LOCAL GOVERNMENT

INTERCOUNTY AGENCIES

TRI-COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE LOWER EASTERN SHORE OF MARYLAND

Somerset County Board of County Commissioners: C. Samuel Boston; Charles F. Fisher; Michael K. McCready; James N. Ring; Paul T. Ward, Jr.

Wicomico County Council: Gail M. Bartkovich; Charles R. (Chip) Dashiell; Larry W. Dodd; Marvin R. Long; Stevie Prettyman; Tony Sarbanes.

Worcester County Board of County Commissioners: John E. (Sonny) Bloxom; Judith O. Boggs; Thomas A. Cetola; James C. (Bud) Church; Louise L. Gulyas; Jeanne L. Lynch; James L. Purnell, Jr.; Virgil L. Shockley.

Municipal officials: Richard D. Scott, Mayor of Crisfield; vacancy, Council member, Ocean City; Barrie Parsons Tilghman, Mayor of Salisbury.

Senate member: J. Lowell Stoltzfus

Senate members (nonvoting): Richard F. Colburn; Edward J. (E. J.) Pipkin.

House of Delegates members: Bennett Bozman; Rudolph C. Cane; D. Page Elmore; Norman H. Conway.

House of Delegates members (nonvoting): Adelaide C. Eckardt; David D. Rudolph; Kenneth D. Schisler; Michael D. Smigiel, Sr.; Richard A. Sossi; Mary Roe Walkup.

Ex officio (nonvoting): Edward T. Taylor, Wicomico County Council.

Michael P. Pennington, Executive Director

P. O. Box 870
Government Office Building
125 North Division St.
Salisbury, MD 21803 - 0870
(410) 632-4700
fax: (410) 632-5631
e-mail: mike@lowershore.org

The Tri-County Council for the Lower Eastern Shore of Maryland started in 2001 (Chapter 527, Acts of 2001). The Council is a regional planning and development agency for the tri-county area of Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties..

Twenty-eight members constitute the Committee. The Somerset County and Worcester County Boards of County Commissioners and five members of the Wicomico County Council serve on the Council. Two additional members of the Wicomico County Council are nonvoting members. Each member county also is represented by one elected municipal official (Code 1957, Art. 83A, sec. 4-201). In addition, the State Senators and Delegates who represent District 38, encompassing the tri-county area, are Council members, while those representing District 37 (part of Wicomico County) are nonvoting members.

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