The Academy for Excellence in Local Governance invites MACo and MML members  to participate in a FREE webinar on COVID-19 effects on local budgets. Mountain or Molehill: The Impact of COVID-19 on Local Budgets COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on budgets at all levels of government. The costs of pandemic response and the impacts of the COVID recession have stressed local government budgets in particular. But how bad is this recession and long might…

MACo hosted a virtual town hall with U.S. Senator Ben Cardin this week, where the Senator gave federal updates and answered questions from the nearly 60 participants. Senator Ben Cardin, senior U.S. Senator for Maryland, has always had an open-door policy for local government officials. This week, it was a virtual open door as he invited MACo members to participate in an online Town Hall forum to discuss federal COVID-19 actions and ask questions. Nearly…

The Academy for Excellence in Local Governance invites MACo and MML members  to participate in a FREE webinar the specific applications of the Open Meetings Act for virtual meetings. The Open Meetings Act in a Time of Social Distancing The need to protect public health during the COVID-19 pandemic has led governments to cancel in person meetings and begin to explore how to conduct meetings remotely. But how can we ensure that these remote meetings…

With COVID-19 continuing to spread, myths and rumors are running rampant. A University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) doctor on infectious disease, Faheem Younus, posted a thread on Twitter addressing popular myths about the virus. The thread has been liked about 70k times at the time of this writing: MACo will continue to cover how COVID-19 is affecting Maryland. View all Conduit Street coverage on the coronavirus.