City of Baltimore - File #: 15-0212R

• File #: 15-0212R
• Version: 0
• Name: Saluting Heroes & Heroines of Baltimore City's Ice Age Ordeal
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 3/9/2015
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 3/9/2015
• Title: Saluting Heroes & Heroines of Baltimore City's Ice Age Ordeal FOR the purpose of thanking our City workers and citizens for heroism and patience in enduring the current and ongoing Ice Age Ordeal of this most unending of winter seasons.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Robert Curran, Rochelle Spector, James B. Kraft, Carl Stokes, Eric T. Costello, Edward Reisinger, Sharon Green Middleton, Helen L. Holton, Bill Henry, President Young, Brandon M. Scott, Warren Branch, Nick Mosby, William "Pete" Welch
• Indexes: Baltimore City, Heroes and Heroines, Ice Age Ordeal, Saluting

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/9/2015	0	City Council	Adopted
3/9/2015	0	City Council	Introduced

* 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
title
Saluting Heroes & Heroines of Baltimore City's Ice Age Ordeal
FOR the purpose of thanking our City workers and citizens for heroism and patience in enduring the current and ongoing Ice Age Ordeal of this most unending of winter seasons.
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Recitals

Throughout Baltimore, citizens and workers have truly been tested by the unusually cold weather afflicting our City this winter. Though this Ice Age Ordeal has presented a seemingly unending stream of challenges, our City workers and residents have continued to rise to the occasion in the face of this freezing torment. Employees of the Departments of Transportation and Public Works in particular have sallied forth again and again to battle winter?s attempts to drive us to extinction.

In the course of 12 full snow emergency activations, Department of Transportation employees have spread over 50,000 tons of salt as a shield against the incoming ice, sleet, and snow. And in the aftermath of each encounter with winter?s wrath, crews have set out to fill the potholes seeking to tear our roadways apart, repairing over 21,000 of them.

Due to the nearly unprecedented Arctictinged temperatures in Baltimore, since February 14 there have been over 5,800 nowater calls received by the Department of Public Works. That averages to 400/day as opposed to a normal 30/day for this time of year. D...