City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0147R

• File #: 09-0147R
• Version: 0
• Name: In Remembrance of the Honorable Kenneth N. Harris, Sr. - July 17, 1963 - September 20, 2008
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 9/14/2009
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 9/14/2009
• Title: In Remembrance of the Honorable Kenneth N. Harris, Sr. - July 17, 1963 - September 20, 2008 FOR the purpose of honoring the life of Councilman Kenneth N. Harris, expressing appreciation for the many contributions he made to Baltimore City and its citizenry, acknowledging the senseless circumstances of his passing, and rededicating to the continuation of his mission to ensure quality education, safe communities, and equal justice, and to make Baltimore City a better place to live.
• Sponsors: Belinda Conaway, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Bill Henry, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Warren Branch, Sharon Green Middleton, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, William H. Cole, IV, James B. Kraft, President Young, Rochelle Spector, Mary Pat Clarke
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/14/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
9/14/2009	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
9/14/2009	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 Conaway


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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In Remembrance of the Honorable Kenneth N. Harris, Sr. - July 17, 1963 - September 20, 2008

FOR the purpose of honoring the life of Councilman Kenneth N. Harris, expressing appreciation for the many contributions he made to Baltimore City and its citizenry, acknowledging the senseless circumstances of his passing, and rededicating to the continuation of his mission to ensure quality education, safe communities, and equal justice, and to make Baltimore City a better place to live.
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On September 22, 2008, the City Council unanimously adopted a Resolution In Tribute to the Honorable Kenneth N. Harris, Sr. – A Distinguished Son of Baltimore Gone Far too Soon, paying tribute to a colleague and good friend who, in the early morning hours of September 20, 2008, was tragically taken from those who loved and admired him, by gunfire such as that heard too often on the very streets he dedicated himself to improving for the constituents he served.

The Resolution spoke to the irony of the fact that Ken was taken from us by the senseless violence that he sought to address by sponsoring legislation, in his more than 8 years of service on the City Council, to keep young people off the streets and to provide them with the counseling and the social services they and their families needed to ensure they remained enrolle...