Author Archives: Tom Puglisi

Cambridge Matters #1 – Dec 14, 2020

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Commissioner Steve Rideout
swrideout@aol.com
December 15, 2020

Dear Readers:

Attached please find my Cambridge Matters report on last night’s City Council meeting. Everything went smoothly with unanimous votes on everything presented.

These past 4 plus years have been a journey for me that I have learned from and enjoyed. I plan to take a few weeks off from writing about what is happening in and around Cambridge so look forward to me continuing this work that is not really work for me on some different topics. If you want to be removed from my email list, please let me know.

I plan to continue to be involved in other aspects of what is happening here and hope to bring you up to date on them.

Have a great Holiday Season and please be safe.

All the best.

– Steve

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CAN VIRTUAL MEETING – Thursday, Dec 10, 7:00 pm

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Dear CAN Members & Interested Neighbors —

On Thursday, December 10th, at 7 pm, CAN will try its first zoom virtual meeting for the CAN Board and CAN Members. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss ideas for activities that CAN can be involved with next year. We need to keep in mind that the next several months are going to be the worst we have experienced, so we are looking for activities that are safe and socially responsible. With that in mind, here are some of the ideas that the Board came up with:

1. Monitor and report on the City Council meetings. With Steve Rideout retiring, we need reports on what the new City Council is doing. We will need at least 2 volunteers for this.
2. Monitor and report on the County Board Meetings. This is tougher since the quality of the video and sound is very poor but worth the effort. We need at least 2 volunteers.
3. Monitor and report on the Planning and Zoning Commission and Zoning Appeals Board meetings.
4. Follow and update information from the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC).
5. Develop a welcoming package for new neighbors. Put together a package to newcomers about businesses, fun activities and local civic associations.
6. Work with Greg Boss’s rental database. We would like to identify rental property in our Wards and determine if the property is up to neighborhood standards.
7. Form a marina committee of boat owners to review what is or is not happening to the Marina.
8. Develop some fun activities for neighborhoods.

As you can see there are already a lot of ideas and I am sure you have others. We would like to know what you think and whether we can get volunteers to follow through with them. So join us this Thursday, December 10th at 7:00 pm and tell us your ideas and be sure to use the mute button when not speaking.

Chuck McFadden
President, CAN

For information contact the CAN Secretary at tom.puglisi@comcast.net

Here is the link for the CAN Zoom meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85950752800?pwd=blZVeG5oQlBIT3NpT1dYOFNjOEp1dz09

If you have trouble getting in:
passcode – 201386
meeting id – 4401191941

Update on Nov 19 CWDI Board Meeting

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– by Sharon Smith

I attended the monthly meeting of CWDI yesterday and have a few updates. These updates are as I understood them.

Community Input: due to the covid restrictions CWDI will not be holding in-person meetings for community input as planned. Instead, they will post online a video and a questionnaire around December 10th. We will be able to add our comments to the questionnaire. It will be available for about a month, allowing everyone time to participate.

City Commissioners: CWDI will be offering a project update to the current city council at the December 14 meeting, unless they defer to the new council. An important question to be put before the council is approval of the port and gateway property transfer from the city to CWDI.

Peregrine Memory Care Facility: the reason for CWDI’s interest in the facility is that they have a mandate to seek economic development opportunities. The facility will not be on the water, but rather on the corner of the hospital property on Byrne Street (north? or east? corner). The facility is expected to create 65 – 80 jobs, with a payroll of $2-3 million and purchased goods and services of around $1 million. This allows the project to receive grants from the federal government for building-out the infrastructure for the entire site, which is projected to cost $8 million.

The meeting was then closed to the public as the Board went into closed session to discuss the proposals for businesses to locate on Sailwinds: RAR, Yacht Maintenance and Peregrine. None of the proposals under consideration are a done-deal.

Cambridge Matters #3 – Nov 9, 2020

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Commissioner Steve Rideout
swrideout@aol.com
November 9, 2020

Dear Readers:

Here is my unofficial report on Monday night’s meeting. We are scheduled for one more in December and then turn the city over to the new City Council at our first meeting in January.

Best wishes for the upcoming Thanksgiving. Note the Covid-19 data in the attached report and the actions being taken by Governor Hogan. I encourage you to do as he suggested and “wear the damn mask”.

Steve

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Cambridge Matters – Nov 4, 2020

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Commissioner Steve Rideout
swrideout@aol.com
November 4, 2020

Dear Readers:

I was looking through old Cambridge Matters and came across one from April 2017. It talked, in part, about what I thought needed to be done to improve Cambridge. As I looked at it, I decided to take portions of what I wrote and include them in this report and then look at what has happened or has not happened in the 3 1/2 years since then.

It does not undertake al accomplishments or disappointments but to provide you with a general understanding of what city council and others outside of the work of the city have done to make Cambridge work better and prosper more than was the situation in the past.

I hope you enjoy my trip down memory lane.

Steve

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Cambridge Matters #4 – October 26, 2020

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Commissioner Steve Rideout
swrideout@aol.com
October 26, 2020

Dear Readers:

Attached is my Cambridge Matters #4 along with some of the documents that I mention in my report. They are meant to substantiate what I am saying in the report.

It appears that the work of this City Council is slowing down as we approach the Holiday Season. There is only one meeting scheduled in November and one in December. The new City Council will be sworn in at the first meeting in January 2021.

Have a Happy Halloween and PLEASE BE SURE TO VOTE both in the NATIONAL AND COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD elections on November 3rd or before as well as the Finals of the CITY ELECTION either in person on December 1st or by mail.

Thanks for Reading.

Steve

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