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Baltimore Ave. project delayed again Downtown utility line work assigned lower priority as expenses continue to rise By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (Feb. 17, 2023) Plans to upgrade Baltimore Avenue took another hit this week as Ocean City Council members opted not to include it in a bond issue for the next fiscal year.

During a discussion at a work session Tuesday about the city’s capital improvement plan — made up of 45 high-dollar projects now ranked from critical to future consideration — most council members agreed that this is not the year to send the estimated roughly $40 million project out to the market for funding. “Baltimore Avenue is totally functional,” Councilman John Gehrig said while explaining why he ranked the

project a 5, the lowest possible classification, among the proposed projects. “No one ever contacts us and says, ‘I can’t believe I came into town and this Baltimore Avenue has power lines all over it.’ No one ever says that.” He and Council President Matt James argued that the project, which has been in the works for years and aims to bury utilities lines and up-

grade the sidewalks from North Division to 15th streets, moved down the chain after they learned the cost more than doubled in September. They both ranked the project a 5, while Councilwoman Carol Proctor ranked it a 4, Councilman Will Savage and Mayor Rick Meehan ranked it a 3, and Councilmen Peter Buas, Tony DeLuca and Frank Knight classified it a 2. See BALTIMORE Page 4

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Bus, tram fares likely to go up for summer By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (Feb. 17, 2023) Ocean City’s transportation budget could see a more than $485,000 revenue boost this year with the City Council’s approval

of a proposed $1 increase in bus and tram fares. Members of the resort’s Transportation Committee began toying with the idea of raising the rates last month, given that they have been

held at $3 all day for buses and $4 for Boardwalk trams since 2011. Now, with rising costs for fuel, driver and conductor salaries, and overall business operations, staff and committee See BUS Page 3

By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (Feb. 17, 2023) Systems are back online at Atlantic General Hospital following a cybersecurity attack that completely shut down the network for just over two weeks. According to a news release issued Monday from Toni Keiser, the hospital’s vice president of public relations, the facility’s outpatient walk-in lab and outpatient imaging department are now open and fully operational. The return to normalcy followed a hectic two weeks of hospital personnel taking care of business without use of the hospital’s central computer system. Staff members discovered something was off within the system early on Jan. 29 after they began experiencing technical difficulties, which resulted in the disruption to some services. While the lab and outpatient services came back online Monday, paSee AGH Page 6

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A tram filled with people rides along the Boardwalk downtown during last year’s Springfest. Ocean City Council members will vote soon on $1 fare increases for both trams and buses for the 2023 season.

Bus, tram fares could go up $1 Continued from Page 1 members agreed it is time to look at charging a little more for rides. At a meeting Tuesday, committee members voted unanimously to recommend to the mayor and council an increase in bus rates to $4 and to $5 for trams. The rates, if approved by council members, are set to go into effect May 1, just in time for the first trams hit the boards for Springfest. According to staff, now is the perfect time for a change, as both buses and trams are still recovering from low ridership because of the pandemic. “Normally, in normal times precovid, if we raised bus fares then we would assume some decrease in ridership. Here, ridership is still rebounding,” City Manager Terry McGean explained during Tuesday’s meeting. “… If we raise the fare, bus ridership will probably be flat. Instead of cutting existing, we’re sort of cutting potential growth.” He said the same situation exists in the tram division, which Mayor Rick Meehan, who chairs the Transportation Committee, hopes is about to rebound as well. “If we’re fortunate enough to have

more trams on the Boardwalk, more often, that should increase [revenue]. That’s the goal,” he said. Meehan admitted that he has been leery about suggesting a rate change, as he pushed years ago for $1 all-day bus rates and has always leaned toward keeping rides cost effective. But he said Tuesday that it’s time to be “realistic” about costs. “I proposed $1 ride years ago [and] intended to want to keep it … But that was 30 years ago. I think costs have gone up since then,” he said. City Council members will vote on the requests separately, as more steps need to be taken to change the bus fares. Public Works Director Hal Adkins and Transit Manager Rob Shearman explained that because the state is involved in the bus division, any rate change needs advertised and members of the public must be given a chance to request a public hearing. Shearman said the process will likely take 45 to 60 days, but he is confident everything can be squared away by May 1. For the trams, since they are a city-owned entity, the council just needs to approve the new rates.

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Utility lines and poles stand prominently on Baltimore Avenue near Fifth Street. City Council members opted this week to put the long-planned burying of the lines and upgrade to the roads on pause as funding sources are researched.

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Continued from Page 1 The rankings put the project in the third category, where it is classified as “important,” but lags behind “critical” and “very important” projects. The project has gone through several changes since its inception, which include pushing the start date back from last year to fall 2023 and increasing the completion timeline from two years to four to give staff time to seek funding sources to cover the higher cost. Staff members continued to work on the design, and before Tuesday’s meeting, City Manager Terry McGean said they were planning to send rightof-way abandonment letters to nearby property owners this week. As part of the plans, the city is abandoning multiple rights-of-way along the corridor and offering to give the land away to adjacent owners, many of whom have been using and maintaining the property as their own for decades. The letters were set to inform the owners of their options. After the majority of council members — Gehrig, James, Proctor and Savage — denied a motion Buas made to advance the project as planned and move it from “important” to “very important,” the entire council agreed not to send the letters out. The vote also came with a decision to give the State Highway Administration the greenlight to follow original plans to pave the road this fall. McGean said the plans to bond the project in fiscal 2024 and start this fall were shaky anyway, as the rightof-way abandonment faced potential snags with threats of a petition for referendum for the future ordinance, among other potential setbacks. “It’s going to be very difficult,” McGean said of meeting that timeline. “Everything pretty much has to go exactly right to make that happen.” The action essentially puts the project on pause, with staff members continuing to solicit grants to help with funding as they monitor the market for price changes. DeLuca argued that the project needs to be done now because costs are only expected to go up the longer they wait, but Gehrig disagreed. “You don’t get scared and buy at the top,” he said. “That’s 100 percent, every time, how you lose.” Buas also argued to advance the project now, contending that it’s important and overdue. He also said property values will go up along the strip once the utility lines are buried and sidewalks widened. “This will make us money, just as sure as everything else,” he said. Gehrig challenged the claim, asking for data to support it, and stated that historic trends show that when property values went up when a similar project was completed on the southern section of the road that it was during a time when assessments

were on the rise across the entire town. Mayor Rick Meehan said he could relate to both sides of the argument. While he said burying the utilities is not completely necessary for the area to thrive, he said the change will protect utilities from storms and bring other benefits. He also said that he has put a bug in the ears of the lieutenant governor and transportation secretary for funding for not only Baltimore Avenue, but also a county sports complex that is still floating around and ranked an “important” project as well. Gehrig also addressed the sports complex, which the city may be on its own to bring to fruition as the county commissioners have killed the idea at their level. Gehrig said that he was more willing to support Baltimore Avenue when the sports complex looked more promising, as it would have created a revenue source. But now, as the complex sits on pause, he said it makes sense to put the Baltimore Avenue project there as well. “I’m open to it. I did rank it a two last time,” Gehrig said of Baltimore Avenue. “I’m not … opposed. But the questions are real. I think we have common ground now. But let’s work on making the money so we can pay for it. … That alleviates a lot of questions, a lot of pain.”

OC street paving among highest ranked projects By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (Feb. 17, 2023) The results are in, and Ocean City Council members have agreed that street paving, downtown bathroom renovations, golf course flood control and a host of convention center projects are most deserving of funding in Ocean City’s fiscal year 2024 capital improvement plan. “It seems like we are like minded on critical and very important stuff,” Councilman John Gehrig said during a work session Tuesday of the council’s ranking of 45 high-dollar city projects listed for funding over the next five years. The council rated the projects in order of importance on a 1-5 scale, with with 5 being the lowest. The ratings gave staff members direction to create a list for a bond issue and other allocations in the coming fiscal year. And while there was disagreement over some of the mid- and lower-rankled projects, council members showed solidarity with the most important ones. Broken down, the “critical” projSee CITY Page 8

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O.A.R. frontman joining Jon Lampley at March PAC show (Feb. 17, 2023) Marc Roberge, lead singer of the popular Maryland band O.A.R., will be joined by Jon Lampley during a March 10 performance at the Ocean City Performing Arts Center. Lampley is an established multiinstrumentalist, best known for his soulful playing on the trumpet and sousaphone. Along with being a touring member of O.A.R., Lampley holds down the trumpet/tuba chair in Jon Batiste and Stay Human, the house band for the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” A talented vocalist and songwriter, Lampley has collaborated with some of the biggest names in music, includ-

ing Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Billy Joel. Lampley and Roberge will kick off the St. Patrick’s Day weekend in Ocean City, performing various songs and covers from O.A.R. at the 40th Street venue. “We can’t think of a better way to kick off the St. Patrick’s Day weekend than an intimate show with Marc and Jon,” said Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan. “Whether you’re planning a date night, family night or starting your St. Patrick’s Day weekend early, Marc and friends will be an evening in Ocean City you won’t want to miss.” Visit https://ocmdperformingartscenter.com for more information. Ticket prices range from $59-$65.

AGH computers operational after attack by ransomware Continued from Page 1 tients also received text messages on Feb. 7 informing them that AGHRx RediScripts Pharmacy services had been restored as well. Keiser said a ransomware event hit the system, forcing staff to develop continuity plans to care for patients. She said they maintained operations using “downtime procedures,” meaning they implemented methods to handle information that were not dependent on the central computer system. Specifically, they were forced to manually check patients in and out of appointments and record all other information by hand instead of online. A ransomware attack is when hackers plant encrypted files in a computer system that lock out the network’s owner. The perpetrators then demand payment to unlock the encryptions. During the duration of the event, Keiser said hospital personnel worked to identify and address the issue as quickly as possible while ensuring the

least disruption as possible to patients. “Throughout the event the hospital continued to safely provide care for inpatients, those in need of emergency services, patients in the primary care and specialty offices through the Atlantic General Health System and those in other ancillary locations such as the wound center, cancer center and behavioral health crisis center, and conduct elective and emergency surgeries using downtime procedures,” the release said. Hospital leaders continu working this week with incident response specialists and reported the event to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The release said the local and federal officials are working together to investigate the incident and determine whether any sensitive data may have been impacted. Hospital officials have not said whether the return to normal operations was because they paid the ransom or restored the system through other means.

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