Municipal Elections in Frederick County

It's been a very busy month! The final certified results of the City election are available at 2025 Election News and Results | The City of Frederick, MD - Official Website. The nauguration of the 64th administration of the City Council's new members will be held on Thursday, December 11, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. at the Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 W Patrick St, Frederick, MD 21701.

This event is free and open to the public. Residents are invited to attend in person as the Mayor and City Council are formally sworn in.

Seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors will open before the ceremony to allow time for guests to arrive and be seated.

The ceremony will also be livestreamed on the City’s YouTube channel at cityoffrederickmd.gov/videos .

What's next? Politics never ends. The MD legislature begins January 14, 2026. Our state legislators will be trying to pass all kinds of bills, especially given a large budget deficit, and trying to complete the process by April 13, 2026, if there is no extension of the session. You can follow the action on the Maryland govenrment website: Home Page. It can be a confusing and frustrating site to navigate. Please start with the excellent videos about how to use it at: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Information/VideoTutorials. For a more general introduction, see https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Information/Text/about_mga.

Our state League handles the organizing and training for supporting bills in the session. If you are interested, please go to the website at https://www.lwvmd.org/advocate_manual for more information.

In preparation for the new state legislative session, 3 members met with several of our representatives to discuss 3 pieces of legislation the LWV of MD and of Frederick County hope to see pass in this coming legislative sssion. Kris Fair, Ken Kerr, and April Miller met with us in person, and representatives of Karen Lewis Young and Barrie Cilliberti met with us to discuss blls that were introduced last session that will be coming back for consideration this year, including a bill to fill vacamt seats in the legislature by special elecions, a bill to require all amendments on the election ballot be stated in plain language, and a bill to study the impact of data centers on local communities.

We hosted a legislative breakfast with our Frederick delegation on Saturday 12/6/2025. Delegates present included Representatives Jesse Pippy, the chair of the delegation, as well as Ken Kerr, Karen Sinpson, Christopher Eric Bouchat, and representatives of Karen Lewis Young and Kris Fair. It was a lively conversation and the delegation was very responsive to questions fro the audience. Thank you to the delgates, their representatives, and to the audience. 

Our next Board meeting is on Monday, 12/15/2025, at the C. Burr Artz library. For details check the link at the bottom of this page for that meeting. There isn't much there right now, but there will be soon. We will be discussing projects we will be working on for next year, including the midterm election. There are lots of opportunities for new members, suitable for both introverts and extroverts! All members are welcome, as is the general public. It is a smaller room than the Community Room, so there is a Zoom option for you.