It’s Fall Clean-Up time again!
As a resident of College Park, you can can bring your special trash and electronic recycling for disposal on October 22 and October 29 from 7:30am to 12pm to the Department of Public Works located in Davis Hall.
Document shredding will be on the last Saturday of the clean-up, October 29 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families and friends.
I came to know about this homicide incident just before the midnight from our City staff . Later on, I followed the news throughout the day.
My son has some mutual friends of Farhad Siddique, and he showed me Farhad’s Facebook page. I found he would have turned 20 this morning. I saw his picture and the pictures of his friends and parents. They look such a beautiful and happy family. It’s so sad that they had to leave all of us so suddenly. It’s so sad.
We know our police is currently investigating the incident and we want to let that investigation complete before we speculate why this happened.
My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families and friends.
It’s heartbreaking.
Anyone with information about the College Park murder/suicide is asked to call the Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Unit at 301-772-4925.
Callers who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Solvers at 866-411-TIPS (8477), text “PGPD” and a message to CRIMES (274637)
College Park opened its first Senior Center in north College Park, at the Youth and Family Services building at 4912 Nantucket Road.
Seniors will now have the opportunity to meet and have activities at this facility twice a week, every Wednesday and Friday, from 10 am to 12 pm. Details about the programs will come soon.
College Park is going through a number of developments. The City is looking for a development consultant to address city’s future development challenges.
At tonight’s City Council meeting, the City Council will review applications of development consultants.
The selected consultant will work on tasks like the review of project proposals, feasibility, financial and cost-benefit analyses, development negotiations, valuation of real estate and assistance with economic development and project planning.
Recently, the City posted a Request for Qualifications (RFQ), calling for firms interested in providing general consultant services on a task basis. A total of twelve firms responded with the required letter of interest, resumes and hourly rates of proposed personnel, references and other information.
A staff team made up of the City Manager, Assistant City Manager, City Attorney and Planning Director reviewed the submissions and selected three firms for interviews. The selected firms have both local and national experience, provided evidence of similar work with public agencies and did not appear to have any conflicts of interest.
After conducting the interviews, the staff team is recommending two firms for consideration by the Mayor and Council, JLL and HR&A Advisors, Inc. Council will review the applications of these two firms at tonight’s meeting.
[Video Credit: ABCNews]
At tomorrow’s Council meeting, the Mayor and Council will make a proclamation in honor of Prince George’s County Public School Bus Driver Renita Smith for her great bravery and heroism when the bus she was driving caught fire. Ms. Smith was driving her bus at 4:45 p.m. on Monday, September 12, 2016, returning students home. When she was in the 9600 block of 51st Avenue, Ms. Smith experienced a problem with the bus and noticed smoke.
There were 20 young children on board. Ms. Smith safely evacuated each child from the bus and then went back inside to make sure no children were left on the bus shortly before it was consumed by flames. It was because of Ms. Smith’s quick-thinking and heroic efforts that those children were saved and safely returned home to their families. Ms. Smith is an inspiration to our community and her actions are a reminder that heroes walk among us.
You can find more about the Ms. Smith’s heroic work here on ABCNews
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#10 – 10% off great College Park restaurants around College Park, including Bread ‘n’ Greens, Cluck-U, D.P. Dough, Fishnet, Krazi Kabob, Looney’s, New York Deli, Old Line Bistro, Pho Thom, Ten Ren’s Tea Time, and The Common. Just mention College Park Day for your discount!
#9 – Fabulous event food including Bill’s Backyard BBQ, BricknFire Pizza, Heavenly Created Desserts & Dogs, Koco (Korean), La Tingeria, and College Park’s own Q Truck quesadillas! And Taharka Bros. Ice Cream for dessert!
#8 – Local brewed beer from Franklin’s and local wine from Boordy (with a proper ID)!
#7 – Orioles and Ravens Mascots appearance! Meet Poe and the Oriole Bird!
#6 – Free Yoga, ZOCA, and Zumba in the fresh air! Plus a group bike ride, obstacle courses and a rock wall!
#5 – Community Stage Entertainment presented by The Hotel at the University of Maryland including Nicole Belanus (www.nicolebelanus.com), Kevin Dudley (www.kdudleymusic.com), and Annette Wasilik (www.annettewasilik.com), Brent & Co. (www.brentandco.com) and the Low Rent Quartet (www.facebook.com/lowrentquartet).
#4 – 156 participating organizations!
#3 – FREE Kids Activities, including bomb squad robots, fire engines, a 20′ rock wall and aircraft carrier and fire rescue obstacle courses!
#2 – Main Stage Entertainment including reggae favorites The Pocket (www.facebook.com/thepocketband), Anthony “Swamp Dog” Clark (anthonyswampdogclark.com), The Last Year (thelastyear.net), and Gymkana (www.gymkana.umd.edu)!
#1 – It’s going to be a fantastic, beautiful, sunny and FUN day!
[ Source: CollegeParkDay.org, Mayor Patrick Wojahn]
Today the University of Maryland has launched a campus-wide initiative called “Do Good” initiative.
According to UMD President Dr. Wallace Loh, this initiative aims to educate and inspire a Do Good generation of students to apply their education, skills, and values to make an impact on the great societal challenges of our time — such as poverty, health inequity, injustice, food and water security, and climate change. It is rooted in our land-grant mission of putting knowledge into practice for social and economic betterment.
A new Do Good Institute will engage a broad range of academic disciplines. It will build on the successful academic and experiential programs at the Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership in the School of Public Policy, as well as on cognate programs across campus on social entrepreneurship, innovation, and social change.
The Institute will be housed in a new building for the School of Public Policy. We will also develop space for a Do Good Accelerator to enable students to create and scale-up their social impact ventures.
A Do Good campus will serve a growing student interest. The Higher Education Research Institute recently reported a fifty-year high in the percentage of students today who say that helping others is a “very important” priority.
At UMD, student interest is extensive. The Do Good Challenge — an annual competition that engages hundreds of participants from every school and college — has launched successful ventures to reduce hunger; prevent sexual assault; provide free legal services to the poor; build schoolhouses in developing countries; and bring potable water to remote villages.
An example of the integration of education, research, and social impact that thrives on a Do Good campus is the movement to end hunger. A primary goal of our College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is to develop higher quality and higher yield food in an environmentally sustainable manner. However, a large proportion of food in our country is wasted.
A Government & Politics major and Do Good Challenge alumnus (Ben Simon, ’14) co-founded a nonprofit called the Food Recovery Network. Students recover unserved food from dining halls and deliver it to homeless shelters in the region, in accordance with public health requirements. The network has now expanded to over 190 colleges and seeks to include every college in the country with the goal of ending hunger in America. Forbes recently named him one of the “Top 30 Social Entrepreneurs Under 30” in the U.S.
This initiative will prepare many graduates, like Ben, to Do Good in the world. It will help transform idealism into impact and passion into community benefit.
Support for the Do Good Institute — from individual and family gifts, state funding, corporate and foundation grants — is expected to top $75 million.
At last night City Council meeting, the City Council approved authorizing staff to enter into negotiations with the University of Maryland (UMD) on their child care proposal for Calvert Road School.
The University of Maryland (UMD) wants to open up a facility to provide day care for their employees. They plan to contract with an experienced day care provider to operate the facility. UMD is currently looking at Bright Horizons as the day care operator. The City owns the Calvert Rd school property and it is one of the locations that UMD is looking at as a potential location for the day care operation.
UMD has made an offer to the City for use of the property. As proposed, the day care would serve 120 children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. There will be a per child fee charged to attend the day care. Under Option 1- Ground Lease- UMD funds improvements, UMD leases the Calvert Road property from the City for a 40- year term- at no cost, the City provides trash removal and grounds maintenance at no charge (estimated cost of $20,000 annually), meeting space would be available for the community in the renovated school building on weekends. Enrollment -City residents who work at UMD would be guaranteed seats, there would 8 seats guaranteed for City residents who do not work at UMD, UMD faculty and staff who do not reside in the City would have priority for the remaining seats. If there are remaining seats they could go to anyone who does not fall into the listed categories
Option 2- Partnership Lease – CP and UMD would share cost of improvements- 25% City 75% UMD. Estimated City outlay providing the land and a capitol outlay of $1.1 million. Under this option the City would provide trash removal and grounds maintenance at no charge (estimated cost $20,000 annually) and meeting space would be available for the community in the renovated school building on weekends. Enrollment- City residents who work at UMD would be guaranteed seats, City residents who do not work at UMD- 30 seats, UMD faculty and staff who do not reside in the City -90 seats. If there are remaining seats they could go to anyone who does not fall into the listed categories.
If either proposal is approved, it would require demolishing most of the buildings currently in place and restoration of a portion of the old schoolhouse. Cost of renovations as estimated by UMD is 5.6 million. They also estimated a $950,000 start-up operating budget.
Council and staff, and perhaps others, will now develop a negotiation strategy and discuss and consider the options offered by UMD and perhaps alternative options.
If negotiation succeeds, the Council will vote on final agreements in a future open Session.
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