St. Mary's Co. St. Mary's Gov needs better code; site bombs trying to lookup a tax bill

David

David

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I'm looking at the legal notices in The County Times and there are 3 of the obligatory "we're going to steal someone's home because they owe the government rent, erh I mean taxes, on their home" notices. I want to see how much money is owed such that the bureaucrats feel it is worthy to **** up someone's life more than it probably already is.

I go to https://www.stmarysmd.com/treasurer/taxes/lookup.asp and enter the account number posted in the paper and voila:

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What serious business uses Windows servers for web sites these days? I doubt that even microsoft would use Windows for their servers (nah, I'm sure they're that stupid)

I wanted to see how much they owed in case it was within my ability to go down there on Monday and write a check and make someone happy on one hand and piss off a few lawyers on the other. Does anyone know how this works at this point in time. If someone walks in and pays the bill + accrued interest, is the homeowner free and clear until the blood sucking leeches raise their vulgar ugly heads next year?
 
Grumpy

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You need to remember, for all city,county,state,country government orgs, competence is way down the list of must-haves to get a job.
 
TPD

TPD

the poor dad
Grumpy said:
You need to remember, for all city,county,state,country government orgs, competence is way down the list of must-haves to get a job.
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Speaking of which, I just found out today that Pt Lookout State Park campground will be closed all year for renovations, mainly water line issues from what I have heard thru the grapevine. What is there to renovate with a campsite? Private industry would have water lines fixed in a couple of weeks but state government? A year.
 
zar

zar

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TPD said:
Speaking of which, I just found out today that Pt Lookout State Park campground will be closed all year for renovations, mainly water line issues from what I have heard thru the grapevine. What is there to renovate with a campsite? Private industry would have water lines fixed in a couple of weeks but state government? A year.
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First they need to do 2 years of environmental studies to analyze what effect of sand run off going into the the ocean could have. Then and only then they can start taking bids from companies that promise to use green non carbon construction equipment. At that time they will produce a quote of $500,000 to replace a few water lines with Pex. Then the campsite will reopen in 2026
 
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ginwoman

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zar said:
First they need to do 2 years of environmental studies to analyze what effect of sand run off going into the the ocean could have. Then and only then they can start taking bids from companies that promise to use green non carbon construction equipment. At that time they will produce a quote of $500,000 to replace a few water lines with Pex. Then the campsite will reopen in 2026
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Good grief!
 
NorthBeachPerso

NorthBeachPerso

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zar said:
First they need to do 2 years of environmental studies to analyze what effect of sand run off going into the the ocean could have. Then and only then they can start taking bids from companies that promise to use green non carbon construction equipment. At that time they will produce a quote of $500,000 to replace a few water lines with Pex. Then the campsite will reopen in 2026
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If it's close to the water there are at least three agencies involved that will have to review the plans, hold public hearings and offer comments (MD Department of Natural Resources, MD Department of the Environment and the US Army Corps of Engineers).

There are mandatory public comment periods for each of those agencies (anywhere from 45 days to six months, it depends). If any of the agencies mandates a change to the submitted plan during its review the whole process has to start over for all the agencies.
 
LightRoasted

LightRoasted

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If I may ...

NorthBeachPerso said:
If it's close to the water there are at least three agencies involved that will have to review the plans, hold public hearings and offer comments (MD Department of Natural Resources, MD Department of the Environment and the US Army Corps of Engineers).

There are mandatory public comment periods for each of those agencies (anywhere from 45 days to six months, it depends). If any of the agencies mandates a change to the submitted plan during its review the whole process has to start over for all the agencies.
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Amazing how something so simple, becomes so complicated when government becomes involved. It's a simple renovation, not a new creation campground.
 
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