Doug R. Miller
city manager · active 2016–2022
City Manager of Ocean City, filling the vacancy Mayor Meehan had covered in person under the charter through the winter of 2016. In office for the $28 million bond sale of November 2017 that financed phase 3 of the convention centre and the Public Works and Transit upgrades, and for the 2018 flood-mitigation report that named the town's "Downtown First-to-Flood Areas" and brought Coast Smart's two-foot sea level rise standard into local practice.
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2016 · 2016-02-09
The vacancy that had made the mayor Acting City Manager ended on 9 February 2016, when Mayor Meehan swore in Doug Miller as City Manager at the start of a work session
Under Acknowledgements and Recognitions at the work session of 9 February 2016: "A. Oath of Office for City Manager Doug Miller. Mayor Richard Meehan swore in City Manager Doug Miller." The staff list for that meeting is the first of the year to carry "City Manager Doug Miller" and the closed-session roll the first to list "Mayor Richard Meehan" without the Acting City Manager title he had carried since December. The search had run through Slavin Management Consultants: the closed session of 22 December 2015 at the Convention Center, reported on 4 January, was attended by "Bob Slavin of Slavin Management Consultants and City Manager Candidates." On 4 January Herb Pawlukewicz had suggested from the floor that "the new city manager not receive vacation benefits until after one year of service." By 16 February Miller was reviewing the tentative work-session agenda in the City Manager's slot, and by 5 April he and the Budget Manager were presenting the FY17 budget.
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2016 · 2016-04-15
At the budget wrap-up the council raised the Inlet Lot to $3.00 an hour on weekdays to match weekends, and set street and municipal-lot parking at $2.00 an hour from April through October
At the FY17 budget wrap-up of 15 April 2016 City Manager Doug Miller raised four parking items, among them "proposed increase to Inlet Parking Lot rate to $3.00 per hour in season." Public Works Director Hal Adkins said paid parking seven days a week through all of May and September "could generate additional parking revenue of $47,000"; Budget Manager Jennie Knapp put the Inlet Lot rate increase at "a 20% increase or additional revenue of approximately $488,000." The motion as amended changed the Inlet Lot "from $2.50 to $3.00 per hour on weekdays in high season to match existing weekend rate and change shoulder season rate from $1.50 to $2.00 per hour," and a second motion, as amended, set CALE street parking and the municipal lots other than the Inlet Lot at "$2.00 per hour from April 1 through October 31." Mayor Meehan "opposed charging for parking on weekdays in April." Adkins noted the seasonal workforce schedule would have to be extended two weeks. Resolution 2016-07 adopting the dates and rates followed on 18 April.
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2016 · 2016-09-06
Tropical Storm Hermine shut the ocean on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend - the Beach Patrol staffed the entire beach to enforce a swimming ban and the trams did not run - and the mayor thanked Governor Hogan for his support
At the regular meeting of 6 September 2016, two days after the storm passed, City Manager Doug Miller "thanked employees who manned city services during Hurricane Hermine as well as allied agencies who sent resources," and Mayor Meehan "thanked Governor Hogan for his support during Hurricane Hermine." The Department Activity Reports of 19 September and 17 October name it Tropical Storm Hermine, 2-6 September, and record the Beach Patrol "Staffed entire beach enforcing the swimming ban" and then "Returned all stands to beach by 10:00 AM Sunday"; Engineering found "there was no additional beach damage due to Hermine"; Public Works had "Storm (Hermine) cleanup completed Tuesday on the boardwalk, beach, streets, etc."; and Transportation reported "Labor Day weekend hampered by Tropical Storm Hermine on Saturday had excellent ridership on Friday and Sunday/Monday at 48,884 while Trams closed Saturday of Labor Day Weekend but still managed $23,122 in revenue in the three remaining days." An after-action meeting was held on 20 September.
Ocean City Beach PatrolRick Meehan
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2017
The transit half of the bond answers a twenty-year-old complaint: $29 million of Public Works and Transit upgrades, of which $18 million federal against $11 million of the town's own bonds
In 1997 a technical report protested that federal and state operating assistance covered only about 10 per cent of Ocean City's transit operating costs, where other Maryland systems got 38 to 65 per cent, leaving the town making "the largest local government contribution of any locally operated transit system in Maryland." Here the ratio is reversed for capital: about 62 per cent federal. City Manager Doug R. Miller fills the vacancy the mayor covered in 2016.
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2017
Three hundred and sixty-six session documents, about 7.69 million characters, one source
Mayor Richard W. Meehan; City Manager Doug R. Miller; City Clerk Diana Chavis; Finance Director Martha Bennett; City Solicitor Guy Ayres. Ayres has been City Solicitor across this entire block and most of the previous two.
Rick MeehanGuy R. Ayres IIIDiana Chavis
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2018
Three hundred and forty-seven session documents, about 5.62 million characters, one source
Mayor Richard W. Meehan; City Manager Doug R. Miller. The volume falls for the first time since 2010 without the town's business shrinking — a change in what gets filed rather than in what gets done.
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2022
Three hundred and sixteen session documents about 6.61 million characters, filtered from a retrieval that was still running when the pass was written — 1,182 files of 1,765
Mayor Richard W. Meehan; City Manager Doug R. Miller; City Engineer Terry McGean. The incompleteness is recorded rather than hidden: this year was read from two-thirds of its own packet set, and a later pass over the remaining 583 files could change what the year contains.
Source · checked 2026-09-02