City of Baltimore - File #: 12-0045R

• File #: 12-0045R
• Version: 0
• Name: Request for State Action - Special General Assembly Session to Avoid the 'Doomsday Budget'
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 4/30/2012
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 4/30/2012
• Title: Request for State Action - Special General Assembly Session to Avoid the 'Doomsday Budget' FOR the purpose of calling on the Governor and the members of the Maryland General Assembly to act swiftly to ensure that a special session of the General Assembly is called in order to reverse the catastrophic cuts in State funding for Baltimore City, Maryland’s counties, and the State as a whole contained in the Fiscal 2013 ‘doomsday budget’.
• Sponsors: President Young, James B. Kraft, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Carl Stokes, Helen L. Holton, Brandon M. Scott, Nick Mosby, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Warren Branch, Robert Curran, William H. Cole, IV
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/30/2012	0	City Council	Introduced
4/30/2012	0	City Council	Advanced to 2nd Reader on same day
4/30/2012	0	City Council	Adopted

* 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: Council President Young




A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Request for State Action - Special General Assembly Session to Avoid the 'Doomsday Budget'

FOR the purpose of calling on the Governor and the members of the Maryland General Assembly to act swiftly to ensure that a special session of the General Assembly is called in order to reverse the catastrophic cuts in State funding for Baltimore City, Maryland’s counties, and the State as a whole contained in the Fiscal 2013 ‘doomsday budget’.
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Earlier this month Maryland’s General Assembly session ended without work being completed on the State’s budget for fiscal year 2013. As a result, a ‘doomsday budget’ with more than $500 million in cuts to spending on many Maryland priorities is currently slated to go into effect on July 1st. These cuts would be particularly harsh in the areas of law enforcement, education, and aid to localities such as Baltimore.

Our city alone would lose nearly $66 million in expected State funding. A reduction in funding of more than $30 million would have to be absorbed by the Baltimore City school system, and $10 million would be cut from law enforcement in Baltimore.

Baltimore simply can not afford these cuts. The reduction in core City services, such as education and policing, that would ...