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Baltimore Environmental Control Board seeks staffing, digital records upgrades; council asks for Care A Lot breakdown
Summary
Environmental Control Board director Eva Andries told a Baltimore City Council committee the agency plans hires, document-management updates and performance targets for FY26; council members requested a breakdown of Care A Lot participants by district and discussed possible future ECB role for parking appeals.
At a Baltimore City Council committee meeting, Eva Andries, executive director of the Environmental Control Board, outlined the agency’s FY26 priorities: hiring for collections and community liaison roles, updating document-retention policies to reflect electronic files, and maintaining performance targets for tax-sale reviews and hearing scheduling.
The Environmental Control Board, Andries said, primarily adjudicates environmental citations and also runs the Be More Beautiful grant and community-support programs. “The Environmental Control Board has 1 main service, which is adjudicating environmental citations,” Andries said. She described Be More Beautiful activities — including grants for cleaning and greening projects and community education — as paired with the adjudication process to “assist in changing behavior related to quality of life and public safety issues.”
Andries told the committee the agency plans to hire a paralegal to focus on collections and to create a liaison position to run greening workshops, urban farming and volunteerism.…
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