514/Maryland Manual

MARYLAND FOOD CENTER

MABYLAND WHOLESALE PRODUCE
MARKET
George Marauds, Market Manager
7460 Conowingo Ave.
Jessup,MD 20794 ....... 799-3881

MABYLAND WHOLESALE SEAFOOD
MARKET
Nancy B. Bums,Atii>*» MttMyer
7901-A Occano Avc.
Jessup.MD 20794 ....... 799-0142

ROCK HALL SEAFOOD PROCESSING
PLANT
John Travis, PlantMawyer
P.O. Box 544
Rock Hall, MD 21661 ....... 639-2501

The Maryland Food Center Authority originated
in 1967 as the Greater Baltimore Consolidated
Wholesale Food Market Authority (Chapter 145,
Acts of 1967). The Authority was formed to establish
and operate a consolidated food center within the
Greater Baltimore Region. In 1975, the Authority was
reorganized as the Maryland Wholesale Fuud Ccntci
Authority (Chapter 729, Acts of 1975). The
Authority received its present name in 1979 (Chapter
482, Acts of 1979).
The Authority is developing a 398-acre site for
the Maryland Wholesale Food Center. The Center
is located near Jessup at the intersection of U.S.
Route 1 and Maryland Route 175 in Howard
County. The Food Center now includes the
Maryland Wholesale Produce Market and the
Maryland Wholesale Seafood Market. With many
different types of food operations in one location,
the Food Center provides quality food products to
Maryland consumers efficiently and inexpensively
As of April 1990, approximately 3,037,032
square feet of food warehousing space had been
completed or was under construction within the
Food Center. The Authority has signed commit-
ments for construction of an additional 247,000
square feet of food warehousing space.
In 1989, the Authority acquired the Rock Hall
Seafood Processing Plant in Kent County to secure a
waterside plant accessible to both Chesapeake Bay
watermen and land-based operations which depend
upon the Bay's natural resources (i.e., finfish, shell-fish).
The Maryland Food Center Authority consists
of twelve members. Four serve ex officio and eight
are appointed to five-year terms by die Governor
with Senate advice and consent. One appointed
member must be a resident of Howard County
The Authority has an eleven-member Advisory
Council. Rve Council members are appointed by
the Maryland Agricultural Commission, and five are
appointed by produce merchants who are tenants
in the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market. The
Executive Director of the Authority serves as the
nonvoting chairperson of the Council (Code 1957,
Art. 83A, sees. 6-101 through 6-121).

GENERAL ASSEMBLY
COMPENSATION COMMISSION

Vacancy, Chairperson
Appointed by Governor: five vacancies.

Appointed by Senate President: Phyllis B. Brocman;
Aris Mardirossian.

Appointed by House Speaker: Edwin F. Hale; Charles
H. Rush. Terms expire 1994.

Staff: William S. Ratchford II

Department of Fiscal Services
90 State Circle
Annapolis, MD 21401 841-3761
TTY for Deaf: 841-3814

The General Assembly Compensation Commis-
sion was created by Constitutional Amendment,
ratified November 3, 1970 (Chapter 576, Acts of
1970). The Commission determines the compensa-
tion and allowances due members of the General
Assembly The Legislature may reduce but not in-
crease the amounts proposed. As of January 1991,
the annual salary of a legislator is $27,000. The
annual salary for the Senate President and the
House Speaker is $37,000.
The Commission consists of nine memtiers, five
appointed by the Governor, two appointed by the
President of the Senate, and two appointed by the
Speaker of the House of Delegates. Members serve
four-year terms. Officers and employees of the State
or local governments are not eligible for appoint-
ment to the Commission (Const., Art. Ill, sec. 15).

GOVERNOR'S MANSION TRUST

Chairperson: Martin W. Walsh, Jr., Secretary of
General Services

Ex officio: Hilda Mac Snoops, designee of Governor;
Nancy German, designee of Senate President;
Charles J. Ryan, designee of House Speaker; J.
Rodney Little, Director, Maryland Historical
Trust.

Non-rating members: Wendy Cooper, designee of
Director, Baltimore Museum of Art; Charles Lyie,
Director, Maryland Historical Society; Burton K.
Kummerow, Executive Director, St. Mary's City
Commission; Georgia Adier, Director, Talbot
County Historical Society; William Johnston,
designee of Director, Walters Museum of Art; Jean
Woods, Director, Washington County Museum of
Fine Arts; Dr. George Callcott, designee of
Chairperson, History Department, University of
Maryland College Park; Lucy Coggin,
Horticulturist, William Paca Gardens.

Secretary: Edward C. Papenfuse, Ph.D., State Archivist