City of Baltimore - File #: 12-0046R

• File #: 12-0046R
• Version: 0
• Name: Rally to Prevent Postal Service Closings and Staff Reductions
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 4/30/2012
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 4/30/2012
• Title: Rally to Prevent Postal Service Closings and Staff Reductions FOR the purpose of supporting the planned May 1st rally against post office and mail sorting center closings and staff reductions, adding the Council’s voice to those urging the U.S. Postal Service to refrain from closing post office and mail sorting locations or reducing staff, and calling on Congress to move quickly to pass legislation that would improve the Postal Service’s finances and prevent post office and sorting center closings or staff reductions.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, President Young, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Helen L. Holton, Brandon M. Scott, Nick Mosby, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger, Warren Branch, James B. Kraft, Robert Curran
• 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: Councilmember Clarke



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Rally to Prevent Postal Service Closings and Staff Reductions

FOR the purpose of supporting the planned May 1st rally against post office and mail sorting center closings and staff reductions, adding the Council’s voice to those urging the U.S. Postal Service to refrain from closing post office and mail sorting locations or reducing staff, and calling on Congress to move quickly to pass legislation that would improve the Postal Service’s finances and prevent post office and sorting center closings or staff reductions.
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Recitals

A moratorium that has protected post offices and mail sorting centers nationwide from closure is scheduled to end on May 15. With the end of this moratorium, any sorting centers can be closed by May 15, and post offices being considered for closure, both here and across the nation, are once again in imminent danger of closure by midJuly 2012, unless federal relief legislation is approved and signed into law by the moratorium deadline.

Right now, the U.S. Senate has approved a legislative package to help salvage the Postal Service, mainly by ending the required prefunding of pension benefits at an annual rate of $5 billion and by returning $11 billion in excess payments that the USPS has already made into it...