It was business as usual — almost — during Monday’s Prince George’s County Council meeting in Maryland.
The council listened to briefings, and voted on bills and resolutions. The only difference was Council Chair Krystal Oriadha’s refusal to speak to reporters following a judge’s ruling that the council could not transfer $39 million from the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
Typically, the council chair is one of the more accessible members of the council, but this time he relied on a three page statement put out by her office Monday morning that defended the council’s right to transfer the money and argued that the MNCPPC should drop the lawsuit and collaborate with the county.
In the meantime, the only impact the judge’s granting of a temporary restraining order has is that the $39 million can’t be spent as it was allocated in the budget passed earlier this month.
“I’m sure that there will be some money shifted from other places,” said council member Jolene Ivey, who is one of two council members critical of the size of the transfers. “I think that there are some nonprofits that might not get funded, or at least not get funded at the level that was in the bill.”
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