* 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: Councilmembers Ramos, Middleton
A Resolution Entitled
A Council Resolution concerning
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Request for State Action - Highway User Revenues
For the purpose of calling upon the Maryland General Assembly to pass, and Governor Lawrence J. Hogan to sign, Senate Bill 726/House Bill 1187 - Transportation - Highway User Revenues - Revenue and Distribution.
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Baltimore City is the only local jurisdiction in Maryland that is responsible for maintaining State highways and an interstate (I-83) in the jurisdiction. All other State highways and interstates outside of Baltimore City are maintained by the State of Maryland’s Department of Transportation, the State Highway Administration, or the Maryland Transportation Authority. Therefore, Baltimore City historically has had the highest allocation of the highway user revenues in the State.
During the depths of the Great Recession in 2009, the State faced a mid-year budget crisis. The Board of Public Works adopted a 90% reduction of the local distributions of highway user revenues and a roughly 40% reduction to Baltimore City’s allocation, the largest reduction to any jurisdiction by far. Since then, recession-driven cutbacks in many service areas have been fully or largely restored. This is not the case with highway user revenues, which remain far, far behind historic levels, even after the State has enacted a substantial transportation revenue increase.
As a result, in t...
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