When the Maryland Crab Cake Tour stopped at The Y Swim Center in Randallstown, we wanted to give 4th District Councilman Julian Jones a chance to update us on plans for the area and thoughts about the process of selecting a Baltimore County Executive and the next election cycle.
Councilman Julian Jones discussed Baltimore County’s challenges and progress, emphasizing the impact of federal funding cuts on 2,200 jobs and 5,700 housing vouchers. He highlighted the county’s population decline over the past three years, which affects the tax base and services. Jones praised the College Promise program providing free community college tuition and the revitalization of Owings Mills. He expressed concerns about the county’s aging school infrastructure and the need for economic development. Jones also explained the process of appointing Kathy Klausmeyer as county executive following Kevin Kamenetz’s death.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Baltimore County, Julian Jones, county executive, population decline, federal funding, housing vouchers, economic development, school infrastructure, College Promise, tax base, job creation, community services, business growth, recreation centers, local politics.
SPEAKERS
Julian Jones, Nestor Aparicio, Speaker 1
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Nestor Aparicio 00:00
Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore, positive. We’re positively here in beautiful Randall state. I had to step out. It’s hot outside. It’s hot inside. We’re inside the pool here at the Y. We’re in the swim center. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland lottery. I have scratch offs from our friends the Back to the Future scratch off. We’re gonna be up in Reisterstown. At, readers, we’re gonna be coming to Costas and Timonium in two weeks. Johnny Oh, is gonna be joining us out there a congressman. We’re gonna also be around the beltway and celebrating 27 years of this crazy wn, yeah. August 3, we turned 27 years old. My 27 favorite things, and maybe Jerry from clean cuisine, who is our crab cake guy today out here in Randallstown. He has a business in Owings Mills. He may be on that 27 favorite things to eat, and I’ll be talking more about that. Julie Jones is here. He is our councilman in the fourth district, not officially running for county executive, but I got rumors. Just State of the County. We’ve talked about your district. John Hoey joined us here from the Y. We are at the Y, at the swim club here. We talked about Juneteenth and all the things going on in the fourth district. But county wide, we’re in a different situation. I mentioned Johnny. Oh, I ran into Johnny a couple weeks ago. We’re gonna have him out talking about things going on in Congress. But very unique circumstance. I had Barry Williams here a little while ago. I’m sure you’re familiar. You being a part of the panel of seven that decided Kathy Kloss Meyer would become the county executive. I’m a county resident. I’m a County high school graduate. All of that my business is in the county. The county’s My first concern, even when I lived in the city, the county was my business, and the city is everybody’s concern here. All the county executives should be worried about city or concerned about the city. Your thoughts about the county on the whole and your involvement in perhaps running for county executive.
Julian Jones 01:54
Well, first of all, thank you so much for giving me an opportunity, and I’m gonna get a give a little plug for Ritter’s, they do an excellent job. They have specials five days a week. I believe I haven’t been there since Bateman, so I’m looking forward to have some good specials there, whether steak or all you can eat, shrimp, you name it. I’ll give them that plug. But as it relates to the county, first of all, thank you so much for giving me an opportunity to be here. I’ve been living in the county. Born and raised in East Baltimore. I moved to the county when I was 21 years old, and I’ve been here ever since, on this West East
Nestor Aparicio 02:28
Baltimore was that mean olive
Julian Jones 02:30
8in Broadway. Oh, wow. You know, I had a working class parents. My mother was a school teacher for 36 years. My father worked at Bethlehem Steel for 42 and we got that in common. We got that in common, and then I worked in I was working my way through college at UMBC, and I heard an ad on the radio for the fire department, and it changed my life, because I was at that time, I was just looking for better hours, instead of working midnight and more pay, and did not know that I would fall in love with the mission of the fire department and helping people, one of the greatest things. I was there for 32 years, and once I got that job with more pay, I was able to move out and move into Baltimore County on my own, and you were a fireman. I was a firefighter for 32 years, went from the bottom to the top, and a fire the first person chief. My first assignment was at early heights in Anne Arundel County, and I went from the bottom to the top. Retired as a division chief. And what I love so much about the fire department is, you know, you have an opportunity to help people. A lot of jobs give you a lot of opportunity to help people, but in that job and that career, you have an opportunity to help people on the absolute worst day of their life. Many times you’re going to help people on the worst day,
Nestor Aparicio 03:58
nobody sees a fire coming. Yeah, nobody knows how fast and devastating that can move. Right? Absolutely,
Julian Jones 04:05
so. So I’ve been on the council for 11 years. I’ve been chairman for four and I’m unique in the sense that I’m the first person to ever be chairman three years in a row. And of course, I was the first African American chairman, but for the last 11 years and before and beyond that, I live, eat, sleep, breathe. Baltimore County, very concerned about everything that happened in Baltimore County, and we just took a break. I won’t share I will share with you what that was about after we get offline, because I can’t talk about it now, but you’d be surprised at the things that I’m involved in and trying to make Baltimore County the best it is. Now. Am I concerned? Yes. You know number one, we are poised. We are in. We’re in. We are very concerned about some of the reckless, irresponsible cuts coming out of the federal government. Right now,
Nestor Aparicio 05:10
I marched in Patterson Park on Saturday. I
8Julian Jones 05:13
mean, listen, I was marching as well throughout Baltimore County. And we stand we have about 2200 employees that can lose their jobs if we don’t have the grants that we currently get from the federal government. We’re in court trying to hold on to those grants, and if this new budget passes, I mean, we spend $9 million a month on housing. The money comes from the federal government, goes through our housing department, and we pay for vouchers for veterans, disabled Americans and people that are poor enough where they need housing assistance. So we look at that, it’s about 5700 people, and we worry about what will happen to this funds? What will happen to those people if those funds are cut, because we can’t absorb it? So when I look at Baltimore County, and I see that three of the last four years we’ve had a decline in population, I worry. I worry that we’re not doing enough to grow, because when the population goes down, the tax base goes down, when the tax base goes down, you’re left with a couple of options. You raise taxes, or you reduce services. And most of our services are performed by people. When I say reduce services, that’s a nice way of saying jobs, cutting jobs. And we don’t want, and I don’t want to ever do those things. So
Nestor Aparicio 06:45
ask yourself, are we diminishing the county? Right, right? Yeah, yeah. You don’t want to do that.
Julian Jones 06:49
No, we want to. We want to make sure that we are providing opportunities for people and companies right here in Baltimore County. Well, I
Nestor Aparicio 06:57
8own a Baltimore County company. I live in Baltimore County property, of Baltimore County, all my clients, listeners, friends. I mean, I have, you know, 11 years for you. So we’re going back to Kevin Kamenetz through Don molar in the small period of time. There, Johnny Oh, and now Kathy Kloss Meyer, what for you with, not to single any of them out ideologically, you’re certainly on the same side of the aisle, right? Um, things that could be better, would be better, um, you know, I, I’m from the East side, you know, I’m from Dundalk. And I guess when, when Dundalk high school went up, we I gave Kevin Camden, it’s a, you know, some love. And then I was waiting on Johnny, oh, to get Colgate Elementary, my elementary school, up. So I, I come, I’ve been at this so long that I can go back to where I went to elementary school, 1973 7579 see a school that was built in 1924 the school building was built in 1924 and it got replaced. 810, years six, seven years ago, right? So I see improving things. My high school looks like this pool. It’s beautiful. It’s new, but not everything’s new, and not everything can be new. I hear about Delaney high school and all the high schools and fighting about who’s gonna get this and we’re trying to get new schools built, but the shrinkage part, I think, for all of you who will run for Baltimore county executive for I had Nick Stewart on a couple weeks ago, different people talking about this. I don’t think most people in Baltimore County know that it’s shrinking right from a population standpoint, and that should concern all of us who are citizens, to say, Well, what does that mean? What does that mean for our schools? What does that mean for our budgets? What does that mean for our tax base? Because I don’t think people know that that is a fact. I don’t think that that’s we don’t brag about it, because nobody going right when, when race is doing that, but when you’re talking about things that are problematic, starting with an eroding tax base in a population, that that’s a that’s, that’s a bad sign, right?
Julian Jones 08:58
That it, that is a bad sign. And, and I’m very bullish on the county. We can do better. And you we talked about the different county executives having been here 11 years, I had the benefit of working with Kevin Camus, Johnny Oh, Don Moeller, now, Kathy Klaus Meyer. So they all have their strengths, and they all have areas where they can have a little improvement in my point of view, from my point of view, so I’ve been able to watch them and learn from them. But when you talk about schools, Baltimore County has the second oldest school inventory than any other school system in the state, second only to Baltimore
Nestor Aparicio 09:42
City. Well, we were also one of the first ones to build them Right exactly. That’s why we own rich in the 50s and 60s, we built stuff right exactly, exactly. And you know what? That took tax base? Oh, absolutely. People putting money in and saying, I want to, I want to build General John stricker on the east side. That had. Air condition in the 70s, we thought that was so Gucci. Hot days in Holabird, we sweat, sweat, sweat.
Julian Jones 10:05
Kids down the street out here now the kids better have air.
8Nestor Aparicio 10:09
Really despair it where you have schools like the two I mentioned in Colgate, you know, my alma mater, and then you get into hollybird, and it’s not so good, right? Well, obviously, but I’m just saying, like there is a disparity in in schools, in this and lots of things, and that’s just the way it is. Because Baltimore County has a lot of history, a lot of history. What a good history. It’s been a great
Julian Jones 10:31
county absolutely produced us. Oh, absolutely. Let me tell you. I you know our education system, in our schools, we we dump it. We give 52 cents on every tax dollar to the school system. And that’s good. Everybody. Don’t do that. So we care an awful lot about our schools. We do everything we can to provide the best learning environment for all of our kids. And we, you know, there’s always when you have 176 schools, there’s going to be some at the bottom and some at the top, but we certainly do our best in terms of trying to get to the ones at the bottom, making the replay errors, making the renovations or a new school, to try to bring them up to par, for sure. So I’m happy where we are. But to your point, all of that takes money. It takes money, and I don’t like to use this word, but it takes tax dollars because we in Baltimore County, we don’t we don’t make something. We provide a service to the citizens based and we get our monies, our funding, from taxes, for the most part, right now, not withstanding. So do I not withstanding the 400 million we get from the federal government, and which we’re very worried about. But I live, eat, sleep, breathe, the county, and I love the services that we provide, and I want us to continue to provide those services and some as we move forward throughout this next 1020, years. What’s
Nestor Aparicio 12:02
the end some, what’s the end some? The end some is
Julian Jones 12:07
8additional items that we can provide. For example, lately, lately, we’ve been doing a good job. We built a few, what we call rack centers, recreation activity centers, and basically a nice name for a recreation center in the community. So we built so we’re sitting here, and why we’re gonna be sitting here in Hawaii, yeah, and that’s, that’s what I mean. And some being able to do more with the money we have, being able to provide additional services to the citizens, that’s and I was, I didn’t want to tell you what it was about, but that minute that break we took, I was on a call trying my best to save 1800 jobs from leaving Baltimore County. And that’s the kind of stuff I do
Nestor Aparicio 12:51
a lot. You know, I saw you recently
Julian Jones 12:54
worked to bring him here, and we worked to protect the ones that’s here, trying to stop him from
Nestor Aparicio 12:58
leaving. I saw Brandon Scott getting grief from Fox 45 for being out in Vegas, and I was supposed to be out with this equipment out at the pool. It blew up as a long story. But, you know, I’m on social media. People know I was out there and whatnot, and seeing politicians getting grief. And every time I talked to a politician out there, especially sitting politicians, they would come back to me and talk to me about deals they were getting done at shopping centers, bringing in restaurants to their communities in rural areas, I’m talking about people on the other side of the aisle, about Republicans I was talking to about bringing business in. It is, it is so hard in the modern world to run for office. And, you know, I was going to run for mayor. It’s kind of how this whole thing happened. There’s a point of service that you’re gonna take arrows in all sides, Republican, Democrat, black, white, east, west, male, female, young, old, rich, poor. You got all of these dividing lines that go on, but we all sort of convene under the same thing. We do live together. We do work together. We all want the same things. We’re driving on the same roads. We’re getting educated together. When we call the police, we all call the same place. When something catches on fire, we call the same fire
8Julian Jones 14:05
department or some emergency medical sure of
Nestor Aparicio 14:09
coming, there’s just so many people that make picking up our trash. I mean, yeah, literally. When a tree falls in the middle of a store,
Julian Jones 14:16
you have no idea how much money we pay to get rid of trash. It is not a small
Nestor Aparicio 14:21
8number. Well, and you said 52 cents on every dollar goes just to education. That’s right, that’s a big
Julian Jones 14:26
we above 60% when we throw in the libraries in the community college. But listen at the end of the day, as it relates to like Vegas, one of the things I talk about a lot when I think about growing our economy. We have economic development wing here in Baltimore County, and I make the analogy. There’s a difference between fishing and hunting. Fishing is where you sit here and wait for businesses to show up, and when. They show up. You service them and take care of them. Hunting is let me leave Baltimore County. Let me send some people out here into the world and go looking for these big businesses. Go look for small business. Go look and tell people our story so we can get them to locate here in this beautiful place I call Baltimore County and my home, and where they can provide jobs and pay taxes and help build an economy and give people a sense of worth when they work there, those things are very, very important. That
Nestor Aparicio 15:33
takes money and investment from out of town. It takes banks, it takes private equity. It takes more and dare I say, and this speaks to the Vegas thing, and you and me takes relationships. It absolutely takes knowing people and meeting people. Opportunity is about location. Location low. You know, proximity is power, man. You know you need to know people. And that does take in a state like Maryland. When I go outside of the state. And when I talk to people on the other side of the aisle about moving a business to Virginia, moving a business to South Carolina, moving a business to Florida or Delaware, or buying a beach property in Delaware, the tax base and the eroding part of that is part and parcel of what kind of government you’re gonna have and what kind of life you’re gonna have in that government,
Julian Jones 16:21
right? Absolutely. And listen, I’m, I’m, we are very reasonable as it relates to taxing now, certain places in this country we can’t compare to, because when you dial 911, here, whether it is a medical emergency, a fire or you need the police, someone’s going to show up within a couple of minutes, and that costs money when you send your kid to school, and we have 176 of them, and you want your kid to be sitting in a great environment with air condition and everything else and and very qualified teachers, all of that costs money, so we can’t compare with certain places, but what we can do is provide a quality of life that is Second to none here in Baltimore County for the taxes that you pay. I can’t say it enough that we have to improve our economy now talking about some of these things, right? I used to think in real estate, it was all about location, location, location, which it is. But when I talk to some of the business leaders, they tell me timing is more important. Timing. If I can go to your jurisdiction and I can want to build this building at this great location, and it’s going to take me three years to build it, that’s great. If I go to this jurisdiction and it’s going to take me 10 years to build it. That’s seven additional years in my mind, that they’re not paying full taxes, but that’s years that they’re carrying property longer. So it’s important that we as a government be responsive and make sure that we are hitting on all cylinders.
8Nestor Aparicio 17:57
Well, I mean, I give you example, my buddy the Costas family, you know, and I hit Pete a couple weeks ago. This is not a knock on the county or anything. He said, Wait for my permits to come through. Now hold on, I’m 35 years into owning this business, 27 years into having a radio station, and I cannot begin to tell you how many bits, especially in the city where I’m opening the business I’m up bag and wait for my permits. I’m waiting on the county, I’m waiting on the city, I’m waiting on the county, I’m waiting on the city. My goal is saying. My goal is that they never had County. It is, no matter what city it is, doesn’t mean matter. We’re always in Maryland, right? But I’m waiting on something, and I think to myself, your business, man, what do you mean? Waiting on it’s like me waiting on 911 if 911 if I call for an emergency, or if I’m waiting on electricity and I don’t have it, my ice creams melting in the fridge. What do you mean? I’m waiting on it? I got it was this in the cable guy here. I need this now, you know. And I think there is a point for me that, you know, the patients wear stem for some people in that way.
Julian Jones 18:58
Well, listen, it’s important that we have certain safeguards to make sure people are doing things right, making sure that buildings, that building is being built correctly, and all I get all of that, but I’m here to tell you, we can do it a lot faster. And when people wait on us, we lose money when people are waiting. If I gave you that example between three years and 10 years, that seven year period of time that you that people are waiting, those are taxes that we’re not collecting. That’s a deal you’re not getting. Julie, that’s a deal again, because somebody else is going to give them that deal Exactly. That’s why I was going to give to two and a half years instead of three. That’s right. That’s why we need them businesses here. We need to produce more jobs, jobs, jobs and opportunities and more revenue to run our county so that we can provide the services to the citizens that they deserve and
Nestor Aparicio 19:50
need. Councilman Julian Jones, here, we’re in the fourth they’re playing music. We’re at the pool right the Y. We got people in here. I’m ready to dance, doing aerobics. We doing? Yeah? And you know, I’m here. I have nothing but disco music since the minute I walk here. So I’m right at home. I feel like I’m at skatelyn, 1978 last thing for you before I let you go, because we’re going to bring Jerry in from clean cuisine. You have a crab cake here, because it is a Maryland crab cake tour. And big appreciation. Everybody, John Hoey, everybody at the wise been great. Barry Williams is here a little earlier. Well, two things, because I’m gonna ask about the county executive situation. What? What excites you about Baltimore County? What would give me some things you’ve seen in these 11 years that that you’re like, that was a good thing. This is a great thing. These are things where we’ve that you’ve been a part of as well, and moving the county forward. Well,
Julian Jones 20:38
8listen, I What excites me about Baltimore County is the people here in Baltimore County, having been here for 11 years, I’ve of course, traveled from every inch of this county, meeting great people who, at the end of the day, they want what’s best for their family. They want to grow their you know what I mean? They want their kids to do well in school. They want the kids to grow up and have a wonderful opportunities like they did, or better than them. So those are the things excite me. But when I look back at my 11 years I was very proud to be one of the ones to start the College Promise program that provides free college tuition to graduates from Baltimore County to our community college, where they have 120 some degree in in certificate programs that provide opportunities for I have an AA Baltimore County. There we go, community college opportunities. But when I think about Baltimore County, we have tremendous medical facilities. We have tremendous educational facilities in terms of not just a top notch number one community college, but we have wonderful universities here, whether it be Towson, Stevenson, UMBC, Goucher, you name it, we have wonderful opportunities right here in Baltimore County, and we have everything that’s necessary to have the very best County in this country. I do believe that what is guess going to take is some direction, and not that the people behind me haven’t done a wonderful job. But I want to take it to the next level. I want to take it to a better
Nestor Aparicio 22:15
level. Now look, you know, for Dundalk, so I know Todd Crandall. He and I, we wrestle for his dad. I’ve known for 40 years, right? So his dad and I know I know most of you. I don’t know Mike cartel well. I know you is he’s doing the show in two weeks up a reader’s crab ass. So I know I’m not being flippant, and don’t think I’m being a jerk, because you’re the first one I’ve had on. Alright? Howdy Kathy Kloss Meyer, become county executive. I want you to school house. Rock Me on, because Don molar became county executive. Mike. You know my high school guidance counselor, former co host here, so educate. Let’s say my wife, who was a county residue, did not understand the process. I barely understand the process. I know we lost Kevin tragically in that moment, something had to be done. The Johnny, oh thing we sort of knew he was going to be congressman, Frank. I mean, that woman had no chance of winning. He was running against for months and months and months, and it felt like I don’t know as a citizen, I felt like I didn’t understand the process. I didn’t know what you guys were doing. A lot of bad taste. I had Barry Williams here earlier there were people excited, unexcited. I’ve met Kathy. I don’t really know her well, although I’ve seen the auto thing on Perry all for a million years. Just tell me how it works and how the structure of all of it happened, because I really don’t
Julian Jones 23:36
understand it. Okay, so when the county was built, well, let me back up. When the county government had his first charter. They had their they made their constitution when we became charter government. And at that time, the founding fathers, because it was men of 50s Yes, 56 go ahead, they decided that. And any event that a county executive could not fulfill their term as voted on, as voted on, that the county council
Speaker 1 24:11
would select a a successor,
8Nestor Aparicio 24:15
probably only two or three districts then, right? Probably that’s very small. Probably wouldn’t as many districts.
Julian Jones 24:20
I think it because it probably like it’s five, five, okay, I think it was seven. They had some at large. So anyway, what they did, and it’s interesting what a lot of people know, we have a charter, but I’m gonna give you a little extra that you may not have known. We have a book, an accompanying book that goes with the charter that says, Oh, by the way, when we did this, this is what we were thinking when we wrote this section about the county executive being appointed by the county council. We thought about a special election. We thought, Oh, it’s too long, too expensive. We thought about, uh. Uh, some other other things. And we decided that this, that the elected representatives are closest to the people. They represent the people, and this would be the best way to do it. So they decided that the county council would appoint a successor. Period, hard stop. Now, like you said, the tragic death of Kevin cabinets. We move relatively fast, and we got somebody, you were on that I was on that committee right and now with Johnny, oh, we saw it coming. But remember, it’s in a charter. So in order to change the charter, only the citizens can change the charter. We can’t change it. We can make a recommendation, and then the citizens have to keep saying to myself, who voted on this system? Well, this system was done in the beginning, early on. Now, there are some pros and cons, and I can give you other examples of like, other jurisdictions, like
Nestor Aparicio 25:50
being charged with being a part of it. You did. Like, yes, I do. You think it’s a responsible
Julian Jones 25:54
8I think Fair enough. Okay, now, could it have been, you know, I don’t have an opinion on exam, about it, because there’s other ways that, that I see other people doing it. It’s something to consider. But this is the way voting. Thanks.
Nestor Aparicio 26:07
And I feel that way as a Democrat, that you know, whether it was Hillary Clinton, and whether you know, I mean, I like voting, you know, not, not appointments, you know what I mean, where the party gets together and says, we’re gonna put Hillary Clinton up, not letting and not give any support to Bernie tenure, you know, as an example, just an example. I like, I didn’t like that. The seven of you had to get in a room and fight it out. And it became something controversial. There’s no controversy when you vote right, and that’s that just seems to me to be more, dare I say, American, but just more cut and dry, less controversial.
Julian Jones 26:43
Well, listen, you have a very good point, fair enough, it is a point, and I’m not gonna say I totally disagree. To make the rules. I didn’t make the rules right, right? And at the end of the day, you know, we were looking for somebody. I personally wanted to appoint the best person for the job. Some of my colleagues were more concerned about whether a person would run for county executive or not. That was never, ever my consideration. I just wanted the best person. I think the citizens of Baltimore deserve. The Baltimore County deserve the very best person to do that job. At the end of the day, the elections will take care of itself, and that was not you know, some people were open about wanting somebody who would not run. So Senator class Meyer, at the time, promised she would not run. She had tremendous experience at the state level. She’s been in politics longer than anyone else who applied for the job, so she had a lot of experience, and she was basically voted on by unanimously, by all the council members. So there was a process to get there, but at the end of the day, she received all the votes. So you can’t take that away from
Nestor Aparicio 28:00
temporary. It’s like mansolino is manager. It’s an interim, right, yeah, right, right.
8Julian Jones 28:04
So that’s the that’s the process. Now, you can get into all the politics of it. You can get into all of that, but that, what I guess, describe is real simple. Now, other places have other
Nestor Aparicio 28:16
caretaker at that point, so to take care of the county, and that’s what Kathy class, Meyers doing, right, right? Okay,
Julian Jones 28:21
that’s right, you know, I, I don’t think, and I have a great relationship with county executive class Meyer and I work hard to make sure that we and she, that we are not sitting around as a caretaker. You’re the county executive. You’re the county executive. Let’s get this show moving, because we have serious problems, and the people are counting on us. And when you’re not moving forward, and while you’re sitting around, others are and others are stealing your lunch. So we have to move forward, and I’m here to tell you that I don’t have an issue working with Senator class Meyer or Kathy classmate, account executive, I think she’s doing a good job, and we are moving the county forward,
Nestor Aparicio 29:07
8all right, but we’re gonna have an election. Julian Jones is here. He is a councilman. There’s some rumors he’s gonna run for Baltimore County Executive. He’s here at the pool, at the Y we’re in his district. And all good things here happening to Randallstown. I want to thank John Hoey for coming out. I’m gonna have a crab cake from clean cuisine coming by your momentary momentarily. People know how to reach you. I know how to reach you. If anything exciting, any openings. I I saw you to curio wellness open a couple weeks ago. I saw you out in vague. I mean, they’re, they’re just, there’s new businesses open and exciting, things like this, Juneteenth going on right now. What are you excited about? What’s what’s happening? Well, listen and Dundalk, I’ll tell you. We got heritage fair come up two weeks. That gets me excited. There you go. Excited. There you
Julian Jones 29:43
go. Wonderful. Listen, I am very, very bullish here on the west side of the county, as well as Baltimore County. Listen, when I first took office, the Owings Mills was a dead mall, and I’m very proud when I look at it now, and it’s an example of what you can do when you’re working with a. Uh, people that willing to invest in your saw you tonight. They open the Marriott out there. I was, that’s right, I saw you absolutely. And that is a listen. You’re really proud of that. I am so proud of that. I know you were. You know, when NFL teams come here, they have, they have enough money to stay anywhere they want. They stay here in Owens Mills, right? I’m talking about visiting NFL team. Sure, when they come here, they stay at that Marriott. That just goes to show you what we’re offering here in Baltimore County. And I’m very proud that they come in so many, so many other conventions and whatnot are held right there in Owens mills. It makes me proud because they bring money, they spend money. They feed our economy, they feed businesses, and we’re able to take that funds and provide service to the citizens. I get an
Nestor Aparicio 30:47
owing smells business come about with a crab cake today. Clean cuisine is here. PAL Jerry, I’m gonna bust his chops about his award winning squash lasagna, which is delicious. Thanks to you. It’s my 27th anniversary. For 25th we did crab cakes. 26 we did oysters. And this year, I’ve decided I’m going to do my 27 favorite things to eat, because it gives me a chance to go county, city, uptown, downtown, Ocean City, back and forth and really. And this is from my heart. These are my 27 things that if I had 27 days with you, it will take you around and show you my Baltimore in August. I’m gonna You’re gonna eat well, so I promise you go over to clean cuisine and you get that squash. It’s pretty good, man. I’m not gonna say it’s a month 27 but it is award winning Councilman Julian Jones here, thanks for coming
Julian Jones 31:35
in for you before you kick first of all, congratulations on your 27 years. I appreciate that. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the service you provide to the citizens here in Baltimore. What do I do we? Well, listen. You share information, you give opportunities. You give people a platform to get their voices heard. Give people a chance to hear from me, hear from other people. Hear about the why? Hear about the great crab cakes
8Nestor Aparicio 32:00
running against you on to is that alright? Hey, that’s
Julian Jones 32:02
absolutely right. I believe in democracy, civics. I want the people to have a choice. And, you know, at the end of the day, it’s up absolutely, absolutely because this is the greatest country in the world, and we value our democracy. That’s why I was out there protesting, because I do value our democracy. We don’t want any kings. We don’t need any kings. So I was out there making my voice heard, but at the end of the day, you provide a tremendous service to our community, and I appreciate you very much.
Nestor Aparicio 32:34
That’s nice you to say that. Julian Jones here, hey, at least you’re you. You just, you just eloquently, quite frankly, spoke in a way that I would want people to understand what I really do. It sounds like you Hey, talking about baseball all day. No, just this morning, I talked about, you know what I like, talking about the $600 million that that they’re getting, that the wise not getting, you know what I mean, schools aren’t getting and all that. So I try to keep that square as well, making sure we’re putting the community together, keeping it together. And I’ve been waiting a couple of months now to ask the questions about Kathy Claus, hoping to have her on the program as well as we get the crab cake tour out. So brought to you by the Maryland lottery. Our friends at curio wellness now in Pikesville, as well as our friends at Liberty, pure solutions. They do it everywhere here, making sure the well water is taken care of, make sure that I stay sprying Fresh, just like our friends here at the Y. I’m back for more. They’re in the pool. They’re
Speaker 1 33:26
8bouncing aerobics,
Nestor Aparicio 33:31
swimsuit, man, they’re doing. What a suit I brought. A summer suit. I need a swimsuit. We’re at the Y. Stay with us. We’re Baltimore positive. We’re out here trying to have a little bit of fun. You.
