearing, adopt the Spring 2026 Amendment to the 2023 Carroll County Water and Sewer Master Plan and forward it to MDE for final approval. Second.

And because I'm new, I didn't really understand. So the procurement card, the estimated spend is the $4 million, too. That's just what people would charge?

So what does Tyler get out of it? What's the contract with them?

It says the Board of Commissioners are awarding the contract. We're awarding the contract to PNC. To PNC. But is there a value to that contract? Of what they get? I mean, what are we approving? We're getting the contract.

There's no dollar amount attached to that.

They don't get it. They don't. We don't pay them a fee for having this opportunity to use these procurement cards. OK.

Well, I saw that. I guess they get to use the float on our money. So what happens to the rebate? Sort of like having points on a card. We get a rebate.

Um, so they get the money from the vendors that were charged that coming through. Okay. I'm trying to figure out where they're getting their money.

1:08:20•KKKenneth A. Kiler

Do we get new cards or the cards are good?

No, but thank you for explaining about the sustainability and the difference in the two programs. Then we have a chance to evaluate how it's working. I think it's going to do very well. Thank you.

1:15:27•KKKenneth A. Kiler

And like most grants, at the end of five years, this will have to be put in a budget.

I move that the Board of Commissioners approve the SFY 2027 state aid for police protection, communication, encryption, grant application, as well as acceptance of the grant funds have awarded.

1:24:26•KKKenneth A. Kiler

Well, the great all go to auction or the greater greater.

1:26:56•KKKenneth A. Kiler

These will be these. This is the raw vehicle. These will need to be.

What's your address? What's your what's your address? I'm sorry. I was just trying to find out, I mean, whose constituent it is. I mean, we could then go from there.

1:38:27 – 1:38:38•KKKenneth A. Kiler

So after this, he can talk to you? Yep, as soon as he... Okay. Thanks for stepping up. Thanks, Jason. Absolutely. Thank you very much. Good, thanks. Get you an answer. And thanks for listening to us. Thank you.