06-0238R City Council Resolution
Baltimore City Health and Fitness Coordinator
FOR the purpose of requesting the Health Commissioner to appoint a member of his staff to serve as the Baltimore City Health and Fitness Coordinator to work with private, corporate and community organizations, public and private schools, communities of faith, hospitals, health systems, health clubs and gyms, pharmaceuticals, medical outlets, local, state and federal government agencies, non-profit health agencies, and sports teams to form a coalition to promote healthy living and fitness and to combat preventable disease and illness that threaten the lives of our adults and that threaten to detrimentally impact the quality of life and shorten the expected life span of our young people; and to require the coordinator to develop a system to provide a single point of entry for Baltimore residents seeking to access governmental and private industry fitness and healthy living services.
Intro Date: 12/4/2006
06-0236R City Council Resolution
The Baltimore City Council Task Force To Secure the Integrity of Baltimore City Elections
FOR the purpose of establishing a task force to ensure the validity of the 2007 Mayoral and future elections by evaluating the accessibility, geographic placement, and number of polling places throughout the City; assessing the efficacy and timing of the current educational program for election judges; and performing a comprehensive fiscal and operational audit of the Baltimore City electoral process.
Intro Date: 11/20/2006
06-0235R City Council Resolution
Organizational Meeting –A Committee to Create A Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of Baltimore City
FOR the purpose of creating an organizational committee that will create a venue to engage the children and youth of Baltimore City in all-inclusive process to identify issues of the most import to their mental stability, physical health, substantive education, general well being, and future spiritual and economic prosperity; to ratify these issues in an official document comprising A Bill of Rights for the Children and Youth of Baltimore City to be adopted by the City Council; and to ultimately call upon themselves, the community, organizations, governmental entities, and elected officials, as is appropriate, to uphold the provisions of the document through, word, deed, and legislative action.
Intro Date: 11/20/2006
06-0183R City Council Resolution
Celebrating National Neighbor Works Week –June 3 –June 10-, 2006
FOR the purpose endorsing the celebration of the 23rd National NeighborWorksâ Week, held annually the 1st through the 2nd Saturday in June, in recognition of the accomplishments of the NeighborWorksâ network working in more that 4,414 urban, suburban, and rural communities across the nation to transform distressed neighborhoods.
Intro Date: 6/5/2006
06-0179R City Council Resolution
In Opposition to Federal Legislation –HR 5252 –The Communications, Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006 (COPE)
FOR the purpose of requesting members of the Maryland Congressional Delegation to the 109th Congress, 2nd Session, to defeat passage of this legislation that would allow the creation of national video franchises ostensibly to increase price and service competition to cable while speeding the rollout of high-speed internet services.
Intro Date: 5/1/2006