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Commissioners approve emergency solar ordinance, assume Sellersville indebtedness, contracts and capital purchases
Summary
At the Aug. 26 meeting the Queen Anne's County Commissioners adopted emergency ordinances to comply with state solar law, agreed to assume Sellersville's water/sewer indebtedness, awarded multiple contracts including asphalt overlays and ambulance purchases, and approved several budget and policy items.
The Queen Anne's County Commissioners took multiple formal actions Aug. 26, adopting emergency legislation, approving contracts and authorizing capital purchases in a meeting that combined hearings, presentations and routine action items.
Key actions approved at the meeting included:
- Adopting County Ordinance 25-10 (emergency): a supplemental solar ordinance to align county rules with state law (Senate Bill 931 and House Bill 1036). Motion to adopt carried 5-0.
- Adopting County Ordinance 25-11 (emergency): authorization for the county to incur and assume indebtedness (up to $5,500,000 aggregate) related to acquisition of certain water and sewer public facilities from the Town of Sudlersville; motion passed 5-0.
- Introducing County Ordinance 25-13 (Settlersville wastewater and water subdistrict updates) for later consideration and handling other routine plan updates.
- Awarding a FY26 hot mix asphalt overlay contract to David A. Bramble, Inc. (State Highway pre-established contract) for multiple road segments in Queen Anne's County, total $1,925,146. One commissioner recused for an appearance reason; vote recorded as 4 in favor, 1 abstention/recusal.
- Executing a Public Works agreement to allocate sewer and water capacity for Parcel 24 Holdings LLC to construct a 12-unit apartment building; motion carried unanimously.
- Awarding a three-year groundwater and landfill gas monitoring contract for county landfills to Hill Consulting, Annapolis, MD, $107,850 (lowest responsible bidder); motion carried.
- Authorizing purchase of two ambulances (Ford F-550 chassis, Horton module) through cooperative purchasing in the total amount of $776,900 to address extended manufacturer delivery timelines; motion carried.
- Executing an amendment to the state's "difficult-to-serve" broadband grant to add 130 addresses with total grant funds for the county of $793,124 and maximum per-connection allowance of $8,000, with ISPs providing 60% of eligible connection costs; motion carried.
- Approving an agreement for a redundant fiber-optic network connection over the Bay Bridge for county IT resiliency ($63,800 pro-rated in FY26, $75,960 annual thereafter); motion carried.
- Awarding a $100,000 contract to Bay Crossing Consulting for the Minority Business Catalyst queue/accelerator program (funded by the community reinvestment fund); motion carried.
- Approving revisions to the county Investment of Public Funds policy (policy 400-003) to update investment practices and meet state and best-practice standards; motion carried.
Votes where counts were recorded on the record are summarized below. The meeting record shows motions were made and seconded for each item; where a specific mover/seconder was not recorded in the minutes, the motion text in the official minutes is the controlling record.
