During the visioning process to determine future Duvall Field improvements, there was a lot of discussion about whether natural grass or synthetic turf should be used as a playing surface. There were proponents and opponents of both types of surfaces. The City’s consultant, GreenPlay, LLC recommended synthetic turf as the best type of athletic field […]
Starting this month, City’s Municipal Scene will go completely digital. This means that the new Municipal Scene is now an HTML based digital magazine. At a recent worksession, I brought up the idea of converting the Scene from the pdf format to the HTML based web page format, in order to make it significantly more […]
At this week’s Council meeting, the City Council will vote on a proposal to increase the fine for the initial and each subsequent violation of illegal dumping to $1,000. The Council will hold a public hearing on the ordinance 19-O-07 enabling the proposed change, earlier on the meeting night. Currently, the fines for the initial violation is $50, […]
At the Council Worksession on December 4, 2018, the Mayor and Council discussed legislation in other jurisdictions, such as Baltimore County, Maryland, Arlington County Virginia, and Prince George’s County that is used to control noise in their communities. In response to the Council discussions, Staff is proposing the following changes to our noise code: (i) […]
At next week’s meeting, the City Council will review recommendations submitted by the Committee on Committees (COC). The City Council created the ad hoc committee, the Committee on Committees (COC) to review each of the City’s boards and committees. The COC is recommending the following changes to some of the committees: (a) Advisory Planning Commission […]
The Council reviewed and discussed the Public Safety Operations Group (PSOG) project status report and consider additional initiatives. The PSOG includes the College Park City University Partnership (CPCUP) Public Safety Sub-Committee, City Multi-Agency Service Team (CMAST), Neighborhood Stabilization and Quality of Life Work Group (NSQoLWG), Neighborhood Quality of Life Committee (NQoL), One College Park Coalition, […]
At tomorrow’s meeting, the Council will receive a presentation from City’s Seniors; Committee, which has been charged to make the seniors feel welcome in the City by providing more services to them. Since it was formed, the committee worked on ideas of how to provide these services. The committee also collected demographic data about where […]
The City has recently published the summary of voting requirements if the proposed Charter amendments pass tonight. Under the proposed Charter amendments, the following votes are required to take various actions. The general rule is that, unless specifically provided otherwise by law, the Mayor votes only in the case of a tie The general rule is […]
According to the latest Council packet, Council may consider introducing one of the two draft amendments at this week’s meeting. One version will allow the mayor to vote in specific circumstances (assessments, moving money, and charter amendments), regardless if there is a tie vote. The other option does not extend the mayor’s right to vote […]
The new City Council is scheduled to swear-in at the next Tuesday’s regular meeting. This si an open meeting and everyone is invited to the meeting. Here is the full agenda. PRESENTATIONS Mayor Wojahn: Councilmember Christine Nagle Councilmember Mary Cook Councilmember Stephanie Stullich REMARKS FROM OUTGOING COUNCILMEMBERS: Councilmember Christine Nagle Councilmember Mary Cook Councilmember Stephanie Stullich ADJOURN […]
The Council will discuss recently released M-NCPPC Comprehensive Review Draft of the proposed new Zoning Ordinance, Subdivision Regulations and Landscape Manual for public review and comment. The M-NCPPC has requested comments be submitted by December 15, 2017, in order to be considered by staff and the consultant team prior to the presentation of a legislative […]
At this Wednesday’s meeting, the City Council will be discussing how to move forward with the City’s fence ordinance. (There will not be a meeting tomorrow, due to the election day). Currently, the City’s fence ordinance is more restrictive than the County’s. City residents must obtain both City and County permits and comply with both ordinances. The […]
College Park City Council will consider approving a resolution supporting this bill (HB 237) at next week’s Council meeting. If passed, the new law will help prevent blocking busy intersections on our streets. One place we can potentially use the law is at the Rt 1 and Edgewood Rd intersection. We have many complaints from […]
Next week, the City Council will consider a resolution about “Wireless Facilities And Support Structures” and “Fees and Penalties” to regulate deployment and installation of wireless facilities and support structures in the city rights-of-way and to require a permit and set a fee. The cities of Bowie, Gaithersburg and Baltimore have adopted ordinances, some zoning […]
At last Tuesday’s Council meeting, the City Council heard a presentation on the employee compensation and classification study. City recruited a management consultant firm called Management Advisory Group International to conduct a study of city employee compensation and classification. As part of the study information about the job duties of every employee’s job duties was […]
Dr. Fazlul Kabir is a five-term City Council Member of the City of College Park District 1.