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Allegany County reviews consent agenda; commissioners discuss appointing Animal Control chair and updating ethics code
Summary
At a meeting where a 10-item consent agenda was reviewed, commissioners listed contracts, appointments and community-event promotions, a motion was introduced to amend an appointment to name a chair for the Animal Control Board, and staff reported an ethics code update to be presented on a designated legislative day (Nov. 20).
County officials reviewed a 10-item consent agenda that included funding and contracts, board appointments, a maintenance agreement and community-event promotions, and discussed adding an appointment to name the chair of the Animal Control Board.
Speaker 2 presented the consent agenda items. Notable items included acceptance of 9-1-1 board funding of $3,837 for a fiber upgrade at the 9-1-1 backup center; approval of an HSI contract renewal for an online employee training portal (ThanksToMe) for $22,313 (with roughly half paid by CareFirst SpringWell wellness funds); purchase of a double-sided LED sign for the detention center for $17,471 funded from a Friends Research Institute grant; and authorization for a Stryker preventative maintenance agreement for about $113,000 to serve EMS inspections and maintenance needs. Community-event promotions proposed were $100 for a Mountain Ridge High School cross-country/track event, $500 for Western Port’s tree-lighting and Tri Town parade, and $1,000 for the Cumberland Scottish Rite Foundation’s Robert Burns Night.
On appointments, Speaker 2 listed nominees to reconstitute the Animal Control Board (Dr. John Gustafsson, Christina Getty, Linda Steele and Regina Hamm) and identified ex officio members from the health office (Brian Dicken) and the sheriff’s office (Brett Lysinger/Leisinger). Speaker 1 moved to amend consent item e to include naming Brett Lysinger/Leisinger as chair; the transcript records the motion being made but does not record a final vote in this excerpt. Participants discussed whether to add the chair appointment now or place it on the next public meeting’s consent agenda to preserve public comment; they agreed adding it to the next public meeting would allow comment.
Separately, Speaker 1 reported the county has started updating its ethics code using the state’s model regulations and asked that the board advertise and designate the November 20 meeting as a legislative day so amendments can be formally introduced then. Staff confirmed the step is largely administrative (public advertisement) and that scheduling follows the county’s standard legislative-day timing.
The meeting did not record a formal vote on the consent agenda items in this transcript excerpt; several procedural directions were given (including drafting materials and adding items to the next meeting’s agenda).
