Remember way back in the bright shiny new days of the county council when Shrelauter had a hissy fit over losing their parking spaces? We thought all this parking lot drama was long over, but once again, we underestimated #’s talent for beating dead horses. Here is a thing that happened tonight:
First of all, we believe you may want to capitalize Queen Bee, as you are using it as a proper noun ole exulted leader from District 5. But seriously folks? What the everlasting hell is that? So what if she allowed him to use his spot when she wasn’t there? Why does everything have to be framed as some dirty, corrupt transaction? Is this the only way people in his world do things for one another? If so, let us tell you something Kirbo! People who are friendly with one another, who respect one another, they sometimes do favors for one another with no strings attached! It’s true! It’s called being a decent human being. Sorry if that’s a foreign concept for ya!
In the comments we saw this:
So funny!!! Mr. “Whoops I Thought This Was Just A Massage” is making light of Billy’s sexual harassment claims! We wonder if Billy put the sad crying face up there. Why can’t Billy get anyone to take him seriously?
This week’s meeting looks a little, how shall we say it? Boring as all get out. So let’s stray away from the agenda this week and envision some possible scenarios we may see at tonight’s meeting.
When Billy talks about his PTSD from the sexual harassment he suffered, mix yourself up a tall Pink Faced Liar. For someone who is the co-chair of the local Trump campaign cannot feel this way.
Kirby’s upset about someone “misconstruing” a piece of legislation that was passed during his BOCC days. Wants to make it “known” that whatever new legislation that is before them, even if it contains all the same words, is certainly NOT the same thing. Make sure you have a Goodbye Sigh to get your through this tirade.
Any mention of someone being a moron before gathering all the facts deserves an Idiot Box.
Tony is going to vote for something, but not before he lets us all know why he really shouldn’t be. Have some Why Not on hand for this one.
Jerry has to fact check ole # for the eleventybillion time. It is futile. Sip an good old Oxymoron in honor of Jerry’s efforts.
M.C. projects the patience of a Saint when presented with the most illogical, grandstanding council members this side of the Mississippi. When she once again tries to bring everyone back to the task at hand, have yourself a Saint Lawrence cocktail.
Jessica has to clear something erroneous that Kirby said about the teacher’s union, or TIF’s, or human trafficking or anything really. Go ahead and have a Painkiller in her honor.
Bud has to demean himself by addressing Billy’s most ludicrous suggestion that he sexually harassed him. Mix up a whole pitcher of Crazy Monkey, for we feel like one right now.
In FNP’s Political Notes section today, reporter Danielle Gaines writes about Billy’s extremely bad judgment concerning the Cub Scout pic. In this article we learn that everything is as bad as it seemed. Billy tries to frame this whole incident as an “innocent” picture in which the boys asked for the stickers and the signs. Well, we know how stingy the Republican Central Committee is with their Trump signs because Billy proudly proclaimed on Katherine Heerbrandt’s radio show that they raked in thousands of dollars at the fair selling them. So no kids, you can’t have a sign but Uncle Billy will gladly allow you to snap a pic with one!
The leader of said troop, admittedly an old pal of Billy’s, said that one child sat out of the picture. And if that isn’t an indication of why such a thing shouldn’t occur we don’t know what is! What kind of leader allows an activity in which one or more of your members are going to feel excluded? How many of these parents and boys felt the need to go through with it because their leader and some of the other boys were so gung ho? The leader claims that they have “chalked this up as a learning lesson.” We certainly hope so. Billy sure hasn’t. After he received his letter of reprimand about using political signs in Winchester Hall his response was:
Shreve said if anyone talked to him before filing complaints, he would have described how the photo innocently came about.
Yeah, doesn’t matter Billy. You and the troop leader are supposed to be the grown ups. Just because you got all giddy thinking these kids were so into Trump doesn’t mean you get to do whatever you want to!
It’s the last line of this story that we would like to focus on now. Now, take a seat, remove all sharp objects and hot beverages from your area. Are you ready?
“I think anytime you assume anything without getting all the facts first, you’re a moron,” he said.
Billy’s new name tag? Oh the irony.
WOW! JUST WOW! Your Lady Yokels almost fell over after reading that! Let’s go back in the Yokel archives and see if we can uncover a time or two or three or a million when Billy spoke without getting all the facts.
Remember a few weeks back when Billy assured us that we could drink out of any stream in Frederick County and then a report came out the very next day telling us that was certainly not the case? Or how about the time he suggested a class action lawsuit against Bud Otis for changing political parties? Let’s not forget about the time when he voted for a change to the hotel tax while he was a BOCC member, but then oh so magically changed his mind when his enemies wanted the same exact change. You may also remember that time when he and his buddy Kirby put out a press release asking for people to apply to the position of Budget Director. Something they did not have the authority to do. And let’s not forget his very interesting, “fact based” arguments as to why we should keep the English Language Ordinance. Even though Frederick County could not adhere to it because, interestingly enough, the county government must follow State and Federal regulations. Big surprise that he doesn’t understand how government works. Of course we cannot forget about what we learned yesterday. Billy claims that he is so very hurt and demeaned now that he has experienced sexual harassment first hand. However, that has not stopped him from being the co-chairman for the campaign of the one who is well on the path to being the greatest sexual harasser of our time!
Quite honestly we could sit here and do this all day long. But we think you get the point. Unless Billy has had one these moments:
Oops, just kidding!
Which is oh so doubtful. We can only assume that he is an obtuse hypocrite who does not deserve the honor of representing our fine county.
The discussion of whether or not to approve the non binding Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) began and ended with exactly the same point. This meeting was to discuss the county’s TIF (Tax Incremental Funding) bond of $2.8 million. That’s it. Doug Browning (nice to see you back Doug!) and Council Member Keegan-Ayer made that clear at the beginning and end of the discussion. That’s all the county has to consider at this point. Sounds easy, right? WRONG.
Kirby wants it KNOWN that the agreement signed in 2014 with the city is not the same one they are speaking of now. Actually, as Council Member Donald points out, it is! Jerry tells Kirby that he can read it to him and Kirby says: You can read what is says but I am going to tell you what it means!!! That’s right folks, forget about all that vocabulary you learned during your fancy elite schooling because it doesn’t matter! Kirby will now tell you what all the words mean!! Isn’t that a relief? He wants to make sure that all you jerks are not going to “pin this” on the last BOCC! Kirby rambles on about how everyone is being disingenuous dangling the carrot of Main Street money in front of municipalities. Because of course they will say yes to money! Durh! And finally, he would have never voted for this if he had known we were picking the winners and losers in the hotel business. Hmm, winners and losers… that sounds familiar. Where have we heard that line before?
True conservative Republicans would say that being open for business means no government restrictions, other than protecting the public, allowing the free market to dictate winners and losers.
That’s right, those exact words were in Blaine’s last column that he wrote for the Frederick News Post before that honor was taken away from him because of that unfortunate hotel thing.
Jerry makes some more points about the increase in tax revenue the county will receive and Kirby uses that opportunity to bemoan the nursing homes….again.
Now Billy is waiting in the corner to pounce. He’s got a bunch of nonsensical questions that all have a very reasonable answer. He tries with a mortgage analogy and fails miserably. Then he tries a car. Tells Doug and Richard it’s as though you are giving them a brand new car and saying here just change the oil and take care of the tires. But bless Richard’s heart, he turns the car analogy around and says: No, it’s as though they built almost the entire car, including the engine, and now they have to take care of it. Thank you for playing along with our village idiot sir.
We haven’t heard much from Tony lately, but he’s using tonight as his chance to step back into the spotlight. He’s doing his thing where he tells us he’s going to vote for whatever is on the table, however, you people are still going to listen to all of his objections to it first. The most curious was that he was lamenting the fact that Fort Detrick would be using a 4 star hotel to hold their meetings. He’s insinuating that those kinds of accommodations are way too nice for government employees. Jeeze, you greedy tax suckers, can’t you just be happy with the old waffle house down by the highway?
M.C. is exasperated by all this talk and tries to redirect the fellas back to the task at hand. You are only voting on the TIF of $2.8 million (which is lower than what was agreed to in 2014) that will only be used for public improvements, STOP GRANDSTANDING!
No new business items to consider and they vote to go into closed session. Well, all except Billy, because he’s trying to get attention again. Meeting on whether or not they will vote on this MOU will take place on October 25.
Tonight the county council with have a workshop on the downtown hotel project. More specifically they will discuss signing the non binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). New business items will also be mentioned which are always tons of fun! Maybe Billy will suggest the city replace Marriott with the Trump brand. We’ll be listening so you don’t have too!
At the 7:00 hour we embarked upon our scheduled public hearings. First up on the list was the proposed pilot program for medical marijuana. This is the third incarnation of this bill as there have been lots of concern. And honestly, while some valid questions have been asked, it seems a lot of the outrage is due to misinformation and fear of marijuana. We heard quite a few speakers refer to barbed wire and armed security guards. Something that is not required by the State bill or this proposal. There also seems to be some fear that all agricultural land is going to be turned into pot farms with hippies running wild and drug dealers shooting up the county. Former Sheriff Hagy, who happens to live next to the proposed site, spoke most rationally about the situation. He stated that this particular piece of property had greenhouses on it with a previous owner and it did not change the land from being a farm. Also, from a security standpoint he stated he did not see any substantial problems. Another speaker, who has actually grown medical marijuana, stated that the only security problems he has had is with law enforcement. There was a lot of talk of the evils of marijuana, devaluation of properties and crime. We hope that the Federal Government will sooner rather than later take marijuana off their Schedule I list. For it is a concern for all involved that the Feds could decide to step in. A final decision will be made on October 4th.
Next up on the docket is changes to the noise ordinance. County Attorney Kearney and Sheriff Jenkins gave a presentation to the council about how this needs to be changed. Jenkins argued that his office needs a real tool that they can use. Sheriff Jenkins even went as far to say: “Listen, this is harder to solve than a murder.” Currently, the noise ordinance is unenforceable because of the criminal standard that must apply. The proposed changes will make the 1st offence a civil citation and will expand the list of people who could issue citations. Kirby’s concerned about the hours(7am-10pm) and claims that most people have their kids on the bus by 6:30-7 so who cares if construction starts early? Tony would start at 4:30 a.m. if ya let him! Must have forgotten that only highschoolers get up that early and there’s plenty of people without kids in the school system or without children at all! Then he questions how loud 90 decibels is. The sheriff says he doesn’t know, and we are thinking durh internet! Which Tony finally consults! But as the Sheriff mentioned time and time again it isn’t just about decibels, it’s also about distance of your property from said noise and the length of time the noise is present. There appears to be a problem with people being inconsiderate with their music down county because there were an quite a few people from that area. Another issue is ATV’s and dirt bikes. Not the occasional driver, but those neighbors who decide to set up a track on their property and annoy everyone around them every single weekend. We wish that people would be more considerate of one another for noise pollution is truly unnerving. Remember way back when the American Army got Manuel Noriega to surrender by blasting loud rock music. It can cause anyone to lose their marbles. And since there’s always going to be that jerk we need the Sheriff’s office to have a tool to enforce this ordinance. An interesting fact we learned is that you can actually check out a noise meter from the Sheriff’s office and take your own readings. So, if you are having a problem with an unruly neighbor keep that in mind.
Public comments were limited to the very important problem of fracking. We are fully on these people’s side when we say we would like to see a ban to any and all fracking in our State and County!
After such a long meeting you might expect that it ended with many lengthy tirades from several of our council members. Nope not this night. They were all tuckered out after this marathon meeting. Kirby actual had no comments to contribute. Can you believe it?
Tony managed a short little tirade that even though he is not an accountant and not a lawyer, he is still required to pass budgets and make legislative decisions. Did he not read the job description before running for office? At any rate, even though he is not one of these so called experts, he thinks his opinion is still right and they are wrong. He thinks the charter needs to be rewritten to close the loophole that almost prevented the council from being aware that we sent Charm City’s money back. We’ll see if he works to make that happen.
Billy gave a shout out to MC for keeping the meeting running smoothly and he is looking forward to the noise ordinance workshop.
Jerry really wants all his constituents to contact him if they have positions they want him to be aware of on the issues that were discussed tonight.
Jessica is going to propose that there be a workshop on fracking. Thanks again to all who came out to speak.
MC thanks all that hung in for the whole meeting. She thanked the Independent Hose for their banquet. Thanked Fire and Rescue and Emergency personnel for all they do. Please attend the fair to support our local agriculture. Saturday October 15 at the Public Safety Training Center there will be a household hazardous waste drop off day from 8am – noon. also Frederick Community Health Fair on October 22 at the Frederick Fair Grounds from 9am -3pm. So take your hazardous waste and then get yourself checked out.
Bud expressed his appreciation at being able to attend the 9/11 ceremony that took place. The Seton center open house took place last week. The Sisters there take donations and have a sales center for the purpose of helping the less fortunate in our community. Bud attended the Brunswick Business Breakfast where it was announced that Weis is coming to Brunswick and the town is excited about that. Fix I 270 coalition is coming back and hopefully Montgomery County and Frederick County can work on solving some of our traffic issues. On October 25th there will be a workshop on the Citizens/Montevue report that Shreve has been asking for.
Both Bud and MC scooped Farm Bureau ice cream for FCPS students on field trips to the fair. They both enjoyed it and MC is sorry that she won’t be back another day so that you too can see her fall in the freezer while she tries to scoop.
And that’s a wrap. Phew.
It’s ok Tiger. You can stop hiding your eyes. It’s all done!
Hey so the archived video is 6 and a half hours long. There’s far too much to work with here. Let’s start with the very beginning. A, B, C, Do, Re, Mi, and so forth. Potato. Crackpot.
Kirby mixes it up with the consent agenda, and wants to look at one of the items separately, and that would be this one.
What better time to lose your mind than when your buddy, who’s on hand to talk about noise ordinances, is going to get money he needs? Funny enough, he also is able to confirm that when Jerry Donald makes you seem like you are being dumb and don’t understand how the budget process works, you are in fact being dumb and don’t understand how the budget process works. Awkwarrrrrrrd. Some foreshadowing. They are not d’accord about noise ordinances later, either.
But, being incompetent doesn’t stop him–like the regular Dunning Kruger Effect case study that he is. Making matters worse he is complaining about two different procedures not being the same, just because he needs a platform to showboat his personal issue that they didn’t get paid back for helping Baltimore and wants to somehow vilify Jan (because it is a day ending in Y). All the while, he can’t even figure out when prompted that the procedure he should use would be to make a motion to separate the items on the consent agenda. When M.C. asks if he would like to make said motion, he retorts, “However you wanna do it.” No, not however she wants to. There’s a procedure, you drip. Wasn’t it that procedure was the most important thing in the world? The good news is that all that noise was useless, and everybody got the money they need in the end.
Then we heard from Chief Tom Owens about the need to accept a grant to help staff the volunteer fire stations with career staff. This was very educational. Did you know that sometimes they send an ambulance with 2 people out (since you really can’t have only a driver both driving and attending to the medical condition in the back) and so that leaves a firetruck with only a driver, and often they all take off to a car accident in this configuration when all the equipment is required? Doesn’t that seem a little…anemic. Lewistown doesn’t have staff to operate an ambulance after 6pm, so they don’t and send a back up probably from Frederick, in the event of an emergency (and that does it; personal vow to never move out of a city). Ideally a station with an ambulance and engine should have 5 people so that the whole thing works. TBH this Local Lady was running kids around and listening to the early part of the meeting on the available wifi while chauffeuring kids to activities, and missed the conclusion. However, today’s FNP reveals that this went down as one might imagine. That’s why you need to subscribe: they pay someone to stay the whole bleeding time. And thanks to them we know that the rug that ties the whole room together is that if you need to make a point, what better time than when first responders want grant money paid for by the taxes we all pay, to make itself useful here in our community.
Some Republican members of the council questioned whether the county should accept the grant, citing the higher cost for salaries in the division once the grant runs out.
Who wonders which Republicans? Any hypotheses? Not even curious enough to go consult the archives are you? Neither are we. And also:
After the council’s vote, a group of a dozen firefighters stood in the crowd and cheered.
It sure would be nice if Billy and Kirby had a goal other than causing problems.
It’s time for your favorite Frederick Politics game! There’s a lot on the agenda this evening. We are sure that there will be some grumbling from Shreve’s end about the start time, but we’ll try and block that out. Your Lady Yokel’s are going to leave you with a bingo game this evening. You can decide when to take a drink. With every checked box or when you get an actual Bingo! It’s totally up to you. Also, feel free to interpret the choices very liberally, the exact wording need not apply! Do remember this game is only for entertainment purposes. Billy wants NOTHING to do with our readers.
Before we attend to what our favorite lackluster legislators will likely attempt to send over to Annapolis, bless our colorful county for enveloping Galahad Sweetbottom of the Cotswolds in such a warm and loving embrace.
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