Appointed by Governor in consultation with Senate President & House Speaker: one vacancy
Appointed by Senate President: Richard F. Colburn; James E. DeGrange, Sr.
Appointed by House Speaker: Tawanna P. Gaines; Stephen W. Lafferty.
Ex officio: Nancy K. Kopp, State Treasurer; T. Eloise Foster, Secretary of Budget & Management; Michael A. Gaines, Sr., designee of Secretary of General Services; Beverley K. Swaim-Staley, Secretary of Transportation; William E. Kirwan, Ph.D., Chancellor, University System of Maryland; Carolane Williams, Ph.D., President, Baltimore City Community College; David Wilson, Ed.D., President, Morgan State University; Joseph R. Urgo, Ph.D., President, St. Mary's College of Maryland; Robert C. Brennan, Executive Director, Maryland Economic Development Corporation; Michael J. Frenz, Executive Director, Maryland Stadium Authority.
Staff: Jaclyn D. Hartman; Matthew D. Klein; Jonathan D. Martin.
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The Joint Legislative and Executive Commission on Oversight of Public-Private Partnerships was authorized June 1, 2010 (Chapters 640 & 641, Acts of 2010). A public-private partnership is defined as a sale or lease agreement between a unit of State government and a private entity in which the private entity assumes control of operating and maintaining an existing State facility. In such an agreement, the private entity may construct, reconstruct, finance, or operate a State facility or a facility for State use, and collect fees, rents, or tolls for the use of the facility.
The Commission charge is to assess how public-private partnerships, including the Army Enhanced Use Lease Program, are overseen and used in other states. Then, the Commission will evaluate certain statutory definitions applying to public-private partnerships to determine whether the definitions need to be amended. Thereafter, the Commission is to recommend how best to carry out legislative monitoring of public-private partnerships, and within what policy parameters such partnerships should be negotiated.
Authorization for the Commission ends June 30, 2012.
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