The Baltimore County Council has postponed a meeting set for Monday at which members were set to vote on the next county executive.
The council’s legislative session was scheduled to include the election of a new county executive to serve the remaining term left by the departure of former County Executive John “Johnny” Olszewski Jr., who resigned after being elected to Congress.
In a news release, the council said the meeting would be rescheduled for Tuesday at 3 p.m. Council will now convene the Legislative Session on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. in-person and via video teleconference.
The council decided to hold the vote on Jan. 6, partly because that is the date of its next legislative session and partly because the council can’t vote for a new executive until there’s a vacancy. Olszewski’s resignation was effective Jan. 3, the day he was sworn into Congress as a representative for the second district.
The five candidates under consideration to be the next county executive are former State Sen. Jim Brochin; Yara Cheikh, president of the Baltimore County Public Library Board of Trustees; State Sen. Katherine Klausmeier; George Perdikakis, former head of Baltimore County’s Department of Environment and Resource Management; and Barry Williams, former director of two Baltimore County departments — recreation and parks, and workforce development.