Bel Air Commissioner New Legal Counsel For Port Deposit

was hired last month as legal counsel for the town of Port Deposit in Cecil County.

"We interviewed multiple attorneys and we felt that Dave had the background, not only in the legal sense, but also in the municipal sense with his tenure at Bel Air," Port Deposit  mayor Wayne Tome said Tuesday.

Carey said the new position will not impact his responsabilities with the town of Bel Air.

"Port Deposit is just a client," Carey said.

Tome said Carey met all of Port Deposit's requirements.

"Everything dovetails, he fit into our budget for legal counsel,” Tome said. “It was just a good fit."

Carey is in the middle of his four-year term. He was elected in 2005 and served as Bel Air's mayor until last month when Edward Hopkins was appointed mayor. Carey replaces John Buck as legal counsel for the Cecil County town.

"He took a job with the state public defender’s office," Tome said of Buck, "and he could no longer do anything on the private side. It wasn’t anything negative with the relationship with the town."