{"id":4539,"date":"2022-10-27T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/?p=4539"},"modified":"2023-02-28T14:50:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T19:50:47","slug":"october-honorees-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/2022\/10\/27\/october-honorees-5\/","title":{"rendered":"October Honorees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Officer Terrence Smith<\/strong> come to Maryland Capitol Police from the Baltimore City Sheriff\u2019s Office where he spent approximately 5 years.\u00a0 Prior to that Officer Smith served 28 years with the Baltimore City Police Department and 15 years with the Baltimore City Fire Department.\u00a0 Officer\u00a0T. Smith is a hard-working officer, respectful and polite to all persons that he encounters during his tour of duty.\u00a0On October 17, 2022, at approximately 1230 hours while patrolling the Saratoga Street Complex he observed an unknown male slumped over on the ground with labored breathing.\u00a0 He identified himself to the man and attempted to revive him but received no response.\u00a0 The man appeared to be intoxicated with some type of narcotic based on his lack of response and labored breathing.\u00a0 Upon noticing the signs and symptoms, Ofc. Smith retrieved his Narcan kit at which time one dose of the life-saving drug was administered. After a few minutes passed to give the medication time to work, a second dose was given due to the ineffectiveness of the first dose.\u00a0 Within moments of the second dose, the gentleman regained his sense of awareness and was alert and responsive.\u00a0 A call was place for a paramedic unit; Rescue 1 from BCFD responded.\u00a0 The patient subsequently refused further treatment and left the location on foot without further incident. Ofc. Terrence Smith\u2019s knowledge and experience in recognizing the signs and symptoms of a narcotic overdose, and his quick action to administer aid are recognized in this life saving incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ORE is nominating several members of our Lease Management & Procurement team this month for their hard work and diligence over the past year in procuring new leases for the agencies housed at State Center and Saratoga Center. These staff include our Chief and Procurement Officer \u2013 Kim White<\/strong>, and three of our Agency Relationship Managers \u2013 Tavon Winborne, Tara Davis, and Stefanie Simpson<\/strong>.\u00a0This has been the largest relocation effort ever undertaken in our agency\u2019s 50-year history, effecting approximately 4,000 employees across 12 agencies.\u00a0 Through the relocation process, DGS will bring significant improvements to the State employees working in Baltimore City, ensuring they are performing their missions in new, modern, safe, and efficient workspaces.\u00a0 All of the new leases have increased interior and exterior amenities with on-site gyms and cafes, and nearby restaurants, pharmacies, and dry cleaners.\u00a0It is important to note that on average the Lease Management & Procurement unit handles an estimated 3 \u2013 5 small to medium relocations in a given year, with most of our efforts focused on renewing our current office and parking lease portfolios of approximately 350 leases.\u00a0 This project required our team to continue performing their regular duties, while carving out time for 8 separate medium to large procurements.\u00a0 Each lease RFP required several months of preparation and evaluation to ensure that agency\u2019s space needs were being accurately captured.\u00a0 Our LM&P team had to continually reinforce our new DGS reduced space standards with agencies, as well as adjusting our schedules and time-lines multiple times to deal with continued COVID outbreaks among team members.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Baltimore Building Manager Joel Spero<\/strong> has worked for DGS for over nine years.\u00a0 He works closely with other building managers, contractors and the Central Plant engineers to help keep tenants cool during the summer months and warm during the winter season. Joel does not hesitate to respond to emergencies by going to any Baltimore building to address HVAC problems. \u00a0For example, in early June at the 201 West Preston Street building, Joel helped engineers to purge air from chilled water lines to return the building air conditioning to operational status. \u00a0When the cooling tower stopped working at the William Donald Schaefer Building and caused the building to overheat, Joel joined the building manager to go through every floor \u2013 all 27 of them \u2013 checking, resetting, and repairing all the air handling units. \u00a0And he STILL had a friendly, positive attitude! Joel also helped fix a problem at the Public Defender building in the hot weeks of July. \u00a0He checked the controls, reset the chiller and confirmed that all the air handling units were running on every floor. \u00a0Joel then did some research and ordered a new control board to permanently fix the problem.\u00a0He continues to survey HVAC equipment, write up requisitions for needed repairs, oversee the building automation systems, and make changes to schedules of equipment to maintain proper temperatures in the buildings. \u00a0Joel repeatedly checks in with building managers to make sure that everything is OK in their buildings. In addition, Joel has made time to expand his knowledge of air handling, water treatment and plumbing, refrigeration systems and energy management controls to earn a certification in Building Systems Maintenance.<\/a>\u00a0Joel Spero is dedicated and always willing to lend a helping hand.\u00a0 It is for this reason that he deserves to be Caught Doing Great Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Officer Terrence Smith come to Maryland Capitol Police from the Baltimore City Sheriff\u2019s Office where he spent approximately 5 years.\u00a0 Prior to that Officer Smith served 28 years with the Baltimore City Police Department and 15 years with the Baltimore City Fire Department.\u00a0 Officer\u00a0T. Smith is a hard-working officer, respectful  …Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caughtdgs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4540,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions\/4540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}