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Administration Seeks to Codify Office of Transportation, Creating Official County Transportation Officer
Summary
Administration presented Bill 125 to formally codify the Office of Transportation in the county code and confirm the transportation officer role that had existed in practice since staff consolidations prior to 2018.
The Anne Arundel County administration on Jan. 14 presented Bill 125 to formally codify an Office of Transportation and the position commonly referred to as the transportation officer into county code, correcting an omission that staff identified during transit planning work in 2024.
“Prior to our administration responsibility for what is now in the office of transportation, transportation mobility and transportation planning was divided between the department of aging and the office of planning and zoning,” said Ethan Hunt, an administration representative. Hunt told the council that consolidations over time left a single staff person performing what had become the transportation functions, but the office had not previously been codified. The administration referenced Article 5 of the county charter as the reorganization authority for the executive branch.
The bill is described by administration staff as a cleanup measure to place the office and the transportation officer role in the code after it was discovered the office was not in the code during 2024 Transit Development Plan discussions (Bill 6124). Brian Ulrich from the Office of Transportation and counsel from the Office of Law joined the presentation. Council members asked only clarifying questions and there was no recorded vote in the Jan. 14 work session.
The administration said it does not anticipate codifying additional offices at this time and treated the measure as a routine reorganization ordinance under charter authority.
