Welcome to the homepage of Alderman Sam Shropshire, representing Ward 7 on the Annapolis City Council. Sam wants to serve you in partnership with the Annapolis city government, businesses, schools, and your neighbors. Working together we can realize a better future for all our Ward 7 men, women and children and help improve our city and environment for future generations.
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Sam signs contract to process City's recyclable waste. Read more...
A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT RACE RELATIONS IN ANNAPOLIS
WARD 7 LAYOUT
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Sam's Top Issues
*Public Safety
*Smart Growth & Development
*Protecting Our Environment
*Housing
*Public Transportation
Sam's position on these important issues
Have a rain barrel lesson in your garden for yourself and your neighbors!
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These are photos I took along the road en route back to Annapolis recently… just outside Baltimore.
Is this the kind of Maryland we want? The pictures I took will last for more than 500 years!
Dedication of Environmental Educational Tool
at Back Creek Nature Park
Thursday, May 28, 2 p.m.
Join City officials and residents to dedicate the new Stormwater Education Experience (SEE) at Back Creek Nature Park. The fundraising and subsequent construction of this $1 million project has been three years in the making. The project is designed to demonstrate the damaging effects of stormwater runoff on our creeks, rivers and the Chesapeake Bay. Children and adults will learn how to prevent stormwater runoff by means of rain barrels, green roofs, pervious pavement, rain gardens and stormwater retention ponds. Join us for the dedication of SEE!
Charrette on the Future of the Market House
Saturday, May 30, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
On Saturday Mayor Ellen Moyer will host a charrette (community discussion) on the future of the Market House at City Dock. This has been a hot topic over the past two years. Now it's your turn to give input. The charrette will be held in City Council Chambers. Registration begins at 9:30 AM.
This collaborative session will include citizen ideas and the process will be professionally facilitated. Individuals attending will be divided into sub-groups, and each sub-group will report back to the full group with material for future dialogue. The meeting will work though the lunch hour. (A complimentary lunch will be served.)
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Announcing the Unemployment Support Group
With unemployment reaching unsettling heights in Annapolis, I am calling on Annapolitans looking for work to help each other in these tough times. An unemployment support group will begin meeting in City Council Chambers, Wednesday, April 8th, at 6 p.m.
Job losses are increasing in Anne Arundel County and Annapolis at an alarming rate due to the national financial crisis. We are organizing to help individuals and families in need.
The support group will address a variety of issues facing Annapolis' unemployed and under-employed. The group will meet the second and fourth Wednesday of each month as a source of encouragement for men, women and families facing job losses.
Occasionally the group will feature special speakers on resume development and interviewing techniques and bring to light new local job openings, but, our main emphasis will be to provide encouragement for men and women facing the trauma of unemployment—many for the first time in their lives.
The state and county already provide some assistance to citizens in job location; however, the current financial crisis has put a lot of men and women out of work. Many just need a safe place to vent their disappointments and frustrations.
The first two meetings will take place in the City Council Chambers. Once the group is organized and self-sustaining another meeting place will be chosen that is most convenient to all involved.
Sam's Letter to the Editor on Compensation
David Brosch and his wife have saved plastic containers and bags they have gotten through purchases made through their normal shopping patterns for the past six months. This photo speaks for itself.
During the past three months laws to ban plastic checkout bags have been enacted in Los Angeles, Maui County (Hawaii), Westport (Connecticut) and many other communities. These bags cannot be easily recycled. Elkridge Recycling Center, where Annapolis trash is sent, doesn’t want plastic checkout bags because they damage the recycling machinery. In the US 99 billion plastic checkout bags are turned loose in our environment or sent to landfill every year. And they last between 500 and 1000 years!
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