City of Baltimore - File #: 14-0145R

• File #: 14-0145R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Proposed Elimination of Housing and Community Development’s Childcare Program
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 1/27/2014
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 6/22/2015
• Title: Informational Hearing - Proposed Elimination of Housing and Community Development's Childcare Program FOR the purpose of calling on representatives from the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), the Department of Finance, and the Mayor's Office of Human Services to appear before the City Council to discuss the proposed elimination of HCD's successful half-century old childcare program, and the impact that the proposed elimination would have on longtime City employees and atrisk families.
• Sponsors: President Young, Bill Henry, Helen L. Holton, Brandon M. Scott, Warren Branch, Nick Mosby, Edward Reisinger, Carl Stokes, William H. Cole, IV, James B. Kraft, Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, Robert Curran, Rochelle Spector, William "Pete" Welch
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/22/2015	0	City Council	Withdrawn
2/3/2014	0	Education and Youth Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
1/30/2014	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
1/30/2014	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
1/30/2014	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
1/27/2014	0	City Council	Introduced
1/27/2014	0	City Council	Assigned
1/27/2014	0	Education and Youth Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

* 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 Young



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Proposed Elimination of Housing and Community Development's Childcare Program

FOR the purpose of calling on representatives from the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), the Department of Finance, and the Mayor's Office of Human Services to appear before the City Council to discuss the proposed elimination of HCD's successful half-century old childcare program, and the impact that the proposed elimination would have on longtime City employees and atrisk families.
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Recitals

Baltimore's Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) has operated a childcare program designed to help low-income families take advantage of opportunities to advance themselves through education or work for the past half century. Currently, 30 City employees care for 130 to 160 children from mostly very low-income families at centers on Baltimore's East and West sides. Families in the program pay for childcare on a sliding scale based on their income level.

Although the program is well regarded and has helped many young families through the decades, its current generation of parents was recently shocked and outraged to learn that it has been slated for closure. Parents have been protesting the proposal to "consolidate" HCD's childcare program with the privately operated but gover...