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Greater Crofton Council Regular Meeting

on May 13^th 2008
Guest Speaker: Robert C. Leib, Special Assistant for BRAC/Education
will discuss BRAC with the GCC

      Agenda:
May 2008 Agenda

13 May
Regular GCC Meeting
Guest Speaker: Robert C. Leib, Special Assistant for BRAC/Education
will discuss BRAC with the GCC

10 June
Regular GCC Meeting
Guest Speaker: State Highway Administration; Greg Welker
and Ms. Asuntha M. Chiang-Smith, Executive Director for BRAC

8 July
No regular meeting scheduled

12 August
Guest speaker: Dr. Diana Strohecker, Principal new Gambrills-area Elementary School

9 September
Candidates night
Local registered candidates from all the political parties will be there, including representatives of the central committees. Also coming are the leading proponents and opponents of the slots referendum

14 October

11 November
G.C.C. Forum - Senator Ben Cardin w/ Heather Campbell

9 December
Nomination of GCC officers

Driving Directions

On April 8^th the GCC met at the community center at Waugh Chapel. State Senator Janet Greenip was the first guest speaker.  She summarized the just concluded Session of the Legislature.  She announced that the county will be reimbursed for the monies spent testing wells for carcinogens from the fly ash deposited in the mines run by BBSS.  She said that new legislation requires polygraphs for guards at detention centers, and that illegal immigrants could be deported rather than be put in jail.
In an effort to decrease emissions from power plants, a "cap and trade" policy was enacted, which encourages those plants to use effective "scrubbers" to lower their emissions. If a plant's emissions are below its quota, it can "trade" the unused portion with another company. A reason to enact this law was the state's entry into the Regional Energy Consortium, or "Reggie".

Anne Arundel County Executive liaison to the community, Brenda Reiber, said that the Dairy Farm Advisory Committee has been meeting. She announced that in order to have more public input in the County's General Development Plan (GDP) revision process, the County's Planning Advisory Board (PAB) appointed new members to the Special Advisory Committee (SAC). Anthony Savia, a resident of one of the member associations, has been appointed.

County Councilman, James Benoit's assistant Veronica Jagoe, was asked to convey the gratitude of the community for having the light at Reidel and Nantucket put in before summer.

GCC planing and zoning chair, Torrey Jacobsen, said that BBSS had applied for a special exception to mine closer to their property boundary. He asked the GCC to take a stand against this. The GCC declined.

GCC education chair, Tom Frank, said that he was running for a position on the school board. The GCC voted to support his candidacy.

GCC president, Art Huseonica, will speak in favor of Mr. Frank at the School Board Nominating Commission's hearing on April 28^th.

School Board Nominating Commission Chairman, Joshua Greene, explained how the commission worked.

The county's health department's health officer, Frances B. Phillips, was unable to be at the meeting for health reasons. In her stead, Director of Environmental Health, Kerry Topovski, came. She said that the MDE would monitor the remediation of the ground water at the BBSS fly ash site.