City of Baltimore - File #: 05-0064R

• File #: 05-0064R
• Version: 0
• Name: Environmental Consent Decree - Minority Business and Worker Participation
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 6/6/2005
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 8/15/2005
• Title: FOR the purpose of requesting the Director of the Mayor's Office of Minority Business Development to report to the City Council on the percentage of minority business participation in contracts awarded to meet the requirements of the Environmental Consent Decree and the percentage of City residents employed by all businesses awarded contracts to perform any services associated with the Decree; and to ensure that residents and businesses in our City who wish to participate directly benefit from performing services that correct conditions that for years negatively impacted the public and environmental health of themselves, their families, and their neighborhoods.
• Sponsors: President Young, President Dixon, Kenneth Harris, Helen L. Holton, Edward Reisinger, Belinda Conaway, Paula Johnson Branch, Keiffer Mitchell, James B. Kraft, Mary Pat Clarke, Agnes Welch, Robert Curran, Stephanie Rawlings Blake
• Indexes: Environmental Consent Decree, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/15/2005	0	City Council	Adopted	Pass
8/3/2005	0	Economic Development and Public Financing Subcommittee	Recommended Favorably	Pass
6/9/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/9/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/9/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/6/2005	0	City Council	Introduced
6/6/2005	0	The 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 Young


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning

Environmental Consent Decree - Minority Business and Worker Participation
Title
FOR the purpose of requesting the Director of the Mayor's Office of Minority Business Development to report to the City Council on the percentage of minority business participation in contracts awarded to meet the requirements of the Environmental Consent Decree and the percentage of City residents employed by all businesses awarded contracts to perform any services associated with the Decree; and to ensure that residents and businesses in our City who wish to participate directly benefit from performing services that correct conditions that for years negatively impacted the public and environmental health of themselves, their families, and their neighborhoods.
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On September 30, 2002, the City of Baltimore, Department of Public Works Bureau of Water and Waste Water joined a growing list of municipalities facing Environmental Consent Decrees to address sanitary and combined sewer overflows that resulted from an aged and obsolete wastewater collection system. The purpose of the Decree is to maintain public and environmental health by upgrading the system and will ultimately protect Baltimore's harbor and streams, the Chesapeake Bay, and the overall well being of the citizens of Baltimore.

The primary focus of the Environmental Consent...