On the one hand, the Greenbelt City Council worksession of July 12 was a down-in-the-weeds discussion of necessary modifications to documents defining the city’s 2005-2006 annexation of property in the South Core of Greenbelt Station. Considering the scale of the original 78-acre annexation, the errors, representing less than half an acre, were relatively minor. Nonetheless, the legal process for making the corrections has already taken a good deal of work and will take some time to accomplish.
On the other hand, the worksession provided an opportunity to recognize and visit with two well-known, recently-retired city employees, one of whom apparently did her best to get out of Dodge at the end of June with only negligible fanfare. Celia Craze, who retired as director of the Department of Planning and Community Development, was present to review the annexation situation with council and the steps staff and the city solicitor were proposing to remedy it. Accompanying her was her husband, a tanned and relaxed-looking Jim Craze, who retired as chief of police in November, following 45 years of city service.
Read more of this story in the July 20 News Review