* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Curran
At the request of: The United Steel Workers of America, District & The Metropolitan Baltimore Council AFL-CIO Unions
Address: 2701 Patapsco Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21230
Telephone: 410-242-1300
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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2009 Resolution on the Spending of Federal Economic Renewal Grants to Baltimore City, Maryland
FOR the purpose of supporting the intent of the United Steel Workers and the Metropolitan Baltimore Council AFL-CIO Unions to maximize the creation of American jobs and restore economic growth and opportunity by spending economic recovery plan funds on products and services that both create jobs and help keep Americans employed.
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WHEREAS, The economic downturn is having a critical impact on everyday Americans who are struggling to maintain or find jobs in an increasingly difficult environment; and
WHEREAS, Those same Americans are the taxpayers that provide the revenue needed to operate essential government services; and
WHEREAS, Congress and President Obama adopted a taxpayer-sponsored economic recovery package that will provide billions of dollars to help economically devastated cities and states immediately provide jobs to millions of out-of-work Americans through considerable
infrastructure rebuilding, green energy projects, and other projects that will require manufactured components; and
WHEREAS, Our taxpayer dollars should be spent to maximize the creation of American jobs and restore the economic vitality of our communities; and
WHEREAS, Any domestically produced products that are purchased with economic recovery plan monies will immediately help struggling American families and will help stabilize our greater economy; and,
WHEREAS, Any economic recovery plan spending should - to every extent possible - include a commitment from Baltimore City to buy materials and goods produced within the United States for projects, thus employing the very workers that pay taxes for the economic recovery plan spending in the first place.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Baltimore City Council supports the work of the United Steel Workers and the Metropolitan Baltimore Council of AFL-CIO Unions to maximize the creation of American jobs and restore economic growth and opportunity by spending economic recovery plan funds on products and services that both create jobs and help keep Americans employed.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That we commit to purchasing only products and services that are made or performed in the United States of America whenever and wherever possible with any economic recovery money provided by the American taxpayers.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, As legislators of Baltimore City, we commit to publish any requests to waive existing procurement priorities so as to give American workers and producers the opportunity to identify and provide the American products and services that will maximize the success of our nation’s economic recovery program.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be sent to the Mayor, the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development, the Director of Finance, the Baltimore City Solicitor, the President of the United Steel Workers, the President of the Metropolitan Baltimore Council of AFL-CIO Unions, and the Mayor’s Legislative Liaison to the City Council.
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