City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0323R

• File #: 07-0323R
• Version: 0
• Name: Neighborhoods At Risk - City Council Rapid Response Task Force
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 8/13/2007
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/5/2007
• Title: Neighborhoods At Risk - City Council Rapid Response Task Force FOR the purpose of creating the City Council Rapid Response Task Force to identify neighborhoods at eminent risk of deterioration from a convergence of social, health, housing, and crime-related problems, to create a mechanism within the 911 and 311 response systems to identify calls from the neighborhoods designated as rapid response areas, and to formulate a rapid responder system to deliver services immediately to these areas; and requesting the Housing Commissioner, the Health Commissioner, the Police Commissioner, the Director of Planning, and the Director of Public Works to serve on the Task Force.
• Sponsors: Agnes Welch, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Vernon E. Crider, Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, James B. Kraft, Edward Reisinger, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Robert Curran, Rochelle Spector, Belinda Conaway, Keiffer Mitchell
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/1/2007	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
8/16/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/16/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/16/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/16/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/16/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/16/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/16/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/13/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
8/13/2007	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 Welch


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
Title
Neighborhoods At Risk - City Council Rapid Response Task Force

FOR the purpose of creating the City Council Rapid Response Task Force to identify neighborhoods at eminent risk of deterioration from a convergence of social, health, housing, and crime-related problems, to create a mechanism within the 911 and 311 response systems to identify calls from the neighborhoods designated as rapid response areas, and to formulate a rapid responder system to deliver services immediately to these areas; and requesting the Housing Commissioner, the Health Commissioner, the Police Commissioner, the Director of Planning, and the Director of Public Works to serve on the Task Force.
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Recitals

Within Baltimore City, a number of neighborhoods exist that have long been host to a disproportionate share of social, educational, health, drug-related, and criminal ills. These neighborhoods continue to suffer under the weight of negative factors that coalesce to impact the quality of life of the residents and also attract those engaged in aberrant behavior who seek anonymity in areas where the day-to-day surveillance of law enforcement and other code enforcement agencies is perceived to be lax. Without immediate and intense response by government agencies, these neighborhoods are at risk of continued and increased deterioration.

The City Council Rapid Response Task Force wi...