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THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
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CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: President Dixon
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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BALTIMORESPONDS II - Hurricane Katrina
FOR the purpose of showing support for the campaign entitled "BALTIMORESPONDS to Hurricane Katrina," an effort to encourage Baltimore City residents and area businesses to donate funds to the Baltimore Community Foundation, the Associated Black Charities, or any of a number of relief agencies who are currently devoting their time and energy to helping those in need.
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As citizens of Baltimore and as Americans, we've all been touched in different ways by the unprecedented damage and loss of life caused by Hurricane Katrina. The somber news coming out of the Gulf states in the aftermath of the storm interrupted our lives with questions. Questions about what we hold dear and about nature's indiscriminate way. Questions about coping and surviving and about suddenly uncertain futures. And as we questioned, we responded individually, as families, as groups, and as a country.
Now we respond as a city.
In January 2005, Council President Dixon launched the BALTIMORESPONDS campaign in response to the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami in South Asia. BALTIMORESPONDS was created to provide a way for city residents to show our concern for members of our human family a world away-and to demonstrate our civic pride as citizens of Baltimore. Over $33,000 was raised, and funds were administered by Baltimore Community Foundation and distributed equally at the close of the campaign to relief agencies headquartered in Baltimore for use in the affected areas.
Now a similar natural disaster strikes here at home, inundating our own shores and uprooting thousands of Americans from their homes and their livelihoods, and, in many cases, leaving survivors with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Rebuilding will be a long-term process and require a long-term commitment. Hurricane Katrina left unprecedented destruction and tremendous loss of life in her wake, perhaps transforming forever the Gulf states.
At moments like these, our every instinct is to help our neighbor in time of need, to harness our better angels, and to lend a helping hand to our fellow Americans in Louisiana and Mississippi.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That this Body supports the campaign entitled "BALTIMORESPONDS to Hurricane Katrina," an effort to encourage Baltimore City residents and area businesses to donate funds to the Red Cross, Salvation Army, or any of a number of relief agencies who are currently devoting their time and energy to helping those in need.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this Resolution be sent to the Mayor and the Mayor's Legislative Liaison to the Council.
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