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City settlement with ACLU expands Inner Harbor protest areas
Baltimore’s Board of Estimates on Wednesday approved a nearly $100,000 settlement with the ACLU of Maryland to end a decade-old federal lawsuit over the rights of protesters at the Inner Harbor.
City settles assault claim for $95K
The Board of Estimates last week approved a $95,000 settlement with a Baltimore man who alleged city police officers chased and assaulted him without probable cause.
City formalizes $1B school construction plan
Baltimore’s spending board, the Board of Estimates, on Wednesday approved a memorandum of understanding to formally commence a $1 billion, 10-year school construction and revitalization project.
Baltimore housing department to demolish nearly 600 buildings
The city housing department has signed an agreement to use nearly $10 million from a national foreclosure abuse settlement to demolish 578 mostly derelict buildings and houses in 10 Baltimore communities, in some cases relocating homeowners and renters so entire blocks can be razed.
Baltimore to settle suit over cadet’s death in ‘live burn’ exercise
The city of Baltimore will pay $200,000 to settle with the mother and children of a fire-department recruit killed during a “live burn” training exercise in 2007.
City water system in a fix
Leo W. Burroughs Jr. called Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young and other top city officials “cowardly” in response to a plan to hike water rates in Baltimore by 37 percent over the next three years.
Carousel poised to return to Inner Harbor
After going without a carousel for nearly 18 months, visitors to the Inner Harbor will soon be able to again ride a childhood favorite that had been around for more than a century.
Fire Chief Clack resigns; tenure included closures
After a five-year tenure that at times was rocked by plans to close fire companies, Baltimore Fire Chief James S. Clack resigned on Friday, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said.
Arrest outside bar leads to $72K settlement
The Baltimore City Board of Estimates approved this week a $72,000 settlement to resolve a claim by three relatives who alleged that police falsely arrested and assaulted them outside a Federal Hill bar.
Poor accounting costs city $1.4 million
Baltimore and its taxpayers had to pay an additional $1.4 million in fiscal 2011 due to faulty accounting procedures, auditors told the Board of Estimates on Wednesday.
Audit finds accounting issues at Enoch Pratt
Baltimore auditors presented a report on the Enoch Pratt Free Library Wednesday that, among other things, showed the institution owed the city close to $30,000 in fines and fees collected during fiscal 2011 and lacked sufficient accountability over a $300,000 cash fund set up to purchase books.
City to pay $100K for child’s fatal jump from back of bus
The family of a 6-year-old special needs education student who died after falling from the back of a school bus will receive $100,000 from the Baltimore City Public Schools.
