County wants regular updates

Continued from Page 6 on planning for 2024 and wants to be kept up to date more often during sessions.

“When we first talked about this, (chief administrative officer) Weston (Young) and I talked about bringing on somebody, I sold it as we would stay on top of stuff during session,” Mitrecic said. “To be honest, we didn’t hear from you, that I know of, during session. Here it is four months later and we’re getting a report. I thought that having somebody in Annapolis reporting back, even not necessarily daily but maybe weekly … I think next year I would like to have a little more day-to-day so we can plan ahead and as you said, be more coordinated.”

Young clarified that Ellington was instructed to wait until after budget season to come to make his presentation, and Ellington added that he kept in contact with Young “on a regular basis.”

The commissioners and Ellington agreed to reconvene in late September or early October.