City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0078R

• File #: 08-0078R
• Version: 0
• Name: Fiscal Forecast - Informational Hearing
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 10/27/2008
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/11/2010
• Title: Fiscal Forecast - Informational Hearing FOR the purpose of requesting the Honorable Chairs of the Baltimore City Senate and House Delegations to the 2009 Maryland General Assembly, the Executive Director of the Maryland Association of Counties, the Executive Director of the Maryland Municipal League, and the Director of Finance to brief the City Council on the fiscal condition of the State budget, projected budget shortfalls, and the impact of State budget deficits on the programs, projects, and functions of local government.
• Sponsors: Rochelle Spector, James B. Kraft, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Bill Henry, President Young, William H. Cole, IV, Helen L. Holton, Agnes Welch, Warren Branch, Mary Pat Clarke, Robert Curran, Edward Reisinger, Sharon Green Middleton
• Indexes: Fiscal Forecast, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/11/2010	0	City Council	Withdrawn
10/30/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
10/27/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
10/27/2008	0	City Council	Assigned
10/27/2008	0	Budget and Appropriations/Committee of the Whole	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: Councilmembers Spector, Kraft, President Rawlings-Blake

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Fiscal Forecast - Informational Hearing

FOR the purpose of requesting the Honorable Chairs of the Baltimore City Senate and House Delegations to the 2009 Maryland General Assembly, the Executive Director of the Maryland Association of Counties, the Executive Director of the Maryland Municipal League, and the Director of Finance to brief the City Council on the fiscal condition of the State budget, projected budget shortfalls, and the impact of State budget deficits on the programs, projects, and functions of local government.
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The news of a projected $432 million budget shortfall at the State level has led to speculation about the effects on the budgets of local governments. Local leaders are concerned that diminished State coffers could lead to increases in local taxes, severe cuts to services, and the shifting of State budget obligations, such as the $622 million cost of teachers’ pensions, from the State to local governments.

To a degree, Baltimore City’s fiscal interests have been protected by membership in the Maryland Association of Counties (MACo) and the Maryland Municipal League (MML). MACo’s Board of Directors supports a State budget reconciliation position that, in part, “recognizes the nexus between the State’s fiscal stability and its counties’ fiscal h...