Baltimore City Council
File #: 09-0267    Version: 0 Name: Charter Amendment - Multi-Year Collective Bargaining
Type: Mayor and City Council Res. Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 1/12/2009 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment #:
Title: Charter Amendment - Multi-Year Collective Bargaining FOR the purpose of authorizing the Board of Estimates to approve multi-year collective bargaining agreements with certified employee organizations, subject to certain conditions; providing for the funding of those agreements; conforming and clarifying related language; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.
Sponsors: President Young, Warren Branch, James B. Kraft, Sharon Green Middleton, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Helen L. Holton, Belinda Conaway
Indexes: Charter Amendment, Collective Bargaining, Multi-Year
Attachments: 1. 09-0267 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Labor Comm. - 09-0267.pdf
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 Young


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL concerning
Title
Charter Amendment - Multi-Year Collective Bargaining

FOR the purpose of authorizing the Board of Estimates to approve multi-year collective bargaining agreements with certified employee organizations, subject to certain conditions; providing for the funding of those agreements; conforming and clarifying related language; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.
Body
BY proposing an amendment to
Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section(s) 12(b)
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 VI. Board of Estimates

§ 12. Salary and wage scales; work conditions.

(b) Multi-year collective bargaining agreements.

(1) The Board of Estimates may approve A collective bargaining [agreements] AGREEMENT between the City and [either or both the Baltimore Fire Fighters, IAFF Local 734, and the Baltimore Fire Officers, IAFF Local 964,] A CERTIFIED EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATION for [terms] A TERM of not less than 1 fiscal year and not more than 3 consecutive fiscal years, so long as the term of [any] THE collective barg...

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