Mayor Littmann's Own Amendments (L-1 through L-30)

The Mayor has filed 30 amendments to his own introduced budget — by far the largest individual submission. Most are technical budget corrections (aligning expenses with anticipated costs, fixing centralization transfer errors, correcting roll-ups), but several represent meaningful policy choices:

• Community Engagement Administrator (L-4) — $139,600: Adds funding for a new position in the Mayor's Office described as a "budget correction to add funding for the current and filled position." This is the Strategist position the administration described in its budget presentation.
• Make Your Mark Media (L-6) — $15,950 increase: Increases the City's TV production contract, now totaling roughly $340,000 annually.
• Harbormaster Seasonal Salaries (L-7) — $120,300: Restores most of the seasonal staffing the introduced budget had cut from the Harbormaster's Office — a cut the Harbormaster told the Finance Committee her office did not propose.
• Operations Support Contractor (L-18) — $50,000: Swaps the State Lobbyist contract for a new "Operations Support Contractor" position serving the Mayor's Office.
• AI Consultant (L-20) — $30,000: Funds a consultant to help Planning & Zoning design an application pre-qualification step using Claude.
• City Manager Administrative Assistant (L-16) — $104,907: Adds an administrative assistant for the new City Manager (currently shared with the Mayor's Office).
• Council Salary and Benefits Increase (L-14) — $17,200: Aligns the Council salary line with the mid-year increase implemented under O-13-25.
• Special Programs (L-17) — $29,400: Restores funding for African American and NO HARM community programs to $60,000, correcting what the Mayor's amendment text calls a budget error.

Several L-series amendments adjust fees on parking garages, mooring fields, and the Truxtun boat launch.

Finance Committee Amendments (FC-1 through FC-18)

The Finance Committee, chaired by Alderman Huntley, has filed 17 amendments reflecting the Committee's review of the budget:

• General Roadways/Sidewalks/Striping (FC-1) — $1,000,000: Adds $250,000 to each of four CIP lines — General Roadways, General Sidewalks, General Sidewalks-Brick, and General Striping & Marking.
• Risk Management Specialist eliminated, Real Estate Manager created (FC-3 + FC-4): Removes the proposed Risk Management Specialist position (–$92,300) and creates a new Real Estate Manager position ($106,700) at the Department of Central Services — addressing the gap I've also been raising in my own amendments about real estate workflow capacity.
• AI Capability (FC-6) — $100,000: Funds AI-assisted permitting at Planning & Zoning, partially offset by removing real estate consultant funding.
• Fire Peak-Time Medic Unit (FC-7) — ($200,000–$250,000): Requests "full accounting of costs and revenue" from the proposed peak-time medic unit. The notes indicate "only costs covered by grant" — reflecting Committee concern about the financial sustainability of this proposal.
• Centralization Savings (FC-5) — ($42,960): Targets 1% software efficiency savings through completed ITS centralization.
• MPIA Fee Update (FC-10): Updates the public records request fee schedule to charge the actual hourly rate of the responding employee rather than a flat $30/hour that does not cover costs.
• STR Fines (FC-15): Increases unlicensed short-term rental fines to $500 per night or twice the highest advertised rate, whichever is higher.

Alderman Huntley (Ward 1)

Alderman Huntley has filed his own amendments separate from the Finance Committee package:

• Contingencies and Tax Rate Cut (H-10) — $4,000,000: This is the largest single amendment in the package. It applies vacancy savings from the six largest departments (using an Olympic average of underspend over the last 4 years) and proposes splitting the savings between contingency reserves and a tax rate cut.
• Pedestrian Activated Crosswalk Signal (H-4) — $86,750: A rectangular rapid flashing beacon at the existing crosswalk on West Street at Amos Garrett Boulevard, funded by reductions in the police bathroom renovation project.
• Safety Dollars Toward Saving Resident Lives (H-3) — ($180,000): Removes funding for security guards at City Hall.
• Variable Message Boards (H-9) — $100,000: Buys more variable message boards for traffic flow management, offset by removing $100,000 from the "police-special cleaning" one-time-use line.
• Full Funding for Annapolis in Bloom (H-8) — $5,000: Moves $5,000 from Downtown Annapolis Partnership holidays to Annapolis in Bloom under Planning & Zoning.
• Enterprise AI for Innovation (H-7) — $5,000: Provides a small pot of funds for employees to experiment with paid AI tools.

Alderman Thorp (Ward 6)

Alderman Thorp's eight amendments focus almost entirely on the CIP and Public Works:

• General Roadways (T-5) — $200,000
• Traffic Safety (T-2 and T-7) — $150,000 each
• General Sidewalks (T-3) — $150,000
• General Waterways (T-1) — $100,000
• Turner Park New CIP (T-6) — $50,000
• ITS Consolidation Savings (T-8) — ($17,647)

All of Alderman Thorp's CIP additions share a common offset: reducing the proposed $2 million for designing all three fire stations in FY27, instead funding only the first fire station's design and pushing the second and third to outyears.

Alderwoman Smith-Brown (Ward 3)

Alderwoman Smith-Brown's amendments focus on her ward and stormwater resilience:

• Poplar Avenue Safety & Infrastructure (SB-1) — $125,000: Traffic calming, signage replacement, and safety island reconstruction.
• Bywater Road Resilience Park (SB-2) — $50,000: A Resilience Authority partnership combining green space and stormwater function.
• Ward 3 Tennis Court Construction (SB-3) — $30,000: Pre-construction engineering for an FY28 build.
• City-Wide "Clean Team" Pollution Response (SB-5, jointly with Alderwoman O'Neill) — $100,000: Recurring operating request to intercept trash before it reaches storm drains, with attention to hotspots like the Spa Creek-Heritage Community.

Alderwoman Contee (Ward 4)

Alderwoman Contee has filed two amendments focused on Eastport:

• Stipend for Eastport Recreation Center and Upkeep of Buildings and Grounds (C-1) — $50,000: Supports a person or organization to keep the centers open and the community clean.
• Eastport Community Gardens (C-2, jointly with Alderwoman O'Neill): Marketing funding as the Community Gardens begins operating.

Alderwoman O'Neill (Ward 8)

Alderwoman O'Neill co-sponsored the Eastport Community Gardens (C-2) and the Clean Team (SB-5) amendments with her colleagues, and filed one amendment of her own:

• Clay Street Beautification (O-1) — $10,000: A sweep through West Washington Street and Clay Street for sidewalk and street maintenance. (This amendment has since been withdrawn.)

A Few Observations

Several themes are visible when you look at the full set of amendments together:

• Roads, sidewalks, and pedestrian safety appear repeatedly. Between Finance Committee FC-1 and Alderman Thorp's T-3 and T-5, there is significant Council support for adding to the general roadways and sidewalks CIP lines. Pedestrian safety appears in Alderman Huntley's H-4 (rapid flashing beacon) and the Finance Committee's traffic-related items.
• Real Estate workflow capacity is a shared concern. The Finance Committee's FC-3/FC-4 swap (Risk Management Specialist for Real Estate Manager) aligns with the workflow gap I've been raising — over $11 million in capital projects has been stalled by unresolved real estate matters.
• The Fire peak-time medic unit is drawing scrutiny from multiple directions. FC-7 asks for a full accounting of costs and revenues; my own amendment proposes holding back the unit until the Fire Department's Strategic Plan analysis is complete.
• Several amendments are paired or duplicative. The system tracks these so they can be reconciled — for example, FC-1, H-1, T-3, and T-5 all touch the same CIP roadway/sidewalk lines; FC-6, S-33, and L-20 all touch AI permitting at Planning & Zoning.