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CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: President Dixon
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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BALTIMORESPONDS II - Hurricane Katrina
FOR the purpose of showing support for the campaign entitled "BALTIMORESPONDS to Hurricane Katrina," an effort to encourage Baltimore City residents and area businesses to donate funds to the Baltimore Community Foundation, the Associated Black Charities, or any of a number of relief agencies who are currently devoting their time and energy to helping those in need.
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As citizens of Baltimore and as Americans, we've all been touched in different ways by the unprecedented damage and loss of life caused by Hurricane Katrina. The somber news coming out of the Gulf states in the aftermath of the storm interrupted our lives with questions. Questions about what we hold dear and about nature's indiscriminate way. Questions about coping and surviving and about suddenly uncertain futures. And as we questioned, we responded individually, as families, as groups, and as a country.
Now we respond as a city.
In January 2005, Council President Dixon launched the BALTIMORESPONDS campaign in response to the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami in South Asia. BALTIMORESPONDS was created to provide a way for city residents to show our concern for members of our human family a world away-and to demonstrate our civic pride as citizens of Baltimore. Over $33,000 was raised, and funds were administered by...
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