PRINCE FREDERICK, Md. — Calvert County has adopted an official list of requests at the Oct. 28 meeting for delegates to take to the next state legislative session in Annapolis in 2026. The next General Assembly is scheduled for Jan. 14–April 13, 2026.
The requests focus on the following:
- Investing in community infrastructure projects
- Fostering tech investment and job growth
- Fair and accountable public service compensation
- Dedicated funding for community safety
- Preserving agricultural heritage: historic barn tax credit
- Supporting and retaining volunteer first responders
- Strengthening neighborhoods and improving community safety
- CalvertHealth Medical Center
- Improving efficiency and consistent care of public infrastructure
- Excise tax relief for caregiving of aging and disabled population
In this process, delegates elected from the county take the items from the Board of County Commissioners up to Annapolis. The delegates meet to decide which items they’ll support and can submit their bills related to those items, where they then enter committees. If the bills get through their committees, they will be subject to floor updates before receiving a vote. If the bill passes, it’ll move on to repeat the process in the next chamber of the Assembly.
“There are opportunities for your board to participate in every step of the process to ensure your delegation, the people you represent, are heard as well,” Norris said, speaking to Commissioner Catherine Grasso, who asked him to share the process for the public record.
County Attorney John Norris explained that many of the items on the request list are legislative, and some don’t require action from the County Commissioners. Salaries, for example, become law in the county without action from the commissioners.
One notable item within the official request booklet was the request that the state grant the BOCC “authority to enter into an agreement for payment in lieu of tax for a qualified data center.” The item says, “The governing body of Calvert County may enter into an agreement with the owner of a qualified data center that is located or locates in the county for a negotiated payment by the owner in lieu of county taxes.”
Commissioners said they needed this request fulfilled by the state to seek out and incentivize businesses to open data centers in Calvert, and potentially enter into an agreement with them.
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what kind of data are the data centers keeping? Enough of a reason not to use google. It concernns me that most of the worlds decisions are made using google data. FYI I looked up something on Google once that I knew something something about + it gave me incomplete information.
Data centers are coming!! Every time you take a picture, it has to go somewhere