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Votes at a glance: Board approves agricultural recertification, budget amendments, tax-sale assignments and paratransit funds
Summary
At the May 1 BOCC meeting commissioners approved several items: MALPF recertification submission, a $50,000 budget amendment for unemployment costs, three tax-sale certificate assignments, and additional county funding for ADA paratransit service.
Several formal actions and budget items were approved by the St. Mary’s County Board of County Commissioners on May 1, 2012. These items were approved with recorded motions and typical board votes during the business meeting.
Key outcomes: 1) MALPF recertification submission: The Board approved and signed the consent letter to submit Chapter 4 (land preservation/ agriculture component) of the St. Mary’s County Land Preservation, Parks and Recreation Plan to the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation (MALPF) and the Maryland Office of State Planning for recertification. Staff said recertification would permit the county to retain 75% of the agricultural transfer tax for land preservation (as opposed to 33%). The motion was moved and seconded and carried.
2) Budget amendment — unemployment compensation: The Board approved a budget amendment realigning $50,000 from emergency appropriations to the unemployment compensation expense account to cover projected fiscal-year 2012 unemployment costs. Finance staff said the county had exceeded the three-quarter-year estimate for FY2012 and federal extensions of benefits had driven the need for the supplemental allocation. The motion was moved and seconded and carried.
3) Assignments of certificates of sale (tax-sale foreclosures): The Board approved three assignments of tax-sale certificates in cases from the 2010 tax sale. The assignments transfer the county’s rights to private purchasers who will step into the county’s foreclosure position; owners retain redemption rights until a final court order. The recorded assignments approved were: - Lot 23 (St. Joseph’s Welfare Club), 6th election district, account 06-021476 — assignment to Clara Scriber upon receipt of $5,456.23. - 48,071 Beachville Road, 1st election district, account 01-014943 — assignment to Janice A. Bridal upon receipt of $9,254.45. - Lot 13, 7th election district, account 07-028458 — assignment to Marie Thompson upon receipt of $778.75.
4) ADA paratransit funding: The Board approved a budget amendment to move $92,552 from a highway snow-removal unspent balance to the BOCC emergency appropriations account and to increase the county’s paratransit grant funding by $45,000 to maintain paratransit operations for the remainder of FY2012. Public works staff said ridership had grown roughly 30 percent and projected additional trips for the remainder of the year, requiring the supplemental funding. Commissioners approved the transfer and additional funding.
Votes were recorded by motion and second; the Board carried each item. Where the meeting transcript provided mover/second names, the article records the mover and second. No further action was required at the meeting on these items beyond execution of the budget amendments and contract/assignment paperwork.
