City of Baltimore - File #: 16-0672

• File #: 16-0672
• Version: 0
• Name: Charter Amendment - Board of Estimates - Local, Small, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program
• Type: Mayor and City Council Res.
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 5/16/2016
• In control: Mayor
• Final action: 8/15/2016
• Enactment #: 16-30
• Title: Charter Amendment - Board of Estimates - Local, Small, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program FOR the purpose of authorizing the waiver or modification of certain procedures in order to assist local, small, or disadvantaged businesses; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.
• Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, President Young, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Eric T. Costello, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Nick Mosby, Robert Curran, Warren Branch, William "Pete" Welch, Rochelle Spector
• Indexes: Board of Estimates, Charter Amendment, Disadvantaged Business, Enterprise, Local Business, Program, Small Business

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/15/2016	0	City Council	Enacted, pursuant to Baltimore City Charter, Art. IV, Sec. 5(c)
6/13/2016	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
6/6/2016	0	City Council	3rd Reader, for final passage
6/6/2016	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Recommended Favorably
5/19/2016	0	The City Council	Refer to Baltimore Development Corporation
5/19/2016	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Finance
5/19/2016	0	The City Council	Refer to City Solicitor
5/19/2016	0	The City Council	Refer to Minority and Women's Business Oppertunity Office
5/16/2016	0	City Council	Assigned
5/16/2016	0	City Council	Introduced
5/16/2016	0	Taxation, Finance and Economic Development Committee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

                     * 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          

                     (Charter Amendment)

Introduced by:  Councilmember Holton                                                                                            

                     A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL concerning

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Charter Amendment - Board of Estimates - Local, Small, and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program

FOR the purpose of authorizing the waiver or modification of certain procedures in order to assist local, small, or disadvantaged businesses; and submitting this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.

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BY restating, without amendment

   Article VI - Board of Estimates                                                                                                         

   Section(s) 11(a)

   Baltimore City Charter

   (1996 Edition)

BY proposing to add

   Article VI - Board of Estimates                                                                                                         

   Section(s) 11(i)

   Baltimore City Charter

   (1996 Edition)

   SECTION 1.  BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the City Charter is proposed to be amended to read as follows:

                     Baltimore City Charter

                     Article VI.  Board of Estimates

��11.  Procurement.

   (a)  Board of Estimates responsible.

The Board of Estimates shall be responsible for awarding contracts and supervising all purchasing by the City as provided in this section and elsewhere in the Charter.

(I)                      LOCAL, SMALL, AND DISADVANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PROGRAMS.                                          

THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MAY, BY ORDINANCE, ESTABLISH PROGRAMS THAT GRANT PURCHASING PREFERENCES TO LOCAL, SMALL, OR DISADVANTAGED BUSINESSES AND, FOR THAT PURPOSE, WAIVE OR MODIFY THE APPLICATION OF THIS SECTION (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SUBSECTION (A)) TO CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS.

   SECTION 2.  AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That this proposed amendment to the City Charter be submitted to the legal and qualified voters of Baltimore City, for adoption or rejection, in accordance with Article XI-A, ��5 of the Maryland Constitution, in the form specified by the City Solicitor.

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