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THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: Councilmember Spector
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Traffic Camera Revenue for Crossing Guards
FOR the purpose of calling on the Administration to act to improve the safety of Baltimore's schoolchildren by dedicating funds from the planned redeployment of speed and red light cameras by the City to increasing the number of crossing guards working to protect our children.
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Crossing guards are our children?s first ? and often only ? line of defense against the dangers they may encounter moving between the safer and more controlled environments of school and home. Unfortunately, at current funding levels, there simply are not enough of them to provide all of the protection that parents need and deserve for their children.
Currently, there are just barely enough of the Department of Transportation?s crossing guards to cover the most dangerous traffic threats to schoolchildren. There are not adequate funds to hire backup personnel for even these intersections ? if regular guards are sick or otherwise absent, their posts go unmanned, putting our children at risk where they were expecting aid and protection.
Beyond these intermittent and unpredictable shortcomings, the sad, but all too regular and predictable everyday reality for too many of Baltimore?s students is that it is not just traffic that poses a threat coming to and from school. Many elementary and middle school students must walk through open-air drug markets or other crime...
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