CHESAPEAKE BEACH, Md. — Tennis will finally return to Chesapeake Beach. At the May 15 meeting, the Town Council approved executing an agreement with Baltimore-based Mid-Atlantic Asphalt to proceed with tennis court repairs at Beach Elementary. The council authorized spending up to $290,000 on the tennis courts.
The courts were closed in 2023, coinciding with construction of the new Beach Elementary. But it soon became clear that the courts weren’t included in the plans for the new school, and tennis players in the Beaches were left with few court options, now going on two years. The nearest courts are in Dunkirk District Park — almost 10 miles away.
The motion to approve the contract passed 5-1, though the council did not provide a timeline for the repairs at the May 15 meeting.
They also greenlit several other projects, including the purchase of a vacuum trailer for use by the public works department, called a “ditch witch,” and authorized a contract with ThinkBig to install fiber-optic cables.
In addition to presentations by the Community Health Committee, the Water Park Committee and the newly established Walkability Committee, Mayor Bruce Wahl proposed budget ordinances for:
- Adopting the annual budget for the General Fund of the town of Chesapeake Beach for fiscal year July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026
- Adopting the annual budget for the Mitigation Fund of the town of Chesapeake Beach for fiscal year July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026
- Adopting the annual budget for the Water Park Fund of the town of Chesapeake Beach for fiscal year July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026
Public hearings on the ordinances will be held before the Town Council meeting on June 12, 2025, with votes on each to follow.
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The Town Of Chesapeake Beach’s walkability committee is eight years old and was started under former mayor Mahoney’s tenure and was lead by former councilman Derek Favre. Former council woman Peggy Hartman took over the reigns until administrative change at the end of 2024. The past committee was responsible for significant public outreach and identifying 20 walkability connections and prioritizing them. So the Baynet report that this is a new committee is untrue. There are new committee members, but the committee is eight years old.