Friday, June 22, 2012
Councilman Nick Mosby, who represents parts of Hampden, Medfield and Hoes Heights, voted against amendments to cut $6.1 million from the mayor's budget.
After City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young’s proposals to alter Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's budget were defeated, he accused her of buying the votes of council members. Young named two members Councilman Nick Mosby, who represents parts of Hampden, Medfield and Hoes Heights and Councilman James Kraft, who represents Southeast Baltimore, as two members whose votes were bought. "Various council people got certain things. Councilman Mosby, I think they told him he was going to get a ‘super rec center.’ I don’t know what the rest of them got, but they all got something," Young said. "But they should all be grateful to me that I put those amendments in, because maybe they wouldn’t have got what they got." During a telephone …
Thursday, June 21, 2012
See how your council member voted on amendments to cut $6.1 million from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's operating budget.
Scroll through the pictures above to find out how your council member voted. A Baltimore City Council committee rejected on Thursday a plan to increase funding for after-school programs and to avoid closing recreation centers and firehouses as part of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's proposed $2.8 billion operating budget. The council's Committee of the Whole voted 9-5 to reject amendments pushed by Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young as a way to cut $6.1 million from the budget, savings that he said could then be used to prevent several recreation centers and three fire stations from closing and to fully fund after-school programs. The council members then voted by the same margin to approve the mayor's budget without amendments…
The Committee of the Whole rejected a plan to cut $6.1 million from the mayor's proposed operating budget.
(UPDATED 7:36 p.m.)—Councilman Carl Stokes—a vote in favor of cuts to the mayor’s proposed $2.8 billion budget—missed Thursday’s committee vote. The Committee of the Whole voted to reject a plan to cut $6.1 million from the budget supporters argue would allow the mayor to fund priorites, such as preventing the closure of three firehouses and increase funding for after-school programs. Even if Stokes' was able to make the meeting his vote would not have been enough to stop the mayor's council allies from rejecting the amendments, and passing the budget on to be considered by the full City Council. The amendments were defeated by a 9-5 vote and the committee approved the mayor's budget by the same margin. Earlier in the day, a …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Patch gives our readers the chance to share their opinions on the controversial issues in Baltimore.
Baltimore’s top elected officials are ready to go to the mat over 2 percent of a $2.8 billion operating budget. In one corner, you have Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who insists her $2.8 billion operating budget addresses the city’s most pressing concerns, while closing a $48 million budget deficit. City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young, and his allies on the City Council, have given preliminary approval to $6.1 million in cuts to the budget. Numbers don’t always make for the most fascinating of stories, but if you take what both sides are saying at face value, the decision could have a huge effect on the city. Rawlings-Blake’s administration has called the cuts irresponsible, and claim they will reduce police patrolling …
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
The City Council has given preliminary approval to $6.1 million in cuts to the mayor's proposed operating budget.
The City Council has proposed cutting Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s $2.8 billion operating budget by $6.1 million, a move her administration said will undermine public safety. The City Council’s Committee of the Whole voted to approve several amendments to the budget ordinance during a voting session on Monday. Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young wants the mayor to use the funds cut from the budget to pay for priorities, such as keeping recreation centers and three firehouses open. The City Council has the ability to cut from the budget, but doesn't have the ability to add or direct where funds should be used. The administration maintains that under the City Charter, the funds cut by the council cannot be used to pay for those …
IamGayle
1:04 pm on Friday, June 22, 2012
BRAVO! ALL true!! It's so blatant too! That is just a part of what make all of this so incredibly hard to understand in terms of how this can continually go on! SRB has talked about only staying on for 2 years, and then going on to the state level to join Marty. If she's outed (one can only hope) then Jack moves into the mayor's seat until the next election. more ›