NEWS RELEASE

Mayor Jennifer P. Dougherty

CONTACT: Nancy Gregg Poss, Public Information Officer, 301-360-3842

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, April 3, 2003

VOTING RECORD FOR THE REGULAR MEETING

OF THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN

THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2003, 7 p.m.

CONSIDERATION FOR APPROVAL OF

CONSENT AGENDA:

All matters included under this item are considered to be routine by the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. They will be enacted by one motion in the form listed below, without separate discussion of each item, unless any person present -- city official or citizen -- requests and item or items to be removed from the Consent Agenda. Any item removed from the Consent Agenda will be considered separately at the end of the Consent Agenda. If you would like any of the items below considered separately, please say so when the Mayor announces that the Board will consider the Consent Agenda.

A. Acceptance of Grants

1. Approval of $100,000 grant-funded contract between the City of Frederick and Maryland Energy Conservation, Inc. for provision of low-income weatherization services under Electric Universal Service Program as recommended by Mike Spurrier, Director of the Frederick Community Action Agency

ALDERMAN	MOTION	SECOND	YES	NO	ABSTAIN
W. HALL		X	X
J. BALDI			X
D. RAMSBURG			X
D. LENHART			X
M. HALL	X		X

B. Committee Recommendations

1. Approval of the following recommendations made by the Utility Committee at its meeting on March 12, 2003:

a. To grant a deferral of the City’s individual water line requirement to allow a continued sharing of the one existing water line between the Montgomery Ward property owned by Golden Mile Real Estate and the property encompassing the balance of Frederick Towne Mall; and

ALDERMAN	MOTION	SECOND	YES	NO	ABSTAIN
W. HALL		X	X
J. BALDI			X
D. RAMSBURG	X		X
D. LENHART			X
M. HALL			X

b. To deny a request from Russell Horman for the City to install and maintain a point-of-use chlorine injection system at the Tranquility Assisted Living Facility

ALDERMAN	MOTION	SECOND	YES	NO	ABSTAIN
W. HALL			X
J. BALDI			X
D. RAMSBURG	X		X
D. LENHART		X	X
M. HALL			X

2. Approval of the following recommendations made by the Streets and Sanitation Committee at its meeting on March 18, 2003:

a. To grant a waiver of City required street trees along the frontage of Trinity United Methodist Church on West Patrick Street; and

ALDERMAN	MOTION	SECOND	YES	NO	ABSTAIN
W. HALL			X
J. BALDI			X
D. RAMSBURG	X		X
D. LENHART		X	X
M. HALL					X

b. To grant a waiver of a 2½ foot encroachment in a potential City right-of-way at Dairy Maid Dairy Milk Receiving Station located at 201 East 7^th Street

ALDERMAN	MOTION	SECOND	YES	NO	ABSTAIN
W. HALL		X	X
J. BALDI	X		X
D. RAMSBURG			X
D. LENHART			X
M. HALL			X

PUBLIC HEARING

CONSIDERATION FOR APPROVAL OF:

Motion to suspend Rules of Procedure.

ALDERMAN	MOTION	SECOND	YES	NO	ABSTAIN
W. HALL			X
J. BALDI			X
D. RAMSBURG	X		X
D. LENHART			X
M. HALL		X	X

11. Appeals of Exemption/Claim of Entitlement for Water Service Contract

a. Riverside Investment Group, LLC, et al

ALDERMAN	MOTION	SECOND	YES	NO	ABSTAIN
W. HALL			X
J. BALDI			X
D. RAMSBURG	X		X
D. LENHART		X	X
M. HALL			X

Motion to restore Rules of Procedure.

ALDERMAN	MOTION	SECOND	YES	NO	ABSTAIN
W. HALL			X
J. BALDI			X
D. RAMSBURG	X		X
D. LENHART		X	X
M. HALL			X

1. An Ordinance to amend The City of Frederick Zoning District Map for 408 W. Patrick Street by changing the zoning from Downtown Residential (DR) to Business Office (BO) TABLED UNTIL 4/17/03 MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN PUBLIC MEETING

2. An Ordinance to Repeal Ordinance G-92-53 entitled Forest Conservation Ordinance, City of Frederick, Maryland, adopted December 3, 1992 and to amend the Code of The City of Frederick, 1966, by adding Appendix K entitled Forest Conservation Ordinance

ALDERMAN	MOTION	SECOND	YES	NO	ABSTAIN
W. HALL			X
J. BALDI		X	X
D. RAMSBURG	X		X
D. LENHART			X
M. HALL			X

3. An Amendment to the Rules of Procedure for the Mayor and Board of Aldermen to place Aldermanic Comments after Mayor’s Comments on the public meeting agenda