City of Baltimore - File #: 06-0235R

• File #: 06-0235R
• Version: 0
• Name: Organizational Meeting - A Committee to Create to A Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of Baltimore City
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 11/20/2006
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/5/2007
• Title: Organizational Meeting - A Committee to Create to A Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of Baltimore City FOR the purpose of creating an organizational committee that will create a venue to engage the children and youth of Baltimore City in all-inclusive process to identify issues of the most import to their mental stability, physical health, substantive education, general well being, and future spiritual and economic prosperity; to ratify these issues in an official document comprising A Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of Baltimore City to be adopted by the City Council; and to ultimately call upon themselves, the community, organizations, governmental entities, and elected officials, as is appropriate, to uphold the provisions of the document through thought, word, deed, and legislative action.
• Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, President Young, James B. Kraft, Paula Johnson Branch, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Keiffer Mitchell, Agnes Welch
• Indexes: Bill of Rights, Children, Resolution, Youth

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/23/2007	0	The City Council	Reassigned
11/23/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
11/23/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
11/23/2006	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
11/20/2006	0	City Council	Introduced
11/20/2006	0	City Council

* 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 Holton

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Organizational Meeting - A Committee to Create to A Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of Baltimore City

FOR the purpose of creating an organizational committee that will create a venue to engage the children and youth of Baltimore City in all-inclusive process to identify issues of the most import to their mental stability, physical health, substantive education, general well being, and future spiritual and economic prosperity; to ratify these issues in an official document comprising A Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of Baltimore City to be adopted by the City Council; and to ultimately call upon themselves, the community, organizations, governmental entities, and elected officials, as is appropriate, to uphold the provisions of the document through thought, word, deed, and legislative action.
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In April of this year, Baltimore City leaders announced that because of the strong performance of the Baltimore economy, the Administration is proposing using the projected FY 2006 budget surplus to increase educational, cultural, and recreational opportunities for children in Baltimore. The recommendation is that 56% of this year's projected surplus be allocated to programs that directly support the quality of life for children in the City - ushering an era "where budget decisions now focus on how be...