Remarks by Susan W. Krebs
180 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 8
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“Thank you. I had a long, nice weekend at a strategic retreat for LifeBridge Health. I'm on their board. And it was something I do not very frequently, but it was a reset. Health care is changing dramatically everywhere, especially in Maryland with a number of issues. And one has to do with how we're funded by the federal government with Medicare, Medicaid. And there's a lot of things changing in health care throughout the nation to try to get things more affordable and to get things more accessible for everybody. So we had an excellent, excellent long Saturday, Sunday, Monday. working with…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“No, thank you for bringing this forward, and thank you for taking a close look at it. It took me a while to figure out. This cleans it up to make sure that the old resolution is gone, and you're not looking back years and saying what overrules what. So this basically cleans it up and starts from today, and it replaces the one from 2023, which actually was a little confusing because it would have allowed you to raise things to a different rate from before that. So this definitely has a new base of today. And as I said before, we raise taxes every year. We don't raise them. They raise…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“Yes. This little simple process has sort of gotten off track, and I hope we get it back on track. I'm disappointed that it's going to take another year to do this. One of the reasons we wanted to get this consultant in is because you guys are short staffed, and I think Many of us that have been very involved with the Freedom Plan from 2018 know that things went off track with some of the definitions after the fact, that we're done and that we're not, we do not believe, anybody that looks at it conceptually will. the definitions are not aligned with what happened on this commercial. We went…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“So what do we do, I mean, my concern is, This stuff is like it is now. Somebody can put in a project. We have three storage facility projects that are in the, we could have five more. There is so much damage that can be done under the current situation. It's already being done. By the time a year goes by, it'll be two years since I brought it up. I've been here a year and I brought it up like my second meeting. And so it will be two years later. And so what happens when some, do we put that on hold that they can't, because I believe the stuff was done wrong and we decided to fix it in this…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“Well, and I agree with what you said about following the rules. And I've argued all along, and no one will go, look, it takes, I've done my homework on this. We didn't follow our rules when we put this stuff in place.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“And you weren't there in part of it. I'm just saying.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“But I just want to make sure you understand, I truly believe, and I think people are involved. And we could show you the process was not transparent, and it was not followed, and people were not involved when it happened. And it's their property, too. I mean, their property is being devalued by some of these things. So I want to get it done quickly. How long does it take to put a list of people? We've been talking about this since July. Are they going to get any of this list or should we just throw this out? I'm just saying, do you want to have a smooth process and get good impact? How are we…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“I've mentioned, I showed you my list. My list has realtor on it. It has business people. It has large property owners on it. But there are people that are, when I say, that people know, that they trust, that they would... So all those I've wrote on here, you know, who they were. This is a large property owner. All of them are property owners.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“And then I had put some of this stuff as ex-officio, just sort of to say, if anybody can watch in, that's fine. Because I just was hoping that a couple of the Planning Commission members and I put Commissioner Gurn and myself, since it's our district, that we wanted to be way in. But if it's available to everyone to see. Yes. Yes.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“then and then we had a separate group of stakeholders that's what was confusing that we were just adding this to this list of people that are interested but they wouldn't and that's where i think it got confusing so i um just i just would like to get this stuff done and not have this drag out forever it needs to get fixed and that was the intent of what we've put together is we have a a solid work plan of how we're moving forward um to complete this and and we'll move forward with that now And one of the reasons I wanted to also move forward, at some point, we've got to update the master plan.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“And so we're always running into that. And it's like we're hoping that this component would have been done. But now it's almost running into the update of the plan.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“And we just, my goal is to not have it take years. The first one took, 2001 took 17 years, and the second one took seven years. And it's just, Totally understand. You lose people, you can't take years and years and years, and it's not effective. So hopefully we can get this done.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“And I'm going to tell you again, I don't know what a SharePoint site is. All I know is I had a group list that I put on that never sent anything to because I will show you what I was going to send them. It basically said, you know, welcome. We need your help. Please join and participate in this exciting opportunity. I never sent it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“Unfortunately, I have a little experience with this. We had a property in Delaware, and a number of years ago, one little tip of the property was in a floodplain. We had to get flood insurance, and it was costly. And then they remapped things and, in fact, a lot of other people more. And they all got hit with having to have flood insurance. And it was expensive. It's gone up tremendously since then. So it means thousands of dollars instead of a few hundred. Well, it was close to 1,000. It was like double to triple. So everybody said, because they changed their maps, whatever, this community.…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“So I don't know what the, the pump station, I hope we reach out to them and just, I don't know what it means to them. They don't buy insurance.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“So you don't think that they, so the ones, you talked about federally backed mortgages, almost everybody's got a federally backed mortgage. I mean, because let's say banks don't really loan direct anymore. So it's pretty much anybody with a mortgage. I'm looking also at properties in the future. Are there any of these properties that are developable? Do you know?”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“On the part that you're making it more restrictive, would that add more property into a potentially they can't develop? Would it take away their ability to develop in the more restrictive areas?”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“We don't know the impact. I don't even know what their zone down there, but what would the impact on a certain project be? That you could develop this for X number of lots and now you've got some in a floodplain and you can't do that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“No, but it ends up making it It can restrict you, because then you've still got to do stormwater management. I just know the impact on this big community that I've been talking about was a huge impact, and they had to pay a lot of money to get out of it. And they got out of it. They actually took the stuff and reversed it back. And I don't know how it affects me. I just want to make sure people that own those properties understand that it could be an impact on them.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“We're looking at the more restrictive part when we're more restrictive. I mean, the feds in the state are restrictive anyway. I always push back on being more restrictive on things like this, but I don't know what that impact the more restrictive piece. I know we've got to do with a I know there's some flexibility in it. That's what I'm wondering about.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“I don't know, Commissioner Collar. It sounds like light weekend reading to me. Maybe three and a half. I was thinking the same exact thing.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“I just had a question about terms. You might have said this, but how are the terms decided, like the interest rate and the length of it?”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“What is that? How does that compare to what they would get on the market?”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“And on housing, I don't know what it is for trucks. Sometimes cars is even more than that. So I wouldn't even be hiring that. And then what about the length of the term?”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026
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“thank you i appreciate your comments as well thank you this is uh very very helpful for their fire departments and we'll do whatever we can to keep them keep our fire volunteers around i move the board of board of commissioners approve the volunteer fire company loan program second we have a motion we have a second is there any further discussion hearing none all those in favor aye all those opposed”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 15, 2026