City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0070R

• File #: 08-0070R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Vector Control
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 10/6/2008
• In control: Judiciary and Legislative Investigations
• Final action: 2/9/2009
• Title: Informational Hearing - Vector Control FOR the purpose of requesting the Commissioner of the Health Department, the Director of the Bureau of Vector Control, and the members of the Interagency Sweep Team to brief the City Council on the effectiveness of Vector Control Bureau activity in controlling the rat population in City neighborhoods, the success of outreach efforts in enlisting the citizenry in rat eradication efforts, the methods used to measure the efficacy of rat control and abatement efforts, and the level of coordinated, rat-density based, interagency strategic coordination and application for long-term control of the rodent population.
• Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, President Young, Robert Curran, Edward Reisinger, Warren Branch, William H. Cole, IV, Bill Henry, James B. Kraft, Agnes Welch, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton
• Indexes: Resolution, Vector Control

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/9/2009	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably
2/9/2009	0	City Council	Adopted
12/4/2008	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
10/9/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/9/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/9/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/6/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
10/6/2008	0	City Council	Assigned

* 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: President Rawlings-Blake

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Informational Hearing - Vector Control

FOR the purpose of requesting the Commissioner of the Health Department, the Director of the Bureau of Vector Control, and the members of the Interagency Sweep Team to brief the City Council on the effectiveness of Vector Control Bureau activity in controlling the rat population in City neighborhoods, the success of outreach efforts in enlisting the citizenry in rat eradication efforts, the methods used to measure the efficacy of rat control and abatement efforts, and the level of coordinated, rat-density based, interagency strategic coordination and application for long-term control of the rodent population.
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The Bureau of Vector Control (VC) of the Baltimore City Health Department “provides services to residents by inspecting and treating sites suspected of having rodent infestation. Inspection and treatment services are provided in response to complaints received at the City’s 311 Call Center or Baltimore CitiTrack Service Request System. They are implemented via strike teams that coordinate targeted neighborhood sweeps. These sweeps are the result of a series of assessments that include meetings with neighborhood residents and community leaders.

Neighborhood sweeps are performed under a comprehensive rodent control initiative known as the Interag...