Derek Roberts

This document outlines the Maryland Department of Planning's goals and objectives for Fiscal Year 2025. It aims to serve as a statewide resource, fostering economic prosperity and thriving communities. The plan focuses on seven key goals: advancing planning practices, supporting community vitality, ensuring efficient intergovernmental review, creating an accessible data and application ecosystem, providing timely data and tools, encouraging economic development through historical resources and climate resilience, and protecting historic resources for an inclusive preservation program.

The Maryland Commission on Civil Rights is dedicated to ensuring equal opportunity and promoting civil rights across Maryland, with a vision for a state free of unlawful discrimination. Its primary goal is to enhance equal opportunity through effective education, outreach, and efficient case processing, aiming to resolve and reduce discrimination. Key objectives include increasing complaint filings and public awareness of anti-discrimination laws, while maintaining efficient case processing times below federal standards.

This plan outlines the Canal Place Preservation and Development Authority's strategy to enhance heritage tourism in Western Maryland, focusing on the preservation, development, and management of lands adjacent to the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal. Key goals include increasing online presence and visitorship to the Passages of the Western Potomac Heritage Area, securing public and private funding through partnerships and grants, promoting events within the heritage area, and developing Canal Place as a Heritage Park. The overarching vision is to achieve tourism-based economic revitalization and community pride for Cumberland, Allegany County, and the tri-state region.

The document outlines the State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy's mission to promote fair, proportional, and consistent criminal sentences, prioritizing public safety by focusing on violent and career offenders within a voluntary guideline system. Its vision is a justice system where sentences are considered just, transparent, and consistent with state guidelines. Key objectives include ensuring judicial compliance with sentencing guidelines, minimizing sentence disparities, enhancing public understanding of sentencing policies, prioritizing confinement for violent offenders, and supporting the utilization of corrections options for low-risk and chemically-dependent offenders.

This document outlines the Maryland State Police's plan to ensure Maryland is a safe place to live, work, and visit, guided by core values of integrity, fairness, and service. It identifies four key goals: preventing and investigating crime while supporting allied law enforcement agencies; enhancing the safety of all who travel on Maryland roadways; supporting citizens and the communities in which they live; and developing an efficient and effective workforce. The plan details specific objectives and performance measures aimed at achieving these goals.