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“crushing.” In the Senate, where Demo- cratic leaders are considering paying for the education over- haul by increasing the cigarette tax, allowing sports betting, and taxing digital downloads and digital ads, there has been a wait-and-see attitude on Luedt- ke’s proposal. Sen. Guy J. Guzzone (D-How- ard), the chairman of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, has said he wants to wait for the House bill to move through that chamber before taking a posi- tion. Guzzone did not return a call for comment monday. A spokes- man for Senate President Bill ferguson (D-Baltimore City) said he was unavailable for comment. But Senate majority Leader Nancy J. King (D-montgomery) said she did not think there was an appetite for the bill among her colleagues. “I don’t believe there would be support for something like that, to get something like that passed,” she said. “I would have a hard time supporting it myself.” King said her office received 5,000 emails in three hours fri- day about the bill. Asked whether any were in support o f the measure, she said: “You’re not going to see someone saying, ‘Please raise my taxes.’ People are worried in general about the economy right now anyway. It just makes people really uneasy.” [email protected]

ness, professional labor or politi- cal association. Luedtke told his colleagues that he would b e open to exempting additional services to make the legislation more palatable. Currently five states broadly tax services: Hawaii, New mexi- co, South Dakota, Washington and West Virginia. Numerous other states, including Pennsylvania and michi- gan, have tried to impose such a tax but have been mostly unsuc- cessful, according to the Nation- al Conference of State Legisla- tures. Some others, including Connecticut and North Carolina, have taken incremental steps to tax the purchase of services. on monday, the maryland House Ways and means Commit- tee also considered a bill that would extend the sales tax to a smaller number of businesses. The bill, sponsored by Del. Lorig Charkoudian (D-montgomery), would apply a 6 percent tax on “luxury services,” including fur cleaning and storage, interior designing, and jewelry and boat repair. The bill w ould r aise about $72 million by 2025. Hogan is airing attack ads t hat urge residents to contact law- makers and tell them to oppose the plan. The ads are paid for by a super PAC the governor helped create to sway public opinion. The ads have aired online and will be broadcast on cable and network t elevision. They s ay t hat “the maryland legislature wants to destroy our economy” and that the new tax would be

percent to 5 percent, even as the
range of purchases that are taxed
would expand significantly.
residents would pay a 5 per-
cent tax o n services ranging from
legal work to haircuts to lawn
mowing to accounting to car-
washes.
House majority Leader Eric G.
Luedtke, the bill’s sponsor, said
the proposal was designed, in
part, to make the state’s tax code
less regressive, shifting more of
the burden to wealthier resi-
dents, who are believed to use
more professional services.
Luedtke (D-montgomery) said
that residents increasingly con-
sume professional services as
well as goods a nd that the state
tax code should reflect that
trend.
“If we’re going to continue
using the sales tax as a source of
revenue for our schools and our
roads and our police and fire
departments and all the other
services we provide to the citi-
zens of maryland, we’re going to
need to grapple with this issue of
taxing services at some point,”
L uedtke said.
The tax would apply to almost
all services, including many that
are staples of life for low- to
middle-income earners as well
as the wealthy.
The bill carves out exceptions
for services related to education;
health care; social services, in-
cluding most day care; and ser -
vices provided by religious orga-
nizations, civic groups, or a busi-

MARYLAND from B1

Md. business owners oppose tax bill

BY MCKENNA OXENDEN

baltimore — Nina Turnbaugh
used to work in finance, but she
realized in 2014 that she couldn’t
take being holed up in a cubicle
any longer.
So the single mom quit her job
and got a gig in landscaping,
hauling wheelbarrows of mulch
and installing plants as a stopgap
while she mulled over what she
wanted to do next.
Six years later, with her gradua-
tion from the American Land-
scape Institute at the Community
College of Baltimore County on
the horizon, the 34-year-old i s still
planting trees and flowers but
now helps design where they go —
and she’s set to make thousands
more than her office job, while
graduating with no student loan
debt.
Turnbaugh benefited from a
unique program designed to fill a
shortage of skilled workers in the
horticultural industry by getting
Baltimore-area businesses to sub-
sidize students’ education and
show them that landscaping is so
much more than just mowing
lawns.
“They’re teaching us more than
just how to create a pretty yard,”
Turnbaugh said. “It’s all about
sustainability, reducing our foot-
print on the earth and creating a
great future for my son.”
Program leaders say it is
among the first of its kind in the
nation. While its footprint is still
small — about 25 students have
been brought into the industry
within the past four years — orga-
nizers are optimistic the institute
can grow and succeed.
Students who apply and are
accepted to the American Land-
scape Institute enter a two-year,
“earn-and-learn” program at
CCBC, getting 39 college credits
while earning a paycheck from
local horticultural businesses,
said martha Pindale, the insti-
tute’s executive secretary.
The businesses front about
$6,750, paying 80 percent of stu-
dent tuition and the program’s
administrative costs. That d oesn’t
include money students earn for
working while taking classes.
Twelve businesses are currently
supporting students, Pindale
said.
When the classes are complet-
ed, graduates receive a certificate
and a check from the American
Landscape Institute for about
$1,300, reimbursing them for the
remaining 20 percent cost of the
tuition.
“In some ways our program is
too good to be true,” Pindale said.
The horticultural industry ac-
counts for more than 2 million
jobs nationwide, nearly 51,000 in
maryland, a ccording to data from
the industry organization Ameri-
canHort. The field includes such
jobs as landscape architect, plant
grower and installation specialist.
But the industry struggles to
recruit and combat the stigma
that it only offers trade jobs. Just
61 percent of available jobs in the
United States are filled, said Su-
san Yoder, executive director of
Seed Your future, a group that
aims to promote horticulture.
“There is a need across the

horticultural industries for quali- fied employees,” Yoder said. Within the past several years, Yoder said, there’s been a push to get the industry to offer more educational opportunities and apprenticeship-type programs to bridge the gap. She said programs like the American Landscape In- stitute are rare but beginning to grow across the country. “We’re most concerned about, who are these up-and-coming people t hat are going to be solving plant problems in the future?” Yoder said. “But we are finally starting to break barriers with programs like this.”

Growing up in Germany, A mer- ican Landscape Institute founder Andreas Grothe said it was com- mon for people to apprentice for several years to learn a craft. But when he came to the United States in 1988, Grothe found people associating trade work as “fail- ure.” “I was surprised that there wasn’t a system in place t hat has a flow of employees,” Grothe said. “It’s the nut we haven’t cracked yet. [Horticulture is] a great industry — w e just need new people. So I created something other programs don’t offer.” Although Grothe owned a Parkton horticultural business, New World Gardens, he found himself wanting to do more to recruit new people for the profes- sion. As Grothe started researching what he could do, he discovered CCBC offered horticultural c lasses. After talking with college leaders, they formed a partnership offering some students the opportunity to take classes on campus and work at local businesses while receiving tuition as- sistance. There were barely enough people to justify teaching horticultural classes before the American Landscape Institute partnership, said Bradley W. Thompson, the sustainable horticulture coordi- nator at CCBC. But now the college has been able to almost dou- ble its class size. At the end of two years of class, the students receive a certificate for landscape installation, maintenance and design. Students could continue at C CBC for anoth- er year to earn their associate degree, though students will have to pay out of pocket. The 14 required classes range from landscape graphics and pest management to soil and fertiliz- ers. Alex Wiitala works as the gar- den manager at the Hampton National Historic Site in To wson, responsible for more than 3,000 plants, flowers and trees. The 26- year-old o rders new plants for the gardens every season and is

tasked with day-to-day upkeep and installation. During the warmer months, Wiitala weeds almost daily. And it’s through the classes she’s learned the right way to do it. Sometimes, a weed can’t just be pulled — it might need to be ripped from the ground with a special piece of equipment or sprayed with a chemical first. “When I started the program I didn’t k now any plant names,” t he forest Hill native said. “Now I can name every single plant and tree at the mansion.” When Grothe was first looking for local businesses to get in- volved, it took almost no time to convince roland Harvey, the owner of Natural Concerns, a landscape contractor in Glencoe. This year, Harvey i s supporting three students and has invested more than $50,000 with the American Landscape Institute program. He believes if he gives back to those in horticulture who want to learn more, it will help not just his industry but the Balti- more area as a whole, he said. “my mission is job opportunities, educational opportunities and environmental enhance- ments,” Harvey said. “By using ALI we are not only increasing jobs opportunities but increasing salaries so people are able to buy houses and support families.” one of those people Harvey h as helped is Kyle mitchell, who dropped out of Virginia Te ch after a year of studying engineering. The now 24-year-old bounced from community college to community college trying to find his calling. A guidance counselor urged mitchell to take a skills test to help narrow potential fields of work. That’s when landscape ar- chitecture popped onto his radar. The Lutherville native con- nected with Harvey at Natural Concerns, learned about the American Landscape Institute and jumped at the opportunity to enroll. Now, it’s the first time in years he’s ever looked forward to an academic class. “I never knew what I wanted in my life,” mitchell said. “A nd the first year here, I finally knew this was for me.” Turnbaugh, the former finance worker, said she used to feel like she was “flying by the seat of her pants.” Just a few months away from graduation, she confidently pre- sented a final design for a mock client on the last day of the winter semester. “for my s hade plantings, I went with ferns because they’re low maintenance,” Turnbaugh told her class. “A nd then hydrangeas on the side because then they have something to look at year round.” Local business owners, including her boss, peppered her with questions, wondering how the plants would hold u p to rainfall or what kind of stone she planned to use for the new pathway. Turnbaugh answered them with ease. “I finally found my niche,” she said. “This could be the rest of my life.” — Baltimore Sun

MARYLAND

Landscaping group builds its footprint

Horticulture is “a great

industry — w e just need

new people.” Andreas Grothe, founder of the American Landscape Institute

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