Committee advances seven supplemental appropriations; recreation item recessed
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The Budget Appropriations Committee voted to move seven supplemental appropriations and transfers to second reader on Jan. 12, including $13.65M for city IT, $15.5M for Hannibal Street Corridor design/NEPA, and a $1M transfer for neighborhood traffic calming; the Recreation & Parks item was recessed.
The Baltimore City Budget Appropriations Committee on [date not specified in transcript] voted to advance seven supplemental bills to a second reading on Jan. 12 and recessed one item for a later hearing.
Chair Danielle McCray opened the meeting and read eight introduced bills. Committee members approved council bill 25-0120, a $13,650,000 capital appropriation for Baltimore City information technology, by voice and roll-call after moving an amendment. Councilman Pierce Gray moved the measure; the roll call recorded four yes votes and one absence (Councilman Glover absent). The chair said the bill will move to second reader on Jan. 12.
The committee also moved favorably: council bill 25-0121 (a $200,000 Maryland Stadium Authority annual contribution for the Baltimore Convention Center, combined with a city match to create a $400,000 unallocated capital account), 25-0122 (a $2,000,000 DOT supplemental, reported to be federal funds passed through the state and earmarked initially for design), 25-0123 (a $15,500,000 appropriation for engineering and NEPA study on the Hannibal Street Corridor and bridge NEPA), 25-0124 (a $498,000 DOT supplemental), and 25-0125 (a $17,000,000 Department of Planning capital appropriation). Each of these bills was approved by the committee and is scheduled for second reader on Jan. 12.
Council bill 25-0129, a $415,146 supplemental operating appropriation for the Department of Recreation and Parks, was recessed after Recreation & Parks did not have a representative present; the mayor’s office said it would follow up and the committee will hear the item at a later date.
The final item considered, council bill 25-0143, is a $1,000,000 general fund transfer to the Department of Transportation for neighborhood traffic calming. That bill passed the committee in a roll call reported as 3 yes, 1 no and 1 absence and will also move to second reader on Jan. 12.
The committee recorded no public testimony and adjourned after votes.
What happened next: committee members requested follow-up detail from agency staff on several items (including the federal/state labeling for DOT grants, project cost estimates and program delivery timelines); staff agreed to provide additional written responses.
Sources: Committee hearing transcript.