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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - An Update from the State's Attorney's Office
FOR the purpose of respectfully requesting the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office to address the City Council in order to review operations and programs so that vital positions in the pursuit of crime in Baltimore City are identified, and to explain the plans to transition these positions from being grant funded to being in the operating budget.
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On May 23, 2005 Baltimore City State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy stood before the City Council's Budget and Appropriations Committee in an effort to convince public officials that her office should be provided with a portion of the $37 million City budget surplus. Ms. Jessamy told the Committee that she desperately needed $2.2 million in addition to her $22.3 million budget allocation from the City in order to make up for waning State and federal grants.
Of 391 positions, Ms. Jessamy's office has 280 city-funded positions and 111 grant-funded positions. The temporary grants that pay for 33 employees are due to expire in December, 2005. Of the 200 prosecutors in the State Attorney's office, 21 of them are accounted for under these short-term grants, including 7 gun prosecutors.
Although her office has received increased funding in recent years, Ms. Jessamy argued that the growing dema...
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