City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0302R

• File #: 07-0302R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Project SCOPE and Project 5000
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 6/4/2007
• In control: Dept. of Housing and Community Development
• Final action: 11/19/2007
• Title: Informational Hearing - Project SCOPE and Project 5000 FOR the purpose of inviting the Commissioner of Housing to share with the City Council the current status of Project SCOPE and Project 5000 and to discuss the effect these programs have had on decreasing the number of vacant and abandoned properties that blight our Baltimore City neighborhoods.
• Sponsors: Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, Robert Curran, Keiffer Mitchell, Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Belinda Conaway
• Indexes: Project 5000, Project SCOPE, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
11/19/2007	0	Taxation and Finance Committee	Recommended Favorably
11/19/2007	0	City Council	Adopted
7/16/2007	0	Taxation and Finance Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
6/11/2007	0	Taxation and Finance Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
6/7/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/7/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/7/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/4/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
6/4/2007	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: President Rawlings-Blake

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Project SCOPE and Project 5000

FOR the purpose of inviting the Commissioner of Housing to share with the City Council the current status of Project SCOPE and Project 5000 and to discuss the effect these programs have had on decreasing the number of vacant and abandoned properties that blight our Baltimore City neighborhoods.
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Project SCOPE (Selling City Owned Properties Efficiently), approved by City officials in early 2003, was proposed by BEEF (Baltimore Efficiency and Economy Foundation), a nonprofit foundation focused on reducing waste in City government. Encouraging government to use methods proven successful in the private sector, SCOPE officials, with the support of the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors and the Goldseker Foundation, designed a cooperative endeavor in which it was agreed that real estate agents would be paid an 8% commission or a $2,500 fee, whichever was higher, for each property sold. Most of the properties in Project SCOPE are in poorer neighborhoods and are vacant and in need of a extensive repair.

In January 2004, after working for 2 years to get title to thousands of vacant houses, Baltimore City housing officials announced the implementation of the next phase of the renewal plan, known as Project 5000, that would provide for the sale of 2,250 dere...