Special Work Session and 35th Mayor and City Council Meeting - June 12, 2017

SPECIAL WORK SESSION 1. Bid recommendation to paint the Laurel Municipal Center. THIRTY-FIFTH MEETING OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL 1. Call to order. 2. Invocation – Reverend Warren H. Litchfield. 3. Pledge of Allegiance. 4. Roll call. 5. Approval of Minutes of the Thirty-Third Meeting of May 8 and the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of May 22, 2017. 6. Approval of Minutes of the Work Session on June 7, 2017. 7. Report of the Mayor and City Council. 8. Mayoral appointment of Christian Pulley, Director of Economic and Community Development. 9. Mayoral appointment of Dr. Uzo Unegbu, MD, MBA, City of Laurel Health Officer. 10. Mayoral reappointment of Dennis Whitley to the City of Laurel Board of Appeals. 11. General Public Hearing. 12. Consideration of a bid recommendation for LA 17-04 Bowie Road Improvement. 13. Consideration of a recommendation for the award of a contract for Towing Services. 14. Introduction and first public hearing on Resolution No. 10-17, a resolution of the Mayor and City Council of Laurel, Maryland adopting an Annexation Plan for the annexation of certain real property known as 7041 Contee Road, Laurel, Maryland and 7051 Contee Road, Laurel, Maryland owned by Strittmatter Contee, LLC. 15. Introduction and first public hearing on Annexation Resolution No. 11-17, First 2017 Annexation, a resolution of the Mayor and City Council of Laurel, entitled “First 2017 Annexation”, enlarging the corporate boundaries of the City of Laurel by annexing into the corporate limits of the City of Laurel certain real property contiguous to and adjoining the City’s existing corporate boundaries known as 7041 Contee Road, Laurel, Maryland and 7051 Contee Road, Laurel, Maryland, owned by Strittmatter Contee, LLC, consisting of approximately 32.68 acres. 16. Charter Amendment Resolution No. 171, First 2017 Annexation, a Charter Amendment resolution amending the Charter of the City of Laurel, Article 200 “Corporate Limits” to add Section No. 251 “First 2017 Annexation” to include within the description of the corporate limits of the City all of the land annexed into the City via Annexation Resolution No. 11-17, which property is known as 7041 Contee Road and 7051 Contee Road and consists of 32.68 acres of land more or less. 17. Introduction and first public hearing on Ordinance No. 1915, Mayor and City Council of Laurel Infrastructure Bonds, 2017 Series A, an emergency ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Laurel, a municipal corporation of the State of Maryland (the “Issuer”), providing for the issuance and sale of an aggregate principal amount not to exceed Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($3,500,000.00) of Bonds of the Mayor and City Council of Laurel, Maryland, to be known as “Mayor and City Council of Laurel, Infrastructure Bonds, 2017 Series A” (or by such other or additional designations as required by the Community Development Administration identified herein) (the “Bonds”), to be issued and sold pursuant to the authority of Sections 4-101 through 4‑255 of the Housing and Community Development Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland, as amended, and Section 521 of the Charter of the Mayor and City Council of Laurel for the purpose of (I) refunding outstanding Mayor and City Council of Laurel, Maryland Infrastructure Bond, 2007 Series B (II) funding a portion of a Capital Reserve Fund and (III) paying issuance and other costs related to the Bonds; providing that the Bonds shall be issued upon the full faith and credit of the issuer; providing for the disbursement of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds and for the levy of annual taxes upon all assessable property within the corporate limits of the issuer for the payment of the principal of and interest on the Bonds as they shall respectively mature; providing for the form, tenor, denomination, maturity date or dates and other provisions of the Bonds; providing for the sale of the Bonds; and providing for related purposes, including (without limitation) the method of fixing the interest rate or rates to be borne by the Bonds, the approval, execution and delivery of documents, agreements, certificates and instruments and the making of or providing for the making of representations and covenants concerning the tax status of interest on the Bonds.