Office Of Economic

Proposals to privatize Anne Arundel County's Division of Housing and Community Development and the Office of Economic Development will be considered at public hearings tonight before the county council.Privatization of the two offices is part of County Executive Robert R. Neall's plan to downsize government by turning many services now performed by county employees over to private contractors.Once the ordinances are approved by the council, the two agencies would become nonprofit corporations.

Carroll government's bare-bones budget may cause problems for some departments in the coming fiscal year if certain jobs aren't filled, employees said at a budget meeting yesterday."

Philadelphia dentist buys local practiceDr. Andrew Ingel recently bought the Annapolis dental practice of Bryan Beebe D.D.S., and began his own dental practice.A Philadelphia dentist, Dr. Ingel was born in Washington, D.C. He went to Villanova University and earned a master's degree in biochemistry from Bryn Mawr College.He graduated in the top two percent of his class at the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, and completed a residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

An article in Thursday's Carroll County edition should have said that Carroll Commissioners Donald I. Dell and Elmer C. Lippy have shown more interest in economic development in recent months because they have more direct control over the county Office of Economic Development.The Baltimore Sun regrets the errors.Carroll Commissioners Donald I. Dell and Elmer C. Lippy have been more supportive of economic development in recent months because they have more control over the Department of Economic and Employment Development, Commissioner Julia W. Gouge said yesterday.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- President-elect Bill Clinton probably will postpone the appointment of top Cabinet officers until early December, focusing instead on a plan to overhaul the government's uppermost echelon to give economic affairs unprecedented status, according to his advisers.The plan, which officials of his transition team described yesterday as Mr. Clinton's priority, would create a new Economic Security Council in the White House whose power and authority would parallel that of the existing National Security Council.

The county commissioners may not replace James C. Threatte, who resigned Thursday as the county's economic development director, according to the commissioner president."

As County Administrator Raquel Sanudo started pushing titles around on a display board in front of the County Council on Monday, she saidshe felt like TV personality Vanna White.Sanudo was showing the council how things would look if the Office of Economic Development becomes a department reporting directly to County Executive Charles I.Ecker.Although council members laughed when Sanudo compared herself to White -- who turns letters on the game show "Wheel of Fortune" -- Shane Pendergrass, D-1st, and C. Vernon Gray, D-3rd, wanted serious answers about the kind of game the administration is playing.

The county commissioners, hoping to save money and boost business development in Carroll, are considering turning the Office of Economic Development over to the business community."

The Howard County executive is considering incorporating the county's economic development office as a private, non-profit agency.Dyan L. Brasington, the county's economic development director, said that the agency's advisory committee is reviewing such a proposal and will forward it to County Executive Charles I. Ecker next spring.She said that a non-profit economic development corporation would have the advantage "of placing the agency at arm's length from the politics of local government, and it would receive both public and private monies to operate."

Hope House, the county's only non-profit intermediate residential treatment program, is looking for businesses interested in creating a private partnership.The private, accredited facility in Crownsville offers individual and group counseling, family support and education as well as communication-building skills.The facility is in need of major renovations. To send donations, write to Hope House, P.O. Box 546, Crownsville, 21032.Information: 923-6700.NEW FIRM LAUNCHEDA retired Annapolis business executive recently established Claims Services Inc., offering a helping handto hundreds of countians facing health-care insurance claims problems.