City of Baltimore - File #: 15-0204R

• File #: 15-0204R
• Version: 0
• Name: Establishing a Baltimore City African American Business, Tourism, Entertainment & Heritage Preservation Commission
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 2/23/2015
• In control: Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee
• Final action: 11/9/2015
• Title: Establishing a Baltimore City African American Business, Tourism, Entertainment & Heritage Preservation Commission FOR the purpose of calling on representatives from Baltimore's tourism, entertainment, business, and heritage preservation communities to meet with the Baltimore City Council in a hearing to determine how best to fashion and establish a Baltimore City African American Business, Tourism, Entertainment & Heritage Preservation Commission, and to seek a source of designated funding for the Commission.
• Sponsors: Carl Stokes, Brandon M. Scott, Bill Henry, Nick Mosby, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Eric T. Costello, Robert Curran, Warren Branch, William "Pete" Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Rochelle Spector
• Indexes: African American Business, Baltimore City, Entertainment, Heritage Preservation Commission, Tourism

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/9/2015	0	City Council	Adopted
11/9/2015	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Recommended Favorably
11/2/2015	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Recommended Favorably	Pass
10/26/2015	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
4/27/2015	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
2/26/2015	0	The City Council	Refer to Baltimore Development Corporation
2/26/2015	0	The City Council	Refer to Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts
2/26/2015	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Finance
2/26/2015	0	The City Council	Refer to Visit Baltimore
2/23/2015	0	City Council	Assigned
2/23/2015	0	City Council	Introduced	Pass

* 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 Stokes



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Establishing a Baltimore City African American Business, Tourism, Entertainment & Heritage Preservation Commission
FOR the purpose of calling on representatives from Baltimore's tourism, entertainment, business, and heritage preservation communities to meet with the Baltimore City Council in a hearing to determine how best to fashion and establish a Baltimore City African American Business, Tourism, Entertainment & Heritage Preservation Commission, and to seek a source of designated funding for the Commission.
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Recitals

Baltimore City is the birthplace and home to many of America?s greatest African American public servants and national icons. Baltimore City has literally hundreds of historic sites that are in desperate need of increased awareness and appreciation, and in many cases in need of immediate preservation efforts, and should be recognized as national and local historic sites of interest to the citizens of the State of Maryland and to the nation?s domestic and international tourism and preservation communities. Additionally, many of these sites are cared for by the nonprofit community to which funding sources are not widely known or readily available.

Historic anniversaries are another item of concern as Baltimore continues to celebrate and commemorate its history and heritage of certain individuals and dates and seemi...