So it turns out that in the flurry of motions on the CTP, Supervisor Sally Kurtz (D Catoctin), made an error and voted to set Belmont Ridge Road to six lanes instead of four (currently Belmont Ridge Road is two lanes most of the way).

She’d like to hold a hearing to reconsider that vote on Wednesday (she was in the majority on that vote, along with Supervisors York, Buckley, Delgaudio, and Waters), but it turns out that Supervisors York and Buckley will be out of town. Which has made at least one supervisor unhappy about how it will look if they vote to reconsider while part of the majority of the original vote is out of town.

But here’s the thing: It was a 5 – 4 vote. If Supervisor Kurtz is unhappy with her vote then if the vote is reconsidered, it will go 5 – 4 the other way. Right?

If two of the people in the new minority are not there, then it will go 5-2-2. Right?

If Supervisors York and Buckley know that the vote will take place while they are not there, they can leave written statements to be read into the record during discussion of the issue.

In any case, when State Delegates accidentally push the wrong button during a vote, they can file a paper to correct it. I believe this is essentially what happened with Supervisor Kurtz and I hope that the rest of the supervisors will let her reconsider her vote.