Funeral plans for the late William Donald Schaefer are firming up; his lying in state at State House will delay bill signing; more remembrances and tributes from all over, including Michael Olesker’s recalling seeing Schaefer just three weeks before his death; state Comptroller’s employees recall their former boss; also links to Dan Rodricks’ famous Don Dinaldo operatic Ring Cycle and MPT’s documentary “Citizen Schaefer;” and Pam Kelly, for years a close aide to Schaefer, died just hours before him. In other news, freshman Del. Neil Parrott leads petition effort to send in-state tuition law to voters; O’Malley seeks to strengthen fiscal ties with Asian countries; Baker wants to scrap union contract; and rumors fly that Mfume may run for Baltimore mayor.
Day: April 21, 2011
State Housing Department headquarters declared surplus, ready for sale
The Crownsville headquarters of the Department of Housing and Community Development was formally declared surplus on Wednesday, meaning the state is free to sell it and move forward with plans to relocate the agency to Prince George’s County.
Wednesday’s resolution, passed unanimously by the Board of Public Works, is the next step in the long process to jump-start transit-oriented development in Prince George’s County by relocating the agency to a new location near a Metro station.
Blog: Schaefer remembered by the Board of Public Works
Wednesday’s Board of Public Works meeting started with a tribute to one of the people who had been a fixture on the board for 16 years: Gov. William Donald Schaefer, who died on Monday.
Schaefer sat on the board when he was governor, from 1987 to 1995, and when he was comptroller, from 1999 to 2007.
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