City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0029R

• File #: 08-0029R
• Version: 0
• Name: Opportunity Budget - Next Phase Is Agency Status
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 3/17/2008
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 4/28/2008
• Enactment #: 08-72
• Title: Opportunity Budget - Next Phase Is Agency Status FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City Council to support the inclusion of a Youth Opportunity Budget within the Finance Department's Recommendations to the Board of Estimates and as a crucial component of the Board of Estimates' recommendations to the Baltimore City Council for approval in the fiscal year 2009 operational budget of the City of Baltimore.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, Bill Henry, Warren Branch, Helen L. Holton, Belinda Conaway, Agnes Welch, Sharon Green Middleton, Rochelle Spector, William H. Cole, IV, President Young
• Indexes: Budget, Resolution, Youth

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/28/2008	0	Budget and Appropriations Committee	Recommended Favorably
4/28/2008	0	City Council	Adopted
4/7/2008	0	Budget and Appropriations Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
3/20/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
3/20/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
3/17/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
3/17/2008	0	City Council	Assigned

* 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 Clarke


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Opportunity Budget - Next Phase Is Agency Status

FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore City Council to support the inclusion of a Youth Opportunity Budget within the Finance Department's Recommendations to the Board of Estimates and as a crucial component of the Board of Estimates' recommendations to the Baltimore City Council for approval in the fiscal year 2009 operational budget of the City of Baltimore.
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WHEREAS, Throughout the past 3 years of Baltimore City surpluses, City government has established and funded a network of school and community-based programs to keep our children safe and successful, thanks in large part to our Mayor in her advocacy when she served as City Council President and to our current City Council President whose service on the Council included being the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and a youth advocate; and

WHEREAS, In a down-turning economy, youth programs can no longer stand on the outskirts of Baltimore City's budget priorities, waiting in vain for surplus funding no longer available; and

WHEREAS, Baltimore City's Youth Opportunity Budget is zero-based, requesting the same level of City funding and the same "count" of children served as in the current fiscal year 2008 budget, including supplementary appropriations; and

WHEREAS, The youth ...