Advisory Board

Kevin Dayhoff owns a landscape design business and also serves on the Carroll County Environmental Affairs Advisory Board, which, among various duties, oversees implementation of the county's forest conservation ordinance. At the board's last meeting, because Mr. Dayhoff handed his card to a witness, he now finds himself answering unfair charges that he was soliciting business.Mr. Dayhoff was appointed to represent the county's environmental interests. By his own account, Mr. Dayhoff believes his job on the board is to promote an environmentalist ethic.

The medical advisory board of the Nevada State Athletic Commission yesterday upheld the indefinite suspension of heavyweight contender Joe Mesi of Buffalo, N.Y., who was banned from the ring after bleeding on his brain was detected following his win over Vassiliy Jirov on March 13, 2004, in Las Vegas. Commission director Marc Ratner said the board's 4-0 vote, taken with one of the five members absent because of illness, will be subject to review at hearing May 5. On that date, the commission will vote to accept or decline the board's recommendation.

When Al Cleaver needs to vent a worry or frustration about the custom home decorating business he owns with his wife Donna, he can't do so in front of his nine employees. They depend on his confidence and business sense for their job security.And while the Cleavers are able to resolve many questions about their business, Interior Images Inc. of Columbia, sometimes an objective opinion from an outside adviser is what they really need to solve marketing, financial and administrative puzzles.

The county's Planning Advisory Board approved a $105 million capital projects budget yesterday that includes fixing three recent problems the county is investigating."

The Fort George G. Meade Restoration Advisory Board will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the basement conference room of Pershing Hall, Building 4550, off Llewellyn Avenue between English and Cooper avenues on Fort Meade.The group will discuss the removal of unexploded ordnance and remedial investigations at Tipton Airfield and environmental studies at the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Office and a former laundry.The board, which meets monthly, is made up of members of homeowner associations and civic organizations from area communities.

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton's advisory board on race, finding the nation in "racial transition," has mapped a course it hopes will lead to better relations and recommended a new council to monitor the progress.While "minorities and people of color have made progress" in their quality of life, "persistent barriers to their full inclusion in American society remain," the board said in a report to be presented to the president today.To bridge the gap, the seven-member board recommended a series of proposals, wide in scope but buttressed with few fresh initiatives.

TREES MAY BE a crop raised for harvest. They may be a visual amenity. They are certainly a valuable environmental resource in reducing flooding and erosion, in cleaning the air we breathe. Like wetlands, they have a widespread public utility extending beyond individual property lines.In a county such as Carroll, beset by development pressures, conservation and management of these resources is especially important. Carroll has one of the lowest percentages of forest cover -- 27 percent -- in Maryland.

If they had the money, one of the first things Anne Arundel County firefighters would do is set fire to a brand new building. Again and again.The Fire Department made a pitch yesterday to the county's capital budget overseers for $757,000 to construct a "fire burn building" to train firefighters under real-life conditions.The request was one of many that departments will present to the county's Planning Advisory Board, which will recommend how best to distribute $46 million for capital improvement projects in fiscal 1997.

Marina owners, charter boat captains and others in Anne Arundel County's thriving maritime industry will soon have a unified voice to represent their interests on local policies. The County Council unanimously approved Monday night the creation of a 16-member Martime Industry Advisory Board that will guide county officials on such matters as ethanol fuel, maritime zoning and utilities at marinas. "I think it creates a unique and beneficial opportunity for the maritime industry," said Bob Burdon, president and chief executive officer of the Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce.

Environmental regulators and area residents who serve on the board overseeing cleanup of Fort Meade's Superfund site criticized Army brass in a meeting last night for failing to disclose crucial environmental documents before transferring military land to a housing developer. Fort Meade has made no secret of its wish to proceed quickly with the Residential Communities Initiative, a $3 billion, 50-year program to privatize military housing nationwide. The developer, Rhode Island-based Picerne Real Estate Group, has taken control of managing the property, replacing the Army's Department of Public Works.