Real people work in those central offices & serve both counties. Real people have retired from those offices as well. This bill would impact all of them and their families. All for what? Political greed and expediting projects that are politically connected to those in power?
It’s going to have a huge human cost and a HUGE tax cost to both counties. That’s the problem. It’s not a quiet, simple bill. It’s one capable of irrevocable damage to families and the counties.
An important issue is that the new bill is going to affect current merit (eligible for retirement) employees and makes legal counsel and administrators subject to the whims of the Planning Board (which are appointed, not elected, often in closed door decisions without public input). The planning board in Prince George’s is extremely partisan. MNCPPC should be able to do their jobs independently. Merit employee structures should remain in place up to level K. Making sure that people who have been rigorously trained over the past several years can still get promoted and build their careers in Parks and Planning is also crucial to a functioning Parks system. If the goal of this bill is to improve autonomy of PGC over MoCo then they should rewrite it to address those issues rather than politicizing nearly every aspect of operations and threatening the career employees jobs for a money grab. And giving the Planning Board (again appointed and deeply partisan) control over the procurement process which is already a serious issue in Prince
George’s is reckless until county codes are updated to create fair bidding, clear contract processes, and enforcement mechanisms. All of these shifts were also made without consulting the folks working in MNCPPC. This bill is a scandal!
PG is about to dismantle the best and only amazing department in the County. Im not buying it. The fact that Braveboy and Johnson are behind it should tell voters something. This will be awful. Horrible. Its the beginning of more corruption at the highest level. PG County beware. The fact that Nick Chatles has a mug that reads "Bitch I'm From PG County" that he proudly paraded in his IG video, should tell everyone all they need to know. Another rung down for residents. Bad schools, bad roads, bad crime and now get ready for bad parks and recreation opportunities. What has planning not been able to do? Over build, keep out real restaurants, overpopulate roads?!?! What?!? And now residents will be taxed double because their M-NCPPC taxes are getting ready to go to the general fund for Braveboy and Johnson to ravage again. Thats an even bigger check so I wonder where Johnson's wife will stuff that.
This article appears to be written by AI... the "author" didn't even bother to leave out this tell that appears in one form or another at the end of any Chatbot response:
"If you want, I can now build this into a full Maryland Wire feature, a political thriller narrative, or a committee‑level vote‑count projection."
I made a mistake and left some extraneous comments in the article. I do use AI. As I explain elsewhere to Pat Myers, you could read what I wrote to her. I have dysgraphia which is a learning disability and I use AI to edit my work.
Barry McConnell has adopted this style lately, but I’m pretty sure this is his writing; he writes a LOT about county and state issues. I think that “if you want “ line was a spoof of AI. (At least I hope.). Anyway, it’s a useful summation of the bill and its important possible effects.
Thanks for catching that Pat. I suffer from a learning disability called dysgraphia which means that I have the written version of dyslexia. I write the words in the wrong order. I often misspell words things come out just a complete mess. So I added all my articles through AI and every once in awhile. Some little bit of AI gets left in the article and it makes me look stupid and I know that.
In college I flunked English composition 101 twice. Not being able to write college a real problem. Then when I was 36 I got a computer and after that I went back and took another semester of collagen passed English composition 101 with the all my other classes with an a. You see something as simple as cutting and pasting on a computer would mean I could fix the mistakes I spotted without erasure marks.
Once I got a computer, I ended up as a contributing editor of the encyclopedia of modern Asia for scriveners in 2002 and editor of two magazines dealing with Oriental rugs. I published tens of thousands of articles on the subject of Oriental rugs and then I got into politics. Recently I published my book 1963 The Death Of Three Presidents. That's a detailed explanation and examination of the assassination of the three presidents murdered in 1963, including John Kennedy. I basically lay out how they were killed and why they were killed, but I decided to do it as a historical novel which would allow me to go into more depth. So it's a combination of who killed Kennedy and fiction but historically based fiction. When I talk about him meeting at the White House or a memo or something that happened in Vietnam or something that happened in Togo there are things that really happened. I just add people and conversation to make it flow. It also examines 1963 as a world culture.
So anyway, I am not a well-educated man and I do use AI to edit my articles. I find that AI frequently disagrees with me on some of my conclusions and that's okay. I'm not using AI on this response to you and we'll probably have some mistakes. But criticizing me for using AI would be much like criticizing somebody for using a cane or a walker. I know you wouldn't do that.
Real people work in those central offices & serve both counties. Real people have retired from those offices as well. This bill would impact all of them and their families. All for what? Political greed and expediting projects that are politically connected to those in power?
It’s going to have a huge human cost and a HUGE tax cost to both counties. That’s the problem. It’s not a quiet, simple bill. It’s one capable of irrevocable damage to families and the counties.
An important issue is that the new bill is going to affect current merit (eligible for retirement) employees and makes legal counsel and administrators subject to the whims of the Planning Board (which are appointed, not elected, often in closed door decisions without public input). The planning board in Prince George’s is extremely partisan. MNCPPC should be able to do their jobs independently. Merit employee structures should remain in place up to level K. Making sure that people who have been rigorously trained over the past several years can still get promoted and build their careers in Parks and Planning is also crucial to a functioning Parks system. If the goal of this bill is to improve autonomy of PGC over MoCo then they should rewrite it to address those issues rather than politicizing nearly every aspect of operations and threatening the career employees jobs for a money grab. And giving the Planning Board (again appointed and deeply partisan) control over the procurement process which is already a serious issue in Prince
George’s is reckless until county codes are updated to create fair bidding, clear contract processes, and enforcement mechanisms. All of these shifts were also made without consulting the folks working in MNCPPC. This bill is a scandal!
PG is about to dismantle the best and only amazing department in the County. Im not buying it. The fact that Braveboy and Johnson are behind it should tell voters something. This will be awful. Horrible. Its the beginning of more corruption at the highest level. PG County beware. The fact that Nick Chatles has a mug that reads "Bitch I'm From PG County" that he proudly paraded in his IG video, should tell everyone all they need to know. Another rung down for residents. Bad schools, bad roads, bad crime and now get ready for bad parks and recreation opportunities. What has planning not been able to do? Over build, keep out real restaurants, overpopulate roads?!?! What?!? And now residents will be taxed double because their M-NCPPC taxes are getting ready to go to the general fund for Braveboy and Johnson to ravage again. Thats an even bigger check so I wonder where Johnson's wife will stuff that.
This article appears to be written by AI... the "author" didn't even bother to leave out this tell that appears in one form or another at the end of any Chatbot response:
"If you want, I can now build this into a full Maryland Wire feature, a political thriller narrative, or a committee‑level vote‑count projection."
I made a mistake and left some extraneous comments in the article. I do use AI. As I explain elsewhere to Pat Myers, you could read what I wrote to her. I have dysgraphia which is a learning disability and I use AI to edit my work.
Barry McConnell has adopted this style lately, but I’m pretty sure this is his writing; he writes a LOT about county and state issues. I think that “if you want “ line was a spoof of AI. (At least I hope.). Anyway, it’s a useful summation of the bill and its important possible effects.
Thanks for catching that Pat. I suffer from a learning disability called dysgraphia which means that I have the written version of dyslexia. I write the words in the wrong order. I often misspell words things come out just a complete mess. So I added all my articles through AI and every once in awhile. Some little bit of AI gets left in the article and it makes me look stupid and I know that.
In college I flunked English composition 101 twice. Not being able to write college a real problem. Then when I was 36 I got a computer and after that I went back and took another semester of collagen passed English composition 101 with the all my other classes with an a. You see something as simple as cutting and pasting on a computer would mean I could fix the mistakes I spotted without erasure marks.
Once I got a computer, I ended up as a contributing editor of the encyclopedia of modern Asia for scriveners in 2002 and editor of two magazines dealing with Oriental rugs. I published tens of thousands of articles on the subject of Oriental rugs and then I got into politics. Recently I published my book 1963 The Death Of Three Presidents. That's a detailed explanation and examination of the assassination of the three presidents murdered in 1963, including John Kennedy. I basically lay out how they were killed and why they were killed, but I decided to do it as a historical novel which would allow me to go into more depth. So it's a combination of who killed Kennedy and fiction but historically based fiction. When I talk about him meeting at the White House or a memo or something that happened in Vietnam or something that happened in Togo there are things that really happened. I just add people and conversation to make it flow. It also examines 1963 as a world culture.
So anyway, I am not a well-educated man and I do use AI to edit my articles. I find that AI frequently disagrees with me on some of my conclusions and that's okay. I'm not using AI on this response to you and we'll probably have some mistakes. But criticizing me for using AI would be much like criticizing somebody for using a cane or a walker. I know you wouldn't do that.
Thanks for the AI article from Chat GPT.
Did you forget to proofread at the bottom?
I love this Bill SB1005!! I trust our leadership on this one. THIS ONE IS NECESSARY!!