City of Baltimore - File #: 16-0306R

• File #: 16-0306R
• Version: 0
• Name: 2016 AFRO Clean/Green Block Campaign - "Our Community Our Responsibility"
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 6/6/2016
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 6/6/2016
• Title: 2016 AFRO Clean/Green Block Campaign - "Our Community Our Responsibility" FOR the purpose of supporting the AFRO's 2016 Clean/Green Block campaign, and encouraging communities throughout Baltimore to participate by stepping up to beautify our City one block at a time.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, President Young, Brandon M. Scott, Eric T. Costello, Sharon Green Middleton, Helen L. Holton, Bill Henry, Carl Stokes, Rochelle Spector, James B. Kraft, Nick Mosby, Robert Curran, Warren Branch, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger
• Indexes: Clean-up, Green Block Campaign

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/6/2016	0	City Council	Adopted
6/6/2016	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
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2016 AFRO Clean/Green Block Campaign - "Our Community Our Responsibility"
FOR the purpose of supporting the AFRO's 2016 Clean/Green Block campaign, and encouraging communities throughout Baltimore to participate by stepping up to beautify our City one block at a time.
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Recitals

The AFRO Clean Block Club is back, revitalized and renamed AFRO CLEAN/GREEN BLOCK CAMPAIGN: Our Community Our Responsibility 2016.

Launched on Saturday, June 4, 2016 the program will run through the summer until public schools reopen on August 27.

The AFRO Clean Block Club was one of the earliest community initiatives in the history of the AFRO American Newspapers. It was initiated in 1934 by Ms. Frances L. Murphy, daughter of AFRO founder John H. Murphy, as a program created to get children of Baltimore involved in the community during the summer. As the AFRO wrote years later, in 1968, ?The AFRO sponsors the campaign in the hopes that Clean Blockers will learn the value of respect for property, for one another and for the community.?

Any child could be appointed as block captain and, after registering their block at the AFRO headquarters, he or she was responsible for coordinating and organizing their neighbors. The newspaper would contribute cleaning supplies like brooms, trash cans, and trash bags to make the effort a success.

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