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St. Mary’s County Board of Health approves updated environmental health fees, removes planned automatic inflation adjustment
Summary
The St. Mary’s County Board of Health approved an updated environmental health fee schedule to take effect July 1, 2025, and asked staff to remove a proposed resolution that would have triggered biannual inflation-based increases after commissioners objected to automatic adjustments.
The St. Mary’s County Board of Health on June 3 approved an updated environmental health fee schedule to take effect July 1, 2025, and directed staff to remove a separate resolution that would have implemented automatic biannual inflation adjustments.
The vote came during the Board’s regular quarterly session when Dr. Brewster presented the health department’s request to adopt the new fee schedule after earlier public hearings connected to the county budget process. "The fees that you approved were the county fees, the rec and parks fees, the land use fees. This as board of health, it's a separate 1," a commissioner said during discussion, underscoring why the board needed to approve its own schedule. The board recorded approval of the…
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