Call to Order

Invocation

Ministress Candace Greene

Pledge of Allegiance

Showcase Baltimore

Alise Little, City Council Page

Roll Call

Approval of the Journal

April 4, 2022

Communications from the Mayor

Bills Signed by the Mayor

April 21, 2022 and April 22, 2022

21-0161

City Operations - Net-Zero Emissions of Greenhouse Gases

For the purpose of making City operations achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse

gases by 2050; defining certain terms; authorizing rules and regulations; and generally

related to the City’s emission of greenhouse gasses.

Sponsors:

Mark Conway, Ryan Dorsey, Phylicia Porter, John T. Bullock, Sharon Green Middleton,

Kristerfer Burnett, Zeke Cohen, Odette Ramos, Antonio Glover

21-0179

City Property - Naming a Skate Park in the Joseph H. Rash Playfield to be

Jake’s Skate Park

For the purpose of naming a portion of the Joseph H. Rash Playfield (Block 890, Lot

006), to be located at the coordinates of 39.281387, - 76.610944, Jake’s Skate

Park.

Sponsors:

Eric T. Costello

21-0180

Rezoning - 2525 Insulator Drive

For the purpose of changing the zoning for the property known as 2525 Insulator

Drive (Block 1079, Lot 001), as outlined in red on the accompanying plat, from the

I-2 Zoning District to the PC-3 Zoning District; and providing for a special effective

date.

Sponsors:

Eric T. Costello

Executive Nominations

EA22-0119

EA22-0120

EA22-0121

Kevin Cleary

Member - Environmental Control Board - District 14

RULES AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

Londyn Smith De Richelieu

Director - LGBTQ Affairs - District 12

RULES AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

Garrett Power

Member - Historical and Architectural Preservation Committee - District 14

RULES AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

Bills Introduced

22-0223

Downtown Management District and Downtown Management Authority

For the purpose of renewing and continuing the Downtown Management District and

Downtown Management Authority, subject to certain conditions, for an additional 5

years; generally relating to the activities and authority of the Downtown Management

District and Downtown Management Authority; and providing for a special effective

date.

Sponsors:

Eric T. Costello

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION

ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

22-0224

Charter Amendment - Sporting Tournament Scholarship Fund

For the purpose of establishing a continuing, nonlapsing Sporting Tournament

Scholarship Fund, to be used exclusively to fund and administer a scholarship

program for certain youth and young adults; providing for certain modes of

appropriation to the Fund; authorizing the Mayor and City Council, by Ordinance, to

provide for the oversight, governance, and administration of the Fund; and submitting

this amendment to the qualified voters of the City for adoption or rejection.

Sponsors:

President Nicholas J. Mosby

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION

RULES AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

22-0225

Vacant Structures - Nuisance Abatement - Penalty

For the purpose of increasing a certain penalty for failing to obey a nuisance

abatement order at a certain type of property; providing for a special effective date;

and generally relating to nuisance abatement penalties for vacant structures.

Sponsors:

President Nicholas J. Mosby

ORDINANCE

ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

22-0226

Urban Renewal - Charles North - Renewal Area Designation and Urban

Renewal Plan

For the purpose of repealing the existing Charles/North Revitalization Area Urban

Renewal Plan and replacing it by designating as a “Renewal Area” an area situated in

Baltimore City, Maryland known as Charles North, bounded generally by Falls Road

on the west, West Lanvale Street and Interstate 83 on the south, Calvert Street and

Hargrove Street on the east, and West 22nd Street and West 23rd Street on the

north; establishing the objectives of the Urban Renewal Plan; establishing permitted

land uses in the Renewal Area; providing that where there might be conflict between

the provisions of the Urban Renewal Plan and the provisions of any Planned Unit

Development, the provisions of the Planned Unit Development control; providing

review requirements and controls for all plans for new construction; providing that the

provisions of the Baltimore City Zoning Code apply to the properties in the Urban

Renewal Area; establishing controls for off-street parking facilities; authorizing the

conditions for acquisition of properties in the Urban Renewal Area; providing for

review by the Department of Housing and Community Development of development

or rehabilitation plans in the Urban Renewal Area with respect to their conformance

with the provisions of the Urban Renewal Plan; providing for community notification

of any permit application for the development or redevelopment of any property

within the boundaries of the Urban Renewal Area; creating disposition lots and

providing for specific controls on specific lots; providing for the term of the Urban

Renewal Plan; providing for community review of all proposed amendments to the

Urban Renewal Plan; making provisions of this Ordinance severable; approving

appendices and exhibits to the Urban Renewal Plan; waiving certain content and

procedural requirements; providing for the application of the Ordinance in conjunction

with certain other ordinances; and providing for a special effective date.

Sponsors:

Robert Stokes, Sr.

ORDINANCE

ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

22-0227

Zoning - Conditional Use Conversion of Single-Family Dwelling Unit to 2

Dwellings Units in the R-8 Zoning District - 43-45 South Carey Street

For the purpose of permitting, subject to certain conditions, the conversion of a

single-family dwelling unit to 2 dwelling units in the R-8 Zoning District on the

Property known as 43-45 South Carey Street (Block 223, Lot 025), as outlined in

red on the accompanying plat.

Sponsors:

John T. Bullock

ORDINANCE

ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

22-0228

Midtown Community Benefits District - Amendment

For the purpose of altering the boundaries of the Midtown Community Benefits

District; amending the composition of the District’s Board of Directors; revising the

enforcement of taxing; adjusting the allowable rate of Supplementary Tax; and

generally relating to the Midtown Community Benefits District.

Sponsors:

Eric T. Costello, Robert Stokes, Sr.

ORDINANCE

ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

22-0230

Bond Issue - Public Infrastructure Loan - $72,000,000

For the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (pursuant to

General Assembly House Resolution IV and Senate Resolution IV of 2022 approved

by the members of the Maryland General Assembly representing Baltimore City) to

create a debt, and to issue and sell its certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof,

and proceeds not exceeding SEVENTY-TWO Million Dollars ($72,000,000.00)

from the sale of such certificates of indebtedness to be used for the cost of issuance,

including the expense of engraving, printing, advertising, attorneys’ fees, and all other

incidental expenses connected therewith (which may include the proportion of the

compensation of employees and general administrative expenses of the Department of

Finance reasonably allocated to the issuance of the bonds); for the development of

the public infrastructure owned or controlled by the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore and the Enoch Pratt Free Library, and the construction and development of

streets, bridges, courthouses, city office buildings, police stations, fire stations, solid

waste facilities, information technology, public park and recreational and related land,

property, buildings, structures or facilities including but not limited to, the acquisition

by purchase, lease, condemnation or any other legal means, of land or property, or

any rights therein, in the City of Baltimore, and constructing and erecting on said land

or property, or on any land or property, new buildings, structures, and auxiliary

facilities; and for the renovation, alteration, construction, reconstruction, installation,

improvement and repair of existing infrastructure, buildings, structures or facilities, to

be or now being used for or in connection with the operations, functions and activities

of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the

demolition, removal, relocation, renovation or alteration of land, buildings, streets,

highways, alleys, utilities or services, and other structures or improvements, and for

the construction, reconstruction, installation, relocation or repair of buildings, streets,

highways, alleys, utilities or services, including information technology infrastucture,

and other structures or improvements; for the acquisition and installation of trees or

for tree planting programs; and for the acquisition and installation of equipment and

fixtures for any and all facilities authorized to be constructed, erected, altered,

reconstructed, renovated, installed or improved by the provisions hereof; the payment

of any and all costs and expenses incurred for or in connection with doing any or all of

the things herein mentioned, including but not limited to, the costs and expenses of

securing administrative, appraisal, economic analysis, engineering, planning, designing,

architectural, surveying and other professional services; and for doing any and all

things necessary, proper or expedient in connection with or pertaining to any or all of

the matters or things hereinbefore mentioned; authorizing the issuance of refunding

bonds; conferring and imposing upon the Board of Finance of Baltimore City certain

powers and duties; authorizing the submission of this Ordinance to the legal voters of

the City of Baltimore, for their approval or disapproval, at the General Election to be

held in Baltimore City on Tuesday, the 8th day of November, 2022; and providing for

the expenditure of the proceeds of sale of said certificates of indebtedness in

accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore, and by the municipal agency designated in the annual Ordinance of

Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

Sponsors:

City Council President (Administration)

ORDINANCE

At the request of: Department of Planning

WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE

22-0231

Bond Issue - Community and Economic Development Loan - $36,000,000

For the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (pursuant to

General Assembly House Resolution III and Senate Resolution III of 2022 approved

by the members of the Maryland General Assembly representing Baltimore City) to

create a debt, and to issue and sell its certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof,

and proceeds not exceeding THIRTY-SIX Million Dollars ($36,000,000.00) from

the sale of such certificates of indebtedness to be used for the cost of issuance,

including the expense of engraving, printing, advertising, attorneys’ fees, and all other

incidental expenses connected therewith (which may include the proportion of the

compensation of employees and general administrative expenses of the Department of

Finance reasonably allocated to the issuance of the bonds); and the remainder of such

proceeds to be used for or in connection with planning, developing, executing, and

making operative the community, commercial and industrial economic development

programs of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, including, but not limited to,

the acquisition, by purchase, lease, condemnation or any other legal means, of land or

property, or any right, interest, franchise, easement or privilege therein, in the City of

Baltimore; the payment of any and all costs and expenses incurred in connection with

or incidental to the acquisition and management of said land or property, including any

and all rights or interest therein hereinbefore mentioned; the payment of any and all

costs and expenses incurred for or in connection with relocating and moving persons

or other legal entities displaced by the acquisition of said land or property, or any of

the rights or interest therein hereinbefore mentioned; the development or

redevelopment, including, but not limited to, the comprehensive renovation or

rehabilitation of any land or property, or any rights or interests therein hereinbefore

mentioned, in the City of Baltimore; and the disposition of land and property for such

purposes; the elimination of unhealthful, unsanitary, or unsafe conditions, lessening

density, eliminating obsolete or other uses detrimental to the public welfare or

otherwise removing or preventing the spread of blight or deterioration in the City of

Baltimore; building from strength; stabilizing middle neighborhoods, strengthening

neighborhood retail corridors, the creation of healthy, sanitary, and safe, and green

conditions in the City of Baltimore; the demolition, removal, relocation, renovation or

alteration of land, buildings, streets, highways, alleys, utilities or services, and other

structures or improvements and for the construction, reconstruction , installation,

relocation or repair of buildings, streets, highways, alleys, utilities or services, and

other structures or improvements; making loans and grants to various projects and

programs related to growing businesses in the City; attracting and retaining jobs;

providing homeownership incentives and home repair assistance; making loans and

grants to various projects and programs related to improving the cultural life and

promotion of tourism in Baltimore City; and the lending or granting of funds to any

person or other legal entity to be used for or in connection with the rehabilitation,

renovation, redevelopment, improvement or construction of buildings and structures

to be used or occupied for residential or commercial purposes and the payment of

any and all costs and expenses incurred for, or in connection with, doing any or all of

the things herein mentioned, including, but not limited to, the costs and expenses of

securing administrative, appraisal, economic analysis, engineering, planning, designing,

architectural, surveying, and other professional services; and for doing any and all

things necessary, proper, or expedient in connection with or pertaining to any or all of

the matters or things hereinbefore mentioned; all such land or property shall be

acquired, developed, redeveloped, renovated, rehabilitated, altered, improved, held

or disposed of, as provided by law; authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds;

conferring and imposing upon the Board of Finance of Baltimore City certain powers

22-0232

Bond Issue - School Loan - $38,000,000

For the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (pursuant to

General Assembly House Resolution II and Senate Resolution II of 2022 approved

by the members of the Maryland General Assembly representing Baltimore City) to

create a debt, and to issue and sell, at any time or from time to time and in one or

more series its certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof, and proceeds not

exceeding THIRTY-EIGHT Million Dollars ($38,000,000.00) from the sale of such

certificates of indebtedness to be used for the cost of issuance, including the expense

of engraving, printing, advertising, attorneys’ fees, and all other incidental expenses

connected therewith (which may include the proportion of the compensation of

employees and general administrative expenses of the Department of Finance

reasonably allocated to the issuance of the bonds); and the remainder of such

proceeds shall be used for the acquisition, by purchase, lease, condemnation or any

other legal means, of land or property, or any rights therein, in the City of Baltimore,

and demolishing, constructing and erecting on said land or property, or on any land or

property now or hereafter owned by the Baltimore City Board of School

Commissioners and/or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, new school

buildings, athletic and other auxiliary facilities including community health and

recreation facilities, and for additions and improvements to, or the modernization or

reconstruction of, including the inspection, removal, encapsulation, management,

containment and abatement of asbestos from existing facilities, and for equipment for

any and all new or existing facilities authorized to be constructed, erected, added,

improved, modernized or reconstructed by the provisions hereof; the payment of any

and all costs and expenses incurred for or in connection with doing any or all of the

things herein mentioned, including, but not limited to, the costs and expenses of

securing administrative, appraisal, economic analysis, engineering, planning, designing,

architectural, surveying, and other professional services, including, without limitation,

services relating to planning for future projects of the same general character which

may be constructed out of future loans; and for doing any and all things necessary,

proper or expedient in connection with or pertaining to any or all of the matters or

things hereinbefore mentioned; authorizing the issuance of refunding bonds; conferring

certain powers upon the Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners; imposing

certain conditions in connection with the expenditure of the proceeds derived from the

sale of said certificates of indebtedness; conferring and imposing upon the Board of

Finance of Baltimore City certain powers and duties; authorizing the submission of this

Ordinance to the legal voters of the City of Baltimore, for their approval or

disapproval, at the Election to be held on Tuesday, the 8th day of November, 2022,

and providing for the expenditure of the proceeds of sale of said certificates of

indebtedness in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the Mayor and City

Council of Baltimore, and by the municipal agency designated in the annual Ordinance

of Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

Sponsors:

City Council President (Administration)

ORDINANCE

At the request of: Department of Planning

WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE

22-0233

Bond Issue - Affordable Housing Loan - $14,000,000

For the purpose of authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (pursuant to

General Assembly House Resolution I and Senate Resolution I of 2022 approved by

the members of the Maryland General Assembly representing Baltimore City) to

create a debt, and to issue and sell, at any time or from time to time and in one or

more series its certificates of indebtedness as evidence thereof, and proceeds not

exceeding FOURTEEN Million ($14,000,000.00) from the sale of such certificates

of indebtedness to be used for the cost of issuance, including the expense of

engraving, printing, advertising, attorneys’ fees, and all other incidental expenses

connected therewith (which may include the proportion of the compensation of

employees and general administrative expenses of the Department of Finance

reasonably allocated to the issuance of the bonds); and the remainder of such

proceeds shall be used for or in connection with planning, developing, executing, and

making operative the Affordable Housing program of the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore, including, but not limited to, the acquisition, by purchase, lease,

condemnation or any other legal means, of land or property, or any right, interest,

franchise, easement or privilege therein, in the City of Baltimore; the payment of any

and all costs and expenses incurred in connection with or incidental to the acquisition

and management of said land or property, including any and all rights of interest

therein hereinbefore mentioned; the payment of any and all costs and expenses

incurred for or in connection with relocating and moving persons or other legal entities

displaced by the acquisition of said land or property, or any of the rights or interest

therein hereinbefore mentioned, in the City of Baltimore; the development or

redevelopment, including, but not limited to, the comprehensive renovation or

rehabilitation of, any land or property, or any rights or interests therein hereinbefore

mentioned, in the City of Baltimore, and the disposition of land and property for such

purposes; costs related to the rehabilitation and new construction of and operation of

rental and homeownership developments, such costs to include but not be limited to

relocation assistance, rental payment and home purchase assistance, housing

counseling and project financing comprised of loans(including forgivable or fully

amoritizing) or grants or other related activities and buyer education assistance, and

activities to support the orderly and sustainable planning, preservation, rehabilitation,

and development of economically diverse housing in City neighborhoods; support for

the Affordable Housing Trust Fund; the elimination of unhealthful, unsanitary or unsafe

conditions, lessening density, eliminating obsolete or other uses detrimental to the

public welfare or otherwise removing or preventing the spread of blight or

deterioration in the City of Baltimore; the demolition, removal, relocation, renovation

or alteration of land, buildings, streets, highways, alleys, utilities or services, and other

structures or improvements, and for the construction, reconstruction, installation,

relocation or repair of buildings, streets, highways, alleys, utilities or services, and

other structures or improvements; the payment of any and all costs and expenses

incurred for, or in connection with, doing any or all of the things herein mentioned,

including, but not limited to, the costs and expenses of securing administrative,

appraisal, economic analysis, engineering, planning, designing, architectural, surveying,

and other professional services; and for doing any and all things necessary, proper or

expedient in connection with or pertaining to any or all of the matters or things

hereinbefore mentioned; authorizing the submission of this Ordinance to the legal

voters of the City of Baltimore, for their approval or disapproval, at the General

Election to be held in Baltimore City, on Tuesday, the 8th day of November, 2022;

and providing generally for the issuance and sale of such certificates of indebtedness

in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore, and by the municipal agency designated in the annual Ordinance of

Estimates of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

Sponsors:

City Council President (Administration)

ORDINANCE

At the request of: Department of Planning

WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE

22-0234

Police Accountability

For the purpose of establishing the Baltimore City Police Accountability Board;

providing for the membership, staffing, budget, and procedures of the Board;

requiring the Board to deliver a certain annual report; establishing the Administrative

Charging Committee for the City; providing for the membership, staffing, budget, and

procedures of the Committee; requiring a member of the Committee to maintain

confidentiality; requiring the Committee to deliver a certain annual report; requiring the

Director of the Baltimore City Office of Equity and Civil Rights to adopt rules and

regulations to carry out this Ordinance; defining certain terms; requiring certain

individuals assigned to either the Board or the Committee to file certain financial

disclosures; and generally relating to police accountability.

Sponsors:

Mark Conway, John T. Bullock, Phylicia Porter

ORDINANCE

RULES AND OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

Resolutions Introduced

22-0101R

Informational Hearing - Mayor’s Recommendations - 30-Day Review of

Strategies to Eliminate Vacant and Abandoned Properties

For the purpose of inviting the City Administrator, the Deputy Mayor for Community

and Economic Development, the City Solicitor, the Commissioner of the Department

of Housing and Community Development, the Director of Finance, and the Director

of the Department of Public Works to appear before the Baltimore City Council to

present the findings and recommendations of the Mayor’s 30 Day review for

eliminating privately and publicly owned vacant and abandoned properties.

Sponsors:

Odette Ramos, John T. Bullock, Phylicia Porter

RESOLUTION

ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

22-0102R

Investigational Hearing - Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant

For the purpose of inviting the City Solicitor and representatives from the Department

of Public Works, the Baltimore City Health Department, the Environmental Control

Board, the Maryland Department of the Environment, the Maryland Department of

Health, including the Environmental Health Bureau, the Maryland Environmental

Service, and other relevant stakeholders to brief the City Council regarding recent

events at the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant as well as ongoing mitigation

efforts.

Sponsors:

Mark Conway, Odette Ramos, John T. Bullock, Phylicia Porter, Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer,

Kristerfer Burnett, Zeke Cohen, James Torrence, Eric T. Costello, Sharon Green

Middleton, Robert Stokes, Sr.

RESOLUTION

HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE

22-0103R

Investigational Hearing - Sewage Backup - Expedited Reimbursement and

Direct Assistance Program Feasibility Study

For the purpose of inviting the City Solicitor and representatives from the Department

of Public Works, the Department of Finance, Baltimore City 311 Services, and the

Mayor's Office of Emergency Management to appear before the City Council to

discuss findings from the Department of Public Works study required by Ordinance

21-044.

Sponsors:

Kristerfer Burnett, Odette Ramos, Phylicia Porter, Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer, Zeke Cohen,

Mark Conway, James Torrence, Ryan Dorsey, Sharon Green Middleton, Eric T. Costello

RESOLUTION

HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE

22-0104R

Informational Hearing - Degree Requirements for City Positions

For the purpose of inviting the City Solicitor, the City Administrator, the Director of

the Baltimore City Department of Human Resources, the Baltimore City Labor

Commissioner, and the Director of the Mayor’s Office of Employment Development

to brief the City Council regarding the practice of requiring certain degrees for certain

City positions and to discuss if eliminating such a degree requirement would be

detrimental or beneficial to the recruitment and retention of quality City employees.

Sponsors:

Antonio Glover, Kristerfer Burnett, Mark Conway, James Torrence, Zeke Cohen, Robert

Stokes, Sr.

RESOLUTION

EDUCATION, WORKFORCE AND YOUTH COMMITTEE

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