City of Baltimore - File #: 22-0116R

• File #: 22-0116R
• Version: 0
• Name: Reduction to the Ordinance of Estimates for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2023 - Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 6/27/2022
• In control: Ways and Means
• Final action: 12/4/2024
• Title: Reduction to the Ordinance of Estimates for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2023 - Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office For the purpose of requesting that the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office take certain necessary actions to improve the eviction process in Baltimore City; memorializing the mutual agreement between the Mayor and the City Council to provide $500,000 in supplemental appropriations to the Department of Housing and Community Development to implement Ordinance 20-465, Right to Counsel in Eviction Cases; and generally relating to a reduction to the Ordinance of Estimates for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2023 from the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office Service 882 and Service 884.
• Sponsors: Odette Ramos, Ryan Dorsey, Phylicia Porter, Zeke Cohen, James Torrence
• Indexes: Ordinance of Estimates, Sheriff

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/30/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Dept. of Finance
6/30/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to City Solicitor
6/30/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Sheriff's Office
6/30/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Refer to Dept. of Housing and Community Development
6/27/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Assigned
6/27/2022	0	Baltimore City Council	Introduced

* Warning: This is an unofficial, introductory copy of the bill.
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: Councilmember Ramos



A Resolution Entitled

A Council Resolution concerning
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Reduction to the Ordinance of Estimates for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2023 - Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office
For the purpose of requesting that the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office take certain necessary actions to improve the eviction process in Baltimore City; memorializing the mutual agreement between the Mayor and the City Council to provide $500,000 in supplemental appropriations to the Department of Housing and Community Development to implement Ordinance 20-465, Right to Counsel in Eviction Cases; and generally relating to a reduction to the Ordinance of Estimates for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 2023 from the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office Service 882 and Service 884.
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The Baltimore City Council reduced both Service 882 and Service 884 under the Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office by $250,000, respectively, in Council Bill 22-0235, the Ordinance of Estimates for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2023, enacted June 23, 2022. The Mayor has agreed to introduce a supplemental appropriation in the same amount to the Department of Housing and Community Development to implement Ordinance 20-465, enacted November 16, 2020, effective as of March 16, 2021, Right to Counsel in Eviction Cases.

As discussed during budget hearings for the Sheriff’s Office, members of the Baltimore City Council have concerns about the practices of ...