Legislators struck a deal Saturday morning to create two more slots on the Maryland Stadium Authority board — a new seat for Prince George’s County and another pick for the governor — breaking a quiet deadlock that threatened a Senate floor fight Monday.
Under a plan worked out among lawmakers and administration and county officials, a bill now being held in the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee would be amended first thing Monday — the final day of the 90-day legislative session — to increase the size of the board so that Prince George’s County would have a vote.
“We have a solution…. We have something that everybody is good with,” said Sen. Guy Guzzone (D-Howard), chair of Budget and Taxation. “We’re going to add two people on Monday morning. I’ll pull the committee together again, and we’ll leave the one on there for Prince George’s, and we’ll add another.”
The arrangement would allow the Prince George’s County executive to appoint a member to the board, as the Baltimore mayor now does. The second seat on the board, to be named by the governor, would bring the total number to 11 members overseeing the powerful and prestigious Maryland Stadium Authority.
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