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Board Docs - May 22, 2012 - Charles County Commissioners’ Meeting
2.05 [9:15 a.m.] Employee Recognition Ceremony
EOM - 2012 April_1.pdf (355 KB)
Life Safety Awards EMS.pdf (78 KB)
Yrs of Service_2012 April.pdf (222 KB).
Meeting Date: Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Even amid looming tax increases at the state level and an economic recession, Calvert County managed to hold onto its acclaimed AAA bond rating this year.
On Tuesday, the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners approved its annual bond sale and announced the county was able to retain its AAA bond ratings from municipal bond rating companies Fitch Ratings and Standard & Poor’s, and was able to keep its AA1 rating, the next level below AAA, from Moody’s.
It was just a matter of time, the St. Mary’s County commissioners reckoned, before the state shifted a portion of the cost of teacher pensions to the counties.
The Maryland General Assembly did just that during a special session this week. The change will be phased in, with the counties picking up 50 percent of the cost next fiscal year, and 100 percent by 2016.
New evaluation protocol piloted in St. Mary’s
All Maryland public school teachers and principals are scheduled to be judged by a new evaluation system based partly on student test scores in a little more than one year.
Some teachers, union leaders and other educators have derided any evaluation based on student test scores as unfair. The Education Association of St. Mary’s County did not sign on to the system when the state announced plans for the change two years ago, but has since helped in developing the standards.
Maryland hospitals have nearly halved the number of preventable blood infections contracted in intensive care units, according to a recent report.
These infections often stem from what are known as central lines - catheters connected to blood vessels to help deliver drugs to the hospitals’ sickest patients. Bacteria can sometimes seep into a patient’s system along with the medicine.
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.
The states led by New York are asking the high court to preserve Montana’s state-level regulations on corporate political expenditures, according to a copy of a brief written by New York’s attorney general’s office and obtained by The Associated Press ahead of Monday’s filing.
The Supreme Court is being asked to reverse a state court’s decision to uphold the Montana law. Virginia-based American Tradition Partnership is asking the nation’s high court to rule without a hearing because the group says the state law conflicts directly with the Citizens United decision that removed the federal ban on corporate campaign spending.
Tropical Storm Alberto churned off South Carolina’s coastline Sunday, the first storm of its kind to form in a hurricane season that doesn’t officially begin until June 1, forecasters said.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami reported at 5 a.m. EDT Sunday that Alberto, after forming Saturday in the Atlantic, was about 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Charleston, S.C., and a tropical storm watch continues on that state’s coast from Savannah River to the South Santee River.
Victims can spend more than a year trying to clear up the mess
Here’s another reason to file your tax returns as early as possible: an identity thief might beat you to the money.
Identity thieves are filing fake federal returns using taxpayers’ Social Security numbers and claiming tax refunds worth billions of dollars. The taxpayers only find out about it when their returns are rejected by the IRS because someone already received a refund using their identity.
Loss of 6,000 jobs comes as most states expand, though economists say unusual weather may be skewing the picture
Maryland shed 6,000 jobs in April, the federal government said Friday — the largest monthly loss in the country during a month when most states gained, but one that might have been overstated.
The figures, which are preliminary and adjusted for seasonal variations, paint a much less rosy picture of Maryland employment than in recent months. As it released the April numbers, the U.S. Department of Labor said Friday that it also revised downward its estimate for March, showing Maryland losing 600 jobs rather than adding 1,500.
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Thanks to Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health, and Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, the state is known for numerous clinical trials.
Now, a study by a pharmaceutical industry group concludes that bio-pharmaceutical companies are helping support 81,000 jobs in Maryland.
“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid” Audre Lorde
“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.”
The Potomac River, described by several of the world’s best bass anglers in the country as one of the top-10 fisheries in the country, really showed her true colors Thursday as 123 of the 144 pro anglers in the Walmart FLW Tour on the Potomac River presented by the National Guard caught a five-bass limit on day one of the event.
Leading the pack was National Guard pro Scott Martin of Clewiston, Fla., who crossed the stage with a five-bass limit weighing 22 pounds, 10 ounces. Martin now holds a comfortable 4 pound, 6 ounce lead over Snickers pro Chris Baumgardner of Gastonia, N.C., and fellow National Guard pro Mark Rose of West Memphis, Ark., who each caught five bass weighing 18-4. The tournament features a field of anglers from all across the United States, Canada, Spain and Japan.
The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) today announced the availability of military branch of service license plates. Honorably discharged veterans of the United States Armed Forces are eligible to apply for one of the five new license plates which display the logos of the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, or Navy.
“The new veteran license plates will allow veterans to convey their sense of pride in having served in the U.S. military, and they will also allow all of us to identify and say thank you to them for their service,” said MVA Administrator John Kuo.
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