ANNOUNCES COMMITTEE LEADERSHIP FOR 2018 LEGISLATIVE YEAR
Council Member Dannielle
Glaros Elected to Serve as Chair; Council Member Todd Turner Elected Vice Chair
The Prince George’s County Council elected Council
Member Dannielle Glaros (D) District 3 to serve as Chair for Legislative Year
2018. Council Member Todd Turner (D) –
District 4, was elected to serve as Vice Chair. The newly confirmed Council Leadership team presided over the first
session of the Legislative Year 2018 on Tuesday, December 5, 2017. Chair Glaros and Vice Chair Turner will serve
in leadership through December 4, 2018.
Chair Glaros thanked her Council colleagues for entrusting her with the “Gavel of Leadership.”
“I am humbled by this
moment and deeply grateful to my colleagues on this Council for choosing me to
serve as Chair for the 2018 Legislative Year. Thank you for your confidence and the opportunity to serve with such
accomplished leaders. I am proud to accept the gavel you have entrusted to me, and
of the work we have done together to strengthen the communities we are
privileged to represent.”
Chair Glaros also
addressed the Council’s priorities for Legislative Year 2018.
“The Council will continue its strong
commitment to our Legislative priorities – Transportation, Economic Development
and Transit-Oriented Development; Healthcare; Education; Fiscal Responsibility;
and Public Safety. We will also maintain our focus on strengthening nonprofit
organizations in Prince George’s County – building countywide on the work we’ve
been doing in District 3 for the past three years. The County Council will also continue to
focus on state and federal funding; the FY2019 budget; rewrite of the County’s
50-year-old Zoning Ordinance; address our housing challenges; the performance
audit, and act in the Council’s role as the Board of Health.”
Prior to concluding her
remarks, Chair Glaros announced the 2018 Legislative Year committee leadership
appointments:
Planning,
Zoning and Economic Development PZED)
Chair, Council Member Andrea Harrison; Vice Chair, Council Member Mel Franklin
Public
Safety and Fiscal Management (PSFM)
Chair, Council Member Derrick L. Davis; Vice
Chair, Council Member Deni Taveras
Transportation,
Housing and Environment Committee (THE)
Chair, Council Vice Chair Todd Turner; Vice Chair, Council Member Karen Toles
Health,
Education and Human Services (HEHS)
Chair, Council Member Mary Lehman; Vice Chair, Council Member Obie Patterson
Rules and
General Assembly:
Vice Chair Turner and Council Member Davis
Council Chair Glaros, a
resident of Riverdale Park, was elected to a four-year term on the Prince
George’s County Council in the November 2014 General Election. Vice Chair Turner
of Bowie, was also elected to serve his first term on the Prince George’s
County Council in 2014.
Please visit http://pgccouncil.us for on-demand video of the Gavel Exchange Ceremony, or to access Gavel Exchange photographs and speeches. The Gavel Exchange ceremony will also be cablecast on Prince George’s Community Television (CTV), Channel 42 (Verizon FIOS) and Channel 76, (Comcast). For air dates and times, please visit www.pgctv.org or contact CTV at 301.773.0900.
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