Town Commissioners — 2024-01-31

The January 31, 2024 Queenstown Commissioners meeting opened with a public hearing on Ordinance 24-01, a Development Rights and Responsibilities Agreement (DRRA) between the Town and Waterman Family Limited Partnership related to the Wheatlands project; petitioners Barry Waterman and Joe Stevens presented, the Planning Commission recommended the Town accept an offered buffer area and a 1-acre lot (proposed for trailer storage), and several residents spoke in favor. Commissioners noted that the Town has a five-year window to accept the buffer and that the trailer lot could be taken by an HOA before that period ends, raising questions about capacity and timing of uses. In regular business, Public Works reported a Susquehanna WWTP operations agreement will require a closed session and reviewed two very different bids for a lead service line inventory (Rauch: $205,985; KCI: $30,317.63) — the manager and town attorney will meet bidders to clarify scope; a resident driveway settlement will be inspected. Manager Moore will draft a nuisance flooding plan required by Maryland law (overdue), the Safety & Speeding Task Force ordered benches for Town Center, the Finance Committee submitted a tax setoff report (anticipating the same county allocation as the current year (5164,922)), code enforcement is addressing untagged vehicles, and the Events Committee set an Easter Egg Hunt for March 23 (rain date March 24). The Treasurer's report listed account balances: General $334,499.47, IW-S $83,361.03, IARPA $642,276.52.