State Agencies Economic and Community Development/141
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
James 0. Roberson, Secretary of Economic and Community Development
Hans F. Mayer, Deputy Secretary
Ardath M. Cade, Assistant Secretary/or Housing and Community Development
Samuel J. Lloyd, Assistant Secretary/or Economic Development
Fred Wolf III, Assistant Attorney General, Counsel to the Department of Economic and Community
Development
Joan M. Bernstein, Equal Opportunity Officer
Leonard Elenowitz, Office of Federal Relations
Vacancy, Director of Evaluation and Education
Robert G. Schult, Director of Program Analysis
2525 Riva Road
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-3174
The Department of Economic and Community Development was created in 1970 for the general
purpose of advancing the economic and cultural welfare of the people of Maryland (Chapter 527, Acts
of 1970). The Department's enabling legislation directs it to create and preserve optimal job and in-
come opportunities for Marylanders and to protect and enhance the social, economic, cultural, and fis-
cal viability of the State's communities.
The Department's more than twenty programs are organized into two principal areas: economic de-
velopment, which focuses on economic development problems and opportunities, and housing and
community development, which focuses on housing and community development as well as historic
preservation and cultural programs.
The Housing and Community Development group consists of the following agencies: the Communi-
ty Development Administration, the Division of Local and Regional Development, the Codes Admin-
istration, and the Maryland Housing Fund.
The Economic Development group consists of the following agencies: the Office of Business and In-
dustrial Development, the Office of Business Liaison, the Office of Tourist Development, the Maryland
Industrial Development Finance Authority, the Small Business Development Financing Authority, and
the Office of Seafood Marketing.
MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF
ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY
COMMISSION
Jay Andrew Jacobs, Chairperson
Ethan C. Allen; Dr. Evelyn J. Bata; E. Robert
Bowlus; Frank A. Cappiello; W. P. Coliton;
Dominic N. Fornaro; Dr. Carl Franklin; Dr.
Rudolph P. Lamone; L. Paige Marvel; John T.
Menzies, Jr.; Dennis C. Miller; Margie H.
Muller; Daniel Sheridan; Arlene Simons;
Herman J. Stevens; Edward W. Taylor; Mi-
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chael Waters; George M. Wyckoff
Ex officio members: Donald R. Date, Charles W.
Gilchrist, Harold Manekin, John E. Meyers.
2525 Riva Road
Annapolis 21401 Telephone: 269-3176
The Economic and Community Development
Advisory Commission provides general advisory
assistance to the Secretary on all matters relating
to the functions of the Department of Economic
and Community Development. Commission mem-
bers are appointed by the Secretary with the ap-
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