With fall storms and winter weather on the way, many Holiday Island residents are thinking about trimming or removing trees. Before you hire anyone, please take a few minutes to protect yourself. The City has recently received several complaints about a tree trimming and removal company working in Holiday Island without a City business license and possibly without proper insurance. Residents have reported: Work started without the homeowner’s permission Bills for more than th

Thank you to everyone who came to Saturday’s Q&A session at the Club House. We had a productive discussion about the Long Range Plan (LRP) and the sales tax issue on the November ballot.

The City of Holiday Island and HISID have released a Long Range Plan that outlines a transition of all HISID services to the City and the eventual phase-out of HISID.

Ward 3 needs you on the City Council!

Holiday Island City Hall will be closed on Monday, September 7, 2026 for the Labor Day holiday.

Carroll County Solid Waste District will be holding the annual Holiday Island Fall Clean-Up on Saturday, October 24, 2026.

Over the past year and a half, the city and the Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District (HISID) have been working through a planning process to determine whether it would benefit residents and property owners for HISID to transition some or all of its services to the city.

Refresh your driving skills and knowledge of the rules of the road.

This November, all six City Council positions as well as the Office of Mayor will be on the general election ballot.

On Saturday, July 11, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. in the Clubhouse Ballroom, Mayor Kees will present information and lead a community discussion on an important question: Should Holiday Island establish its own police department? Carroll County Sheriff Klatt will be providing his input at this meeting.

We’re pleased to share that the contractor scheduled to pave the roads listed below is expected to begin work around Tuesday, June 16, 2026.

On Saturday, July 11, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. in the Clubhouse Ballroom, Mayor Kees will present information and lead a discussion on whether Holiday Island should pursue establishing a police department.

RABIES AND MICROCHIP CLINIC on Saturday, June 13, 2026 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

The City was recently contacted by an individual to see if a particular company had a Holiday Island business license. The company did not but apparently had a license at one time and they simply falsified the date on it to make it look current. The caller had paid a large sum of money to this individual and the work turned out to be shoddy and incomplete. I cannot identify the company since the City has not actually observed him doing work in Holiday Island. But here are a f

The City and the Suburban Improvement District will hold their third workshop to discuss transitioning services currently performed by HISID to the City this Saturday, May 2, 2026 at 9:00 A.M. in the Ballroom. In my State of the City address in January, I outlined in general terms the services being provided by the Holiday Island Suburban Improvement District (HISID) including road maintenance, fire protection, water and sewer utilities, and recreation facilities, will gradu

Key dates for the 2026 November election.

Periodically something circulates on social media that if not addressed, can be very harmful to the community. So, I try to set the record straight. In this case it’s rumors about our City Building Inspector being notified by the State Building Inspector that he can no longer do inspections. This is totally false and if the person who made a recent post on Nextdoor would have called the city office, he could have had his answer. But then again getting an answer may not have b