City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0175R

• File #: 06-0175R
• Version: 0
• Name: BGE Rate Increase - Special Session of the Maryland General Assembly
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 5/1/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 5/1/2006
• Title: BGE Rate Increase - Special Session of the Maryland General Assembly FOR the purpose of urging the Baltimore City Delegation to the Maryland General Assembly to request the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House to convene a special session of the Maryland General Assembly to pass legislation to address the 72% rate increase that BGE is scheduled to impose on electric power customers in the State of Maryland beginning July 1, 2006.
• Sponsors: Kenneth Harris, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, Rochelle Spector, Helen L. Holton, Keiffer Mitchell, Edward Reisinger, James B. Kraft, Agnes Welch, Belinda Conaway, Mary Pat Clarke, Stephanie Rawlings Blake
• Indexes: BGE, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/1/2006	0	City Council	Adopted
5/1/2006	0	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.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Harris

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
BGE Rate Increase - Special Session of the Maryland General Assembly

FOR the purpose of urging the Baltimore City Delegation to the Maryland General Assembly to request the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House to convene a special session of the Maryland General Assembly to pass legislation to address the 72% rate increase that BGE is scheduled to impose on electric power customers in the State of Maryland beginning July 1, 2006.
Body
Recitals

Despite frenzied negotiations in both the Senate and House of Delegates, legislation that would have averted a 72% rate increase for BGE customers died in the last hours of the 2006 Session of the Maryland General Assembly. Last week the Public Service Commission ratified, by a 4-1 vote, a decision that would not effect the amount of the increase but would spread the increase out for customers that opted to apportion it over an 18-month period.

The legislature acknowledged the hardship that the rate increase would impose and worked diligently to attempt to lessen the impact on the public. Advocacy groups for the poor and elderly voiced opposition to an action that would break the budgets of those already in peril of falling way below the poverty line...