The Sierra Club endorses a well-qualified, energetic team to get Baltimore moving forward. We are confident that they will be effective in providing all families with clean air and water and lead-free neighborhoods that are a safe and pleasant place to live.
Mayor: Brandon Scott has worked to clean up Baltimore’s heavily polluted air by placing strict limits on incinerator emissions, to hold DPW accountable for cleanup of sewage backups in peoples’ homes, to reduce the trash that blights neighborhoods, and to improve transportation and environmental justice.
City Comptroller: Bill Henry will make city financial data and contracts available for all the public to see, and use performance audits to find ways for city departments to be more efficient and responsive.
City Council District Representatives
District 1: Zeke Cohen
District 3: Ryan Dorsey
District 4: Mark Conway
District 6: Sharon Green Middleton
District 7: James Torrence
District 8: Kristerfer Burnett
District 9: John Bullock
District 10: Phylicia Porter
District 12: Franca Muller Paz
District 14: Odette Ramos
The Sierra Club believes these candidates will work to
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protect public health and ensure safe and healthy communities that are free of toxic air and water pollution
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support clean, renewable energy
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move towards zero waste.
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Locate Your City Council District
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For Question 1, Constitutional Amendment, State Budget Process
Right now the Maryland General Assembly is the most-constrained state legislature in the country when it comes to influencing a state’s budget. The General Assembly has authority to reduce or eliminate items in the Governor's proposed budget but does not have authority to move funds from one item to another. Voting For Question 1 will authorize the General Assembly to reallocate funds from one item to another while keeping the overall budget balanced.
For Question F, Charter Amendment, Ordinance of Estimates
The Baltimore City Council currently has the same constraints on the budget as the General Assembly. The city charter provides that once the Mayor and City Board of Estimates send the proposed budget bill to the City Council, the Council can cut or eliminate budget items but cannot increase them. The charter amendment on the ballot would allow the City Council to move funds from one item to another while keeping total expenses at or below what was proposed. The Sierra Club supports allowing the Baltimore City Council the same authority over the budget that city councils have in most major cities.
By authority Charles Skinner, Treasurer, Sierra Club MD Chapter PAC