City of Baltimore - File #: 10-0187R

• File #: 10-0187R
• Version: 0
• Name: To Encourage Humanitarian Aid to Haiti
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 1/25/2010
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/25/2010
• Title: To Encourage Humanitarian Aid to Haiti FOR the purpose of urging all citizens of Baltimore City to give what they can to aid the victims of the January 12, 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, to express support for bipartisan legislation in Congress that encourages Americans to donate to the Haitian recovery, and to entreat all those who give aid to continue their efforts even after the disaster has been displaced in media headlines.
• Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, President Young, James B. Kraft, Robert Curran, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, Edward Reisinger, Agnes Welch, Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, Warren Branch, Rochelle Spector, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Belinda Conaway
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/25/2010	0	City Council	Introduced
1/25/2010	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
1/25/2010	0	City Council	Adopted

* 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 Holton

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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To Encourage Humanitarian Aid to Haiti

FOR the purpose of urging all citizens of Baltimore City to give what they can to aid the victims of the January 12, 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, to express support for bipartisan legislation in Congress that encourages Americans to donate to the Haitian recovery, and to entreat all those who give aid to continue their efforts even after the disaster has been displaced in media headlines.
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Recitals

The massive January 12th earthquake that struck the nation of Haiti, causing catastrophic damage inside and around the capital city of Port-au-Prince, exacerbated unimaginably horrific conditions in one of the least developed countries in the world, which has struggled in recent years with problems ranging from near-constant political upheaval, intractable health crisis, extreme environmental degradation, and a yearly barrage of hurricanes, including one last year that killed some 800 people and caused vast damage to the infrastructure.

That earthquake, which registered 7.0 on the Richter scale, reduced much of Haiti’s capital to rubble, and killed an estimated 50,000, was followed by a powerful new earthquake just over a week later that registered 6.1 on the Richter scale. The new quake sent thousands of people into the streets of Port -au-Prince, striking as the of...