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- Letter of intent for FY2011 Maryland Housing Rehabilitation Program: The board authorized a letter of intent to the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development allowing the Housing Authority of St. Mary’s County to serve as a level 2 local administrator for the program. Staff said the state allocation listed was $37,000 but that local administrators historically access additional state funds not used elsewhere. The motion passed unanimously.

- FY2011 Title III Federal grant (interim award): The commissioners accepted an interim notification of grant award for Older Americans Act (Title III) programs in the amount of $123,838 to support home-delivered meals, congregate meals, caregiver support, ombudsman services and other senior programs, and approved a related budget amendment. The motion passed unanimously.

- Senior Medicare Patrol grant: The board accepted a Senior Medicare Patrol notification of grant award of $8,775 from the Maryland Department of Aging to support education on Medicare fraud and abuse; commissioners approved the award unanimously.

- Senior center operating grant (health/education/exercise programs): The board authorized submission/acceptance of the senior center operating grant application (project MD1118) for $16,625 to continue the Enhanced Fitness evidence-based exercise program across the county’s senior centers. Motion passed unanimously.

- Deed conveyance to the State Highway Administration for Chancellor’s Run Road widening: The board authorized execution of a deed conveying approximately 0.0387 acres (about 1,685 square feet) to the State Highway Administration for use in widening Maryland Route 237 (Chancellor's Run Road). The motion carried unanimously.

- Memorandum of agreement with Maryland Emergency Management Agency (Doctor Johnson Road project): The commissioners approved a MOA to accept a hazard-mitigation grant of $184,000 for the Doctor Johnson Road replacement project, with the county providing a 25% match (approximately $61,334). The work must be performed by April 30, 2013; the board approved the MOA and related budget realignment.

- Lease modification for John G. Lancaster Park (Civil War Memorial): The board authorized modification No. 2 to a U.S. government lease for John G. Lancaster Park to permit construction of a Civil War Memorial; commissioners praised volunteers and approved the modification unanimously.

- Piney Point Lighthouse Museum & Park easement adjustments: The board authorized a new deed of easement for an acquired lot and a second modification to an existing deed of easement to allow park improvements previously restricted by historic easement language. The motion passed unanimously.

Each item on the consent/agenda that required board action was moved, seconded and approved during the meeting; where grant amounts, parcel sizes or deadlines were discussed, staff presented the numbers during the presentations.

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County Attorney George Sparling told the board the hearing addresses two components: correcting a property encroachment discovered before settlement and approving governance changes that would allow the nonprofit nursing center to select its own trustees and adopt future bylaw amendments without county approval. \"The hearing really consists of two components, both of which I've addressed the board on previous occasions,\" Sparling said during the presentation.

Sparling said surveys showed the nursing center building encroaches onto adjoining county-owned land; the requested conveyance of roughly 0.66 acres would resolve that encroachment. Because the county previously had retained management control, the county had created a Citizens Nursing Home Board under Article 25 of the Annotated Code of Maryland; the proposed resolution would abolish that board, abrogate the 2001 memorandum of understanding governing trustee appointments, and remove the requirement that a county commissioner serve as an ex officio trustee. The nursing center’s board has adopted the proposed bylaw amendments subject to the county’s approval, Sparling said.

The board announced it would hold the record open for 10 days for written public comment; the county provided a mailing address for written comments (Board of County Commissioners, P.O. Box 653, Leonardtown, MD 20650).

While the hearing record remains open, commissioners took a separate but related action: approving an easement agreement to codify historic joint use of a parking lot adjacent to the nursing center and the St. Mary’s County Health Department. The commissioners voted to authorize the county president to execute the easement, allowing the nursing center and the health department to continue to use the designated parking area jointly.

What happens next: the public hearing record will remain open for 10 days for written comment. The commissioners will consider any comments and the pending matters (land conveyance and governance resolutions) at a later date. The parking easement was executed subject to the terms approved by the board.

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County Public Safety staff told commissioners the site is ready to move forward after surveys and soil sampling, and the tower’s 330-foot fall zone falls entirely inside county park property. The lease term approved by the board is 50 years with an automatic five-year renewal.

The action matters to public safety because the tower will host state communications equipment and has space reserved for the county’s 800 MHz radio system, allowing county and state systems to colocate at the site. “We are moving ahead steadily, however, not expeditiously as fast as we can on the site at Cecil Park in Valley Lee for the State of Maryland communications tower,” Public Safety staff member Dave Zylak said during the presentation.

Zylak told the board that, unlike the Bethune site, the Valley Lee tower location does not require agreements with neighboring landowners because the fall zone is wholly on county property. He said the State has completed surveys and soil samples and that county and the State technical committees have agreed on antenna placements.

Commissioners voted to authorize the county president to execute the lease agreement. The motion carried and the commissioners recorded their approval with an affirmative vote.

The board also discussed the Bethune tower, which has a contractor award but had not begun construction; staff said tower design must be submitted and permits issued before work begins. The lease generates no direct revenue to the county but secures capacity on the tower for the county’s radio equipment.

What happens next: staff will finalize and execute the lease and continue coordination with the State and regional communications committees on antenna placement and permitting.

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