WICOMICO COUNTY, MARYLAND
P.O. BOX 870
SALISBURY, MARYLAND 21803-0870
410-548-4696
FAX: 410-548-7872
WICOMICO COUNTY COUNCIL
John T. Cannon, President/At-Large
Jeff Merritt, Vice-President/District #2 Josh Hastings, District #4
James Winn, At-Large Joe Holloway, District #5
Shanie Shields, District #1 Laura Hurley, Council Administrator
Shane T. Baker, District #3
April 23, 2024
Julie Giordano
County Executive
125 N. Division Street
P.O. Box 870
Salisbury, MD 21801
Dear County Executive Giordano:
We write to you to express our concern over the Safari at the Quarry event scheduled to take place on May 4 and May 5. This matter has repeatedly been brought to the attention of the County Council during public comments, as well as by repeated written communications received over the last several weeks. During Council comments individual members of the Council have expressed concern about the nature of the event as well as the fact that the event was not publicly discussed prior to the County Executive entering into the Memorandum of Understanding (herein “MOU”) with the event organizer.
The Council is now aware that the event organizer is in breach of the MOU in numerous ways and accordingly, the majority of the Council request that you immediately notify Live Wire Media, Inc. that the event is terminated as permitted under the Termination provision contained in the MOU. The breach of the MOU includes, but may not be limited to, failing to obtain all licenses, permits and governmental approvals needed, placing the event course outside the property identified in the MOU, and failing to properly inform neighboring property owners of the scheduled event.
The County Council is now aware that the City of Salisbury has sent a letter to you stating the event violates City zoning. While the Council has been aware that the property is zoned residential under City zoning and under certain circumstances county owned property may be exempt from City zoning, that exemption requires that the intended use be for a public purpose. Under the terms of the MOU, the event organizer had the sole responsibility to obtain necessary City approval to hold this event, and it is clear that the event organizer failed to act in accordance with the MOU and obtain the necessary approval from the City of Salisbury.
Pursuant to the terms of the MOU, the event organizer and the County agreed that the event would beheld on 111.58 acres of the Connelly Mill Road property. Parcels 169 and 167 total exactly 111.58 acres; however, the event organizer has posted a map of the event course which shows that a substantial portion of the event is scheduled to take place on Parcel 167. As such Live Wire Media,
LLC has breached the MOU.
It has been apparent for some weeks that Live Wire Media, LLC did not properly “inform neighboring property owners of the May 4 and 5 event as required by the MOU. This breach has created serious problems for Wicomico County and resulted in the neighboring property owners repeatedly contacting the County Executive and the County Council to determine the plans for the event and to express concerns about the impact on their properties. This breach compounds the problem created by your office when you did not inform the Council about the MOU and intentionally made the
term of the MOU 364 days to avoid the legal requirement for Council approval of any agreement with a term of more than one year.
In light of the clear and repeated breaches of the MOU by Live Wire Media, LLC, the County Council believes it is imperative that the County Executive terminate this MOU immediately. We would point out that the termination provision permits the County to terminate the MOU by written ten (10) notice to Live Wire Media, LLC. Accordingly, the written termination must be sent out by close of business today.
Sincerely,
WICOMJCO COUNTY, MARYLAND
cc: Wicomico County Council
Paul Wilber, Esq.
Live Wire Media, LLC
Queen Julie is total swamp trash……
9:39 Great rebuttal! SU graduate?
Thanks Cory !
another Teacher in charge of County – this should end well
Wow. Good for the counsel
Having seen her in action – she is in waaaaay over her head.
Electing her over the RINO and the Democrat competing for the spot was a marginal choice!
Nice try 9:39. You have that backwards. The swamp, woke, snowflakes, are terms for democrat marxist scum..
So we have liberal ” come here’s” trying to stop this event?
I don’t understand how the MOU was breached in regards to the two parcels. “The event organizer and the County agreed that the event would beheld [sic] on 111.58 acres of the Connelly Mill Road property. Parcels 169 and 167 total exactly 111.58 acres; however, the event organizer has posted a map of the event course which shows that a substantial portion of the event is scheduled to take place on Parcel 167.” How is that in breach? Parcel 167 is one of the two that were intended.
I think it meant to say parcel 168
My thoughts exactly! It’s being held on the two parcels. If 99% is held on parcel 167 and 1% on 169, it’s still on both parcels. Math got ’em again. Plain language of the text, too.
This woman has always been a well-known cancer in our community. A terrible teacher, terrible human being, the only reason she is in office is because of the secret deal she made with the FOP. Keep watching on the details of that contract….
Fact, Julie groomerDano before she pretended to be a Trump Republican, had a long history of organizing wedding events, including for local gay pedo couples. She also was bunny bunny with our liberal Democrat governor Westmore, so don’t tell me she’s a true conservative. Most of the people who are against her right now are traditional conservatives in our county who don’t want her bringing her business connections on our tax.
I didn’t vote for her, but am stuck with her. ugh
It’s ironic that the County Council complains about the County Exec going into the MOU with 1-day shy of 365 days, to avoid needing their approval of the MOU. Then turn around and say, oh, by the way, this is going out at the end of business today so you have the minimum required 10-days notice. Tit-for-tat playground politics. Whose sandbox is it, anyway?
Just think what this stupid a$$ so called event has already cost taxpayers in dum a$$ drama money already! I thought the county fired that dum a$$ goof ball Wilber as a lawyer? This snake loves this drama bull$hit so he can pad his pockets and talk some round about dum $hit never giving a solid answer. Cancel the event and move on to more things for the county.
7:36 Kinda of like the Folk Festival in Salisbury huh?
The Julie and John powerplay. Just like when Culver was in office. Get rid of executive government period!
7:38 Get rid of John period!