Remarks by Susan W. Krebs
180 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 8
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“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.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 27, 2026
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“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.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 27, 2026
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“Commissioner Krebs. Thank you. We have a lot today because we weren't here last week, so we're doubling up for two weeks worth. But I just want to give accolades once again to one of our teams here at the county, the public works team. We've had several people weigh in thanking them for responding to a Saturday water main break and repair on Snowden's Run Road. Obviously, we all take it for granted that you turn the faucet on and there's water there, but something like that happens and you realize, ooh, there's a problem. So just for the utility staff, there's some names here. I don't want to…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“He was born in another country. My mother was born in Baltimore. It's sort of interesting. My mother was born at home. I was born at Sinai Hospital a long, long time ago, and now I sit on the board for Sinai at the place I was born. So it's a small world here in Maryland and Carroll County.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“And we expect you to continue to stay involved. We have all this free time. One thing we forgot to put on the little citation there is Roberta, after she moved here when her kids were small, she moved to Germany for three years. Three years? For a while, because she had an opportunity to go with her husband and kids, and they all know German, and they got to be – So they've lived abroad. That's why they like to travel abroad and want to go back. But Roberta started working in the community. She's always been community focused. And that's why we're all here, because we love our communities and…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“And all those experiences help you learn how the inner things work in the county. And I think everyone saw what an asset you were. And everybody wanted you. So then Commissioner Howard tapped you and went to five commissioners. And the one thing that I don't think people appreciate is that you have five bosses that that you're trying to read their minds sometimes because we don't communicate or we have different ideas about things. And communication is important because you're trying to figure out what do they really want to do, what do they really want to say. So it's not so simple working…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“I wanted to comment that elections have changed dramatically over the last 10, 15 years. Went from one day, we all showed up to vote, and now we have so many different opportunities to vote. And I wanted to ask you a question about turnout. Has turnout been increased, or how has it done since we've done the different types of opportunities to vote?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“That's interesting data. It's always interesting to me. the highest turnouts in the presidential election. And we have they have the least we have the least impact. You still should vote, but the least impact a vote on that than anything in the primaries in the gubernatorial race is where you elect all your your little Carol, mostly in the state of Maryland, your local elected officials, which impact you more directly and you have more of an impact with your vote. But yet that's the least turnout. So somehow we got to educate people that, you know, if you really want to know what is…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“And I just never appreciated that till we got involved with redistricting years ago. Yes. Because you have your federal elections and districts with their Congress. And then you have it with your local house races and Senate races. And you have it with now your commissioner by district. And they're all not the same. Correct. And that's why there's so many different ballot styles. And just I know there was a ballot mix up at the state level this year. I don't know how it's not more mixed up more frequently with getting them printed and mailed out incorrectly. But Just appreciate just getting…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“He's trying to be an active citizen, informed. We appreciate that. Thank you all. Enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you very much.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“Any other comments or questions from Commissioner? I said a couple of questions on the work barn. What's that? You might have already said it, but I missed it. What's the work barn for?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“There's no basements in these facilities right now.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“Obviously, this school site was a school site, and that's why it's not. But putting a big school on the property is a lot different than putting these buildings. But I think the vision. One thing you guys are phenomenal at is visioning, looking forward and finding solutions. And I appreciate that instead of putting up obstacles. And just having the vision and then expanding to what else can be done with the arc. That to me is incredible. And the more we think about it and people weigh in on it, we're like, how can we use this even more? And this property to me is in the middle of... where it…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“Well, I would like to make a motion that we make conceptual approval of moving forward with the concept of the freedom center. Um, with the caveat that we need to get the appraisal done and that we want staff to work with VIP on issues of reforestation and stormwater management conceptually and anything else that might be of interest. And then you come back with a briefing paper with some of those issues resolved. And then in the meantime, that's in my motion our council here can tell us what type of an agreement would be recommended if we were to make this decision and what it would look…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“Well, I've got a motion on the floor. I think conceptually you need, I think you're looking for the go ahead. So you put some of this stuff, the interest in the briefing paper. So it could be as close to answering some of the issues that we have. And I think that is a good next step. And I thank you for what you've done. So whoever's writing this motion down, I'm going to try to, I'm going to try to put down, I said, the motion was, excuse me, that I motioned them. My motion is that we have conceptual approval from the Board of Commissioners to move forward with discussing the Freedom Center,…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“Okay. Again, this is conceptual for all of us. We're just basically saying we all agree conceptually if this all works within the budget and all these parameters, but we're just giving you the go-ahead to, and our staff go-ahead to start talking about it. And then I will make a second motion when we're done about the appraisal. But we have a motion and a second on the floor.”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“So when the appraisal is done, it seems to me no matter what we do, whether we do reforestation, whether we decide to gift this, whether we decide to sell it, we need an appraisal because we need to know what the value of the land is. Because I certainly would not want to put trees on a piece of property that could be of value in another way. It could be commercial. It could be something else. So I think one way or another, we should get an appraisal done on the property. Now, when they appraise the property, do they look at those types of things like possible conditions or not? They just…”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“so you can go say okay the county's giving x that's our value um and we can talk about who we're giving it to and how that work may work or not work um after this because there's other ways to make that we could solve that problem so that's my motion is to get the county to do an appraisal on the property so if i may and okay well so we have a motion on the floor and i have to entertain the motion is there a second for the motion”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“Well, another question is, we didn't really put a timeline on this, and Don, you mentioned a timeline for what you're looking for, for applying for grants. Obviously, grants are probably being due now for next year's budget for the state, for CDBG grants or whatever you're looking for. So what would be the timeline that we would have to have some more certainty, or would it put off those opportunities?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“So it's more of a rolling process than it is?”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026
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“got a great track record in getting those funds okay I will withdraw my motion okay but I just don't want it to be something that holds us up down the road so it's up to you guys give our staff you know at least like a month to get it on the agenda if you have a timeline that you think you can make it by just give us some ideas so we can make sure you get in line whether it's October or November or whatever and then we'll put it back on the agenda and by then we'll have some answers as well and from our Council”
Board of County Commissioners · Aug 20, 2026