St. Mary's commissioners keep nonprofit funding level, approve CIP unchanged and reject constant-yield tax move

St. Mary's County Commissioners on March 18 voted to keep county-funded nonprofit grants at last year’s levels while making participation in the College of Southern Maryland’s nonprofit institute a condition of receiving mini-grants. The board also approved the recommended Capital Improvement Program with no changes and defeated a motion to set the property tax rate at a constant-yield level.

The nonprofit motion carried after a roll call-style outcome was announced as a 3-2 result: the board’s tally was recorded as three in favor and two opposed. The motion’s text, introduced and moved during the work session, read in part, “I’d like to make a motion that we keep the nonprofits that have been categorized to the book funded at the same level they were funded at in 2013.” Commissioners then asked that recipients of the mini-grant funding “shall utilize the nonprofit institute” at the College of Southern Maryland as a condition of funding, the board recorded.

The vote on the Capital…