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Commissioner praises St. Mary's County parks, reports strong turnout for FDR extension meeting
Summary
A St. Mary's County commissioner praised Rec and Parks for recent public events, highlighted a new marble ring at Town Creek Park and said a public meeting on the proposed FDR extension drew a large, mostly favorable turnout.
A St. Mary's County commissioner on Thursday praised the county's Rec and Parks staff for their work supporting community events and said a public meeting on the proposed extension of FDR was "extremely crowded" and broadly favorable.
The commissioner said Rec and Parks teams were "phenomenal" at a company picnic held at Leonardtown Wharf and described helping install a marble ring at Town Creek Park that the St. Mary's County Marble Club uses to teach students at Chesapeake Charter School. "We even had a representative there walking around talking, and if anybody needed anything," the commissioner said, praising the parks crew.
The commissioner also reported attending a public meeting on the FDR extension and said the turnout was large. "I got there right when it started, and it was extremely crowded," the commissioner said, adding that many attendees voiced support for the project. The speaker thanked "Mr. Norris and his team at DPW and T" for organizing the meeting.
The remarks give a snapshot of community interest: recreation projects and a transportation proposal that prompted visible public engagement. The transcript does not record any formal action, vote or decision on the FDR extension; the commissioner described public comments as favorable but gave no timetable or next procedural steps for the project.
The commissioner framed the marble installation and parks activity as part of broader efforts to offer varied recreation to local youth, noting that two local marble shooters qualified to compete nationally. Details about funding, engineering, or formal approvals for the FDR extension were not specified in the remarks.
The commissioner concluded the item by encouraging residents to take part in county parks and events.
The public meeting on the FDR extension and the Rec and Parks projects were described in remarks starting with the commissioner's comments on parks and concluding with the public meeting report.
