The Committee will begin meeting in December and will advise the County on the upcoming budget and fiscal model supporting HoCo By Design general plan update.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball is seeking applicants from the general public interested in serving on the Personnel Board. The deadline to apply for this vacancy is Friday, December 9th. 

The Howard County Health Department has awarded five local organizations nearly $50,000 in grants through the Local Health Department (LHD) Tobacco, Diabetes and Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Initiatives Grant, a new joint initiative from the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) to advance health equity by identifying and eliminating tobacco, diabetes and chronic disease related inequities and disparities.

Draft plan was informed by a robust community engagement process generating over 12,000 comments

Columbia has received a perfect score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s 2022 Municipal Equality Index and is the only Howard County community to receive this score. 

One person was killed and six others were injured. 

A Howard County construction project to install a 30,000-gallon fire suppression tank adjacent to the 1900 block of Woodstock Road in Woodstock, is expected to begin on or about Wednesday, December 14th. Weather permitting, the project is expected to be completed by late January 2023.