EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.
* 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
(Charter Amendment)
Introduced by: Councilmember Mitchell
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL concerning
Title
Charter Amendment - Board of Estimates - Composition
FOR the purpose of reconstituting the Board of Estimates to comprise the Mayor, Comptroller, and City Council President; correcting, conforming, and clarifying related provisions; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.
Body
BY proposing an amendment to
Article VI - Board of Estimates
Section(s) 1(a) and 10
Baltimore City Charter
(1996 Edition)
SECTION 1. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows:
Baltimore City Charter
Article VI. Board of Estimates
§ 1. Establishment and organization.
(a) (1) There [shall be] IS a Board of Estimates, composed of the Mayor, THE President of the City Council, AND THE Comptroller, [City Solicitor, and Director of Public Works,] none of whom [shall] MAY receive any additional salary as members of the Board.
(2) The President of the City Council [shall be] IS President of the Board, and one of the members [shall act] ACTS as Secretary.
(3) The Board may employ [such] THE employees [as may be] necessary to discharge its duties[;]. [their] THEIR number and compensation shall be [fixed] AS PROVIDED in the Ordinance of Estimates.
§ 10. Salaries.
(a) [(1)] In preparing the Ordinance of Estimates, the Board of Estimates may increase or decrease the salaries of all municipal officers, except[: (i) the] elected officials subject to Article VII, §§ 117 through 125 of this Charter[; and (ii) the appointed municipal officers who serve as members of the Board of Estimates,].
(B) [(2)] If the salary of an appointed municipal officer is so increased or decreased, it may not again be increased or decreased, as the case may be, during that officer's term.
[(b)(1) The Mayor and City Council may, by ordinance, increase or decrease the salaries of the appointed municipal officers who serve as members of the Board of Estimates.
(2) If the salary of an appointed municipal officer on the Board is so increased or decreased, it may not again be increased or decreased, as the case may be, during that officer's term.]
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this proposed amendment to the City Charter be submitted to the legal and qualified voters of Baltimore City, for adoption or rejection, in accordance with Article XI-A, § 5 of the Maryland Constitution, in the form specified by the City Solicitor.
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