City of Baltimore - File #: 12-0093

• File #: 12-0093
• Version: 0
• Name: Charter Amendment - Minority Party Representation on Boards and Commissions
• Type: Mayor and City Council Res.
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 6/4/2012
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 6/26/2012
• Enactment #: 12-05
• Title: Charter Amendment - Minority Party Representation on Boards and Commissions FOR the purpose of allowing voters registered as unaffiliated or as third party members to sit on City boards and commissions as minority party representatives; defining a certain term; generally relating to minority party representation on City boards and commissions; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, William H. Cole, IV, Sharon Green Middleton, Carl Stokes, James B. Kraft, President Young, Bill Henry, Brandon M. Scott, Nick Mosby, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger, Robert Curran, Warren Branch
• Indexes: Boards and Commissions, Charter Amendment, Representatives

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/26/2012	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
6/25/2012	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
6/18/2012	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably
6/18/2012	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
6/7/2012	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/7/2012	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/7/2012	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/4/2012	0	City Council	Introduced
6/4/2012	0	City Council	Assigned
6/4/2012	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* 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
(Charter Amendment)

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL concerning
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Charter Amendment - Minority Party Representation on Boards and Commissions

FOR the purpose of allowing voters registered as unaffiliated or as third party members to sit on City boards and commissions as minority party representatives; defining a certain term; generally relating to minority party representation on City boards and commissions; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.
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BY proposing to amend
Article IV - Mayor
Section(s) 8
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)

SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows:

Baltimore City Charter

Article IV. Mayor

§  8. Minority party representation.

Except as otherwise provided in the Charter or by other law, at least one member, in the case of commissions or boards composed of not more than five members, and at least two members, in the case of commissions or boards composed of more than five members, shall be registered voters [of the minority party] in Baltimore City WHO ARE NOT REGISTERED AS MEMBERS OF THE MAJORITY PARTY. The [“minority party”] “MAJORITY PARTY” shall be that political party which had the [...