City of Baltimore - File #: 10-0221R

• File #: 10-0221R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Revenue Enhancement Measures
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 8/9/2010
• In control: City Council
• Title: Informational Hearing - Revenue Enhancement Measures FOR the purpose of requesting the Director of Finance and the Chief, Bureau of Budget and Management Research to develop a mechanism for periodic review of revenue enhancement measures adopted to address Fiscal Year 2011 budgetary shortfalls to determine the rate of return and performance when compared to traditional revenue streams.
• Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, Carl Stokes, James B. Kraft, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, Belinda Conaway, Edward Reisinger, Agnes Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Sharon Green Middleton, Robert Curran, President Young
• Indexes: Resolution, Revenue

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/31/2011	0	Budget and Appropriations Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
1/24/2011	0	Budget and Appropriations Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
10/4/2010	0	Budget and Appropriations Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
8/12/2010	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/9/2010	0	City Council	Introduced
8/9/2010	0	City Council	Assigned
8/9/2010	0	Budget and Appropriations Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

* 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 Holton

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Revenue Enhancement Measures

FOR the purpose of requesting the Director of Finance and the Chief, Bureau of Budget and Management Research to develop a mechanism for periodic review of revenue enhancement measures adopted to address Fiscal Year 2011 budgetary shortfalls to determine the rate of return and performance when compared to traditional revenue streams.
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Recitals

The overview of the Fiscal 2011 Preliminary Budget Plan states that “the number that defines Baltimore’s budget challenge for Fiscal 2011 is $121 million. That is the gap between the cost of maintaining the current level of City services and the amount of revenue the City expects to take in. The $121 million gap is equivalent to the cost of half of the City’s police force, the entire firefighter force, or the combined Health, Housing, Recreation and Parks, and Library budgets.”

The Mayor’s Press release of March 24, 2010 warned that “without additional revenue, the City faces the prospect of closing seven fire companies, laying off sworn police officers, grounding police helicopters, shuttering dozens of recreation centers and swimming pools, slashing street repair and resurfacing, and abolishing 941 positions, 606 of them currently filled according to the Preliminary Budget Plan.”

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