City Council
City Hall, Room 408
100 North Holliday Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
AGENDA
Monday, April 18, 2005
5:00 PM
City Hall
City Council
Sheila Dixon, President of the Council
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Vice President
District 1: James Kraft - District 2: Nicholas C. D'Adamo
District 3: Robert W. Curran -
District 4: Kenneth N. Harris, Sr.
District 5: Rochelle "Rikki" Spector - District 6: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
District 7: Belinda Conaway - District 8: Helen L.
Holton
District 9: Agnes Welch - District 10: Edward L. Reisinger
District 11: Keiffer J. Mitchell, Jr. - District 12: Bernard C. "Jack" Young
District 13: Paula Johnson
Branch - District 14: Mary Pat Clarke
| Call to Order | |
| Invocation | |
| Reverend Iris Tucker, Pastor, Knox Presbyterian Church | |
| Pledge of Allegiance | |
| Roll Call | |
| Showcase Baltimore | |
| Meals On Wheels of Central Maryland , A. Thomas Grazio, LCSW-C, Executive Director | |
| Approval of the Journal | |
| April 5, 2005 | |
| Communications from the Mayor | |
| Bills Signed by the Mayor | |
| April 6, 2005 | |
| 05-0085 | In Support of State Legislation - House Bill 189 - Transportation |
| MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL RES. - FOR the purpose of expressing support for this legislation that renames Baltimore-Washington International Airport as the Thurgood Marshall Baltimore-Washington International Airport, requesting the Chair and Members of the Senate Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee to report the bill favorably, urging the members of the Baltimore City Delegation to the 2005 Maryland General Assembly to work to seek passage of HB 189, entreating the Governor to sign the measure into law, and providing for a special effective date. (050164) | |
| 05-0086 | Pope John Paul II - Son Of Poland, Bishop of Rome, and Champion of All |
| MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL RES. - FOR the purpose of celebrating the life of Pope John Paul II, acknowledging his many contributions to his faithful following, his commitment to the sanctity of life, his abundant love for the poor and the young, his pursuit of freedom for all mankind, and his final gift of publicly sharing the dignity and grace that is possible in the final moments that will someday come to us all; and providing for a special effective date. (050176) | |
| Executive Nominations | |
| EA-0029 | Kevin E. Davis |
| EXECUTIVE NOMINATION - Member - Employees' Retirement System Board - 3rd District (050198) | |
| EA-0030 | Thurman W. Zollicoffer, Jr. |
| EXECUTIVE NOMINATION - Member - Employees' Retirement System Board - 4th District (050199) | |
| EA-0031 | Robert W. Schaefer |
| EXECUTIVE NOMINATION - Member - Fire and Police Employees' Retirement System Board - 4th District (050200) | |
| EA-0032 | Peter E. Keith |
| EXECUTIVE NOMINATION - Member - Fire and Police Employees' Retirement System Board - 14th District (050201) | |
| Bills Introduced | |
| 05-0087 | Supplementary Federal Fund Operating Appropriation - Baltimore City Police Department - $180,218 |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Dept. of Finance. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary Federal Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $180,218 to the Baltimore City Police Department - Program 202 (Criminal Investigation), to provide funding to identify and test backlogged forensic DNA casework samples; and providing for a special effective date. - CITY COUNCIL (050177) | |
| 05-0088 | Supplementary Federal Fund Operating Appropriation - Baltimore City Police Department - $300,000 |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Dept. of Finance. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary Federal Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $300,000 to the Baltimore City Police Department - Program 204 (Services Bureau), to provide funding for a multi-pronged domestic violence reduction program; and providing for a special effective date. - BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE (050178) | |
| 05-0089 | Supplementary Federal Fund Operating Appropriation - Baltimore City Police Department - $98,948 |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Dept. of Finance. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary Federal Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $98,948 to the Baltimore City Police Department - Program 201 (Field Operations), to provide funding to purchase 25 in-car video surveillance cameras; and providing for a special effective date. - BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE (050179) | |
| 05-0090 | Supplementary State Fund Operating Appropriation - Baltimore City Police Department - $98,095 |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Dept. of Finance. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary State Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $98,095 to the Baltimore City Police Department - Program 202 (Criminal Investigation), to provide funding to enable the Department's Crime Laboratory personnel to photograph firearms and firearm components digitally; and providing for a special effective date. - BUDGET AND APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE (050180) | |
| 05-0091 | Supplementary Federal Fund Operating Appropriation - Baltimore City Police Department - $239,695 |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Dept. of Finance. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of providing a Supplementary Federal Fund Operating Appropriation in the amount of $239,695 to the Baltimore City Police Department - Program 202 (Criminal Investigation), to provide funding to purchase mobile and stationary drying equipment as well as storage lockers that prepare and preserve DNA evidence; and providing for a special effective date. - CITY COUNCIL (050181) | |
| 05-0092 | Convention Center Hotel Development District |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Baltimore Development Corporation. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of designating a "development district" to be known as the "Convention Center Hotel Development District"; providing for and determining various matters in connection with the establishment of the development district; creating a special, tax increment fund for the development district; allocating certain property taxes to that fund; making certain findings and determinations; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the designation and operation of the development district and the establishment and use of the tax increment fund. - COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE (050182) | |
| 05-0093 | Convention Center Hotel Revenue Obligations |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Baltimore Development Corporation. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of authorizing and providing for the issuance, sale and delivery ... of ... "Convention Center Hotel Revenue Bonds" ... in the aggregate principal amount not exceeding $305,000,000 ... for the public purpose of (a) financing and refinancing ... a convention center headquarters hotel in the City of Baltimore, (b) funding capitalized interest on the Revenue Obligations to the extent ... necessary ..., (c) paying the costs of issuance and all other related costs ..., (d) funding any working capital or reserve funds, (e) paying the cost of any pre-opening expenses ..., and (f) paying the expenses of the Hotel Corporation; ... authorizing the creation of a nonprofit, nonstock corporation (the "Hotel Corporation") | |
| 05-0094 | City Streets - Opening - A Variable Width Alley |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Dept. of Public Works. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of condemning and opening an alley of variable width, extending from 32nd Street, northerly 311.5 feet, more or less, to the south outline of the property known as 3233 St. Paul Street, as shown on Plat 347-A-70 in the Office of the Department of Public Works; and providing for a special effective date. - HIGHWAYS AND FRANCHISES SUBCOMMITTEE (050184) | |
| 05-0095 | City Streets - Closing - A Variable Width Alley |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Dept. of Public Works. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of condemning and closing an alley of variable width, extending from 32nd Street, northerly 311.5 feet, more or less, to the south outline of the property known as 3233 St. Paul Street, as shown on Plat 347-A-70A in the Office of the Department of Public Works; and providing for a special effective date. - HIGHWAYS AND FRANCHISES SUBCOMMITTEE (050185) | |
| 05-0096 | City Streets - Opening - Certain Alleys Lying Within the Area Bounded by Eastern Avenue, Dean Street, Fleet Street, and Conkling Street |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Dept. of Public Works. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of condemning and opening certain alleys lying within the area bounded by Eastern Avenue, Dean Street, Fleet Street, and Conkling Street, as shown on Plat 347-A-71 in the Office of the Department of Public Works; and providing for a special effective date. - HIGHWAYS AND FRANCHISES SUBCOMMITTEE (050186) | |
| 05-0097 | City Streets - Closing - Certain Alleys Lying Within the Area Bounded by Eastern Avenue, Dean Street, Fleet Street, and Conkling Street |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Dept. of Public Works. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of condemning and closing certain alleys lying within the area bounded by Eastern Avenue, Dean Street, Fleet Street, and Conkling Street, as shown on Plat 347-A-71A in the Office of the Department of Public Works; and providing for a special effective date. - HIGHWAYS AND FRANCHISES SUBCOMMITTEE (050187) | |
| 05-0098 | Railroads - Obstructing Passage |
| Sponsors: Council Pres.-Admin. | |
| Requester: Transportation, Department of. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of authorizing certain exceptions to provisions that prohibit railroad cars, locomotives, and other vehicles from obstructing the passage of pedestrians or vehicles in certain locations; correcting, clarifying, and conforming certain language; and generally relating to the regulation of railroads and railroad cars. - JUDICIARY AND LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATIONS (050188) | |
| 05-0099 | Rezoning - 801 North Broadway |
| Sponsors: Young. | |
| Requester: Madison Street Properties, Inc., c/o Claude Edward Hitchcock, Esq. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of changing the zoning for the property known as 801 North Broadway, as outlined in red on the accompanying plat, from the R-8 Zoning District to the B-2-3 Zoning District. - LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE (050189) | |
| 05-0100 | Planned Unit Development - Designation - Kennedy Krieger Institute |
| Sponsors: Young. | |
| Requester: Madison Street Properties, Inc., c/o Claude Edward Hitchcock, Esq. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of approving the application of Madison Street Properties, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kennedy Krieger Institute, owner and developer of certain property bounded by North Broadway, Ashland Avenue, Rutland Avenue, and East Madison Street and known as 801 North Broadway (the "Property"), to have that property designated a Residential Planned Unit Development; and approving the Development Plan submitted by the applicant. - LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE (050190) | |
| 05-0101 | Property Tax Credits - Newly Constructed Dwellings |
| Sponsors: President Dixon, Spector, Young, Curran, Holton, Rawlings-Blake, Kraft, Reisinger, Conaway, Welch, Branch, Harris. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of altering the termination date applicable to the property tax credit granted against the local property tax imposed on certain newly constructed dwellings; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to property tax credits for newly constructed dwellings. - TAXATION AND FINANCE COMMITTEE (050191) | |
| 05-0102 | Educational Facilities Surcharge on Development |
| Sponsors: President Dixon, Curran, Spector, Young, Rawlings-Blake, Holton, Welch, Mitchell, Clarke. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of imposing a surcharge on building permits for certain development; defining certain terms; setting different rates for different types of development; providing for periodic adjustments to those rates; providing for the use of the proceeds from the surcharge; establishing certain exemptions; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the imposition and use of surcharges on building permits for certain purposes. - COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE (050192) | |
| 05-0103 | Telecommunications Tax - Wired Service |
| Sponsors: Clarke, D'Adamo, Kraft, Conaway. | |
| ORDINANCE - FOR the purpose of modifying the tax rate imposed on wired telecommunications service; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to the imposition, computation, and collection of a telecommunications tax. - CITY COUNCIL (050193) | |
| 05-0042R | The Convention Center Headquarters Hotel Public Advisory Committee |
| Sponsors: Mitchell, D'Adamo, Young, Harris, Reisinger, Conaway, Curran, Holton, President Dixon. | |
| CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of creating a public advisory committee to monitor the process financing and constructing a convention center headquarters hotel to ensure that the interests of the taxpayers of Baltimore City are wholly protected and that public dollars are utilized as a last resort and to as minimal an extent as possible. - COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE (050194) | |
| 05-0043R | National Child Abuse Prevention Month - THE FAMILY TREE |
| Sponsors: Clarke, Mitchell, President Dixon, D'Adamo, Young, Curran, Holton, Reisinger, Rawlings-Blake, Conaway, Kraft, Harris, Welch, Branch. | |
| CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of congratulating THE FAMILY TREE for their tireless efforts in helping to end child abuse and neglect by empowering families and communities to nurture and protect their children, providing education and support, and training members of the community to recognize the "red flags" of child abuse and neglect. - CITY COUNCIL (050195) | |
| 05-0044R | Task Force on Lead Hazard Inspection, Enforcement, and Abatement |
| Sponsors: President Dixon, D'Adamo, Curran, Holton, Reisinger, Rawlings-Blake, Conaway, Mitchell, Branch, Welch, Spector. | |
| CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of establishing a task force to review Baltimore City's inspection, enforcement, and abatement laws and regulations that address the issue of lead paint and other lead-related hazards in structures throughout the metropolitan area; to determine if enforcement protocols and practices are adequate to address the scope of lead contaminated properties; to identify measures to better coordinate enforcement activity both within and between agencies; and to ascertain if lead enforcement responsibilities are assigned to the appropriate agency. - EDUCATION, HOUSING, HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES/JUDICIARY & LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATIONS (050196) | |
| 05-0045R | A Request for Legal Action - Lead Paint |
| Sponsors: Clarke, Young, Curran, Harris, Kraft, Conaway, Mitchell. | |
| CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION - FOR the purpose of requesting the City Solicitor to institute legal action against the paint and lead pigment industry to recover damages to the City and its residents. - EDUCATION, HOUSING, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (050197) | |
| Consent Calendar | |
| (See Section A at back of Agenda) | |
| Second Reader | |
| Executive Appointments | |