Media tip sheet showcasing Howard County Government happenings for the month of February 2020.

The Howard County Arts Council is seeking applications from artists to fill multiple artist studio spaces at Long Reach Village Center. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until studios are filled. Applicants will be evaluated based on their artistic discipline, artistic merit and commitment, as well as the appropriateness of their activities for the available space.

The legislation would alter the criteria for determining the use of funds in the Bay Restoration Fund for purposes including climate resiliency and flood control, including flood mitigation in Ellicott City. It also specifies that certain grants to local government may be used for stormwater management measures.

A new report jointly authored by the Howard County Department of Community Resources and Services’ Office of Community Partnerships and the Howard County Coalition to End Homelessness provides a new multi-year outlook on the county’s collaborative effort to build a community where no one experiences homelessness.

The Path Home outlines a five-year strategic plan to ensure that homelessness in Howard County is rare, brief and nonrecurring.

Senate Bill 172 Bay Restoration Fund alters the criteria for determining the use of funds in the Bay Restoration fund for purposes including climate resiliency and flood control, it also specifies that certain grants to local government may be used for stormwater management measures. 

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball and staff members from the County’s Department of Community Resources and Services will join community volunteers to conduct the agency’s annual Point-In-Time (PIT) Count on Tuesday, January 28 from 3:00 p.m. to midnight.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball joined Howard County General Hospital President Steve Snelgrove to officially open the hospital’s two-story, 50,000 square foot expansion on today. The project houses a new entrance and waiting area for the Emergency Department, replaces observation and psychiatry units, and cost approximately $45 million.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball joined representatives from HopeWorks and the County’s Office of Human Trafficking Prevention and Police Department today, to fill pavement cracks outside the County’s George Howard Building with red sand to honor victims and survivors and raise awareness about human trafficking.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball will join Howard County General Hospital President Steve Snelgrove on Monday, January 27th, to officially open the hospital’s two-story, 50,000 square foot expansion.

In observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Office of the County Executive, the Howard County Office of Human Rights and Columbia Center for the Arts will present Childhood Memories of The Holocaust A Cantata: We Will Never Be Bullied Again. This event is free and open to the public, no ticket or registration is required.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball will join representatives from HopeWorks and the County’s Office of Human Trafficking Prevention and Police Department on Monday, January 27 to fill pavement cracks outside the County’s George Howard Building with red sand to honor victims and survivors and raise awareness about human trafficking. 

All are invited to join Howard County Executive Calvin Ball, along with First Lady Yumi Hogan, Senator Clarence Lam and Council Chairperson Deb Jung, for his second annual Lunar New Year Celebration on January 25th at The Mall in Columbia.

On January 23, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball joined County and City leaders from across Maryland to testify in front of the Maryland General Assembly’s Appropriations Committee in support of House Bill 1: Built to Learn Act of 2020

In order to accommodate two retaining walls necessary to stabilize and strengthen the area between New Cut Road and the New Cut tributary, the water main must be relocated. This project will require the use of explosives to clear the way for the installation of the new pipe into the existing bedrock to improve infrastructure resilience.

A Howard County construction project to connect 3758 St. Paul Street in Ellicott City to the County’s public sewer main is expected to begin on or about Monday, January 27. Weather permitting, the project is expected to be completed by late February.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball today announced that for the second year in a row, the Department of Recreation & Parks’ Belmont Manor & Historic Park has received the “Couples’ Choice” award for venues from WeddingWire.

More than 17,000 residents participated in Howard County Executive Calvin Ball's Vaccine Telephone Town Hall Monday night to help answer questions about the vaccines, how to register and what residents can expect in the coming months.

With temperatures projected to be well below freezing at night this week, the County’s Department of Public Works’ Bureau of Utilities is offering residents tips on how to keep pipes from freezing and potentially bursting. 

Today, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced the Public Facilities and Spaces Commission through Executive Order.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball today announced that, for the 24th year in a row, the County received the highest possible credit rating, AAA, from all three bond rating agencies - Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investor Services and Standard & Poor’s.

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball will host a Vaccine Telephone Town Hall on Monday, February 8th at 6:00 p.m. to answer questions and concerns from Howard County residents about vaccine distribution.

Today, Howard County Executive Calvin Ball announced Howard County would follow Governor Hogan’s directive to lift the current restaurant curfew on February 1st. Beginning Monday, bars and restaurants will be able to offer dine-in services after 10 p.m.