City of Baltimore - File #: 12-0025R

• File #: 12-0025R
• Version: 0
• Name: Increased Funding for Youth Summer Jobs
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 2/27/2012
• In control: Education and Youth Committee
• Final action: 3/26/2012
• Title: Increased Funding for Youth Summer Jobs FOR the purpose of supporting the Baltimore Safe and Sound Campaign in its call to double City funding for summer jobs to ensure that all young people have an opportunity to gain summer work experience.
• Sponsors: Bill Henry, Mary Pat Clarke, Robert Curran, Carl Stokes, Sharon Green Middleton, Helen L. Holton, Warren Branch, President Young, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Resolution, Youth

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/26/2012	0	City Council	Adopted
3/23/2012	0	Education and Youth Committee	Recommended Favorably
3/5/2012	0	Education and Youth Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
3/1/2012	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
3/1/2012	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
2/27/2012	0	City Council	Introduced
2/27/2012	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: Councilmember Henry
At the request of: The Safe and Sound Campaign


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Increased Funding for Youth Summer Jobs

FOR the purpose of supporting the Baltimore Safe and Sound Campaign in its call to double City funding for summer jobs to ensure that all young people have an opportunity to gain summer work experience.
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Recitals

The Education and Youth Committee of the Baltimore City Council held a roundtable discussion on January 19, 2012 that generated a number of ideas worth pursuing. One of the participants, the Baltimore Safe & Sound Campaign, presented the idea of doubling funding for summer jobs programs for young people.

Last year, over 6,000 youth applied for only 5,000 slots - over 1,000 kids who wanted summer jobs were denied the opportunity. Doubling funding for summer jobs programs would allow as many as 10,000 young people to be employed over the summer in Fiscal Year 2013. This would make it much more likely that all young people who wanted a summer job would have the opportunity to get one, unlike at current funding levels.

Young people deserve the opportunity to develop skills and prepare for the "real" world. Summer jobs provide many youth with their first taste of the working world and provide a foundation of skills that will help them succeed throughout their lives. These jobs also provide young people...