WESTERN MARYLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE

Chair: Casper R. Taylor, Jr., House Speaker

Contact: Joni R. Hedrick

72 Pershing St.
Cumberland, MD 21502
(301) 724-9234
e-mail: joni_hedrick@house.state.md.us
fax: (301) 724-7635

By executive letter of October 8, 1998, the Governor formed the Western Maryland Economic Development Strategies Task Force. In February 1999, it was renamed the Western Maryland Economic Development Task Force. The Task Force is to devise ways to revitalize economic growth in Allegany and Garrett counties in western Maryland.


ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

WESTERN MARYLAND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE

Chair: Casper R. Taylor, Jr., House Speaker

Appointed by Governor: Donald P. Battista; Joyce D. Bishoff; Terry L. Bowman; Dyan Lingle Brasington; M. Kathryn Burkey; Beverly B. Byron; Roger A. Dandridge; Lee N. Fiedler; Thomas B. Finan, Jr.; Norman M. Glasgow, Sr., Esq.; William B. Grant; Charles O. Heller; Paul C. Herring; Gerald N. Hess; Elizabeth Hurwitz-Schwab; John Korpela; Kim B. Leonard; Brian G. Malloy; Elaine Lascaris McDonald; Raymond O. Metz; Milton H. Miller, Sr.; Wayne A. Mills; David L. Moe; Karen F. Myers; Adrienne L. Ottaviani; Colleen T. Peterson; Joseph V. Prado; Barry R. Ronan; Gary Ruddell; Roger Ruff; Janis M. Russell; Cristine Kepple Sweitzer, Esq.; David W. Turnbull; Mark L. Wasserman; Marc E. Zanger.

Appointed by Senate President: John J. Hafer

Appointed by House Speaker: George C. Edwards

Ex officio: William Donald Schaefer, Comptroller of Maryland; Richard C. Mike Lewin, Secretary of Business & Economic Development; Jane T. Nishida, Secretary of the Environment; Raymond A. Skinner, Secretary of Housing & Community Development; John P. O'Connor, Secretary of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation; Harriet Tregoning, Secretary of Planning; Karen R. Johnson, Secretary of Higher Education; Donald L. Alexander, Ed.D., President, Allegany College of Maryland; Stephen J. Herman, Ph.D., President, Garrett Community College; Catherine R. Gira, Ph.D., President, Frostburg State University; John N. Bambacus, Mayor of Frostburg; Asa M. McCain, Jr., Mayor of Oakland; M. John O'Connell, Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools, Allegany County; Wendell D. Teets, Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools, Garrett County; John R. Kirby, Director, Economic Development, Allegany County; James C. Hinebaugh, Director, Economic Development, Garrett County.

STEERING COMMITTEE
Lee N. Fiedler, Chair

Staff: Robin Douglas (301) 722-0054
Al Feldstein (301) 777-2158

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