City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0283R

• File #: 07-0283R
• Version: 0
• Name: Baltimore City Animal Control
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 4/16/2007
• In control: Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter, Inc. (BARCS)
• Final action: 6/4/2007
• Title: Baltimore City Animal Control FOR the purpose of urgently requesting the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to immediately provide adequate funding to the Baltimore City Bureau of Animal Control, the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter, Inc., (BARCS), and the Baltimore City Police Department to successfully address issues of animal control, cruelty to animals, and endangerment of persons by vicious animals in Baltimore City and to increase the funding in succeeding years until the funding levels are equal to those in other American cities of comparable size and demographics.
• Sponsors: Robert Curran, President Young, Kenneth Harris, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, James B. Kraft, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Rochelle Spector, Sharon Green Middleton, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton, Agnes Welch, Edward Reisinger, Keiffer Mitchell, Vernon E. Crider, Mary Pat Clarke
• Indexes: Animal Control, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/4/2007	0	City Council	Adopted
6/4/2007	0	Budget and Appropriations Committee	Recommended Favorably
5/21/2007	0	Budget and Appropriations Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
4/19/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/19/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/19/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/19/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/19/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/16/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
4/16/2007	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 Curran
At the request of: Lauraville Improvement Association & the Loch Raven Improvement Association, c/o Chris Muldowney
Address: 2715 Woodsdale Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21214
Telephone: 410-426-2529


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Baltimore City Animal Control

FOR the purpose of urgently requesting the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to immediately provide adequate funding to the Baltimore City Bureau of Animal Control, the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter, Inc., (BARCS), and the Baltimore City Police Department to successfully address issues of animal control, cruelty to animals, and endangerment of persons by vicious animals in Baltimore City and to increase the funding in succeeding years until the funding levels are equal to those in other American cities of comparable size and demographics.
Body
Recitals

Historically, Baltimore City Animal Control has been underfunded, and consequently many issues relating to animal cruelty, animal neglect, endangerment of citizens, dog aggression, and the heinous and dangerous practice of dog fighting, a gateway activity to a drug and gun culture, have been neglected or ignored completely.

Experts in the behavioral sciences have long identified a correlation between the impaired empathy that allows persons to engage in cruelty to animals to an increased likelihood of a psychological state that leads to a danger of abuse of huma...