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Votes at a glance: Prince George’s County Council actions, July 8, 2025
Summary
The council advanced a package of bills and resolutions on July 8, 2025, including building-code updates, multiple municipal stop-sign monitoring approvals, collective bargaining agreements, budget supplements and several land-use and administrative measures. Below are outcomes and vote tallies recorded in the meeting.
The Prince George’s County Council conducted numerous votes on July 8, 2025. Most measures passed with recorded roll calls. This roundup lists each formal action that was enacted or introduced with the outcome and key details recorded in the meeting transcript.
Votes (selected items; roll-call tallies from meeting record):
- Consent agenda (approval of council minutes dated 07/01/2025): Adopted (motion carries; recorded as 10 in favor).
- CB-33-2025 (municipal building-permit documentation; draft 3 introduced and amended): Introduced and amended; sponsors listed. (Introduced; amendments adopted in session; no final enactment vote recorded at that time.)
- CB-53-2025 (update county building code to conform to 2020 National Electrical Code): Introduced; PHED committee reported favorably (committee vote 3-0); draft 3 introduced.
- CB-16-2025 (public safety employment decisions — cannabis screen): Enacted after reconsideration; final roll call recorded as unanimous among members present (10-0). See full article for details.
- CB-30-2025 (road paving list and annual reporting requirement): Enacted (motion carried; recorded as 10 in favor).
- CB-31-2025 (anti-litter and weed ordinance revisions, fines and liens): Enacted (motion carried; recorded as 10 in favor).
- CB-34-2025 (historic preservation commission composition changes): Enacted (motion carried; recorded as 10 in favor).
- CB-46-2025 (woodland and wildlife habitat conservation changes, fee-in-lieu updates): Enacted (motion carried; recorded as 8-0-1 per roll-call at the time of adoption).
- CB-49-2025 (Youth Advisory Inclusion Act — establish youth advisory program): Enacted (motion carried; recorded as 10 in favor).
- CB-54-2025 (supplementary appropriations to FY25 general and internal service funds): Enacted (motion carried; recorded as 10 in favor); sponsors amended on record.
- CB-57-2025 (collective bargaining agreement — Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 89): Enacted (motion carried; recorded as 10 in favor). Companion resolution CR-71 reflects salary schedule changes.
- CB-59-2025 (collective bargaining agreement — Correctional Officers Association): Enacted (motion carried; recorded as 10 in favor).
- CB-60-2025 (declare certain county-owned parcels surplus): Enacted (motion carried; recorded as 10 in favor).
- CR-03-2025 (alcoholic beverage licenses for retail grocery store establishments — county resolution supporting state legislation): Committee substitute adopted in committee (substitute vote recorded 8-0-2), final vote adopting the resolution recorded 8-1-1 (two abstentions recorded during final roll call). Sponsors: Fisher, Blige, Orietta, Hawkins, Watson (and others added on record).
- CR-50-2025 (amend salary schedule G — 2% COLA for general schedule employees effective 04/06/2025): Adopted (motion carried; recorded as 8-0; fiscal impact estimated in committee report and recorded in minutes).
- CR-53-2025 (2018 Water and Sewer Plan amendment cycle — one advancement and six redesignations): Adopted (motion carried; recorded as 10 in favor); Committee of the Whole had no recommendation but reported details on the application and the redesignation updates.
- CR-67, CR-68, CR-69, CR-70 (approvals of stop-sign monitoring system locations for District Heights, University Park, Glen Arden, Fairmount Heights respectively): Each resolution passed after committee reports (TIE committee votes 3-0) and were adopted by council; motions carried as recorded in roll call entries (most recorded as unanimous among members present).
- CR-71-2025 (salary schedule L — Fraternal Order of Police salary schedule changes tied to CB-57): Adopted (motion carried; recorded as 9-0 in committee report; final adoption recorded on the floor).
- CR-72-2025 (salary schedule D — Correctional Officer salary schedule changes tied to CB-59): Adopted (motion carried; recorded as 9-0 in committee report; final adoption recorded on the floor).
- CR-80-2025 (temporarily suspend current police response time calculations in the adequate public safety test; amended draft substituted): Substitute and final action adopted (committee of the whole voted favorably; final motion carried as recorded).
- CR-58-2025 (stop-sign monitoring locations, City of Mount Rainier): Discharged from committee and adopted on the floor after brief explanation; motion carried (recorded as 8-0 in roll call noted in transcript).
- Additions package approval (additions to the agenda transmitted during meeting): Approved (motion carried; recorded as 8-0 at time of roll call).
Notes and context: - Where committee reports were given, the transcript records committee votes (commonly 3-0 in TIE and PHED committee reports); committee favorable recommendations were followed by floor action and roll-call votes on July 8. - Many bills had no public speakers listed in the hearing record; the meeting record contains roll-call tallies and committee reports which provide the primary documentary evidence of action. - Several votes included requests by council members to be added as sponsors; those additions were recorded on the floor.
If readers need a copy of a specific bill or the full roll-call transcript for an item listed above, the meeting minutes and the clerk’s office record the detailed vote-by-vote roll calls and the committee reports referenced in this summary.
