On August 11 the County Council awarded Bid 26-07 to Vision Planning and Consulting for $243,600 to update Talbot's Comprehensive Water and Sewer Plan — the same document that has been at the center of the Lakeside/Trappe fight for four years.
The same meeting approved a 2026 Chevrolet Silverado 2500HD for $56,323, a Caterpillar excavator for $77,409 after trade-in, a John Deere compact wheel loader for $132,873, and $87,292 to recarpet the Easton library branch. Council President Chuck Callahan was not in the room.
The plan rewrite is supposed to clean up classifications that resolutions 347 and 348 already tried to clarify in 2024. Residents who packed those hearings will want to know whether $243,600 buys a reset or a prettier map of the same approvals. A statewide planning exercise does not erase a creek already fighting sewer capacity.
Source: Talbot County Council
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