City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0021R

• File #: 08-0021R
• Version: 0
• Name: Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprise Coordinating Group
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 2/25/2008
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 3/10/2008
• Title: Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprise Coordinating Group FOR the purpose of requesting the inclusion of a $3 million line item in the 2008-2009 City budget for the Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises Investment Fund to expand the number of individual Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises in Baltimore City.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, James B. Kraft, William H. Cole, IV, Robert Curran, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Sharon Green Middleton, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Warren Branch, President Young
• Indexes: Peer-to-Peer, Resolution, Youth

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/10/2008	0	Education/Budget and Appropriations Committee	Recommended Favorably
3/10/2008	0	City Council	Adopted
2/25/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
2/25/2008	0	City Council	Assigned
2/25/2008	0	Education/Budget and Appropriations Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

* 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 Clarke
At the request of: Baltimore City Peer to Peer Youth Enterprise Coordinating Group
c/o Ms. Odette Ramos
Address: 3100 Harford Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21218


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprise Coordinating Group

FOR the purpose of requesting the inclusion of a $3 million line item in the 2008-2009 City budget for the Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises Investment Fund to expand the number of individual Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises in Baltimore City.
Body
WHEREAS, According to Robert Balfanz, a researcher for the Center for the Social Organization of School at Johns Hopkins University, "failure to graduate from high school has become a ticket to the underclass." Between lower tax contributions and higher social programs use, each high school dropout can be expected to cost at least $200,000 more in public funding over the course of his or her life than if he or she had earned a high school degree; and

WHEREAS, According to KidsCount Data book in 2007, 32.6% of middle school students and 42.6% of high school students are absent more than 20 days within the school year, and there is a direct correlation between attendance rates and drop out rates; and

WHEREAS, It is imperative that we implement new solutions for the crisis endangering our young people; and

WHEREAS, Peer-to-Peer Youth Enterprises ...