Baltimore City Council

So that was a tax that the Montgomery County Council enacted in order to pay for green energy.

That is not something that the Baltimore City Council is interested in.

The difference here is that their county council specifically initiated that fee.

We aren't doing that.

And it was very, you know, kind of shady how it all happened.

If you recall, this is when Nick Mosby was the Baltimore City Council president.

And at the time, he told Mayor Scott not to get into this conduit deal with BGE.

Mayor Scott almost unilaterally decided that he was going to get into the deal.

You never know.

So we get back for the break.

We will read the statement because, of course, the Baltimore City Council President, Zeke Cohen, and Mayor Brandon Scott, they put out a joint statement in regards to the BGE press conference.

Now, it's not going to be surprising what they say.

Combine that with the fact that with the mass shooting of five people Sunday, you have had four others, which make five altogether, since September the 16th of these mass shootings.

And we have the public safety chairman of the Baltimore City Council coming on, John Bullock, coming on next hour at 8 o'clock.

You've got to start wondering, is something going on? Commissioner Richard Worley himself said it's hard to believe He said, I don't believe in coincidences.

Yeah, that was his quote.

So again, I'm not sure what that number is going to look like in terms of the volume of individuals hired.

But again, you're looking at a different pay structure.

Baltimore City Councilman John Bullock is on board with us.

He's the new chairman of the Public Safety Committee in the City Council.

The next day, a student was injured in a fight at the school.

The Baltimore City Council is scheduled to hold a hearing today on the proposed Department of Neighborhood Safety.

The bill, introduced by City Council President Zeke Cohen, would create the DNS, which would be a third branch of the city's public safety system.

The DNS would work with the police and fire departments, oversee violence prevention programs, and respond to nonviolent 911 calls.

Salgad is charged with multiple offenses and held without bond.

Detectives determined that incident was an accidental discharge.

The Baltimore City Council is scheduled to hold a hearing today on the proposed Department of Neighborhood Safety.

That bill, introduced by City Council President Zeke Cohen, would create the DNS, which would be a third branch of the city's public safety system.

I am Councilwoman Felicia Porter.

I represent this area on the Baltimore City Council.

I am one of the younger members on the Baltimore City Council, and I chair the Public Health and Environment Committee, and I'm from here.

I'm born and raised, grew up in Emerson Village, went to school over East Baltimore, came back to serve my community after a stint on Capitol Hill in DC.

Good morning.

So we're gonna take, um, maybe about a five-minute intermission.

Um, Ms. Porter has to leave.

Um, however, she has already opened up the floor for you guys to still ask your questions, not just to her, but the, to the entire Baltimore City Council, okay? So we will prepare for that.

I don't know if you're interested in this or not, but I did some digging myself.

Uh, I just kind of wanted to show, you know, just, just some compare and contrast between the Baltimore City Council and the District of Columbia City Council and just kind of show you the difference, uh, in what they're working on.

I mean, when you're thinking about the Baltimore City Council, we talk about, you know, the things that they recently worked on, the padlocks on the smoke shops, right? Uh, they wanna borrow $300 million 'cause they're in debt.

There's all these different things.

Um, but when you look at what's going on in DC, and I'm gonna read an article from Channel 7 down there in DC, um, and I think it's WJLA, so I think it's DC and Virginia, uh, but I'll make sure I give the right credit at the time.

Because if we had leaders that spent our money on the right things, I think less people would complain about it, and more people would be very excited about what's to come.

But here in the state of Maryland, the focus on many jurisdictions have just been on the wrong things.

And so we're gonna talk about the difference between Baltimore City Council...

is why there is.

Baltimore City Council, you got to look in the mirror.

This is what you've done to yourselves.

This is all self-inflicted.