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Wicomico County Council approves personnel, budget amendments and overrides executive veto; several grants accepted
Summary
The Wicomico County Council approved multiple legislative and budget measures during its March 4 session, including personnel reclassifications, capital grant acceptances and a unanimous override of the county executive's veto on an ethics bill.
The Wicomico County Council acted on a slate of bills and resolutions at its March 4 legislative session, approving amendments to personnel rules and capital budgets, introducing a measure on commercial seafood operations, and unanimously overriding an executive veto on ethics counsel rules.
Among the votes, the council approved legislative bill 2025-03, which adds a subsection recognizing that the state's attorney's office, sheriff's office and the circuit court are constitutionally created state offices and therefore operate under different personnel rules than county departments. The introduction of legislative bill 2025-04 — an amendment to the county Right to Farm chapter to include commercial seafood operations and membership changes to the reconciliation committee — passed its introduction unanimously. The council also reconsidered and approved legislative bill 2025-02 as originally adopted after the county executive returned it with a veto message; that override passed on roll call unanimously.
The council amended the FY2025 capital…
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