City of Baltimore - File #: 09-0327

• File #: 09-0327
• Version: 0
• Name: City Property - Naming the Visitors’ Orientation and Education Center of the Cylburn Arboretum Association to be the Vollmer Center
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 4/27/2009
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 10/14/2009
• Enactment #: 09-227
• Title: City Property - Naming the Visitors’ Orientation and Education Center of the Cylburn Arboretum Association to be the Vollmer Center FOR the purpose of naming the Visitors’ Orientation and Education Center of the Cylburn Arboretum Association, located at 4915 Greenspring Avenue, to be the Vollmer Center.
• Sponsors: Sharon Green Middleton, James B. Kraft, Edward Reisinger, Agnes Welch, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, Robert Curran, Rochelle Spector, Bill Henry, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton, Mary Pat Clarke
• Indexes: City Property - Renaming, Naming

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/14/2009	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
10/5/2009	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
9/21/2009	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably
9/21/2009	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
8/10/2009	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
4/30/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/30/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/30/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/30/2009	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/27/2009	0	City Council	Introduced
4/27/2009	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

Introduced by: Councilmember Middleton
At the request of: Cylburn Arboretum Association
Address: c/o Nell Strachan
Telephone: 410-821-6110
A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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City Property - Naming the Visitors’ Orientation and Education Center of the Cylburn Arboretum Association to be the Vollmer Center

FOR the purpose of naming the Visitors’ Orientation and Education Center of the Cylburn Arboretum Association, located at 4915 Greenspring Avenue, to be the Vollmer Center.
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BY authority of
Article 5 - Finance, Property, and Procurement
Section 20-2
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

Recitals

Pauline Vollmer, a longtime Baltimore resident, avid gardener, and member of the Cylburn Arboretum Association, the Horticultural Society of Maryland, and the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland, Inc., has shared her joy and knowledge of gardening by lecturing about it and by opening her own garden for tours by many local and national gardening organizations. Always oriented to the City, it was her idea to create a place at Cylburn where gardening organizations could pass on the joys and knowledge of gardening to others. Her gift of $1 million, which the City immediately matched, launched a fund-raising campaign and culminated in the construction of the new building on the grounds of Cylburn Arboretum.

This building will serve as a welcome center for the Arboretum where visitors will receive information about the Arboretum, the historic...