Mayor Pat âIrishâ Mahoney likes to call the December meeting of the Chesapeake Beach Town Council the âChristmas meeting.â Indeed, the Thursday, Dec. 17, virtual session was peaceful with an abundance of good will toward each other.
In addition to the awarding of prizes to home and boat owners whose holiday displays were voted tops in town, the virtual swearing-in of the next mayor and council, and acknowledgment of the outgoing chair of the board of appeals, the gathering also previewed three issues looming in early 2021.
Those issues to be tackled are amending the fiscal 2020 budget and three enterprise fund budgets, resolving the short-term renters controversy and taking action to ban table gambling in Chesapeake Beach.